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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1905
Page
7
The article promotes brass and iron bedsteads introduced years ago with advantages and decorative potential. It highlights all brass, all white iron, white tron beds, and colored enameled lines to match room decor. A featured brass bedstead with swell footpiece and T ball joints is noted, plus bedding, mattresses, springs, and pillows at low prices.
The article details a moved Office Furniture Department on the seventh floor with enlarged space to showcase desks, chairs, bookcases, letter-press stands, tables, and leather seating. It highlights high grade desks with durable drawers, interchangeable document boxes, and stylish typewriter designs. Also advertised are Humphrey sectional bookcases, filing cabinets, and a large Commercial Stationery Department with a wide range of journals day books and paper products.
A long list of cosmetics and personal care items with prices and packaging sizes. Be 3200 Chloris Violette toilet water, Cyrano toothpaste powder, hair tonics, rose water, glycerine, splashes, colognes, sachets, and brushes. Various sizes, from 1-ounce to 8-ounce. Also sponges, bath cloths, brushes, and toilet paper offered.
Sogia k and personal cabinet homes thronged as diners and callers filled the day. Miss Miriam Bangs wed Walter H. Hilton while ambassadors and lawmakers gathered for dinners and teas at official residences and hotels, with many high officials hosting or attending events. The day saw extensive social duties across the capital as cabinet figures entertained and entertained again.
Rubber articles praised for universal usefulness include atomizes, sponges, wash cloths, bath brushes, folding baths, rubber receptacles, aprons, gloves, finger cots, and sickroom devices. Stock features rubber sheeting, heavy rubber air cushions, Russian massage sponges, rubber-lined cases and pillows, water bottles with silk covers, folds, and orderable sizes and prices from 75 cents to several dollars.
A Washington social page outlines Mrs Taft's limited guest list and broader receiving parties, naming Mrs Mills Mrs Alshire Mrs Morton and others. It details the William Bangs and Walter Hilton wedding at 1008 McScachusetts Avenue with a grand drawing-room ceremony, a large reception, and extensive gifts, plus forthcoming society events and teas hosted by several prominent families and individuals.
Bargain skirts reduced from ten dollars to five, described as imported Inglish worsted materials in green brown and hehr mus ed effects with checks. Pricing notes suggest original values and fabric types, with references to Fouts Materials and cloistered halts in a dated catalog tone.
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