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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1906
Page
7
A March sale offers Austrian China Dinner Sets at 12.50 per 100-piece set and German pieces at half price. Cracker jars, soap dishes, mugs, and toothbrush holders are reduced, with imported and domestic glass vases priced from 15 to 25 cents, all to clear before warm weather.
We offer a selection of French German English and Japanese china cups and saucers bouillon cups and saucers chocolate cups and saucers and after dinner cups and saucers arranged on center counters and priced at 25 cents each, previously 35 and 50 cents. A lot of decorated German china dinner breakfast and toy plates with gold trimmed edges, regularly 25 cents, are offered at the special price.
French China Plaques in 10 inch size with assorted game designs and gold trimmed edges are bored for hanging for dining rooms with or without rails. Usual price 75 cents special price 55 cents each, available on the fifth floor.
A shop offers 8 inch red Imari pattern Japanese china plates at a special price. Two for 25 cents and 1.45 dollars per dozen. Local ad notes availability and pricing for collectors or dining room use.
Oriental Rugs number of one of a kind pieces offered during March alongside house furnishings. Items include Kazaks Antique Mousouls Gourdes Irans Kurdestans Shirvans Daghestans Hammedans and Muskabod rugs in various sizes with reduced prices. Example pieces Muskabod Rugs with original and sale prices cited.
Our own made cotton felt mattresses in two parts filled with fine white felt. Finished with French roll edges and covered with artful ticking. Priced at $12.50 each, value $15.00.
Fat rbanes guest of honor British ambassador leases Kinnient Villa at Benox where he and Lady Durand will summer. Mrs Roosevelt departs for New York for Haensel und Gretel benefit at the Metropolitan Opera House. A large list of diplomatic and social attendees follows with dinners, engagements, and travels among Ambassadors, ministers, and notable Washington society figures.
Local notice lists residents receiving items today including Mrs. Eugene Ensign Stevens Lenox Street Mrs. Andrew B. Graham 1407 Sixteenth Street Mrs Charles DB Walcott 1743 Twenty second Street Mrs RA Harlow 1824 Twenty first Street and a reference to George HM Shibley with an Ontario link unclear.
Mrs. Alice Wheaton announces the engagement of her daughter Miss Inez Sprague to H Harold Winpenny of Philadelphia ex Governor Sprague and the late Chase. Inez is the great granddaughter of Salmon P Chase and heir to Canonchet at the Pier. The wedding will be in St Peters by the Sea Episcopal Church and reception at Canonchet in June.
The body of Dr. Manuel Quitena, president of Argentina, lies in state at the government palace after a funeral ceremony with cabinet ministers, diplomat corps, and crowds. The funeral is scheduled for tomorrow as ministers hold their portfolios until a new cabinet is formed. Bishop O'Connell Arrives at Boston. Shaffer's Flowers advertise blooms.
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