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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1906
Page
7
Remnant day at Woodward and Lothrop features deep reductions across the Men's Department. White cheviot neglige shirts, evening dress shirts, nexlige shirts, balbriggan underwear, merino shirts, drawers, and various hat styles see price cuts from $1.00 to $2.00 or more. Main floor displays emphasize odds and ends clearance to maximize value.
The Fifth floor on West Street offers deep cuts on boys clothing including coats suits and shirts with prices slashed from several dollars to under five. Also marked down are white cloth and serge Tam o Shanter caps, pajamas and night shirts, and a large array of decorated dinnerware and kitchenware with discounts from one third to almost half.
Numerous Japanese porcelain items and women's dresses are advertised with steep reductions. Items include richly decorated vases, china bowls, salt and pepper shakers, bonbon dishes, covered pieces, and vases with sale prices cut from various original amounts. Women's white lawn waists, fine suits, Panama house dresses, and multiple silk dresses are heavily discounted.
A catalog note describes a special sale of $5 hats for women and misses from a New York milliner, plus deep discounts on fabrics and garments. Included are lace, embroidery, linens, silks, muslin robes, and dress patterns with marked reductions across multiple departments on the second floor and main floor in G Street.
A sale on women's taffeta silk petticoats trimmed with ruffles and finished with a powder dust ruffle in black pink blue and brown. Special price 3.95 each. Third floor Eleventh St.
White Goods Department advertises 500 yards of pure linen lawn at 30 cents per yard with value 3734 yards. All black hand woven fabric with embroidered pin dots priced at 50 cents per yard. Second floor Eleventh Street location.
Six dozen Lily of France Girdle Corsets in white pink and blue, sizes 18 to 21.5 offered at special price 1.30, regular value 3.00. Third four Eleventh Street.
60 dozen pairs of children’s fine ribbed cotton hose with double toes and heels in sizes 6 offered at special price 20 3 4 cents per pair or 30 cents for 4 pairs. Main floor 1st street.
A Friday bargain on women’s corset covers offers 50 dozen Jersey rib bed covers with high necks and long sleeves suitable to wear under shirtwaists. Special prices are 37 and 14? or 50c each, advertised as main floor selections.
Bargain sale offers white lawn and colored gingham children’s golf hats trimmed with embroidery ruffles. Hats priced at 30 cents each, value listed as one dollar. Local shoppers invited to browse the selection for kids' accessories.
A sale offers Women's White Canvas Ties with 4 eyelet ribbon, turn soles, and wooden Cuban and Jow heels in all sizes. Special price is $1.95 a pair. Located on the third floor at Tenth Street.
1200 Pure Linen Crash Dish Towels ready for use size 17 by 36 inches offered at 12 percent discount from regular price 13 cents each. Becond four Eleventh street.
Main floor F street banner lists discounted fabrics including black and gilt gimp, silver belting, green silk, appliques, and Persian gimp pieces. Prices cut from high to fractionals, with pieces mostly by yard or by a single yard, limited to stock on hand.
Multiple fabric items in the Black Dress Goods section see substantial markdowns. Cheviot Lupin’s 4.12 yards at $5.00 per piece from $6.76. 44-inch Chiffon Voile Lupin’s and Priestley’s pieces cut from higher prices to $8.00, $7.50, or $2.50 per piece. Second floor Eleventh.
Reduced prices apply across a range of pillow covers and decorative items. Includes Jink Salio-covered pillows, tinted pillow covers, stamped white lawn pillow covers, white enameled cabinet with handkerchief boxes, fancy covered mint seed boxes, tapestry covered boxes, ribbon bows, and assorted small storage pieces. Prices cut from modest amounts to low sale figures.
The Fifth floor glassware section advertises reduced prices on items including rich cut fruit dishes olive dishes plain claret glasses tinted vases and water bottles with discounts ranging from fractions of a dollar to several dollars, highlighting damaged pieces offered at lower prices. Deal ends when stock runs out and includes multiple item types with price cuts.
Classified sale notes show marked-down toys and beds in the Fourth Street department. Items include a patrol wagon doll loop the loop toys and multiple white enameled beds with price cuts from $23 to $10 and $15 to $11, plus cotton felt mattresses and other discounted household goods.
A Fourth-floor display lists mahogany dressers, rockers, chests, and desks with substantial markdowns. Items include a mahogany dresser with mirror reduced from 20.00 to 17.00, a rocket saddle seat chair lowered from 9.00 to 7.50, and a carved toilet table cut to 21.55, plus a mahogany chiffonier 19.15 and other oak pieces with similar rebates.
The Umbrella Department offers women’s umbrellas with sterling handles reduced from 12 to 2 dollars each. Heavier silk umbrellas with novelty handles drop from 8 dollars to 5. Tiara plated handles on 11 karat umbrellas cut from 10 dollars to 9. Main muor G street.
Local shop highlights remaining stock with prices slashed on several coats. Light and dark English mixes available in sizes 36 and 38, reduced from 1.00 to 10.00 each. Tan covert market coats sized 08 to 40 discounted, plus silk-lined chevrotte and plum broadclaw options cut to 3.4.
Navy blue serge Peter Thombs Son suit sizes 12 reduced from 15.65 to 12.50. Blue dotted Mull dress trimmed with lace down to 5.00. Blue Stilfinigh dresses and coats, sizes 4 and 6, reduced to 3.75. Pony coats sizes 14 16 and 18 reduced to 5.00 each. Black broadcloth pony coats sizes 14 14 18 reduced to 3.50. White English Ren Rugalan dresses blue collar and belt sizes 6 9 reduced to 7.60. Third floor G Street.
On the fourth floor gateway, the Upholstery Department offers single portieres in plain colors and Oriental motifs, tossed on sale from 1.76 to 1.75 each. Also discounted are Irish Point Lace Gurthins at 3-1-2 yards long, now 4.00 per pair, and various cushions, tapestries, and window screens offered at reduced rates, with furniture coverings cut to 1.25 per yard and other fabric specials across the department.
A catalog note lists numerous reduced prices on hand colored photographs and pictures in brown gilt frames. Items include "The Horse" reduced to 1.50, "Mother Jan a Child" at 2.95, "Girl Alone in the Country" at 4.50, and "Flower piece" at 4.50, among others, with various frames and finishes noted.
Fifth floor leverth street clears shelves with widespread reductions on baskets straw hampers satchels and European copperware. Many items including green wool goods coffee pots enamelware and sheet iron ovens see marked discounts from small to substantial amounts across house furnishing and kitchenware lines.
Among officials and diplomats a large ceremony took place at St Thomas Church for the wedding of Miss Haldes Rubuna Cobb to Mr Cornelius N Bliss Jr of New York. The British Ambassador departs for Europe after a social season marked by the San Francisco earthquake disaster.
A jumble of social notices details dinners tableaux and receptions. Mrs. Charles Bill and Mrs Addisonne Barlow host events. Mrs. John Randall’s home hosts a wedding ceremony marked by Rev Donald K MacLeod. trusses of pink and violet decor appear. guests include Mr and Mrs Jonson Logansport and Miss Mabel Roberts. Spencer Eddy and Larillle Spreckels wed in Passy town hall. church ceremony planned for tomorrow.
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