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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1908
Page
7
Woodward and Lothrop presents Easter cards booklets and novelties on the main floor with a special Friday and Saturday opening. ASTER designers from Paris and Berlin join New York artistes and local talent to offer millinery suits costumes blouses and outerwear in a highly representative display for Easter and spring occasions.
An assortment of discounted household and clothing items offered at sale prices includes women’s silk petticoats, linen gowns and drawers, lace trimmed undergarments, bath robes, dining chairs, mahogany furniture, and a mahogany washstand. Prices cut dramatically from hundreds to under a hundred dollars in an unusual classified listing.
Extensive reductions on 9 pairs of Tine Portieres in sulk velvet and various red, blue, and green bordered designs with prices slashed from hundreds to single figures. Also listed are silk and linen accessories, including dress shirts, mahogany desks, chests, and chairs, with substantial discounts across rooms and floors.
Readers can save on men's separate trousers in medium weight fabrics featuring striped patterns including light and dark gray, black grounds, and dark brown pinstripes. Prices drop from high to under 10 dollars, with sizes listed as 30 to 58 and multiple color options reduced to about 49 to 195 each.
Third floor on Tenth Street features deep markdowns in boys clothing including trousers suits in sizes 1 to 20 and 2T to 17, with prices cut from several dollars to 25 to 85 cents per pair. Women’s chiffon dresses in multiple colors and imported pieces see substantial reductions from high original prices to mid price ranges.
Bargain note on manufacturers samples of women’s cotton and thread hose in black and striped designs. Spring weights show excellent quality with reduced prices per pair, featuring ankle and toe styling and assorted sizes.
In Point de Paris laces shop a sale on New Point de Paris laces with edges and seams, suitable for garments including underwear and childrens wear. Sold by the yard at 100 and 12 1/2 cents, limited widths offered.
Misses' suits and skirts offered at discounts in the third Aaurt section. Items include fine serge trousse suits in brown navy and black white checks in sizes 14 through 20 priced at 5.50. Also featured are blue serge and brown panama outfits in sizes 14 to 18 at 29.75, plus several dresses and skirts with reduced prices. Damaged pieces noted with markdowns and single remaining pieces.
Picture Department offers seven landscape and marine oil paintings in deep gold burnished frames with shadow boxes now from 495. Additional large originals and imports include Delahogue landscape 1950, Wittman Sheep in Village Street 1500, Couchall landscape 1700, all on fourth floor tenth street with similar shadow boxes and substantial markdowns from original asks.
Two dozen pairs of ladies shoes in leather and patent finishes offered with Goodyear welt soles and Cuban heels. Sizes range from 3 to 12 with several specialty widths. Original prices from 250 to 500 reduced to 150 to 245 per pair. Third floor at Tenth Street.
An itemized sale listing shopworn and reduced goods from a house furnishing department at Fifth Fourteenth Street. Describes plated chafing desk, copper chafing dishes, aluminum teapot, Wickel teapot, drip coffee pots, brass Russian coffee pot, nickel plated soap dish, Japan red bread box, white enameled jelly molds, and copper bottom wash boilers with marked discounts and quantities.
Third floor sale highlights reduced prices on ladies skirts and shirts. Black chiffon broadcloth shirts in new flare style with trapped seams down from 1850 to 12.00 each. Black broadcloth skirt in negored cut with three bands around bottom down from 15 to 3.75. Fine Jack Panama plaited style family strapped from 100 to 10.00. Tagit Cray skirts with deep fold adorned buttons down from 7.50 to 1.08 each. Panama skirts blue black odd sizes 15 down from 15.00 to 7.50 each. Panama skirts plaited in blue brown black various sizes 5.00 each.
The China Department offers deep discounts on imported and English porcelain dishes many with flaws. Prices drop from 60c to 25c for sauce dishes, $150 to 50c for English porcelain pieces, $4060 to $1 for French china, and other reductions on tureens teapots bowls trays and vases. Limited quantities remain on fifth floor G ft.
Lingerie waists in sizes 32 34 38 and 42 feature valenciennes lace and hand embroidery. Prices slash from 100 to 929 percent each, plus Madr as waist options in patterns for sizes 34 38 and 42. Includes a white shirt waist suit reduced from 1250 to 60 and a fine lingerie lot at 190 each, once 2.95.
A noon sale of programmes at the Belasco Theater benefits Hed Cross Day Camp for summer shelter and nurses care for the poor and the Diet Kitchen to aid infant milk supply. Notable guests, debutantes, and numerous ambassadors attended yesterday’s performance and mingled in the lobby.
Dr and Mrs David Ralston of Cadillac Michigan announce the engagement of their elder daughter Marian Stewart Ralston to William Cunningham of New York City. The couple are from prominent networks with ties to Audenhurst New York and recognized families in Michigan. The wedding will be very quietly celebrated.
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