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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1905
Page
33
The store advertises an all over spring display with dress goods silks millinery wraps costumes laces gloves hosiery shoes and lingerie. It touts ultra elegant Paris stuffs and unmatched assortments at moderate prices highlighting high class imported and domestic wares in a broad fashion offer.
A special showing features spring and summer silks in imported and domestic weaves. The stock includes foulards, taffetas, Louisines, chiffons, shantungs, pongee, and more with exclusive patterns. Early buying advised as choicest designs may not reappear.
A special exhibit features stylish standard weaves and French novelties in Mohairs and other fabrics. English Mohairs in new designs, single dress lengths from France, and exclusive pieces like Beachord and Sidhatts mohair patterns, check cloth suiting, voile varieties, crepe de Paris, wool fabrics, and silk wool boliennes.
The article highlights a broad assortment of black goods from Priestley and Lupin, noted for quality, weave, dye, and finish. It lists fabrics such as Etamines, Vorles, Chiffon Vorles, Lute String, Silk-warp varieties, all wool coverings, Mohair Sicilians, Check Sicilians, Cravenette Sicilians, Panama Cloth, and Roxana.
A catalog entry lists fabrics including Wool Poplin Cravenette etamine and many silk and wool blends such as Crepe de Paris Vogue all wool crepes and chiffon broadcloth. Names include Lupin's silk and wool crepe, All-wool Cashmere, All-silk Crepe de Chine, Venetian and Imperial Serge among others.
An extensive display features new weaves colors and designs in cotton and silk blends for everyday wear and evening events. Exclusive patterns include FrenchPrinted Point d Esprit Tulle Organdie Lisse and numerous Printed and Mercerized textiles from Belgium to England.
ECENT importations of R Hand-made Undergar ments in new combinations of Hand Embroidery and Real Valenciennes, Irish Crochet, Cluny, Chantilly, and Maline Laces have been received. New models in light Robes with low necks and short sleeves and Petticoats of attractive design. Complete Trousseaux shown and Matinees and Peignoirs of Embroidered and Printed Mousse lines. Crests Monograms and Initials embroidered to order. Third floor fileventh st.
Hand carved Walnut Parlor Furniture imported in sections for Louis XV and XVI styles. Finished to suit taste in gold wax finish or other woods to match decor. Includes 3 piece parlor suites arm chairs window seats footstools and more. Fourth floor display wants buyers seeking beauty and exclusiveness.
Daily advertisement announces new titles in a wide fiction collection at reduced prices. The offered books include The Bath Comedy, Via Crucis, Janice Meredith, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Tristram of Brent, Quisante, Landlord at the Lion's Head, Coast of Bohemia, Pair of Patient Lovers, In the Fog, Bylow Hill, The De Willoughby Claim, Like Another Helen, The Wages of Sin, The Garden of Swords, A Dash for a Throne, By Right of Sword, In the Name of a Woman, Master Christian, Red Rock, Dorothy Vernon, and The Long Night, with Main floor Tenth St.
Washington society notes the engagement of Miss Marie Eurydice Miller of Mount Pleasant to Alexander G. Bentley of the city, son of the former DOJ examiner. The wedding will occur soon after Easter and both families are prominent in local social and church circles.
Ibsens latest play had its New York premiere at a matinee with Frederick Lewis Dorothy Donnelly James H Lewis Frank Losee Florence Kahn and Evelyn Wood in the cast. The Telegraph calls the symbolist drama a satirical work on artistic vanity and truth while tracing its themes through Rubek Maia Irene and Ulhf ium. The review praises Dorothy Donnelly and Florence Kahn but notes uneven aspects in other performances and lauds the production as smooth and well mounted.
The excerpt presents garbled verse lines and dialogue likely from a Puck piece, including musings on fate, power, and self worth. It references Denver West and a character named Weary Walters, with stray phrases about endurance and perspective amid chaotic transcription.
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