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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1906
Page
9
The store announces limited hours during the term with a Friday Remnant Day. It highlights end-of-week clearouts of odds and ends and imperfects, offering fresh goods at half regular prices. The third floor features muslin drawers corset covers and short skirts with hems, tucks, laces, and embroideries at 25 cents per garment, regular price 50 cents.
Friday bargain in the shoe department features a large selection of women's three-eyelet court ties with patent kidskin vamps and various sizes, plus boys patent calfskin and dull calfskin oxfords on stag lasts. Remnants include multiple pairs of patent leather oxfords and box calf oxford styles, with deep discounts from $3 to $4.50 per pair and reduced prices across many sizes.
A sale notice for women’s novelty silk umbrellas size 25 inches for rain or sun. Some feature embroidered polka dots while others show neat check patterns and changeable effects. All have attractive natural wood handles.
Remnants and odds and ends from multiple umbrella lines offered at deep discounts. Womans inch Red Silk Umbrella with Wetans handle cut from 12 to 8 dollars. Chingerble Red and Prick Sh Tmbrella with Woveakt hand reduced from 7 to 5 dollars. Grav silk umbrellas with Rinen blich border reduced from 3 to 0.85 dollars each. Mens Fine Limom silk umbrellas with exotic handles discounted to 7.65 dollars. Sale posted at main floor entrance.
Dress fabrics reduced across Tan and wine Pur items in multiple yardage sizes. Gray Mohair and Silk blends cut from high prices to low, with many remnants of high-class dress goods marked at half or less. Store notes 40 additional remnants included.
Remnants of various fabrics offered at reduced prices per yard. Batiste lawns printed and plain colors eight cents. Irish tumits twelve and a half cents. Sik Mousseline twenty five to thirty seven and a half cents. Mercerized Epheme thirteen cents. Ten remnants of Printed French Organdies include behotrope and green gray flower designs with multiple yard lengths. Reduced from thirty seven and a quarter cents. Main floor store sale emphasis.
Fragmented OCR lists discounts on men’s wear in various sizes and styles. Items include collars, four-in-hand ties, suspenders, fancy hose, gauze wool underskirts, and silk tourniquet-like items with marked reductions from high to low prices. Grouped as a clearance sale with bulk quantities and mixed reductions.
Men's Hat Department offers 24 fancy wool golf caps with most issues reduced to 250 each except 71 8 and 71 4. Also 14 young men white Trannel outing hats sized for all. Prices cut from 200 to 100 each.
Multiple boys and young men suits offered with steep markdowns from high priced to sale figures. Russian blouse suits with bloomer pants in various sizes reduced from 38.95 to 2.95 each. Buster Brown and all wool knee panty styles cut to 1.50 to 2.95. Size ranges include 3 to 32 and 21 to 210, with prices listed per item.
Hat department offers wide selection for boys and girls in white and tan. Prices cut from 1 to 3 dollars, including 11 Broad Grim Safors and Leddo Straw Hats. Fine Milan Straw Sailors reduced to 13 to 15 each. Located on third floor at Tenth Street.
Reduced prices across the sixth floor for armchairs, rustle lawn stat, rustic stands, porch swings, go carts, and wicker furniture. Items include armchairs with cane seats, a reclining go cart, and a green rattan porch swing with prices slashed from hundreds to under $400.
A city department store advertises leather and canvas trunks, bags, and cases in basswood and rattan, with cloth interiors and brass locks. Prices drop from high figures to discounted amounts, including 10 inch and 39 inch items and cases with leather, all marked to attract buyers.
Auction note lists a complete sewing machine with full attachments and a five year guarantee. Describes woodwork marred and price reductions from 3750 to 2000, with another drop from 2000 to 1850. Located on second floor G Street.
The Millinery Department offers trimmed macs in smart styles for general wear. Items come from work rooms made from leftover materials with value up to 500 dollars, now priced at 10 and 12 dollars. Three children’s trimmed hats reduced from 6 dollars to 1.50 each and untrimmed hats cut from 1.50 to 2 dollars. Second floor Tenth Street.
A fragmented list shows women's linen and lawn Eton suits, shirt waist styles, and voile options with sizes 24 to 40, trimmed with braids, puffed skirts, and decorative buttons. Original prices range up to $3800, reduced to dollars and hundreds, with several items available in multiple sizes and finishes.
An assortment of White Lawn Waists in various styles and all sizes in the combined lot. Also a large selection of face and black Waists offered at reduced prices. Third floor four-G Street.
Black Broadcloth Pony Coat size 18 trimmed with black braid reduced from 875 to 250. 12 Girls striped percale dresses sizes 6 8 10 trimmed with white embroidery reduced from 196 to 14b each. 20 Girls white Persian lawn dresses sizes S to 14 reduced from 160 to 95c each. 4 Girls white India linen dresses size 4 reduced from 1.35 to 75c each. 7 i Girls blue linen dress size 8 reduced from 1600 to 0. 5 1 Girl's white linen dress size 4 reduced from 12.50 to 275. Third floor G st.
On the third floor at Eleventh Street a sale offers infants and children's apparel with heavy reductions. White pique hats and coats, hand made dresses, and blue gingham pieces are discounted from high prices to fractions, including infants dresses to four dollars and coats to six dollars.
Readable items include 21 Hemstitched Damask Tea Cloths reduced from 150 to 310 percent, Trish Damask Cloths 21-1 by 21-4 cut from 425 to 225 each, and 21-2 by 3 yards from 800 to 450. Also damask cloths largely discounted, Irish Damask Napkins 27 inch cut from 800 to 600 per dozen, plus hand embroidered linen table mats with varied sizes discounted. Second floor eleventh street.
Reduced from 700 to 500 for Real Irish Point Lace Curtains 32 yards long. Tapestry cushion covers priced at ae each. 38 remnants and cord gimp offered at sale prices. Cabinet-made window screens and Walnut-finish screen ders discounted to 10 to 9 cents each. Narrow sale details and measurements accompany the display.
Fifth floor sale offers reduced prices on Japanese and French china items. Cracker jars cups saucers bread plates butter dishes sugar bowls and more from 0c to 75c, with several pieces cut dramatically from higher prices.
Reading from a catalog listing reductions at the House furnishing Dept and LeTee Alcohol Store. Items include coffee pots saucers enameled pans and boilers with prices cut from hundreds to modest sums reflecting clearance stock. Repeated reductions indicate a sale on kitchenware and household goods.
Louis Carl Pedler, a newspaper artist, and Miss Abbie Belle Longley wed in New York after meeting on a Norfolk to New York boat voyage. The couple, witnessed by Mr and Mrs John Sheridan, plan a future in New York, while Pedler's work and romance intersect in a tale of chance meetings, artistic pursuit, and a small-town wedding in a storied venue.
Matthew Blacklee’s former bootblack turned broker pursues Anita Bilersly amid a web of Roebuck Lanpton-Mellville influence. He seizes moneyed schemes, faces bankruptcy, and marries Anita under pressure. An uneasy union unfolds as ethical vows clash with a society of wealth and manipulation.
Blacklock reflects on conversation and family dynamics at dinner and in the drawing room. He pursues interest in his wife while she remains reserved, listens to her thoughts on her mother’s warnings, and asserts his ownership of money and fate. A tense exchange over loyalty, pride, and control unfolds amid intimate domestic scenes.
Matthew Blacklock visits Roebuck, a millionaire famed for wealth and fear of assassination. In a hushed New York drawing room, Roebuck’s family prayers reveal power, paranoia, and a fragile peace as Blacklock probes a threatening report about Roebuck’s security.
The faculty and officers at Gonzaga College opening September 11, 1905 will include Rev Edward X. Fink as president Rev J Sepliy as vice president prefect of studies Rev David C Daly algebra and other seniors Mr Philip J Debold second academic algebra and German Mr Richard O'Brien third academic and algebra Mr Francis A Brayeasch mathematics Mr William F Geogan preparatory arithmetic Mr Matthew Fertler in charge of treadmen Rev Francis J Kelly to St. Jo nore College Philadelphia and Rev Fremgen to Baltimore Alfie fsthets at St Aloysine Church remain last year with Rev Patrick J Dooley transferring to Holy Cross College Worcester Mass
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