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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1907
Page
29
Woodward G and Lothrop announces 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. hours for a sale of household needs including upholstery housekeeping supplies and furnishings. The offer highlights durable articles for parlor, library, bedroom, dining room, kitchen, pantry and laundry, priced competitively versus inferior goods.
An advertisement offers interior decorating services with a visit to measure, sample, and estimate. It promotes a wide stock of vintage drapery styles and curtains including Venice, Princess Lace, Arabian designs, and muslin curtains. Prices range across numerous items, inviting customer consultation.
Catalog copy describes cushions with satin and crepe finishes and price ranges from 75 cents to 125 dollars. It highlights a full stock on the fourth floor at G Street, featuring heavy mercerized velvet portieres and krinkled stir Verona velvet draperies in rich colors and durable materials.
An advertisement showcases an extensive selection of upholstery fabrics including Reps, Tapes, silks, brocades, velours, and wool tapestries. Prices range from 73 to 30 dollars per yard with plains and Figured Reps and Armures, plus trims for shawls and curtains. A large line of tapestry fabrics priced from 1234¢ to 40¢ per yard is advertised.
Exquisite conch covers showcased in old style reproductions by Artinom Mills. Features Bagdad stripe patterns and fringed stone accents with ornate Oriental Land remic assigns. Prices range from $3.00 to $22,350 each.
Short on funds, the store touts fall stock of linens blankets quilts and more at prices below current values due to early favorable mill contracts. It highlights woolen blankets tablecloths mattress pads pillows and white fabrics, with assorted sizes and special values for home textiles.
A shipment of Teddy Bear Crib Blankets arrives in blue or pink with a teddy bear design. Priced at 1.50 each, the blankets are described as comfortable and appealing to children.
Flannel labeled yella stands for a fabric that does not shrink suitable for frocks knickerbockers night dresses shirts and pajamas. Designs include Handsome clan plaids. Fabric width 32 inches priced per yard.
Rich Oriental Rugs advertises that Oriental pieces are valued by quality rather than size, emphasizing distinct individuality, adaptability to various décors, lasting decorative and monetary value, and an imported direct-from-market stock. The catalog promises an unequaled selection and a guaranteed genuineness, with small rugs grouped by price.
A long column notes the return of German Ambassador and Baroness von Sternburg to Washington from Ireland and Dublin, with greetings from officials and diplomats. It lists several social moves, weddings, engagements, travels, and residences of prominent figures including Mrs Garfield, Mr. and Mrs. Long, Miss Mae Vorhees, and Mr. George W Graves, plus a marriage at Holy Trinity Church and a large assortment of rugs for sale.
Miss Catharine Cullum Ridgely and Mr. Phelps Brown plan a notable Washington society wedding. The article details the bridal party, including maid of honor Eleanor Ridgely and bridesmaids Gertrude Brown and Catherine Williams, with ushers and the groom’s brother as best man. It also advertises Dainty China and modern house furnishings as part of a showroom display.
Advert shows new oil lamp patterns and practical lighting devices with Cut Glass jugs from 3.95 and other glassware priced from 1.00 to 37.50 for punch bowls. also notes electric and gas portable lamps and mantles. The latter portion shifts to a society column about William Gordon and Maud de L Robineau Gordon with details of their family, marriages, and divorces among Staten Island elite.
A fragmented OCR list shows brushes of various types and cleaners, including floor and wall brushes, sink and sliver brushes, waxing brushes, brooms, paints, stains, furniture polish, liquid brass fetish, and silver cream polish with vague price hints such as 150 up and .250 up.
A notice advertising a variety of baskets including imported German French Japanese and domestic options. Text highlights pleasing patterns and color combinations with uniformly moderate prices across work hampers clothes and scrap baskets infant baskets glove and handkerchief baskets and small fancy baskets on the fifth floor.
A Ketcham home wedding unites Disa Loules Ketcham and David McCampbell in Philadelphia with a simple family ceremony. Engagements include Marion Mason to Janza Sher vill Bromfield in Louisville and Nancy Chapman to Clifford Bangs in Smithfield. Other nuptials feature Miss Louise Clover Boldt’s wedding in New York and Miss Marguerite Evans among the bridal party in the same season.
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