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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1905
Page
7
June sale highlights open stock Chinaware and rich cut glass with many patterns for weddings and summer homes. Offers sixty open stock patterns including Ridgeway and Haviland pieces. Sample items include 100 piece Ridgeway Old Willow and Danish patterns with price points around 12.00 to 16.00 per set depending on size.
The store advertises summer home furnishings including porch seats lemon squeezers shavers and drinkware. It highlights an annual reduction sale on cut glass with many pieces from glassware makers at discounted prices ideal for weddings, featuring tankards pitchers vases and dinnerware from various European and Japanese sources.
We present a complete selection of plain and figured blown and pressed glassware ideal for the summer home. Highlights include Colonial glass patterns, pressed glass table tumblers, blown glass tumblers, pressed glass table goblets, saucer dishes, sauce disher, olives dishes, pitchers, sherbet cups, and more at economical prices.
A local ad promotes summer home lighting with corplets and Black Tron Frass Old Capner Japanese Bronze lamps. Bracket and hanging lamps suited for kitchen, dining, and bedroom use are featured with prices including 28¢ kitchen bracket, 75¢ dining room, 1.50 reading lamp, and a 1.2 dollar central draft lamp.
St Pauls Church at Fifteenth and V Streets hosted a lavish wedding uniting Miss Iren Josephine Simms and Mr William Fenwick Mattingly. The ceremony featured a tapers and blossoms altar, organ music, and a reception at the bride’s parents home. Guests from Maryland and New Jersey attended. the couple will reside in Takoma Park after a northern honeymoon.
The Crown Prince and Crown Princess entered Potsdam by late afternoon train from Hubertusstock amid a warm public welcome. Extra trains brought visitors from Berlin as crowds fill streets to the market square where the burgomaster gave an address of welcome. The prince thanked Potsdam for the cordial reception and their first years of married life will be spent at the palace.
London notes the Carlton Club accepting John Wanamaker’s offer to present a portrait of President Roosevelt as thanks for Wanamaker’s honorary foreign membership. The portrait by Bargent honors Wanamaker’s 194 entry and his health benefiting voyage on the Kron Prinz Wilhelm. Wanamaker returned with hymn books for the Presbyterian Session.
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