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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1908
Page
31
Woodward Lothrop presents Easter displays on main floor featuring ASTER Paris Berlin designers with New York artistes. Special Easter opening highlights hats suits costumes blouses and outerwear in a continually changing show aimed at discriminating women seeking exclusive spring wear for formal and informal occasions.
An assortment of discounted garments and home furnishings offered with bold reductions. Items include womens petticoats and drawers with lace trim, bath robes, bed linens, a mahogany washstand, a dining chair lot, a mahogany buffet and china cabinet, and a matching buffet table. Prices cut from hundreds to mid double digits or low thousands. Location appears on East Seventh Street.
Budget priced upholstery sale featuring 9 pairs of sulk velour portieres in rich patterns with discounts. Also lists remnants and furniture items including mahogany desk pulls, dress shirts, chairs, and caps with marked reductions across numerous lines. Many items show substantial price drops and limited quantities.
Men s Separate Trousers in striped medium weight fabric offered in multiple sizes and colors. Prices slashed from high figures to 495 and 895 per pair, with several styles in dark, light gray, black, brown, and pin striped patterns. Vests and related items noted with substantial discounts as part of a department sale.
Reduced prices on boys suits knickerbocker trousers and sailor blouses, plus women chiffon dresses and broadcloth jumpers. Items include boys sizes 7 to 17, long trousers, and coats. women dresses in chiffon taffeta, batistes with lace yokes, linings, and imported coats all marked down.
Manufacturers samples of women's hosiery in black and stripe effects offered at 33 and 50 cents a pair. Spring weights, excellent quality, with sizes 9 to 11, and reduced prices on several styles.
Bargain notice for Point de Paris laces offered for sale by the yard at low prices. Describes edges and seams, suitable for undergarments, childrens wear, and other garments. Includes width options and pricing terms.
Misses’ suits on sale in sizes 14 to 20 with serge brown navy and checks priced at 8.50 to 29.75 each, originally 23.00 to 38.00. Dresses and skirts include gray blue silk dress with lace details reduced from 18.50 to 10.00 and box-plait skirts in Panama fabrics marked down from 4.50 to 6.50 for damaged pieces.
Picture Department offers seven landscape and marine oil paintings in deep gold burnished frames with shadow boxes now $495 each from $2000. Also large paintings including Helland Senes figures and marine views reduced from $5500 to $895 each. Delahogue landscape 41 reduced to $1950. Wittman Sheep in Village Street reduced to $1500. Couchall landscape reduced to $170. Fourth floor Tenth St.
List of women’s leather dress shoes with multiple styles and sizes from 3 to 12, including Patent Coltskin and Russia calfskin Goodyear welt pairs. Prices cut from 500 to 245, 350 to 225, and 250 to 150 per pair. Third floor Ten Street.
Department store listing details reduced prices on numerous shopworn items including Mickel plated Chafing Desk at 500, copper chafing dishes, aluminum teapot, wickel plated teapot, drip coffee pots, brass Russian coffee pot, nickel plated soap dish, Japan red bread box, white enameled jelly molds, copper bottom wash boilers and more, all at substantial cuts with quantities and old to new price changes.
In the third floor women’s department new flare gored style skirts and chiffon broadcloth shirts are reduced. Prices cut from 1850 to 1200 each for black broadcloth skirt, various Panama skirts down from 100 to 100, 1500 to 750, and other pieces in blue, brown, and black. Limited sizes available.
Fifth floor shows price cuts on imported and English and French decorated china and porcelain items. Dishes, tureens, teapots and bowls reduced from high original prices to modest sale figures. Items include celery trays, salad bowls, pudding sets, tankard vases and more with noted conditions.
Lingerie waists tucked and trimmed with valenciennes lace and hand embroidery in sizes 32 34 38 and 42. Reduced from 100 to 92 9 cents each. Three Madras waists in patterns sizes 34 38 and 42. White shirtwaist suit tucked and trimmed with embroidery size 3 reduced from 1250 to 60. Fine lingerie waists with valenciennes lace all sizes 190 each were 2.95 third floor G st.
A charity tableaux event at the Belasco Theater yesterday drew a notable crowd and will repeat today. Debutantes in nurse costumes sold programmes to raise funds for the Hed Cross Day Camp and the Diet Kitchen aiding poor consumptives and infants in Washington. The program featured gowns and poses by Miss Millet and others, with extensive attendance by diplomats and society figures including ambassadors and cabinet members.
Social gossip notes the engagement of Marian Stewart Ralston of Cadillac Michigan to William Cunningham of New York. Both families prominent, with Marian connected to Mrs J R Kerr and James Ralston. William a widower, nephew to late Mrs D O Mills and Mrs Heber Ro Wishop. Engagement praised for Marian’s charitable work. wedding planned quietly.
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