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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1908
Page
39
Woodward and Lothrop promotes a vast fifth floor sale on chinaware glassware and housefurnishings. Special dinnerware sets from American, English, German, and French makers feature high value prices, with cut glass and decorative pieces highlighted along with limited time bargains.
A garbled OCR item describes glassware for a summer cottage sale with inconsistent phrases about prices and items. The readable parts mention glassware, a plan, and various stray numbers, suggesting a cluttered listing or notice rather than a coherent event or offer.
Reliance Wickless Blue Flame Oil Stove advertised with easy operation and safe design. Includes multiple models and prices such as $25 for small units, $100 and up for enhanced versions, with claims of immediate heat, no smoke or odor, and reliable baking and roasting results.
Advertisement touts a reliable garden hose emphasizing long life and low cost. Promotes better fittings and brass couplings, claims strong fireproof seals, and offers a 13 foot hose with improved banding and fasteners.
Fragmentary catalog text lists garden tools and prices with odd spellings. Reads like a vintage ad noting items such as metal mallets, poore stears, and steel bows with various prices in cents and dollars, mixed with incomplete phrases and stray characters.
Florence Automatic Blue Flame Oil Stoves offered in 2 and 3 burner high and low styles. Priced at $1000 each, suitable for gas oil or vapor stoves. Toasts four slices at once without taste of gas, 25 cents per slice.
A dense roster of social leaders including Mrs Badger Mrs Dufuis Mrs Hough and Mrs Fre mont Smith gathered in Washington for a charity sale and fundraiser at the Marine Foret Jinge dor 506 state area featuring imported steins and a program from Mrs Hough Miss Eccles and Mr Gareissen. Attendees from Baltimore Boston and New York were noted, with hotel stays, dinners, and a May 1 reception, as well as plans for a public viewing of artistic apartments and a charity drive benefiting the Boys Home.
A demonstration booth on the fifth floor offers samples of Suchard's Imported Swiss Milk Chocolate. The ad notes prices of 10¢ 5c and 20c and invites unfamiliar customers to try the product.
A budget of interesting personalities notes the departure of Mrs Meyer wife of the Postmaster General and the Misses Meyer for Germany and England for the summer. Lady Isabella Howard and Mme von Livonius sail to England with their children while Baron Ambrose travels with the group. Mr How ard and others plan summer stays in the United States and Europe, with various weddings engagements and society events outlined.
A sprawling portrait of transatlantic elites detailing the English and American duchesses, Vanderbilts, and social leaders gathering in London and New York. It covers alliances against Americans, planned entertainments, chaperones, and the hunt for a historic coach, with notes on Mrs Asquith, Mrs Palmerston, and the Paderewski circle, plus social reforms and the Lackington School.
The United States National Museum received a bequest from Stephen Decatur Smith of Philadelphia, a gold ring once owned by Decatur. Richard Bowers gave the ring to Smith at Tripoli after Decatur’s death aboard the Intrepid. Smith kept it until his own passing. The ring's fate traces to Somers and the frigate Intrepid in a 1804 Tripoli expedition, ending with the ship’s crew lost after a premature explosion.
The Interior Department disbursing clerks honored George W Evans yesterday for completing a quarter century of service. Evans, appointed May 1883, has disbursed hundreds of millions of dollars without loss to the government or himself, and received many tokens of respect from colleagues.
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