Friday Remnant Day in Store Offers Short Length Bargains
The store closes out weekly with odds and ends broken sizes and small lots. Remnants advertised today during five hours offer exceptional bargains for careful shoppers.
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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1907
Page
16
The store closes out weekly with odds and ends broken sizes and small lots. Remnants advertised today during five hours offer exceptional bargains for careful shoppers.
Bargains on two lines of women's oxfords at nearly half price. Lot 1 patent colt 3 eyelet court ties, turn sole CU ban heel, sizes complete, $1.95 pair. Lot 27 patent colt 3 eyelet blucher oxfords, dull kid top, welt sole, ribbon laces, $1.95 a pair. Also remnants and other styles reduced, third floor tenth street department.
30 dozen Men's alien hem stitched handkerchiefs offered at 18 cents each or 6 for a dollar. Excellent quality and generous size. Available at the Handkerons department on the main floor location 6 st.
Bargains on children's cloth reefers in various styles and colors including box style, double breasted, turnover collar and velvet trim. White, light gray, tan, and dark blue options offered at sale prices around $4.50 to $7.30 each, with former prices noted from $7.50 to $15.00.
A local sale offers mussed or soiled Little Children's Dresses in fine lawns with embroideries laces and tucks at reduced prices from two fifty to seven seventy five with several handmade pieces and styles Russian yoke and waist effects. Also two Little Children's White Wool Sweaters button down front reduced from one thirty to fifty cents. Third floor Eleventh st.
Women’s lawn dressing sacques in good quality lawn fabric. Varieties include all white and printed designs, kimono style with belt and short sleeves. Available in all sizes. Regular price 73 cents. Third floor Eleventh Street.
Local sale offers net corsets in sizes 18 through 34 with straight or dip hip cuts and real whalebone boning. Ivy French and Lily of France corsets are discounted heavily from 38.00 and 9.00 to as low as 3.00 to 5.00 per pair. Also featuring J. B. Corsets in ballet line with elastic attachments, reduced from 1.50 to 1.00.
Bargain priced sale of 50 dozen women’s Swiss rib bed cotton vests with low neck and no sleeves. Priced at 20 cents each or 3 for 50 cents, compared to a regular 25 cents. Main floor sale listing details.
Friday bargain offers 200 dozen pairs of women’s lisle thread hose Richelieu and Rembrandt ribbed with plain and lace ankles. Black lisle hose priced at 25 cents a pair, value 35 cents. Main floor display location F g.
A catalog of heavily discounted furniture items on sale on the sixth floor includes folding lawn settees 34 feet long, a 13-piece parlor suite upholstered in Verona, a high-grade golden oak chiffoniere, a white enameled dresser with a French mirror, a quartered golden oak buffet, a solid mahogany buffet with carved columns, various oak and mahogany chairs, a solid mahogany parlor suite, a Virginia settee, a gilt curios cabinet, velour Morris chair cushions, and hand-woven sofa pillows, all deeply reduced from original prices to sale prices.
Prices slashed on boys clothing in the third floor display. Madras blouses with and without collars reduced from ec to 3c. laundered tee shirts, sizes 6 to 9, cut from $10 to 50c. Silk neckties all styles 12 1/2c. White duck Tam o Shanter caps trimmed with embroidery, all sizes, down from 50c to 9c.
Main Floor sale offers women's union silk umbrellas reduced from 8 to 3 1 2 dollars and men's all silk and Inglish silk models cut from 9 50 to 3 50 or 5 09. Close-roll children’s and union umbrellas also discounted with carved handles and paragon frames.
The advertisement lists large reductions on reference works and novels including Werner's Universal Encyclopedia in leather 10-volume sets, The Crown Encyclopedia in five volumes, Readers' and Writers' Hand Books, Great Books collections, and Cooper's and Bulwer Lytton's novels. Prices drop from high amounts to moderate totals, with about ten sets offered. Main Floor Tenth St.
Readable text lists discounted fabrics on second floor G street including 42 inch chiffon Panama and Manhattan brilliante, wool melrose and batistes, shadow voile and chiffon cloth, all wool granite and whip cord, embroidered French foul, wool taffeta, and shadow stripe cloth with reductions from substantial to modest amounts.</s>
Shop notices list multiple reductions across rug categories on the fourth floor. Items include Brussels, Kashmir, Brussels inch rugs, bath rugs, Japanese matting and fiber rugs with prices slashed from high figures to low. Strong emphasis on sizeable percentage drops and limited quantities.
Upholstery department offers clearance on high grade rattan pieces and silk tapestries with faults from handling. Items include combinations arm chair ten dollars, winged arm chair seventeen fifty, large arm chair thirteen fifty, circular arm chair ten, side chair seven sixty, settees from twenty to twenty seven fifty, bungalow table thirty one fifty, hall seats from twelve to fifteen, and 600 yards silk tapestry covering at two fifty per yard. Also three pairs of yellow stripe silk portieres reduced, hardwood screen doors damaged and priced down. Fourth floor G at.
Self lighting gas mantles offered at a special price of 1c each. Regularly 25c. Fifth floor G street. Mantles require no match to light and fit any mantle fixture.
Frugal shoppers find reduced prices on electric and candle shades across silk, linen, and beaded styles. Silk Flower Shadda and plain silk and linen shades are discounted, with color assortments, small frames, and bead fringe options offered at notable savings. Fifth floor G St.
The Men’s department at Main floor Tenth St offers heavy markdowns on Cravenetted coats and raincoats in multiple sizes plus topcoats trousers and vests. Prices drop from high figures to 10.00 to 12.50 for selected items with many pieces reduced by half or more. Limited quantities remain.
The Men’s Furnishings Department offers deep discounts on assorted items including 45 dozen authentic styles sized 14 to 17 1 2 with reductions from 2.75 to 0.80 per dozen and 38 pairs of fancy suspenders marked down. Also featured are lisle socks, four-to-band ties, neglige shirts, handkerchiefs, and other men’s wear with reduced prices, main floor 1st.
Third floor on Tenth Street offers deep reductions on boys wool blends and all wool suits. Items include single and double breasted styles in gray, light-weight 14 to 20, halved from 12 60-15 00 to 9 95, plus youth pants suits sizes 16 and 17, raincoats, knickerbocker pants, and various blouse suits reduced to as low as 1 95.
Catalog page lists numerous remaining women and missy garments priced down from high amounts. Items include white lawn dresses, mixed cheviot suits, wine broadcloth gowns, navy serge and challis dresses, mixed cheviot coats, and several tailored suits for women, with reductions ranging from a few dollars to over half their original price. Names of fabrics and sizes appear with each item.
The store lists reduced prices on women's coats including rubber automobile coats, raincoats, silk and cloth jackets, and a perfume of travel goods. Also offered are heavily discounted dinnerware pieces, porcelain and china bowls, and framed photographs in the basement Equitable Building, Fourth and Fourteenth streets.
A Fifth floor Eleven th street listing shows reduced prices on housewares including a wooden nursery chair oak pantry steps kitchen table coffee pots nickel plated chafing dish galvanized items and a large sheet iron oven along with car care products and metal polish items all marked down from varied original prices to low sale figures. The handwritten list notes shopworn and dented condition on several items.
Social and personal items recount Mrs. George K Goulding and Robert Fleming nuptials in New Orleans style breakfast, Georgetown reception for Gen Miles, bridal attendants, and society guests. Reports on Mrs Parris silver anniversary, travel notices, divorces, auctions of Augustin Daly era theater treasures, and fashion notes from Fifth Avenue society.
A society gossip column discusses Lady Mary Cooper set to inherit near a third of Silent Smiths 75 million fortune as he lies in Japan awaiting estate division and America business. Navy wives fret over voluntary retirement delays for lieutenant commanders provoking broader unease among officers families in wartime.
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