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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1905
Page
7
York-WalfiNgton store touts labor saving devices and affordable refurnishing for summer homes. It lists curtains, fabrics, furniture, linens, kitchen and laundry novelties, and prepayment of freight. Announce extended suburban deliveries to Kensington, College Park, Berwyn, Falls Church with schedule.
Stock rugs heavily discounted to close out before warm weather. Patterns vary in color and design, including high quality Wiltons and Axminster blends. Ideal for summer homes and hotel housekeeping, savings of a quarter to a third make it easy to match any decor.
The housekeeper should prepare suitable draperies for the summer season. Visit our Upholstery store for ideas and best assistance. We display spring and summer Curtains Curtainings Window Screens Screen Doors Portieres Couch Covers Porch Blinds Box and Head Couches Cushions Utility Boxes Cedar Chests and other requisites for the town house or summer cottage.
Slip Casers for 5 piece Parlor Suites made of Belgian Stripe Colton. Includes 25 yards for the making. Furniture dust proofing extends life. Special price seven dollars fifty cents per suite.
Made-to-order cabinet-made screens and doors using select lumber and 14-mesh black japanned steel wire ensure insect protection and full ventilation. Features include full-length guides, springs, top or bottom window use, inside or outside mounting, and matching woodwork finishes. Free estimates for single windows or whole houses.
Complete stock of ready made window screens and screen doors in hardwood frames with spring hinges knobs and lock. Sizes vary from 2 6x6 6 to 3 4x7 3 priced 75c 1 00 and 1 25. Metal frame one half inch wide provides ventilation durability and neat appearance with best black wire cloth galvanized iron frame.
A grand fifth floor display highlights goods for home care including cut and pressed glass china porcelain kitchen furnishings laundry items and cleaning aids. Featured are labor saving devices with distinct merits offered at the lowest prices through large direct manufacturer purchases. Manahan’s moth bags camphor products moth balls and camphor scented packets are listed with sizes and prices.
Catalog lists several furniture and floor polishes including Ching-fow and Nonpareil items, wax and polish bottles, and assorted brands such as Butcher's and Gordon's. Prices appear inconsistent with some listings showing $140 to none and multiple containers described as cans or bottles.
Last evening the French Ambassador and Mme Jusgerand plus Mr and Mrs Stuyvesant Fish hosted two dinner parties at the French Embassy for a distinguished group of guests from government, industry, and society. The guest list included Secretary Morton, Secretary Metcalf, railway executives, lawmakers, diplomats, and social notables. Tonight Mr Mish hosts a large reception while a Friendship Garden Party planned by Mrs Morgan and Mrs McLean aims to raise funds for the Home for Incurables with activities and a horse show scheduled on the grounds near the mansion.
A brief product notice lists Peterman's Roach Fai Peterman's Ant Food Yor and Peterman's Discovery for The Household Ammonia as cleansing bottles. The fragment notes multiple disinfectant and insect exterminator items available.
A catalog fragment listing Krupp and other brands of silver and nickel polishes and metal care products. Includes boxes and bottles for polishing brass, gold, silver, and decorative items, with various labels like Wonderful Potlat and Wellington Knife Polish.
Garden and lawn tools catalog itemized including trowels weeders rakes grace shears hoes beads garden beta g pieces lawn welders listed with singular quantities for each item.
A readable fragment lists ready mixed paints for interior and exterior use, enamels for stove pipes and furniture finishes, polyurethane and varnish options, and various brand names. It notes enamel and oil finishes, floor and woodwork coatings, and household shelf items like wax blends.
House furnishing department announces a wood finishing demonstration. The material removes varnish from furniture and applies new dull finishes, ideal for Mission style cottage furniture and re finishing old pieces in tub finishes. Also touted as top floor finishes, sold in airtight cans at 60 cents per can.
Demonstrators show the cleansing properties of the Jewell Carpet Cleaner which removes dirt and stains from carpets on the floor. The product claims to extract dust without soaking in, restoring original color and grain at a stated price per cake.
LANZ presents an endless variety of suitable articles for wedding gifts. Inspection implies no obligation to purchase.
Mrs J Dundas Lippincott plans Europe summer after vacating Yellow Mansion in Philadelphia this month. Gen Rogers and Mrs Rogers relocate to the Ontario apartments. Dr Joseph Taber Johnson leaves Farragut apartment for 94 Farragut square. Mr W A Roberts return from Atlantic City bridal trip. Miss McCune of Philadelphia visits 19% Fifteenth street NW and will host Washington friends Friday afternoon May etc. Mrs E Oliver Bell moves with family to Maryland country place for summer. Mrs John Needham arrives from New York to visit Mrs T D Talmage. Mrs F McCready Harris travels France and Italy this summer and Germany next winter. Florence A Huggins marries B Whitney of Pittsburgh on April 12 166 Pittsburg. Mr and Mrs Waddy Wood to occupy 2023 Connecticut avenue May 11. Waterburys of New York depart after brief Washington visit, praising Aiken season and leasing Live Oak cottage. Auxiliary 52 U V L hosts at home for encampments 11 and 6. John Rawlins Pont No 1 members present. President Mila Knight welcomes guests. A musical and literary program features G Doracy, Misses Morgan Tanner Lewis Miller Masszey Wilson Albert Shannon and Allen. Refreshments follow.
The Musical Art Society presented its eighth musicale with Mr. Johannes Miersch as violinist. Twenty one singers from church choirs performed under Sidney Lloyd Wright gon. Highlights included German O Lovely May and Gretry Midnight Patrol with strong male chorus. Brahms Song of Destiny and Barnet Lost Chord for women drew varying responses.
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