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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1904
Page
11
A Friday sale presents unusual opportunities to buy clothing and fabric at drastic discounts. Items include 15¢ yard fabrics such as silk gauzes and printed lawns, alongside whole garments like brown voile suits and Irish linen shirtwaist suits, with prices slashed from high original tag amounts to mid hundreds and low tens.
Women's lawn dressing sacques in Ki mono ma style with large collar and flowing sleeves, pretty figured effects and borders of plain white. Excellent value at 20c each. Regular value, 60c. Third floor Eleventh street.
Lace Curtains advertised in several styles including White and Ivory Irish Point Brussels Net Hand-made Arabian and Colored Cathedral. Prices show discounts averaging one third to one half with many pair sizes listed and a range from six to twenty two dollars per pair.
In the infants department items on sale include blue and pink serge reefers with brass buttons reduced from eight to five dollars, white pique reefers trimmed with insertion, a long cloack trimmed with lace cut from 131 to 1908, and linen outfits from 173 to 91.25, plus a red straw sailor and a tailored dress all discounted.
A local department store advertises muslin underwear with reduced prices on petticoats and gowns. Petticoats drop from 50 to 39 cents, chemise style gowns with embroidery and tuck detailing priced from 125 to 1.25, and complimenting gowns reduced from 1.50 to 1.25. Located at the Eleventh street floor location.
Reduced prices on imperfect round center pieces and pillow cases plus hand damask and linen waist patterns. Openwork linen items with rents and cuffs described as very fine, priced down from high originals to lower tags. Includes serend? items and eleventh et. line noted.
A local blanket department advertises all wool blankets in scarlet white and gray with mill imperfections. Prices drop from 5 to 7.5 per pair. linens include Marseille spreads with varied reductions and a single bed cover marked down from 3.00 to 2.00. The advertisement notes location on Eleventh Street and misc.
The shop lists discounted decorated Haviland and Velox pieces with many items reduced. Extra large blue meat trays and English porcelain plates are marked down, with prices shown for cups, saucers, and stoneware pitchers. Damaged items noted with low prices.
The Waist Department advertises 23 Persian lawn waists in three styles with hemstitched tucks. Prices cut from 2.95 to 1.90 each. Also 318 Fine Lawn Waists trimmed with turks and Walendean insertion, all sizes, reduced from 1.00 to 0.09 each. 22 India Linen Waists with Swiss embroidery fronts, all sizes, reduced from 2.50 to 1.80 each. Third Near-Gst.
Misses Blue Homespun Sults in enamel trim priced down from 2500 to 15 each. Girl Natural Linen Buster Brown Salt reduced to 8 75. Two Girls White Persian Lawn Dresses Guimpe style trimmed with lace and tucks sizes 2 and 8 at 5.00 each. Seven Guimpe Dresses of cheviots and percales in neat effects sizes 4 6 14 reduced from 1 25 to 69 each. Third floor G St.
Millinery department offers 7 women's trimmed walking hats marked down from 8.00 and 10.00 to 5.00 each. Smart trimmed hats reduced from 46.00 and 8.00 to 2.00 each. A small assortment of massed flowers reduced to 0.10 per bunch. Second floor Tenth Street.
Men’s prepaid pieces pepper and salt socks in sizes 39 42 44 45 offered at 6.25 each. White cotton mesh undershirts in sizes 36 38 40 42 44 priced at 12 1 2c. Thirty washable four in hand ties with white grounds and colored figures reduced from 3c to 12 1 2c. Malin floor Fst.
A sale section lists reduced prices on boys clothing including fine blouse suits with bloomer pants in sizes up to 6, white pique sailor suits, all-wool pants and vests, and two-piece suits. Items show former prices of $1.50 to $3.75 now marked down to about $1.00 to $2.95 each. Third floor Tenth Street location.
Boys four in hand Iles reduced from 25c to 10c each. Madras blouses cut to 39c. White Oxford blouses with attached collars in sizes 11 12 14 25 and 16 reduced from 75c to 50c. Straw hats and caps cut to 39c and 6c respectively. Stiff brim straw hats down to 2c. Duck and linen caps reduced to 9c.
Readable shoe sale notes list 35 pairs Women's Patent Colt Lace and Button Oxfords in multiple sizes with extension soles, military heels, reduced from 50 and sf00 to 1.90 per pair. Also 30 pairs Women's Dongola Kid Oxfords with turn soles in assorted sizes reduced from 33.00 to 1.50. Additional 24 pairs Women's Dongola Kid Oxfords patent tip turn sole sizes listed, reduced from 300 to 1.50. Third Noor-Tenth at.
Sixth floor garments district listings show price cuts across furniture: Adirondack pieces drop from 5.00 to 2.50 for a square top lawn table, Adirondack Birch Rustic Lawn Chair from 2.00 to 1.00, a mahogany parlor table from 20.00 to 12.00 with a marred finish, weathered oak chair and rocker at 15.00 each, a rattan reclining go cart reduced from 12.00 to 7.50, and a metal cooler stand from 3.50 to 1.75.
Reduced prices on grain leather bag soft grain leather English bag leatherette suitcase cowhide bag and man s trunk at Basement Equitable Building. Items include leather lined and gilt mountings with some damage and major discounts from listed prices.
A damaged house furnishing department sale lists items including a sewing cabinet reduced from $1.50 to $1.00 and a plate rack with damaged description. Garden hose 25 ft with nozzle priced at $41.25 each. Aluminum teapot cut from $2.50 to $1.50. One item reduced from $2.25 to $1.25. Located on the fifth floor eleventh street.
Announcements of Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia visiting Newport hosted by Mr and Mrs Vanderbilt, with other high society names noted. Weddings at St Stephen's Church include Adele Muir and Joseph Endres, and Bessie L Goode and W Roy McIntyre. Various ministers, ambassadors, and social leaders plan moves, travels, and receptions through August and September.
Frank N. Carver builder and contractor died at his home 1431 L Street Northwest after a nine month illness. Acute rheumatism was given as the cause. Funeral services by the Masons will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the residence with interment at Glenwood Cemetery. He was a Confederate veteran and Mason. Survived by wife three sons Raymond B Albert Arthur R and three daughters Mrs Lenz Mrs Beall and Miss Carver. He was a native of Charles County Maryland and lived in Washington since age three.
Mrs Alonzo E Stoddard widow of a famous singer died in North Brookfield Massachusetts after a paralysis stroke that struck a week ago Tuesday She left two children Mrs A M Verguson of Passaic NJ and E F Stoddard of this city Funeral and interment will be in North Brookfield Postmasters Appointed New York Hebrew Frank Boynton Pennsylvania Outcrop Owen F Stewart
The article on the Santiago de Cuba battle by Rear Admiral Schley reignites the long running naval dispute. Roosevelt likely will ignore the piece officially to avoid fueling factional tensions while Schley’s Maryland base adds political overtones to the row.
Lieut Col George M Dunn assigned to duty at Manassas Va for army maneuvers. Leaves of absence granted for several officers from two weeks to five days to start in August and September. Details include recruitment duties and procurements of evidence at Fort Myer and Spencer West Virginia. Marine officers Berry and Moses reprimanded for intoxication after Marine Barracks Annapolis trial.
Secretary Morton and his party departed Washington aboard the Dolphin for a inspection tour of Northern navy yards. They were joined by Mrs Morton and Miss Morton, Attorney General Moody, and Representative Foss, with Speaker Cannon and Miss Cannon to meet them at Newport.
Announcement from the Navy Department confirms Capt. George F. F. Wilde of the Boston navy yard and Capt. Charles J. Train of the board of inspection and survey have been promoted to rear admiral. Reports from Trieste describe American sailors in a hospital with typhoid fever. Pressler remains serious while others fare better. Montgomry departs Colon for Guantanamo. the Montgomery will be placed out of commission at League Island. A Great Lakes site selection commission toured the region and will report a preferred location for a naval training station. Movements list several ships and officers reassigned or detached between Newport, Marblehead, Honolulu, Baltimore, Chicago, Buffalo, and Ohio assignments.
A list of personnel movements shows Wicano returning home with Commander H. Holmes and Lieut. P. Washington among others. Capt. B. F. Littenhouse sails from Cavite to Yokohama Hospital for treatment while Acting Paymasters W. Holt and H. B. Worder move for instruction in Wisconsin and Oregon respectively. Lieut. G. W. Williams assumes command of the First Torpedo Flotilla in Bainbridge, with W. R. Sexton also assigned to command Bainbridge.
Following a telegram from Dubuque Mayor Berg naming Miss Muargaret Treadway as sponsor, the Navy learned Miss Hull would christen the vessel in Morris Heights on Monday. Contractors faced a dilemma after Berg could not confirm a sponsor, with several other candidates proposed including Miss Jessie May Welch of New York and two Dubuque born sisters Myra and Edna Wybrant Smith from Philadelphia.
Comptroller Tracewell disallows James Garfield's travel expenses from his Mentor Ohio vacation recalled to Washington for a conference. Garfield argues approval by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. the decision notes no law permits such vacation absence and the official must cover expenses if recalled for public duties.
Chicago August reports the Knights of Pythias endowment rank submitting figures for the biennial Supreme Lodge. Over two years 21,468 applications were considered and death claims paid totaled 2,625,249 dollars. Membership rose from 58,163 to 66,224, and insurance in force grew to 107,908,000 with net resources at 754,267.
The article describes August Shaffer, a wife murderer at the United States jail with about 400 inmates. He folds heavy book paper into intricate designs, including a two and a half foot cross with a lace-like lattice base and crepe ribbons. The scene shifts to a downtown hotel where a newsboy quartet entertains, triggering a street scuffle over a cent dropped into a hat. It ends with a note on a government pamphlet claiming corn yields can double with less land and labor, tempered by caution about price effects, followed by treasury and revenue figures.
The funeral of former Senator George Graham West was held in St. Louis with city offices closed two hours and flags at half mast. Attendees included Gov. Dockery, Mayor Weiss, David R. Francis, U.S. Senator W. J. Stone, World’s Fair officials, and many Missourians. services were conducted at Bellefontaine Cemetery by Rev. John W. Shraleford.
Denver judge sustains the summons on Mrs Genevieve Chandler Phipps in divorce proceedings filed by Lawrence C Phipps. The court overruled the quash as to Phipps but sustained against United States Steel Corporation J P Morgan Co and United States Trust Company, allowing dividends and interest payments on securities in her name. Mrs Phipps was given five days to plead.
Chicago report says Grace Gregory, 20s, daughter of prominent businessman Robert B. Gregory, died after being thrown from her horse when it shied at a passing train. Skull fracture reported. Other item notes consolidation of post offices at Ashley, Durranceton, and Kingston with Wilkesbarre, effective September 1.
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