Special Easter Millinery Opening in Washington Pa
A special Easter millinery opening features hats for Easter including Paris and American models, bonnets, sailors, dress hats, Toques, mourning hats, and children's hats. The display emphasizes becomingness, hair styles, flower trims, ostrich plumes, and light airy materials with ribbons. Millinery Parlors on the second floor of Tenth Street showcase the latest ideas for juveniles and elderly women with conservative yet elegant lines.
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Fuffy
Tenth St
Upholstery Substitutes for Stained Glass and New Spring Drapery
Vitrophane, a European decorative material for plain window glass, offers decorative panes that admit light while hiding unsightly views. Rolls are nine yards by eighteen inches, sold by roll or yard. The shop offers custom shades, complete spring stock of shade cloths, and low prices on drapery fabrics and trims with ready estimates available.
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Europe
King’s Scotch Holland
Empire
O’hanlon’s Scotch Holland
Willow and Rattan Furniture Sale at Low Prices
Willow Furniture advertises a large assortment of willow and rattan pieces including side chairs arm chairs rockers steamer chairs tables and cushions. Pieces can be finished in any color at small cost cushions from $20 and a standout value is the natural finish willow armchairs at 7.00 each.
Slip Covers to Order for Parlor Suites
Advertises made to order slip covers in two fabrics Belgian Cotton Stripe and printed dimity. Each suite requires 25 yards of fabric. prices listed as 7.50 dollars for the stripe option and 11.00 dollars for the dimity option.
Rustless 1907 Window Screens and Cabinet Doors
On sale are 1907 Rustless window screens with 14 mesh rustless wire and springs for ventilation at top or bottom. Frames match any woodwork. Also cabinet made doors of the best materials with brass hardware and oxidized grills, finished to marry with woodwork.
Floor coverings in burlap and denim offered for sale
Art Denims and Burlaps advertise floor coverings for spring and summer. Burlap at 35¢ per yard laid and Denim at 60¢ per yard laid, highlighting easy cleaning and attractive appearance with new color assortments.
Chinaware Glassware and House Furnishings Display
The fifth floor presents a curated department of chinaware glassware and house furnishings. Varied collections include cut and pressed glass, china, porcelain for table use, kitchens, laundry requisites, and housekeeping helps. Labor-saving devices and well‑classified goods promise easy selection with unusually low prices via direct purchase from manufacturers.
Glass Vases for Easter Flowers in Various Colors
Glass vases in plain and green crystal, assorted shapes and sizes, including extra tall pieces for Easter lilies and long stems. Prices to $3.00 each. Imported vases with sweet pea pattern offered at 2c, 50c, and $1.00 each, regular 50c, $1.00, and $1.50.
Easter Gift Glassware Sale Highlights Choice Cut Glass
Easter collection features numerous items from vases and bonbon dishes to fruit bowls and salad sets. Highlights include crystal water pitchers, sugar and cream sets, carafes, and oil or vinegar cruets with price points from $2.25 to $5.00, plus a Gift Glassware group priced at $2.75, $3.95, and $5.00.
Jardinieres for Easter Plants at Special Department Lots
Inexpensive jardinières in assorted shapes and sizes ideal for potted Easter gifts. Four special lots are displayed on separate tables in the Jardiniere Department priced at 25c, 35c, 50c, and 75c each.
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Jardiniere
Fish preparing requisites at Housefurnishing department
The center tables display new and best fish preparing requisites for shad and spring fish. Items include fish turners fish broilers fish boilers fish molds shad planks. Prices range from 50 cents to 3 dollars.
Ignito Mantles Promise Safe Self Lighting Gas Light
The Ignito mantles are advertised as self lighting without matches. They are described as economical and reliable, delivering more light per gas, and lighting as gas enters the mantle to prevent asphyxiation.
Bouillon Cup and Saucer Special Sale
Bouillon Cups and Saucers in assorted shapes and decorations marked specially at 3 for 25 cents each. Regular price usually 25 cents each.
Sulphur Candles For Winter Closet Moth Control
Practical housekeepers advise burning a sulphur candle in a room or closet before packing away winter clothing to kill moths and moth eggs. Available in three sizes 3c and 1oc each. Fifth floor.
Clearance sale of upholstery fabrics offers wide selection
A large assortment of Figured Upholstery Fabrics in desirable colors and sizes is offered at a yard price. A 50 inch Gobelin Tapestry in this season's designs and colors is priced at 3.00 per yard, valued at 400 dollars.
Altamont Spring Water Seeks Purity Standout Brand
Altamont Spring Water proclaims itself a superior table water with natural softness and perfect sterilization. Sold from 1305 F Street NW and at Woodward & Lothrop stores, the exclusive agents advertise its pure, sterile bottled spring water as unmatched in quality and handling.
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Altamont
Altamont i
F Street Nw
Eleventh
F Streets
Woodward & Lothrop
Altamont Spring Water Co
Best Quality Seeds and Bulbs Flower Seeds and Bulbs Sale
Advertising a first showing of season flower seeds and bulbs of high quality. Past customers know the satisfactory results. Items include lawn seed potato, flower seeds, tuberose bulbs, gladiolus bulbs, hydrangea bulbs, caladium bulbs, dahlia tubers, peonies, garden tools and watering pots with prices from small fractions to a few cents per item.
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Johnson
Moth Preventives and Camphor Products Offered
A historic ad lists a full line of moth prevention goods including Moth Balls Moth Flakes and related items with prices per package such as Camphor products in various forms and sizes. Items include Crystalline Camphor Lavender Camphor Cedar of Lebanon and Camphorated Flakes with prices per box and per dozen.
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Lebanon
Odd and Artistic Screens at Special Prices
Large consignment of three and four fold screens from a prominent maker offered at special prices. Includes Mission Oak and Light Oak screens with burlap and interlining from 7.50 to 1.50 each, Japanese screens from 4.00 to 25.00, and 4-fold screens at 6.00, all on second floor sale.
Engagements and Social Notes Fill Washington Pages
Social and personal items announce the engagement of Harriet Southerland to Alfred Alvarez Calderon secretary of the Peruvian Legation with plans for a late May or early June wedding. Other notices include Frances Andrews to Robert Shepman of the United States Geological Survey, plus dinners and entertainments at the homes of Lee, Bell, Britton and McIntire, with guests from the British and Japanese missions and local civic leaders.
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William H. H
Southerland
Alfred Alvarez Calderon
Lega- Hon
Lee Entertain
Viscountess
Aoki
Mme. Cartes
Justice
Brewer
Grant Watson
Watson
Miyaoka
Countess Hatzfeldt
Penu
Capt
Francesa Andrews
Robert Hollister Shepman
The
United States Geological Arvey
Social Gossip: Engagment of Ethel Rockefeller to Dodge
Miss Ethel G Rockefeller heiress, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Rockefeller, is engaged to Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr grandson of the late Marcellus Hartley. The piece details family backgrounds wealth and social status along with past public appearances and wedding plans.
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Ethel G Rockefeller
Wiliam Rockefeller
Marcellus Hartley Dodee
Marcellus Hartley
Norman Dodge
Miss Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
Wilam G. Rockefeller
Percy A. Rockefeller
Stillman
Rockefeller
Fifth Avenue
New York
Dodge
Young Dodge
Intersabonal Banking Company
Aruitable Life Assurance Company
Helen Hartley Jenkins
Columbia University
Cuba
Porto Rico
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Woodward Glothropark
Washington
Paris
Toques
Vitrophane
G Street
Willow Furniture
Jardinieres For
Bouillon Cup
Vahie
Altamont Spring
Miss Southerland
Arthur Lee
John B Henderson
Col
Bromwell
van Vechten Olcott
Walter Andrews
Fishback
Nathaniel Francis
Charley J. Bel
Mra. Pettus
E .H. Harriman
Herriman
Robert Goelet
Katherine Hikins
the Plains
Harriman
Mra. Longworth
Longworth
Miss Elsinag
Goetee
Mra, Bell
J. Franklin Bell
Henning
Juliette Williams
Frederica Morgan
Ide
Wilcox
Brees
Gimora
Poole
May
Bell
Sixteenth Street
Alexander Britton
District Supreme Court
Clabaugh
Ridgely
James Cecil Hope
Samuel Reber
Katharine Reed
Henry B. Deale
Aldis B. Browne
Edward McCauley Will
Carroll Mercer
Mes
Moses
the Highlands
Belasco
National Junior Republic
Viscountess Aoki
Audenried
A. C. Barney
Hubert Bacon
Charles J. Bell
Sbondparte
William J. Boardman
Bryce
Charles S Bromewll
David Brewar
Cannot
Donald
Mary Elizabeth Moulden
A. F Moulden
Charles Walte Burnham
Bureau of Fisheries
Rhode Island Avenue
C. A. Stewart
Misa Louisiam
Louise Air
St. Louis
New York City
Anna R. Mahler
Corcoran Street
Ten Buck Wendell
Burr Wendell
Cazenovic, MN
Bhaffer
George Gould
Norman de Whitehouse
Madison Square Garden
Mrs. Whitehouse
Meo Ord
Eton
Ghulin & Martin Co
Brest
Bric-a-brac
Dulin & Martin CO
Ary
Porvelain
China
Glen, Silver
Iron Marche
Seventh Street
Lips Born
Pane Garment Shop
Eleventh Street
Meeneed
National Dermatological Institute
Pepita
James Curran
Sheraton
Hipplewhite
Old Colony Co
H Street
N. W
R Harris
Steinway
Edroop
Ave
WN. W
Sas
V. B. Rosen
F St
Hattie M. Shacelette
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