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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1907
Page
2
Summer Upholstery and Cabinet Work announces manufacture and refinishing services for slip covers shades window screens and furniture at summer prices. It highlights screen quality cabinet doors parlor slip covers and custom upholstery with ventilation features and a new shipment of striped linen imitations and dimity fabrics.
An advertisement outlines new Willow Furniture including Rockers Side Chairs Arm Chairs Reading Chairs and Settees in natural color and green finish with new shapes. Cushions and bed sets in French net lace are offered with prices from 250 dollars. Also listed are porch blinds screens doors window screens and galvanized screen wire with various sizes and prices.
A fourth floor display highlights matting based rugs and summer floor coverings. Chinese and Japanese matting rugs in various sizes priced from 7 cents to 7.50 each, Hoji Fiber Rugs in multiple designs, Crex prairie grass rugs, and Oriental Shirvans and Kazaks offered at one third off.
UR stock for the present season offers complete Bed Out fits featuring a 414-ft all brass bedstead, an all metal spring, and a felt mattress. Another lot includes a 4%4-ft white enameled bedstead with brass trim, an all metal spring, and a hair mattress. A third set offers a 2 454-ft white enameled bedstead with continuous posts, an all metal spring, and a two-part hair mattress. Each outfit priced at 15.00.
We offer unusual values in china glassware lamps and modern house furnishings. The best quality at the lowest prices with complete carefully selected stocks of guaranteed excellence.
Our annual sale of American cut glass begins today offering rich clear and brilliant pieces at reduced prices. The event presents a rare chance to select an ideal wedding gift or to enhance one's own home as the fall patterns are brought in to make room for new stock.
A Dune store ad promotes a clearance of high grade Brilliant Cut Glass suitable for June weddings and home use. Items listed include Napkin Rings, Trays, Fruit Stands, Footed Punch Bowls, Rose Bowls, Decanters, Mayonnaise Bowls, Cruets, Ice Tubs and more with prices from 37.50 to 100 dollars and examples like Napkin Ring 8.50 and Rose Bowls 28.00.
A catalog advertises one of a kind dainty china pieces and decorated dinner sets. Prices range from $1.00 to $5.00 per piece for small items, up to $20.00 and more for 100 piece French, German, English, and American porcelain sets. Open-stock patterns allow choosing only desired pieces without paying for unwanted ones.
An advertisement showcases toilet sets with covered stop jars at 5.00 per set and other sets ranging from 1.95 to 18.00. Decorated pitchers for table use offered in assorted shapes and sizes, choice 0.25 each. Also lists mowers with guarantees, lawn mower sharpeners at 0.25, and related hardware.
Fruit jars and jelly glasses showcased with inspection invited. Mason’s Best Machine-made jars in pint, quart, and half gallon sizes per dozen. wide mouth jars. seal jars with lightning fitter offered in pint and quart sizes. Prices listed per dozen, urging comparison and purchase.
Jelly glasses in various sizes with tin covers priced per dozen and per unit. One-third pint and one-third quart sizes offered. Table tumblers for jelly packing featured. Paraffin wax for sealing jellies sold in small cakes. pricing given as 13c per cake or 2 for 25c.
A catalog-style notice lists Mason’s porcelain lined fruit jars and Mason’s all glass fruit jar tops with rings, offered per dozen. It notes Mason’s lipped jar rings extra heavy and Mason’s plain jar rings, with price details like 50 cents per dozen and other per dozen rates.
Various moth fighting materials and camphor packages offered for household use. Items include large and extra large moth bags, crystalline camphor and pine camphor pack, china camphor packages, and Cedar of Lebanon camphor. Sold for stove use or general storage, with prices: 25 cents and 65 cents per package. Also notes two lawn varieties and prepared mixtures, promising satisfactory results.
An advertisement touts Blue Flame Wick Stoves with immediate heat and no odor. It lists No 2 two burner stoves at 7.25, No 3 three burner stoves at 9.75, and Blue Flame Oil Stoves starting near 3.00, plus related ovens and sanitary butter packages priced from 35 cents per pound to 1.70 for 5 pounds.
An OCR fragment touts Colonial Coffee as superior and well blended. It claims rich body and color from nine selected crops, appealing to discriminating buyers. Price listed as .85c per pound.
A trade note extols Chandon Olive Oil as France's purest product for medicinal or table use. It claims Delicate flavor superior to Lucca oil, notes bottled and sealed in France to avoid contamination, and lists glass bottles at 25 45 and 85 cents and tins at 85 cents 1 60 and 3 15. Available on the seventh floor.
Social notices detail a quiet St Alban's Church wedding for Miss Charlotte Seawell Gleffa and Mr John D Mullin of Philadelphia, with reception at Crestmont Woodley Jane. The bride wore a white sursa gown with lace, veil, and orange blossom wreath. attendants wore pink net gowns. The couple plan a wedding trip to Germany and Holland before settling in Philadelphia.
Mrs. T Dix Bolles plans a Maine summer with sister Mrs. John Marshall Browne near Portland. Justice McKenna’s wife tours New York and Narragansett, then joins him in Rhode Island. The Attorney General and Mrs Bonaparte head to Lenox for summer. Naval Lt Timmons and wife return to city for several weeks with the Vice President and Mrs Patranks. The Beaches close their H Street home for a Saratoga summer. Senator and Mrs Lodge prepare Nahant summer. Akersons host the Duke of the Abruzzi in Brookline. Virginia Wiley hosts bridal party for daughter Miss Virginia Wiley and Mr Howard Eldred Wilson at St Mark’s. Lipscomb guests in Catreet. Stormont Auxiliary’s lawn party at Chevy Chase postponed to tomorrow. Mrs A Alexander Thomas reported improving. Mrs George M Rowe stays in Chicago until daughter recovers. Miss Symons to Atlantic City for a month. Miss Elise Croftman to Boston. Mr and Mrs Louis Spencer guests at Afton House. Mrs Julia Ware returns to Philadelphia after visiting local relatives. Miss Virginia Pearl Finley to graduate from Union Hospital Training School in Terre Haute. Mrs James I Harper returns after Colonial Bemes Day and Jamestown visit. Miss Rebecca Johnson, Omeo Welle, and Miss Addie Wheeler quietly wed at Rev Locke’s residence. witnesses include Cushing, Wheeler, Kincheloe. Wells depart for Jamestown and a South trip.
August Belmont seen at the Hotel Ritz Paris where he avoids interviews except with three New York World reporters. He denies public plans of marriage. Belmont enjoyed Auteuil races and motoring, then headed to London. Dining with Perry Belmont at the Ritz, guests included Mrs Charles Carroll and royalty. Meanwhile Mrs William Garrison, famed New York socialite, left Mrs Osborn’s dress shop in East Forty-sixth Street for personal reasons, now living at the Hotel Schuyler with two daughters. Continued on page 13. The June Wedding Season boosts Shaffer's flower orders.
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