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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1905
Page
7
A grand establishment offers complete home outfitting from garret to cellar. Shoppers can finish all summer household needs in one morning across departments, avoiding multiple store trips. The store promises city, seashore, or country setups with comfort, taste, and reasonable prices.
Summer upholstery items offered include curtains, screens, portieres, couch covers, blinds, cedar chests, and related requisites for town houses and summer cottages. The store promotes dust proof covers for longer furniture life, slip covers for parlor suites, and cabinet made screens and doors with ventilation and safety features. Estimated on all windows or entire house renovations.
A local ad promotes complete stock of ready made window screens and screen doors. Adjustable metal center screens with hardwood frames and concealed slides, various sizes and prices. Hardwood doors with hinges knobs and locks in multiple sizes. Weather proof shades advertised as durable and sun blocking while allowing air flow. Porch shade options priced from two to five dollars depending on size.
A special sale reduces rug prices by a third to a quarter to clear stock before summer. Highlights include patterns not duplicated, with varieties like Smyrna and Wilton pieces. Many rugs priced at 15 to 17 dollars, with original values up to 25 dollars, shown on the fourth floor with a range of Oriental designs.
The advertisement promotes China and Glassware, Lamps, and Modern House furnishings ideal for summer cottages with earthenware and decorative sets. It highlights open-stock patterns, including Ridgway Old Willow and Blue Danish designs, and notes a new Pure Food price list, prepaying freight on summer home orders. It also markets Decorated Toilet Sets and a White and Gold Palette 10-piece set at 1.95.
An advertisement touts double-handled White Slop Jars with a regular price of $1.25 each offered for a bargain 7sc each.
Aluminum cooking utensils recommended for summer use due to heat resistance and compatibility with gas and oil stoves. Highlights include aluminum sauce pans, covered pans, tea kettles, griddles, fry pans, milk pans, and preserving kettles with prices from a large stock.
A lot of decorated thin German and Japanese china tea cups and saucers in assorted shapes and decorations offered at two dollars and sixty cents per dozen or each cup and saucer.
Vintage styled ad promoting a full range of plain and figured glassware. Highlights pressed and blown glass table tumblers goblets bowls and dishes with prices from 25 cents to 1.65 dollars. Includes pressed glass bowls bakeware pitchers and decorative pieces under Colonel Gines patterns.
On center table in the Japanese China Room a large display of dainty thin Japanese China Cups and Saucers and After-dinner Coffee Cups and Saucers is offered. Hed and Rice Smart Plates 8 inches across top priced at 15c each.
We offer a varied display of Japanese Fan Fire Screens in assorted shapes and colors, complete with stand, priced at 15 cents each.
Patterson's Pineapple Eye Clip demonstration offers a steel, nickel plated tool sold for 25 cents. It is described as held like a pistol to remove the eye from a pineapple without wasting the fruit, with simple cleaning and storage.
Livery housekeepers should see the demonstration of Wood finishing materials. These products allow removal of varnish and application of new dull finishes including Mission finish for cottage furniture. First public showing to teach refinishing once only done by cabinet makers. Also offered as the best floor finishes in airtight cans at 30 a can.
Demonstrators showcase the Jewal Carpet Cleaner praised for removing dirt and stains from carpets and rugs without removing them from the floor. The device is described as inexpensive, using a cake for application, and restores color rather than driving dirt in.
Mrs Westinghouse hosted a luncheon with officers and guests including Lieut Col Gardiner and Greece's N Siderides, as the Westinghouse household and Mrs Wadsworth prepare a large reception for nearly a thousand delegates. Other events included dinners for the Chinese minister and notable guests at the New Willard, with extensive social lists and a marriage at All Souls Church of Miss Tibbits to Ralph Lewis.
We are now showing a large line of the Geisha Hand-painted Japanese Lamp Shades in assorted designs and colorings. These shades are especially suitable for summer cottage units and are much less expensive than formerly 1.50 up. Also a line of Glass and Wrought Iron Library Banquet and Parlor Lamps for summer homes. Pitth four-Eleventh st.
Four growing rose bushes offered for twenty five cents come from a top rose grower. Plants are started late and can be planted immediately with earth and roots intact. Varieties include Kaiserin Victoria, Papa Gontier, Helen Gould. Also two year old bushes priced two cents per plant.
UK stock of brass and enameled bedsteads for the season is the largest and most complete shown. All brass bedsteads range from 20 to 75 dollars, white enameled from 3.50 to 16.90, colored enameled from 6 to 20, cribs in brass white or colored enameled from 5.50 to 13 dollars.
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