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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1905
Page
7
Linen suitings and lace robes offered at steep discounts with many one of a kind pieces. Spangled robes in black gray brown priced at 3500 and up from 7500. White silk robes with Renaissance lace 75 dollars, Irish trimmed robes, white net robes 12 to 15 dollars. Special linen yardage 15 cents, Irish linen 1 second floor price set. Marketed as immediate sale from main floor G street and second floor Eleventh.
Warehouse sale on remaining French corsets including coutil and batiste styles. Clearout offers list items discounted from twelve to fifty cents with straight front and hip hip cuts, elastics, and various sizes. Third floor Eleventh Street department.
Women s black and white striped percale skirts with umbrella flounce and two narrow ruffles offered at a special price. Also outings summer blankets in pink blue and gray checks suitable as bed coverings, priced per pair with storage on second floor Pileventh Street.
Special sale on women's Lisle hose 25 dozen pairs with garter top double soles and high spliced heels priced at 25 cents each. Also 40 dozen Swiss ribbed Lisle thread vests lace trimmed offered at 35 cents each. Malin floor Fat.
The past six months worth of moldings crafted into frames of various sizes are offered at half and less than half price. Lot 11 includes about 65 frames in gilt black brown and silver with small and odd sizes priced 16c and 15c values 46c and sec. Lot 2 features frames in gilt black brown black gilt and black silver odd sizes and shapes priced 25c and 35c values 75c and 1.00. Lot 3 contains about 7% frames in gilt black brown larger sizes priced 75c values 1.75 and 2. Lot 4 lists about 15 frames in Florentine gilt black gilt and dark brown priced 1 and 1.50 values 3 and 4. Fourth floor Tenth st.
Advertises remnants of high quality cotton dress goods in lengths from 2 to 7 yards. Includes dimities, organdies, silk mousselines, scotch ginghams, Danish cloth, and Danish crepe at 1 to 1.5 shillings per yard. French organdies offered at 27 in. lengths, previously 46c per yard.
Advertises 2 to 5 yard lengths of ginghams peracles lawns and similar fabrics at 8 cents a yard, reduced from 12 cents. Located on the second floor G street.
A catalog-style sale lists decorative art linens with deep discounts on many items including Italian lace table covers Cluny lace pieces and Renaissance center pieces. Prices drop from hundreds to a few dollars and cents for tea cloths doilies and tray cloths.
A Fourth floor G street sale lists adjustable fly screens with green and natural frames, high and low price options, and sizes from 17 to 34 inches. Also offered are soft finish glass bleached linen in old blue and heliotrope, cotton and jute tapestry for upholstery, and misfit window shades, with prices from 9 to 75 cents and pairs of curtains at $1.00.
The Sewing Machine Dept offers desk cabinet machines with full attachments and a five year guarantee. Prices drop from 37.50 to 33.50, 35.00 to 30.00, and 25.00 to 20.00. Woodwork marred. all items on second floor G street.
A bookstore circular lists 15 volume Dickens complete works reduced from 315.00 to 6.00 per set, plus multiple other total reductions on complete works by William Trackeray and Flelding, Life of Pope Leo XIII edited by O'Reilly, 20th Century Cyclopedia set, Nemesis of Fronde, Darwinism and Lamarckism, and Henry Books for Boys. Main floor Tenth St.
A classified note lists hats on sale including 4 Light Soft Felt Hats from sizes 67 to 71-8 at 1.00 each after reductions from 3.00 and 4.00. 4 Black Stuff Hats in sizes 71-4 and 74-8 at 1.50 each. 4 Stift Hats in 63-4 67-8 71-4 at 2.00 each. 10 Coachmen’s Hats sizes 67-8 to 71-4 at 1.00 each. Black Leather Automobile Caps sizes 71-8 to 71-2 at 1.50 each. Main floor First.
Dry goods ad lists extensive boys clothing markdowns on coats suits and pants. Items include all wool top coats in multiple sizes reduced to 3.50, all wool spring weight coats, blue serge overcoats, two piece suits and sailor blouse suits with prices slashed. Youths pants and knickerbockers discounted to 1.00 and 2.00s, third floor tenth street location.
A local ad advertises boys and girls wear with deep cuts on items including 413 Cloth Sailor Tam o Shanters navy blue and tan now 50c each, 5 Milan Braid straw hats 9c, 28 laundered shirt waists 50c, 35 silk shield bow ties 12 1 2c, and 8 terry cloth bath robes reduced from 3 00 to 10.00 each.
Numerous women’s shoes offered with variety in size and style from Meredith Ties to Fatent Leather Slippers. Prices slashed from 5.00 or 3.00 to 2.50 or 1.50 per pair with multiple sizes andHeel types listed for each group.
A catalog of furniture with numerous items discounting hard to read prices. Quartered Oak Sewing Table Parlor Yabie White Enameled Dresser Settee Side Chairs Rocker Arm Chair Hocker Mahogany pieces and a handsome parlor cabinet are listed with reductions from high prices to sale amounts. The sixth floor display at G street closes the sale.
We offer the balance of our stock for Automobile Caps at one quarter the regular price. They are in sorted shades of leather and crave nnette, and in assorted styles.
A sale listing outlines numerous Panama cloth shirt waist, cheviot, silk blouse jackets and mixed cloth suits. Items include sizes 34 to 42 with reduced prices from $21.00 to $12.50 and higher marked down amounts such as $38.00 to $1.25 and $56.00 to $3.25, highlighting dramatic discounting.
A local catalog item lists multiple skirts with discounts. Brown Cheviot 2 self dropped to 38.75 each, Black Cheviot 3 with kit bottoms to 5.00 each, Mohair 6 black and blue to 2.95, Fancy Worsted Fats box 26x40 to 10.08, Gray Homespun 1 size 25 11 40 to 35.00, Light Worsted 2 to 10.00 each.
Advertising listing for cloaks and jackets with multiple items reduced from high prices to sale figures. Items include tan and gray rain coats in sizes 34 to 40, a gray waterproofTourist coat size 40, black taffeta and peau de soie blouses and jackets, and a blue taffeta silk coat, all discounted with varying new prices. The listing notes original and sale prices and item descriptions.
Misses and girls department offers marked down dresses and coats from sizes 10 to 18. Blue Volle and Green Plaid pieces reduced from high prices to affordable checks, with reefer, sailor suits, jackets and linen regulation outfits on sale. Third floor gat.
From the Fifth Floor G Street, a China department sale offers items at deep cuts. An Austrian 100 piece dinner set drops from 1500 to 99, French and English porcelain pieces discounted, and glass decanters from two to one cent each.
A Fifth floor event lists numerous reductions in a Housefurnishing Department sale. Leather door mats, clothes wringers, oak commodes, settees, tin boilers, cake boxes, sugar cans, hangers, oyster fryers, stoves, dusters, garbage cans, patent bars, cutting tables, tin jars, washing machines, bread bakers, cedar wash tubs, alcohol lamps, waffle irons, kitchen knives, Russian coffee pots, and various polishes are marked down with price cuts from low to mid hundreds of dollars in some cases. Prices are shown per item with shopworn or damaged conditions noted.
Final arrangements for the amateur theatricals in the New Willard ballroom are announced for next Wednesday evening with a curtain raiser A Lesson in Acting and a French comedy by Cormon and Grange. Notable ushers include Mrs Wetmore and Mr May, and the cast features von Swinderen Zichy and other society figures. Supper follows with tickets from Miss Gwynn at 1740 N street. Several social figures and travelers depart or plan travel to Europe or country homes after Good Friday.
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