Annual Linen Sale With Heavy and Fine Textures
Annual sale advertises imported linens including damasks, napkins, tablecloths, and towels from Austrian looms and European manufacturers. Prices quoted well below current markets, with large stock of napkins, tea cloths, damask, and bed linens offered in various sizes and patterns. Some items feature heavy embroidery and round-table cloth designs from Streavu, Richardson, and Olde production houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Streavu & Sons
J. N. Richardson Sons & Owden
Austria
Infants' Hand-made Nainsook Slips Sold At Trinity Street Store
An advertisement lists infants hand-made nainsook slips in long styles with featherstitching lace tucks and embroidery. Prices range from 1.78 to 2.50. The note mentions several patterns including plaited long slips, neck and sleeve detailing, and yoke tucks with lace edging, sold at Alcor Eleventh St.
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Rtrd Alcor
French Corsets For The Social Season Showpieces
PFCTAL highlights imported corset models named Parame Lily of Vrance and Sapphire for street and evening wear. Domestic variants mimic imported style with modern busts durable boning and elastics. Low priced options include Favam and Varraime corsets with coutil fabrics and attached elastics. Sapphire and Thy models feature high busts and elastic attachments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfctal
Oour
France
Excellent Silk Petticoats For January Underwear Sale
Excellent values in silk petticoats purchased for January sale. Heavy taffeta silk in black white and colors with light evening shades and checked effects. Prices range from five to seven dollars with trims including flounce ruffles ruching and tucked flounce. Third Moor Eleventh Street.
Children’s Star Twinkle Monthly Magazine for Kids
HIS new monthly magazine for children offers breezy wholesome literature and cheerful activities. It features helpful occupations and sports for youngsters, priced at $2.00 yearly or 20 cents per single copy, with subscriptions via the Book Department on the Main floor Tenth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T For Children
Hair Ornaments and Gown Garniture Offered
Beautiful assortment of Hair Ornaments from direct importation for theater and evening functions. New effects in aigrettes gilt and silver butterflies with gilt and silver spans, bow knots, flower wreaths, and more. Made to order to match costumes at Malin floor-Gst.
Special Sale of Traveling Bags and Suit Cases
Overstocked collection offered at manufacturer cost with high quality cowhide bags and suit cases. Lot 1 real cowhide traveling bags 14 to 18 inches, Lot 2 grain leather bags 14 to 18 inches, Lot 3 hand sewn bags 16 to 18 inches, Lot 4 24 inch suit cases cloth lined brass lock. Basement sale at Equitable Building.
Special Sale Of Books On Christmas Tables At Discount Prices
A bookstore offers handled and hurt books from the Christmas campaign on special tables with deep discounts. Listed titles include works by Beecher McKinley Kipling Howells and Benson among many others, priced at 10c 25c and 35c on Main Floor Tenth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. T. D Whiting
Humbuga
Charles Wagner
Tenth St
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
Demonstrations in Pure Food Dept Offer Taste Test Cues
Demonstrations in the Pure Food Department on the fifth floor invite housewives and the public to judge quality by taste. Displays include Huntley & Palmer English biscuits, Tetley teas, McLaren cheeses and peanut butter, Minute Tapioca, Quaker Oats, Woodward & Lothrop coffees, Altamont spring water, and more, highlighting purity and variety for general table use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tetley
India
Ceylon
McLaren
Special Lessons in Hygienic Cooking by Oil Co
The Southern Cotton Oil Co culinary expert offers special lessons on hygienic cooking using Snowdrift and Wesson Oil. Sessions run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. Free samples of delicious cakes and pastries will be served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Cotton Oil Co
State Reception Hosts Dinner by Secretary of Navy and Mrs Newberry
Yesterday evening events featured a dinner hosted by the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs Newberry. Mr and Mrs Howard assisted with a dance and Mrs J J Richardson entertained in honor of Mrs Wheeler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of Navy
Mrs. Newberry
Mrs. Howard
J. J. Richardson
Major
Charles McCawley
Dept
Raymond Rodgers
Mrs. C. C. Glover
White House Reception and Society Weddings in Washington
The evening features a state reception at the White House with President and Mrs. Roosevelt honoring Supreme Court members, followed by a military wedding at St Stephen’s Episcopal Church for Miles Mary Lilian Hempstone and Treat Frederick Lansing Oliver. Guests attend a dance in honor of the Shaw sisters, while numerous social events and teas fill the Washington scene with the city’s elite, diplomats, and naval officers seen at private exhibits and gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
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
Washington
Oliver
Franklin
Norfolk
Frederick Oliver
Charlotte
N. C
Thomas Oliver
Alldia Oliver
Florence Oliver
James L. Staten
Georgia
Alexander Sharp
Eleanor Pettit
Leutze
Gamble
Pettit
F. B. Fritch
Sally Gerlington
Alice Vandergrift
Ruth Noyes
Mary Tilghman
Maryland
Sharn
Miss Perth
Miss Tilghman
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New York
Paris
Valentines
Valentine
G Street
Inc
Maten
Bureau
Boston
Marseilles
Qachhy
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
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
Quaker Oat CO
Woodward & Lothrop
Altamont
President and Mrs. Roosevelt
Mss Hempstone
Treasury
Padsethiane
Seventeenth Street
Mrs. Roosevelt
Eithel Roosevelt
Corcoran Art Gallery
Howard Reeside
Shaw
Secretary of the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw
Elizabeth Stanster Moore
Reeside
Nineteenth Street
Miss Perkins
Tillman
Amelie Pitson
Zelma Pilton
Miss Tames
Irene Moore
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
Wigmore
Defries
Bengal
Kelly
Col
George Barnett
Basil Gordon
New Willard
California
Philippines
Post Wheeler
Hallie Erminie Rives
Jessie Overstreet
Miss Hemenway
Don Cameron
Cant
Washington Barracks
Irene Mooore
Summerlin
Miss Moore
Weing Mirna Amelia Filson
Zelma Prison
Salv Garlington
Dorothy Langforth
George Marye
Sadie Murray
Arthur Murray
la Follette
Senator la Follette
Cooper
Morse
Ankeny
Senator Ankeny
Simmons
Senator Gimamons
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 Daevis
Minnesota
R H. Davis
United States Marine Corps
W. H. H. Ballangee
Iiss
Rockville
J. Sylvester Phillips
Laise Philips School
Harry Lemly
Marlborough
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
D T
Furs Liebster
Highwade Ture
F Street
the Sunday Post
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