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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1907
Page
7
A broad catalogue touts items for Thanksgiving preparation and entertaining. It highlights table linens, china, glassware, lamps, candles, and decorative linens, plus pure foods and confections. It notes low prices due to earlier orders, with Flemish yarn Premi Linen and a “Circular Stripe” design for round tables.
The Pure Food Store offers high quality foodstuffs for Thanksgiving at or below common prices. Highlights include Colonial cider, Layer Raisins, Fig products, Pineapple Cheese, Vermont Sage Cheese, New Holland cheese, Florida Oranges, Cranberries, and Currants among others. Various prices in cents per unit are listed.
Freshly baked cakes advertised from home style recipes using harvest ingredients. Orders accepted for specie batines with ideas worked out. Varieties listed include Gold Leaf Sponge Angel Lager and Fruit. prices start from 25. Thanksgiving orders encouraged early.
A catalog listing Thanksgiving Day wares including carving sets, steel pans, roasters, nut picks, percolators, choppers, and china and glass pieces. It advertises prices from 1c to several dollars, notes ornate tableware and complete lines of pressed glass, oxblood linens, and after dinner mints by color and pattern. The piece emphasizes value and variety with multiple items and prices.
Society notes from Washington describe Mrs Roosevelt and Mr Root hosting a wedding at the Secretary of State’s home with extensive out of town guests. Ruth Wales, Alicia Berryker, and many relatives and ushers are listed along with gifts to the couple and the wedding day arrangements for Elizabeth Leech and Millard West in Washington.
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