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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1905
Page
39
A Buch of French and German china items offered at special prices including decorated sauce plates with pink patterns 75c each regular 1 50 and a jardiniere and stand set complete for 1 95 decorative fern dishes and a chop dish lot highlighted by green coloring and matching stand size details included
WW offers a wide display of Lace Curtains Draperies and New Spring Art Fabrics. Irish Point Renaissance Arabian Brussels and Fish Net designs appear in Summer Curtains. New Lace Bed Sets and Linen Table Covers are featured with diverse borders and colors. Special values on Snowflake Grenadine curtains and English French Cretonnes line the stoor.
Large Oriental rugs reduced with multiple pieces listed by size, color, design, and original versus sale prices. Items include extra fine Armitzer, Gharvan, Muskabod, heavy Afghan, Keelims, Cashmere, large Muskabrod, India pieces, with prices from $25 to $250 and floor location noted.
The retailer promotes metal bedsteads as sanitary durable and stylish with many designs and colors. They list prices for all brass, white enamel, colored enamel bedsteads, cribs with springs, and a range of mattresses including hair and felt varieties made on premises. Springs and bedding accessories are highlighted with prices, noting factory-made mattresses and sanitary production.
The German Embassy hosted a reception for nearly 300 guests, with Ambassador and Baroness Sternburs receiving in the west drawing-room during the afternoon and late evening. Notables from multiple embassies and high society attended, including Jusserand, Mayor des Planches, and Taft aides, as plans for further gatherings were announced and a March schedule outlined.
Mrs Shaw wife of Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M Shaw was operated on today at Dr. Howard Kellys private sanitarium for a serious ailment. The operation was performed by Dr Kelly and reported successful. Secretary Shaw attended the hospital during the procedure and joined his wife after leaving Washington last Saturday. She has endured intense suffering and will remain hospitalized for about a month or six weeks.
Mrs. Silas Merchant, sister of the late Gov. Alexander R. Shepherd, died at 18 R Street NW after a long illness. She was 67, wife of Silas Merchant, long employed in the War Department. Son Dr. Francis Ty Merchant of New York arrived to lead funeral plans. Burial at Rock Creek Cemetery. Surviving siblings include Wilmer S. Shepherd and Thomas M. Shepherd. Funeral service planned at her residence with Rev. Herbert Scott Smith officiating.
The funeral of Medical Director George A. Bright U S N retired was held yesterday at 3 pm at 16236 T street northwest. His remains were cremated at Lee's crematory per his wish and the ashes will be interred later at Arlington National Cemetery. Navy seamen gunners served as pallbearers. honorary pallbearers included Rear Admiral Manney and several Medical Directors and engineers. The piece also notes the Consumptive Dispensary relocation to a more central address and aims to raise awareness among department clerks and government workers. it states few patients can pay for treatment and emphasizes public education over profit. It mentions planned work on St George mission home in Tennallytown and an upcoming National Legislative League meeting at the Raleigh Hotel led by Mrs Lillie Devereux Blake. It closes with reference to Jefferson Bible plates offered at reduced price.
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