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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1907
Page
7
Listings show various shoe and item pair prices including 900 and 1000, 15 and 200 per pair, 800, 2, and 1300 for eight pairs, and 500 as a price point. High variability suggests a sale or catalog with multiple bulk and single item offers across vendors.
Inaugurate a special July sale featuring Oriental and domestic rugs in carpet and small sizes. Includes heavy Turkish Hammedan Ghendjes Shirvan Karabaugh and Daghestan pieces at clearance prices. Real Persian Shirvan pieces plus Slurvats, Shiryvan Daghestan and Moussoul rugs with vibrant colors. Large rugs in Cashmeres Afghans Muskal Stamabodes Mohals Amritzer lines offered in pure vegetable dyes hand woven 64 to 100 knots per inch.
The bed department now sits on the fourth floor at G street next to Rug and Matting. Featured items include coil spring and felt mattresses, folding couches, and feather pillows with prices ranging from 5.30 to 200 dollars. Choices include single and larger sizes with various fill materials and coverings.
The Fifth Floor presents a curated range of chinaware glassware lamps and pure foods with emphasis on quality over price. Items include Viener Decorated American porcelain sets from 208 and up, Decorated English porcelain dressers from 1260 and up, Decorated German china sets from 513.00 and up, and French china dine sets from 2000 and up.
An advertisement promotes FDA quality fruit jars and jelly glasses. It highlights machine-made jars, clear white jelly glasses with tin tops, offered upward per dozen at 20 cents. The listing invites inspection and comparison of accessories and jars.
Advertises a sale of glassware from Bummer Cottage Geware featuring Colony patterns 119G and Colonial Tea Glasses and Footed Sherbets. Includes Water Pitchers Pitching Jars and Berry Dishea items plus Mason fruit jars tops rings and jar rubbers with prices from 3c to 100 dollars.
Readable ad style list of cooling and preservation goods including ice shavers ice bucket freezers and refrigerators high temp needing items, aluminum and tin preserving kettles, wiring and paint products, and brushes with broad price ranges. Focus on the sale items and general price cues from a 19th or early 20th century shopper notice.
Mr Meyer Rettwns visits family in Hamilton Mass. Gov Huntington Wilson travels to Gren Brier. Mrs Gardiner Hubbard heads to Lake Champlain. The Attorney General and Mrs Bana Tart leave for Lenox mid month. Postmaster General returns from Hamilton. Mrs Mayer entertains for young guests. Mrs Huntington Wilson visits her father at Green Spring Valley. Mrs Gardiner Hubbard to Lake Champlain August 1. Senator and Mrs Scott of West Virginia at the New Willard. Mrs Thompson and her mother rent a cottage at Atlantic City. Nancy Britt to marry Howard Cutterdge in early fall. Freddie Asserson guest at Richfield Springs. Ednon Bradley cruising Thousand Islands aboard yacht Arcadia. Duke of Abruzzi and suite aboard Arcadia. Maj Davilla returns from Fort Fley. Miss Margaret Cole and Miss Sadie Donahue visiting Lent and Mrs Yarnell. Edgar Kaufman celebrates 21st birthday with a banquet. Phoenix Club presents a diamond ring to the host. List of guests includes many Baltimore and New York names. George Langdon Whitford returns from Waterloo. Mrs Forterfield en route to Jamestown Exposition. Andrew Day and Miss Day visiting Indiana. Mrs Robert Smail and Miss Julia Wood among Washingtonians at Atlantic Year. Raymond W Hooper plans trip to Hot Springs then Western points. Quiet wedding at Mrs Ewers’ apartments. Julia F Ivey and James Monroe Britt wed. Britt works in Treasury. Gallaudet and Katharine Gallaudet plan Europe. Miss Stock, Miss Molarty, Miss Hutchinson sail for Europe. Mrs M A Robinson registered at Chelftonte Atlantic City. Dr and Mrs Wilfred Barton sail to Boston for September.
Members of Carron Institute held their annual outing aboard the Charles Macalester steaming from Seventh street at dawn. Crowds packed three trips with lively tunes and flags, returning about 2 pm, the excursionists landing in Washington near midnight after a day of athletic events and dancing.
New York society stars Miss Touine Grace and Miss Lucile Alger plan lavish dog kennels on a seventy acre Ascot style estate, with luxury finishes and sanitary dog quarters. Miss Chandler, famed writer and American Girl, weds English heir in Buenos Aires amid ceremonies. European social season promises polo and coaching clubs, royal visits to Newport, and American travelers warned to book hotels early.
Navy Yard employees plan a yearly outing for 60 children and mothers selected by the Associated Charities to Chesapeake Beach. Transportation lunches and tickets for tea cream lemonade and peanuts are provided free. Each child receives a tin dipper as a souvenir and as a holder for drinks during the trip with city bands providing entertainment.
A historic Star Spangled Banner banner loaned by Eben Appleton of New York will tour Washington then join the Smithsonian for at least two years. The 2 by 3 foot flag, seen in a glass case, was carried from Fort McHenry in 1814 by Col Armstead and later passed through generations to Mr Appleton.
Dr William da Grange Ralph long curator of birds eggs at the National Museum died at George Washington University Hospital after 9 p.m. He born in Holland Patent and graduated in medicine in New York City before turning to ornithology. He built a vast collection now at the Smithsonian and served as custodian of its bird eggs. A memorial service was held and his body to Utica for burial. He is survived by his wife and daughter Katherine Louis Ralph and two brothers, G Fred and Henry Ralph. Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
Secretary Curuiyan forwarded the final report on the estate of the late President William McKinley to the Canton probate clerk. Administrator Cortelyou has managed the trust well. the court approval will end his formal duties though his association with the McKinley Memorial aims to continue until September dedication ceremonies with President Roosevelt. Cortelyou also compiled data for McKinley’s official life and is researching his earlier years, as part of a planned series with Charles Graves of Chicago.
The Modern Maccabees and friends traveled to Chesapeake Beach for the annual excursion. Nearly 100 members attended, with athletic events including tug of war races, foot races, potato races, and a three legged race. Prizes were awarded to event winners.
Several Kappa Alpha members depart Washington Saturday evening for Norfolk to attend the fraternity convention scheduled for July 3, 17, and 18. Prominent names listed include Gov Folk of Missouri Rep Richmond P Hobeon of Alabama Webb of North Carolina Lamar of Florida Reid of Arkansas Sheppard and Henry Texte Juden Yelatt of Virginia and John Temple Graves of Georgia.
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