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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1906
Page
13
A Woodward & Lothrop sale highlights Friday bargains on remnants across silks woolens and cotton dress goods. Items include Louisine Silk at 49 cents a yard and Al-silk Peau de Cygne at one dollar per yard, with large selections of ready-to-wear, hosiery, shirts, and men’s wear marked down to clear prices.
A compact sale of women’s muslin undergarments features a four-room miscellaneous lot including gowns shirts corset covers and drawers with embroidery lace and tucks. Items are offered at clearance prices with regular values cited and a display of short kimonos in blue and black dotted fabrics.
Forty dozen Women's Lisle-finish Vests with crocheted fronts offered at 25 cents each, down from 35 cents. Also forty dozen pairs of Women's Jersey Ribbed Liste Thread Drawers, umbrella style, trimmed with lace, on special at 30 cents a pair. Main floor I at.
Net Corsets offer 25 dozen pairs of Summer Corsets made of good quality net with coutil strippings in sizes 18 to 30. Special price 39 cents per pair. Third floor Eleventh at.
A sale of Women s Tan Oxfords in rich dark Kidskin with turn sole and Cuban heel. New goods for this season in sizes 3 to 7 and widths B C D E. Priced at 1.93 dollars per pair. Value listed as 300 dollars. Located third floor Tenth street.
Hosiery department advertisement shows 1s-pairs women's jacquard woven cotton doge black grounds with white stripes in sizes 81-2 4 and 12 reduced from pair. Also features women's boot-pattern hose with dropstitch effect striped tips blue bottoms sizes 1-2 9 and 0i reduced from oc to se pair. Main door floor notice.
Reduced prices across women’s gloves including It-button-length suede pairs, black castor gloves, and white Biarritz styles. Discounts drop from 275 to 160 dollars per pair and from 1 to lower figures for other lines, with sizes 012 and 614 63-4 noted.
The Lace Department promotes discounts on white linen coats and robe patterns with hand embroidery. Prices drop from 12.09 to 7a, 15.0 to 12.00, and 10.50 to 9.00, highlighting slightly soiled or mussed condition and lace trim on refined patterns.
A newspaper item advertises men’s hats including tourist and various shapes in brown, pearl, and nutria. Soft and stiff hats for men are reduced from high prices to low sale prices, with several size ranges noted and a focus on spring styles and slightly soiled stock.
Third floor tenth at. Youths' all wool long pants and double bred suits in various sizes reduced from high prices to bargain figures. Items include ten to nineteen dollars off, with several sizes in stock and all wool material highlighted for boys.
Local department sale listing boys garments and nightwear with price cuts. Includes white and colored Madras shirts sizes 12 to 14, outings pajamas sizes 2 to, flannel night sheets, shield bows, white flannel and serge S color tam o Shanter hats, all reduced from previous prices.
A local bedding sale lists 14 and 14 1 2 foot brass beds with rich designs, heavily reduced from 32.50 to 25.00 and 300 to 40. White enameled beds with trimmings and twin effects are described as strong and heavy, with reductions from 20 to 15.00 and 315.00 to 10. Damages noted on several pieces, including a slightly damaged white enameled bed priced around 400. Second floor items also mentioned.
Picture Department offers four original Rene Cass paintings and other Flower pieces in deep gold-burnished frames with shadow boxes. Prices slashed from 18.00 to 10.97 each and from 16.75 to 8.25 for a large painting. Also works by R Varin and Lemaire, originally 1800 each, reduced to 885. Location: Fourth floor Tenth St.
A sale list describes 4 inch skirts and steamer trunks of seasoned wood with leather bindings and brass fittings. Prices show reductions from 1800 to 1435, 2000 to 163, and similar cuts on other fiber suit cases and basements built builds.
An advertisement lists oak chiffonier prices cut from 1400 to 39.95 and 500 to 1476, a quartered oak dresser at 8837, a writing desk with pigeon holes, a mahogany finish rocker 36, weathered oak settee 885, a weathered oak chair 95, and a go-cart with running gear for 1895. Sixth floor.
A list of women’s waists offered at reduced prices. White lawn waists with embroidered fronts and lace collars in all sizes, priced at 1.50 each from 1.90. DIAUTAS waists in assorted styles also discounted. Crepe de Chine waists trimmed with lace, reduced from 20 to 7 50 each. White taffeta silk waists in sizes 30 to 40, reduced from 8 76 to 3 75. Silk waists blue and plum in selected sizes also cut to 3 75 each.
Readable items include English serges silk-lined Jean jacket blue wine sizes with drastic markdowns from hundreds to 25 dollars. Coats, two-piece dresses with lace yokes, Panama cloth dresses, and a plum broadcloth suit show large price cuts, sizes vary, with several misprints and garbled labels.
From the third floor goods closet, multiple girls and miss sizes offered at deep reductions. Includes a black and white shepherds check Rnegan dress with linen collar, a wine broadcloth coat, an elegant white organza dress trimmed with lace, a light blue silk mull dress with embroidery, and five winter lawn guimpes trimmed with tucks, all marked down from higher prices.
Infants department offers reduced prices on a dotted Swiss infant cloak with lace trim, a child's figured pongee coat with white silk details, and hand made dresses with feather stitching. Reductions listed from original amounts to five dollars and ten dollars, located on the third floor Seventh Street store section.
The ad notes 14 blue Japanese china coffee cans and saucers reduced from b0c to Lic, decorated celery trays cut from L to 6e each, odd decorated plates dropped from 100 to s0e, a large decorated vase down from 4.00 to 200, all at Fifth Moor-G St.
Roomy Fifth floor display lists 33 cut glass salt and pepper shakers with sterling tops. Imported decorated glass vases drop from 7 cents to 10 cents each. One cut glass fruit bowl cut price from 7.00 to 0.00 and an imported vase from 4.00 to 1.95. Includes note of a $2001 reduction.
Bargain notices show several basket items with reduced prices. Fancy Straw Saray Baskets drop from 1.00 to Tic. Prairie or EsF Dog Basket from 4.00 to 2.00. Birch Bark Candy Baskets from 100 to 9c each. other baskets cut to 2c, 1c, or similar small amounts. Fifth floor offers these reductions, including a Palm Knife Basket.
Decorated Haviland China dinner set two pieces slightly damaged reduced from 250 to 18. Two dozen imported decorated sauce or berry dishes cut from 20 to 1.80 per dozen. Decorated French China salad bowl cut to 1.50. Royal Doulton covered dish down to 1.25. Decorated Wrench Cane covered dish reduced to 150. Bouillon cups and saucers 32.2% to 1.08 each. Trench china chop dish to 5. Richly decorated French china game set from 5500 to 1250. Decorated French china chocolate paté reduced to 1. Pitth floor G st.
A Fifth floor sales notice outlines reduced prices across the Housefurnishing Dept. Copper plated steel stew pangs nickel plated trays and enameled ware pots see notable cuts. Household sponges dust pans and brass polish also priced lower alongside large French cooks knives and easy bright cleaner. Limited quantities remain.
Society notices detail a dinner for the British ambassador’s guest general Greely missing his daughter's wedding. The colonial ball at the Octagon House, with many entertaining guests, is described alongside multiple teas receptions and weddings in Washington society.
Special to The Washington Post reports a quiet London wedding of Mrs Nannie Langhorne Shaw to William Waldorf Astor by special license. The ceremony at Langham Hotel was attended by close relatives and witnessed by the bride’s sisters and Astor’s brother. A country seat gift named Chivetcer will host the couple on their honeymoon with plans to spend July and August in America. A $100,000 a year settlement and a large $1,900,000 estate gift are noted as the father of the bridegroom’s contributions to Clivedon, with considerable spend already made. Flowers for spring weddings are described.
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