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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1907
Page
5
We earnestly extend to the Baptists in convention in this city an invitation to use our store, especially the Book Department, where a comprehensive assortment of religious and philosophical books awaits. The store offers a comfortable place to wait and meet friends and a chance to browse the new titles.
The ideal wife and home maker stays busy in warm days preparing the home for the hot season. The town house or summer home requires tiresome shopping and many trips to different establishments. We offer to obviate this labor with our vast departments of goods and ready workmen for repairs and complete summer home outfitting estimates.
Advertisement outlines facilities for slip covers, window shades, screens, furniture reupholstery and repairs, draperies, and decorative items. Also offers parquetry flooring, carpet cleaning, mattress making, and rug storage. Calendar-friendly estimates, delivery on request. Includes prices for fabrics and slip covers. promotional suite prices listed.
Dainty muslin curtains in plain dotted and fluted effects with hemstitched ruffles priced from 1.25 a pair to 1.75. Cross-stripe Madras and woven Madras curtains in various patterns offered at 125 to 600 per pair. Muslin and cretonne options include plain dotted figured and stitched effects with Deep ruffles and special yard pricing. Fourth floor displays.
Vintage ad copy highlights new designs in figured wash covers and round cushions filled with cotton, wrapped in imitation denim. Appeals to porch and country home use including hammocks, baby items, and nap nooks. Mentions various seating and decorative possibilities with practical, casual styling.
Hardwood screen doors in multiple sizes with brass hardware and rustless wire filling. Adjustable window screens listed with size and price, plus porch blinds designed for airflow while keeping visibility limited. Complete assortments include 4x7.8 ft to 6x7.8 ft options priced from 2.00 to 5.00 each.
China and cut glass house furnishings and lamps offered with a focus on quality and fair pricing. The Fifth floor showcases a comprehensive array including crystal pieces and wedding gift selections with items priced from $1.60 up to several dollars each. Inspect the newly designed pieces and separate collections highlighted at specific price points.
A dated advertisement lists plain thin tumblers at $1.00 per dozen, Alleglass salt and pepper shakers with glass tops, stoves from $3.00, garden tools and mower accessories, alcohol cook stoves, strawberry hullers, and assorted toilet sets. Prices span low to $9.75, with multiple items like moth bags, tarina sheets, and camphor offered direct from producers and creamery butter at 35c per pound.
Advert for Chandon olive oil bottled in Bordeaux. Promotes pure, delicate oil for medic or table use with glass bottles at 25c 45c and 85c and tin cans 185c 1.60 and 3.00. Also lists camphor products and sulfur candles on the fifth floor with prices.
Compact advertisement touts Absolutely Pure Succa Olive Oil and invites comparison with La Volonta di Dio brand. Offers tins at 70c quart and 1.25 dollars per half gallon, appealing to buyers who pay more for quality.
A department store offers white enamel bedframes with various sizes and prices from 5.50 to 9.50, plus heavy bedsteads at 7.50 and black enamel bedsteads with brass trim from 9.50 to 25.00. All-metal bed springs range 3.50 to 6.00, with matching coils and fabric coverings. Mattresses include hair and cotton felt options, Ostermoor models at catalogue prices, and feather pillows from 1.00 to 3.25. Ventilating pillows with silk floss or odorless feathers priced 2.00, emphasizing cleanliness and in-store manufacture on premises.
A society page reports Miss Marcia Flagg Butler’s wedding to Edward Creswell Heald at the Butler home with a diplomatic and official guest list. It notes receptions, attire, and travel plans, plus other society events, dinners, and lunches hosted by Mrs. Audenried, Mrs. Hennen Jennings, and Mrs. Roosevelt for prominent figures including ambassadors, ministers, and relatives.
More than 200 American colony members with candles visited a garden acquired by Holy Trinity Lodge in Paris. The event doubled as a floral festival with hundreds of geranium and rose plants planted. A guide spoke on the chapel’s Roman temple origins and later ties to Notre Dame des Champs. Tea and music followed.
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