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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1904
Page
7
Woodward & Lothrop announces new dress goods quarters on the second floor with enhanced lighting. Fall and winter fabrics are displayed to best effect, featuring cloth weaves, silks, and velvets, with daily imports and domestic fabrics added to the display. The store promotes shopper comfort and the improved arrangement, inviting inspection during the new hours from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Our September sale invites patrons returning from summer outings to equip homes for fall and winter with discounts from 25 to 334 percent below value. The store offers a larger stock than any season, many one of a kind items, and a wide pattern variety to satisfy homemakers hotel proprietors and housekeepers. Boxes and bales of fresh merchandise arrive daily as the sale encourages use of store counsel and contents for happy home furnishing outcomes.
A special household linen and bedding sale advertises table damasks, bed linens, towels, and sheets at low prices. Highlights include damask tablecloths, napkins, bleached damask, and Turkish towels, with numerous sizes and price points. Also features silk petticoats, Elderdown garments, and new flannel lines. Aimed at housewives for immediate and future needs.
About 300 dozen women’s hose on display at low prices. Black cotton hose 25¢ a pair, black ribbed lisle thread hose 35¢, black lisle ribbed hose 35¢, embroidered lisle hose 50¢ to 75¢, assorted lisle thread and cotton hose 25¢ to 50¢. Main floor store display.
New infant and little girl garments arrive daily with items made in America and Paris. Featured wares include hand crocheted bootees and baptques, hand made sweaters, knit cards for children, reefers and coats in white and colored borders, and bedford cord coats with collars. Third floor Eleventh Street offers these fall pieces at prices from 25 cents to 2.50 or more.
Women who sew can save time with a perfect-fitting Bust or Dress Form. A complete line in all sizes is shown. French Bust Forms, stockinette covered, $1.00 each. Dress Forms, full size, $3.50 each. Main floor G street location.
An article highlights the need for comfortable shoes for tender feet, noting improper young shoeing as a source of lifelong foot problems. It advertises Grover's Hand-turn Shoes and Bunion Shoes made from fine dongola kidskin, with lace and button options, priced $1.50 to $3.00, on the third floor tenth at.
The New Victor sewing machine is advertised as high quality with latest improvements and a full set of attachments. Priced as low as 18 dollars, it emphasizes economical selling, modern production, and no agency fee, with instruction offered at the department second floor G st.
Prompt estimates are furnished for reupholstering and refinishing furniture window shades to order couches to order floors planed waxed polished and stained parquetry flooring made and said fourth floor G Street
A double wedding at Takoma Park Presbyterian Church united Miss Katherine Maude Dexter to Harold F. Babbitt of Cleveland and Miss Cora Ruth Dexter to Allan C. Wood of Philadelphia. Rev W H Dexter, father of the brides, officiated as guests filled the church.
Churchmen's League of the District arranges a 4 to 5 pm Saturday reception for the Archbishop of Canterbury at the Corcoran Art Gallery. Two thousand cards will admit attendees. distribution is through league members, the Bishop of Washington, and rectors. Lewis J. Davis chairs the committee. An open-air service at St. Albans follows with car and bus service planned from Chevy Chase. 600 in the choir and many diocesan clergy expected. The Archbishop is due in Washington tomorrow evening.
The Vicomtesse de Faramond wife of the French Embassy attache in Washington underwent an appendicitis operation in Philadelphia. Dr Ernest La Place reported the procedure was successful with no complications and the patient was improving. The vicomtesse arrived in New York from Europe with her husband and mother accompanying her.
The Maryland fleet including Florida Nevada Arkansas and torpedo boat destroyers Lawrence Mac Donough Hopkins Wapples Worden Truxtun and Hull arrived at Tangier Sound for four hours of target practice at 1000 yards. The Mad Donough led with successful hits at ten knots. Daily practice continues through October with other gunboats en route. Foreign governments are tighter on confidential data, prompting report omissions.
Orders to army and naval officers detail leaves of absence and new assignments. Capt. Parker receives fourteen days leave. Capt. Lenihan joins Company K. Maj. Frost acts as quartermaster during recruiting. Capt. Alvord moves to Company L. Capt. Willard granted ten days leave to start Oct 9. Capt. Dixon to Omaha for duty. Maj. Gwen moved from Philippines to Fort Logan. Promotions and transfers include Park to Fourth Cavalry Troop C and Wilson to Sixth Cavalry. naval officers listed for court-martial, voyages, and shore duties. numerous detachments, navigators, and paymasters reassigned. vessels in movement to various ports.
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