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Washington Post

Location

Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

Date

Aug 19, 1904

Page

11

Friday Remnant Day Sale Offers Deep Reductions on Fabrics

The weekly remnant sale features lengths from 2 to 12 yards with deep cuts on printed and woven fabrics. Special lots include Fancy Printed fabrics at 12 1/2 cents, Mopreerized Stripe Lawns at 8 cents, silk mousseline and silks at low prices, and men’s two piece summer suits discounted to as low as 4 dollars. Ends with entire stock clearance on suits in gray mixed cheviots and assorted sizes.

Honiton Madras F St

Friday Bargain in White Goods Store Ad

Friday bargain in white goods features 50 yards Alllinen Stripe Flamine in Bray and green effects at 1s a yard regular 5s. 500 yards Alllinen White Twill Towel at 2s per yard. Also White Striped Dimity sheer quality at 2s a yard. Second floor Eleventh Street.

Bray

Friday Bargain in Lace Curtains and Damask Cloths

A sale note lists lace curtain pieces including Irish Point Brussels Net and Cluny from 5 to 38 dollars, with savings around one third to one half. Brussels Net and Figured Muslin Curtalina priced. Damask cloths heavily reduced, floors noted for second and fourth floor displays.

Brussels

Blanket Department Price Reductions at Mill Street Store

All wool blankets in scarlet with mill imperfections reduced from six dollars to six hundred? pearli-wonl blankets scarlet altered from bio to 31g spursed wool blankets with imperfections reduced from four fifty per pair on floor Eleventh street.

Eleventh St

Sewing Machine Dept Eldredge Automatic drophead model sale

Sewing machine, Eldredge Automatic drophead with automatic lift and swell front, complete with full set of attachments and five year guarantee. Reduced from 200 to 34. Woodwork marred. second floor site at Twenty Fifth Street?

Eldredge Wortworth Bluehitty Tw & T

Dressing Sacques and Trunks Sale Notice

Dressing Sacques in lawn and satin trimmed with embroidery or belts. Reduced prices on Kimona style garments and terry items. Trade and travel goods include leather bags and dress trunks with substantial reductions. Basement–Equitable Building 13x12 ft. Fourth floor-6 st.

Eleventh St

Friday Bargain in Men's Neglige Shirts and Remnants

Bargain sale offering 12 dozen colored madras and percale neglige shirts in striped effects with extras, sizes 14 to 17, 35 cents each or 3 for $2.00, down from 50 and 75 cents. Also 90 extra shirts in sizes M to 1, 65 cents each, down from $1 to $1.50. Remnants include rain coat size 37 42 shortened prices, men's bathing suits, worsted suits, ribbed undershirts, lisle undershirts, and lisle half hose, with several items heavily discounted on main floor of first department store.

F St

Men’s Hat Department Reduced Straw and Linen Caps Sale

In the Men’s Hat Department a sale cuts prices on straw hats in sizes 63-4 to 73-8 from 71.00, 140, and 210 to 2s 6d each. Linen and crash caps white and blue-white also drop from 1.00 to 50c each. Duck hats in several sizes reduce from 1.00 to 2c each.

F St

Suit Department Discounted Dress Menswear Sale

Vintage ad lists mohair and wool suits in multiple styles with sizes 32 to 46 and price cuts from high to sale figures. Items include Mohair, blue Sicilian, light gray novelty, navy blue Cheviot, and blue linenshirtwaist sets. Reduced prices range from about 15 to 40 dollars. third floor location noted.

Misses' Homespun Suits Reduced for Clearance

Misses' 7u Blue Homespun suits size 14 and 16 in Eton style with braid and buttons priced down from 5.00 to 1.50 each. Also 2 Misses' Tan Homespun suits size 14 and 18 in Eton style with light green trim priced 15.00 to 7.50 each. Third floor G street.

G St

Millinery Sale: Women's Trimmed Hats and Sailors

Three women's trimmed hats offered at reduced prices from a dollar to two dollars each. Some hats fresh from workrooms, with original prices as high as eight and twelve dollars. Children's roll-brim sailors trimmed with bands reduced to fifty cents. Second floor at Tenth Street.

Tenth St

Boys' Department Sale on Fancy Serges and Suits

Reductions on 12 Boys' Fancy Mixed Serge Suits in double breasted and Norfolk styles with bloomers, sizes 8 to 12, now 2.95 each. One all wool cheviot coat and vest size 18 reduced to 5.50. Russian and wash sailor suits in pink and blue chambray, sizes 2 to 6, cut from 2.90 to 3.75 and 2.95 respectively. Third floor tenth street sale location.

Tenth St

Boys Furnishings Dept Bargains in Third Floor Sale

In the boys department, items include K and E ghirt blouses in washable colors with laundered neckbands in sizes 5 to 11, now reduced. Also 12 straw sailors with long ribbon streamers cut to 25 cents each, 10 blue serge caps Norfolk style sizes 6 3 8 to 7 at 25 cents, and 12 sennit straw hats with black and blue bands in sizes 6 1 2 to 6 7 8 reduced to a few cents each. Third floor Tenth street.

Tenth St

Shoe Department Reduced Oxford Sales Across Multiple Styles

Classified shoe sale lists 85 pairs Women s Dongola Kidskin Oxfords and patent tipped varieties with price reductions from 3.00 to 1.00 per pair and 31 pairs Women s Patent Coliskin and Patent Viel Oxfords lace and button styles in sizes 2 to 21 2 priced at 1.50 per pair.

Tenth St

China department sale onDecorated dinner and dish sets

Items include a light blue decorated American china dinner set reduced from 23.00 to 15.00. A 10-piece pink decorated toilet set with slight exterior damage reduced from 2.25 to 1.75. A Doulton ware bowl and pitcher reduced from 5.0 to 2.95. 3 dozen decorated English porcelain coffee cans and saucers reduced from 3.00 to 1.80 per dozen. 54 decorated English porcelain breakfast plates reduced to table price. Fifth floor item location.

Housefurnishings Dept Yard Sale Promos

Store notices list several discounts on household items. Jeneths Garden Hose marked down from 1.75 to 1.25. Flour can dented price trimmed. Imported enameled ice boilers cut to 1.85 each. Sugar cans dented sale at 6 to 2 cents. Sozo Furniture Polish down to 11.6 cents. Fifth floor Eleventh at.

Social and personal camp life for the boys

The column details summer plans and travels of Washington society families and staff. It lists Misses Wheeler of Gen. Wheeler, Mrs Lambert, Cortelyou family, and numerous others visiting Virginia Hot Springs, White Sulphur Springs, Bretton Woods, St. Louis Exposition, and various U.S. locales. It notes excursions to New York, Laurel, Oakland, Md, Princeton, Ind, and outfits for a season near White Mountains.

Wheeler Virginia Hot Springs Lambert Senator Gorman Laurel St. Louis Exposition New York Wilton J. Lambert White Sulphur Springs Oakland Hon Joseph Holt Games West Virginia W. Va Mellissa Stott Census Bureau Princeton Ind Slater Samust W H. Slater Indian Office Dakotas Washington Amy Rule Girls’ Reform School Edith St. Louis Exposition H. Clay Browning

Mrs Fuller's Sudden Death Shocks Washington Elite

Mrs Mary E Fuller wife of Chief Justice Fuller of the Supreme Court died suddenly at her summer cottage Mainstay in Sorrento Maine She collapsed while seated on a piazza cause heart disease Funeral planned at the Sorrento chapel with Bishop Alexander Mackay Empith officiating She will be interred in Chicago Born August 19 1845 in Burlington Iowa She was mother to two children and had two stepdaughters from her husband's first marriage

Sorrento Mary E. Fuller Fuller United States Supreme Court N. J Massachusetts Avenue Daniel 5. Lamont

Cadets to Visit Washington On Navy Practice Cruise

The entire midshipman class from the training school at Annapolis will be brought to Washington aboard the fleet to study gun construction and mounts at the Washington Navy Yard and to inspect Indian Head proving grounds. Vessels Texas Arkansas Florida Nevada Hartford Lawrence and McDonough with about 600 midshipmen under Rear Admiral Sands head to the Potomac. Additional ships Massachusetts Truxton Hull Worden Hopkins and Whipple may join. the fleet plans days of target practice and river transit to Washington followed by tests of guns and smokeless powder plants.

United States Navy Annapolis Washington Washington Navy Yard Naval Proving Grounds Indian Head Texas Arkansas Florida Nevada Hartford Lawrence McDonough

Army officer leave and transfer orders issued

Orders grant fifteen days leave for First Lieut. Guy B. Manting and others, plus multiple transfers within Artillery and Coast Artillery units. Several lieutenants reassigned to new companies, shipments to Forts Leavenworth and Logan noted, and a dental surgeon detailed to attend a dental congress in St Louis.

Beeen Guy B. Manting Artillery Corps Edward A. Kreger Twenty- Eighth Infantry Theodore H. Koch Het Coast Artillery Hugo C. Rietz San Francisco Fort Sheaidan Timinota Willam H. Wilson Comat Artillery William H. Ware Cal Fort Logan Colorado Samuel W. Hussey Nutt FP. Jamieson Edward D. Powers Ralph W. Waddell Reving Fort Leavenworth Kans Edwin ©. Long Coast Artery Francis H. Lincoln Artiery Corps Wiliam B. Brister Charles W. Abbot Warren T. Hannum Corps of Hingtheere War Department Fred W. Hershler Fourth Cavalry George J. Gunckel Greengitls Ohio Department of California Henry M Merriam 110Th Company Coast Arillery Cnarrignca Artillery District Key Weat Edwin P. Tignor Amd Artillery School Port Monroe James Garfield Mullroy Ninth Infantry Peking China Army Dental Corps Gwin P. Tignor Army Louis

New Sights For Naval Guns And Range Finders

The Bureau of Ordnance plans resighting all navy guns with a rapid fire telescopic sight for continuous aim. A costly but urgent program will install new range finders on battleship squadrons. Tests of tracers for night firing will illuminate projectile paths for gun pointers to assess effects.

Bureau of Ordnance

Squadron at San Juan orders warships to likely trouble spots

The Newark flagship of Rear Admiral Bigsbee’s Caribbean Squadron has reached San Juan. The Newport will sail to Colon to relieve the Scorpion, and Newark will depart for Haiti with plans to go to Cartagena via Guantanamo if quiet prevails. Bancroft to Guantanamo then Monte Christi if Dominican waters need a warship. Barker’s squadron arrived at Horta from Gibraltar as the summer resort information blitz continues.

Newark Bigsbee San Juan Navy Department Newport Colon Scorpion Haiti Cartagena Guantanamo Venezuelan Bancroft Monte Chris Dominican

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