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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1905
Page
7
A period sale urges households to prepare for the Thanksgiving Day gathering. It highlights replenishing linens curtains drapery bedding and dining wares plus upholstering and decorating ideas to refresh homes for the autumn event.
Elegant imported linen designs from Madeira eyelet to Venetian table sets. Prices range from $1.25 to $21.75 per piece with exclusive hand made scarfs, centerpieces, and doilies. Limited one-of-a-kind items demand early selection at the store’s ground floor Rayon Street location.
A Thanksgiving sale highlights upholstery and drapery discounts featuring Soren Madras and Crete Curtains, lace curtains, and antique damasks. The ad promotes rich fabrics from domestic to foreign weaves, with values and yard prices ranging from $3.00 to $15.00 and higher, inviting shoppers to brighten homes with window and door hangings.
Our own importation offers parlor suites tables hall chairs and odd pieces in Louis XV and XVI styles. Crafted in our workshops by skilled cabinetmakers. We finish ten wax mahogany and gold leaf to match any furniture you desire and offer fabrics suitable for period upholstery.
AR vast and splendidly equipped Housefurnishing Department on the fifth floor offers new stock for Thanksgiving. Open stock china and glassware, handsome Limoges and Haviland patterns, and a 160 piece Limoges set priced for single pieces or whole sets. Special Thanksgiving sale pricing with multiple patterns and sizes, including 100-piece and 160-piece options and a $30 set option.
Thanksgiving Day Turkey Sets offered in multiple styles with decorative patterns and 13 piece configurations. Items include Old Willow Pattern, Copenhagen, Royal Doulton Blue Turkey, Austrian and French china, and Haviland turkey sets with prices shown. Modern Glassware dept features new cut glass carafes and dishes with prices.
Thanksgiving sale offering three styles of cut glass celery trays at special prices. Style 1 Chaicery design $2.50 each. Style 2 New design $2.95 each. Style 3 Richly cut trays $3.75 each.
Local china department promotes a wide selection of fancy china from England France Germany Japan and America for Thanksgiving hosting. Items include Bon Bon Dishes Cranberry Dishes Celery Trays Cake Plates Salad Bowls Mayonnaise Dishes Ice Cream Trays Nut Bowls Ramekins After Dinner Cups and Saucers and Salad Plates with various price points. inspections invited.
An advert highlights Perkins enamel self basting Double Turkey Roasters with prices from 25 to 76 cents and up. It promotes the new enamelled Perkins Double Roaster on the fifth floor and includes mentions of Maryland labeled roasters and aluminum self basting options.
Christmas season display of imported Fancy Molds from France and Germany features over one hundred styles for French chefs and experienced cooks. Includes Plain Border Oval Border and Covered Molds with prices from 30 cents to 3 dollars, plus Fancy Cake Cutters Jelly Molds Ice Cream Molds and bulk lines like Ple Plates and Jelly Cake Pans.
A catalog of table decorations and party favors including crimped paper pie dollars lace and sherbet cup dollies plain hemstitch dollies damask pattern dollies and cake dollies. Also offers roast turkey dinner favors football dinner favors celery menu cards pumpkin bon bon cases with per dozen or per item pricing from Hach.
The seventh floor displays twelve newly fitted rooms drawing universal attention. Visitors admire the magnificent furniture, study woods and styles, seek inspiration for homes, and gain both pleasure and knowledge, while also benefiting the display's educational value and profit.
Miss Anne Hitchcock daughter of the Interior Secretary and Lieut. Commander William S Sims U. S. N. wed at St John s Church Lafayette Square in the presence of President Roosevelt Mrs Roosevelt and senior officials. The ceremony was simple with no church decorations beyond white chrysanthemums.
A Washington wedding to be held November 9 at St Thomas Church features Joseph Angel and Heloise Chase Ingersoll. Bridesmaids include Bettie Preeton Angel and Annie Florence Knase. main escort Miss Elizabeth Eppes Minetree. Ushers include John Lawrence Minetree and Paul Crosby Chamberlain. Angel is Virginia born, Ingersoll from Maine lineage.
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