Annual Linen Sale Offers European Textiles at Reduced Prices
Large assortment of UPERB Imported linens including damask tablecloths napkins and towels from Austrian looms and leading European manufacturers. Prices quoted per yard and per dozen with many items marked down well below current market levels. Also featuring linen sheets wool blankets and crochet bedspreads from Boston House and others with sizes and patterns noted for round tables and guest rooms.
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John Streavu & Sons
J. N. Richardson Sons & Owden
Infants' Hand-made Nainsook Slips Sale at Alcor Eleventh St
A local ad lists infants long slips in hand-made Nainsook with embroidery, featherstitching, and lace trim. Styles include plaited, neck and sleeve details, and yoke-tucks. prices range from 1.78 to 2.50 dollars. Location cited as Alcor Eleventh Street.
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Rtrd Alcor
French Corsets for the Social Season at Great Prices
A Rochester newspaper ad promotes imported corsets the Parame Lily of Vrance Sapphire and French coutil models for street, negligee wear, and daily use. Domestic versions mirror the look, with prices from 4.00 to 8.50. Featured items include Favam Varrainne and Sapphire styles with high busts, elastic attachments, and whalebone boning.
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Pfctal
Oour
France
Excellent Silk Petticoats In January Underwear Sale Offer
Value priced taffeta silk petticoats in black white and colors including light evening shades and new checked effects. Prices range from five to seven dollars with trims of wide flare rustic flounces ruching and fluffy ruffles. Located on Third Moor Eleventh Street.
Children’s Star Twinkle in Your Home Magazine
HIS new monthly magazine for children offers breezy wholesome literature and cheery occupations and sports. Price 2.00 yearly or 20 cents per issue. Subscriptions taken at the Book Department Main floor Tenth.
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T For Children
Hair Ornaments and Gown Garniture Sale
Beautiful assortment of hair ornaments from direct importation for theater receptions and evening events. New effects in aigrettes gilt silver and colored butterflies with gilt and silver spans, bow knots, flowers and wreaths. Made to order to match costumes at Malin floor-Gst.
Special Sale of Traveling Bags and Suit Cases
Overstocked stock of high character leather bags and suit cases sold at cost. Lot 1 real cowhide bags sizes 14 to 18 inches with brass lock. Lot 2 grain leather bags sizes 14 to 18 inches. Lot 3 hand sewn cowhide bags sizes 16 to 18 inches. Lot 4 24 inch cowhide suit cases cloth lined with brass lock. Equitable building basement.
Special Christmas Book Sale in City Store
A city book store lists many used titles on special tables with deep discounts. Prices start at 10c, 25c, 30c, and 35c for a wide range of novels, poetry, travel, and reference works by Kipling Howells Wagner Wilde and others. Main Floor Teneth Street displays numerous titles and authors including McKinley, Beecher, Kipling and Lovelace.
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A. T. D Whiting
Humbuga
Charles Wagner
Tenth St
Demonstrations in Pure Food Dept Offer Taste Tests
Special demonstrations in the Pure Food Department on the Fifth floor invite housewives and the public to judge high quality foods by taste. Exhibit items include Huntley & Palmer biscuits and crackers, Tetley teas, McLaren cheeses and peanut butter, Minute tapioca and gelatine, Quaker Oats cereals, Woodward & Lothrop coffees, Altamont Pure Spring Table Water, and other imported and domestic products.
Special Hygienic Cooking Lessons by Southern Cotton Oil
The Southern Cotton Oil Co culinary expert offers special lessons using Snowdrift and Wesson Oil from 10 a m to 1 p m and 3 to 5 p m. Delicious cakes and pastries will be served free to attendees.
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Southern Cotton Oil Co
State Reception Hosts Navy Official Dinner Yesterday
Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs Newberry hosted a state reception last night. Mr and Mrs Howard accompanied by guests gave a dance. Mrs J J Richardson entertained in honor of Mrs Wheeler at the event.
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Secretary of Navy
Mrs. Newberry
Mrs. Howard
J. J. Richardson
White House
Mrs. Roosevelt
Eithel Roosevelt
Corcoran Art Gallery
Howard Reeside
Shaw
Post Wheeler
Hallie Erminie Rives
Jessie Overstreet
Miss Hemenway
Major
Charles McCawley
Dept
Raymond Rodgers
Mrs. C. C. Glover
Cant
Wigmore
Washington Barracks
Irene Mooore
Summerlin
Miss Moore
Irene Moore
Weing Mirna Amelia Filson
Zelma Prison
Salv Garlington
Dorothy Langforth
George Marye
Sadie Murray
Arthur Murray
Ankeny
Senator Ankeny
Simmons
Senator Gimamons
J. Sylvester Phillips
Laise Philips School
Harry Lemly
Marlborough
White House reception and society notes
The article details a White House winter state reception with carriages entering from the north east entrance and guests using numbered tickets for admittance. It notes fashion, guest lists, and the presence of President Roosevelt and cabinet ladies, plus various social events, dinners, teas, and weddings surrounding Washington society, including the Hempstone Oliver wedding and receptions hosted by notable families.
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White House
Treasury
Padsethiane
Seventeenth Street
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Valentine
G Street
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Maten
Bureau
Austria
Boston
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Equitable
Listle Carter Ag
Sjubarry
Florida
Henry Ward Beecher
William McKinley
Glover
Philander Johanson
Isa C. Cabett
Wiliam D. Howells
William D. Howells
Brander Matthews
H. Marriot Wetson
Ensign Knightly
A. E. W. Mason
Edward Bellamy
C.J. Gi Urne
E. F. Benson
Mr. Whitman
E. Pullen
C. Re
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyyard Kipling
R. L. Stevenson
Lloyd Osborne
Jack Raymond
E. L. Voynich
Robert Hichens
Vanda W. Bartlett
Warwick Deeping
Clinton Scollard
Lafayette
Max Pemberton
Eugene Field
Laurie Vaughan Kester
L. Gulick
Vock
Pure Food Dept
Huntley & Palmer's
Tetley’s
India
Ceylon
McLaren
Quaker Oat CO
Woodward & Lothrop
Altamont
President and Mrs. Roosevelt
Mss Hempstone
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Miles Mary Lilian Hempstone
Snowden Lee Heapestone
Treat
Frederick Lansing Oliver
George Fiske Dudley
Smith Hempstone
Edith Cowles
Percy Woote
F. M. Blick
U.S. M
Cy Ligut
Joseph H. Defrees
U.S. N
Clark Woodward
W. @. Neill
F. R. Nelson
Baltimore
A. C. Johnston
Miss Johnston
Lieut. Oliver
Mrs. Oliver
Oliver
Franklin
Norfolk
Frederick Oliver
Charlotte
N. C
Thomas Oliver
Alicia Oliver
Florence Oliver
James L. Staten
Georgia
Caldwell Johnston
New Heaven
Conn
Miss Perkins
Tillman
Amelie Pitson
Zelma Pilton
Miss Tames
Knox
Gatewood
Kearney
Davis
Hull
Madden
Anderson
Alice Boyd
Frasier
Latimer
Albert Godoy
Jose Godoy
Frank Godoy
Bax
Carbo
Sweet
Scott
Foote
Stubbins
Ademan
Charles Howe
Defries
Bengal
Kelly
Col
George Barnett
Basil Gordon
New Willard
California
Philippines
Don Cameron
Alexander Sharp
Eleanor Pettit
Leutze
Gamble
Pettit
F. B. Fritch
Sally Gerlington
Alice Vandergrift
Ruth Noyes
Mary Tilghman
Maryland
Sharn
Miss Perth
Miss Tilghman
la Follette
Senator la Follette
Cooper
Morse
Warner
Senator Warner
Tarwood
John V. Wright
KR. E. L. Yellett
Chevy Chase
Franklyon
Thirty-first Street
William 5. Carroll
Miss Carroll
Massachusetts Avenue
Wiliam Alden Smith
Senator Smith
Sixteenth Street
Charles R Degis
Minnesota
R H. Davis
United States Marine Corps
W. H. H. Ballangee
Iiss
Rockville
Ince
Jefferson
Penna. Ave
SroPaar
S. Kann, Sons & Co
Earls
Kann
Suns & Co
Lucios
Iaat
Siato Prarl Neon
N.W
Minton
Cauldon
Pasternak
Mary Scott Rowland
Mary Scott Rowlands
F. A. Howard CO
15Th Street
N. W
V. BD. Rosen, ‘Aurtogst
Thea
Congressional
Atlantic & Pacific
Gov
Barris
Shafe Company
Penna
PLAYM
14Th Street
Brentano’s Stoee
Philips
Eleventh Street
Gallery of Foreign Arts
Dupont Circle
Adn
Hattie M. Shacklette
Fong
Colonial Wine Co
Coroth
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Furs Liebster
Highwade Ture
F Street
the Sunday Post
Phiye
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