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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1908
Page
19
Woodward & Lothrop announces a Regular Weekly Bargain event featuring a large collection of remnants and bargain lots. Extended post sale hours include 5 oclock closing on weekdays and 1 PM Saturdays, with Friday as Remnant Day noted by patrons for quick clearance of odd sizes and one of a kind pieces.
The store lists a sale of belts in gray tan and black with various skins and sizes 28 32 and 34 at 50c to 1.00 each. Also offerings include men’s link cuffs in sizes 9 10 and 11 sold in half dozen lots at 50c per half dozen and 90c per dozen, plus dollars mostly turn down styles in all sizes offered in half dozen lots.
A small lot offers Women s 16 but length silk gloves in tan white and black at 73c per pair with value to 1 50 A lot of Women s 2 clasp Lister thread gloves in black white and tan at 23c per pair with value 30c Located on the main floor G street
Silk Petticoats for women described with full flounce and bias finish. Deep tonal ruching noted. Heavy rustic SAO fabric priced at 7.50. Sold at Eleventh Street location.
Lot of Women's Fine White Kimonos described with full and long lengths, wide hems, and trimmed with pink and blue lawn borders. Includes a Tet of White Lawn with square neck and short sleeves, sold at 35e each at Thiru fucr Eleventh St.
Valenciennes Laces offered in another lot matching edges and insertions. Varying widths from 4 to inches. suitable for trimming summer dresses, children's tracks, underwear. Prices range from 6c per dozen ward values, $1.00 to SLPS. Maca note CF st.
Bargain sale on women's lisle hose featuring 50 dozen pairs in plain black and threaded drop stitch. Rechelieu and Rembrandt styles offered at 35 cents per pair. Limited stock and special value for Friday shoppers.
Fifty dozen women s lisle vests offered at twenty nine cents each. Low neck sleeveless with fancy crochet fronts sourced from a bargain section. Value priced from fifty cents, advertised as a special sale on a Friday. Mam for st.
White Goods sale offers 250 yards of 36 inch White Linen Lawn all linen at 23 cents a yard and 300 yards of 36 inch White Mercerized Batiste at 1 cent a yard. Located near Eleventh Street.
Friday bargains in the linen department highlight 50 dozen 18 by 36 inch Huck towels hemmed and ready for use at 20 cents each or 2.25 per dozen Regular price 2.75 per dozen 23 dozen hemmed Huck towels sold in half dozen lots 6 for 60c 6 for 68c 6 for 73c Also a case of pure linen crash toweling at a special price of 10c per yard Located near Second Amor seventh street.
A local department store lists heavy markdowns across Boys' Clothing II. Items include Russian suits in multiple sizes reduced from 2.73 and 1.95 to 1.00 each, Sailor Blouse Suits from 3.85 and 19.93 to 7.00, Navy Serge Suits 6 to 8 cut to 1.00, and various wool, khaki, and linen suits. Youths long trousers and knickerbocker styles drop to around 1.95 to 4.85 per pair.
Readable catalog style item list shows price cuts on boys clothing on the third floor tenth etage with items including straw sailors duck hats caps fancy blouses neglige shirts and related accessories. Reduced prices reflect discounts from original amounts to sale prices per item.
The Men s Clothing Department lists light flannel and serge trousers in several sizes with reduced prices. Light flannel trousers dropped from 4.00 to 1.05 per pair, while serge and manned trousers in white with blue stripes are now 8.95 per pair in sizes 31 38 34 86 38 on the main floor tenth et.
Listing of various fabrics with yardage and prices including Cotton Dress Goods from 8 to 233 lengths, Printed Percales and Gingham, Organdie, Mercerized Poplin, Scotch Madras, Mousseline de Soie, and Linen. Located on second floor.
Readable list shows storm serge Mohair Sicilian and fancy plaid serge marked down from high to lower prices. Includes w inch storm serge 41 inch Mohair Sicilian 45 inch Fancy Plaid Serge and 42 inch Armure Suiting reduced per yard with several yardage amounts noted. Second floor goods area indicated.
A local lamp department advertises heavy discounts across many items. Brass and glass lamps drop from eight dollars to about four twenty five and four forty five, with numerous lamp shades in red green white and frosted finishes, plus metal and linen fittings, all marked down from various higher prices.
Wedding of Miss Marie Boyland to Mr Waldemar Schaller in Washington noted with details of ceremony at St Matthew's Church and a wedding breakfast. Miss Emily Neville Taylor engaged to E Harrison Symington with Switzerland wedding planned for September. Many society figures travel, visit, and return from Europe and the U S, including Eliza Custer, Gen Greely, and dignitaries visiting Paris and London.
Social notes report Mrs Nicholas Longworth receiving daily boxes of American Beauty roses from her husband as she visits Sagamore Hill. Bar Harbor Fair Association hosts a bustling second day with crowded stands, top ribbons awarded to Anne Thompson and Mathilde Townsend among others, plus demonstrations of a Russian team and various classes. Miss Elizabeth Colton, famed linguist, is profiled for her 54 languages and study at Berlin Yale Harvard. Marriage news notes Herbert Harriman wed Mae Brady Hall after polo, with background on both families. Parisian reactions to American spending in shops and a sociable hotel anecdote close the item with fashion trends for the coming season.
An old medical ad describes kidney inflammation causing dropsy, swelling, and heart pressure. It claims Fulton’s Renal Compound can disperse kidney inflammation and restore tubule function, with about 87 percent recovery in serious cases, and references J. Fulton Co. as publisher.
A fragmented listing shows multiple Black Lynx items with prices including 340.00 for a pillow and 365.00 for a Lynx item. Other entries note pelerine styles at 27.50 34.50 and 32.50, with references to Moff and Billo shapes or codes like P3790 and L890 Pep25-00.
Outdoor sports draw crowds at West End Long Branch as Deal lawn tennis finals feature Arthur de Young and Harry Bilas beating Gibbs of Spring Lake. Deal Golf Club hosts an Invitation tournament with 20 entries amid dinners and social events at Ocean Avenue scenes.
Miss Anna B Shaw hosted a dinner and a bridge party at The Homestead Lenox for Hartford visitor Miss A H Williams with guests including Mrs Charles Astor Bristed and several Kneeland circle members. In the area, Edward BR Wharton returned from salmon fishing in Canada, and notable visitors gathered at Mount Pleasant and in Lanesboro for a Revolutionary tablet unveiling.
Warramansett diary notes show a holiday crowd at Narragansett with bathing in unusually high surf delighting bathers. Among attendees were Justice Joseph McKenna with grandchildren, Prof. Brander Matthews, and Judge William M Thompson. A Bridger party at Belvoir-on-the-Rocks hosted by Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Leidy featured Mrs Myer Leidy and Mrs. William Carter among guests, with hydrangea decor and a subsequent tea.
Final in the Newport bridge tournament for Mrs. R Livingston Beeckman cups was played at the Golf Club this afternoon with Clarence W Dolan and Mrs Ogden Milla defeating Mrs Maturin Livingston and Mr John T Si. The Newport Reading Room held its annual meeting with old officers re elected and new governors named for three year terms.
Miss Rosamond Kearny Street, prominent in New York Washington and Newport society, married George Peabody Bustle at her father William A Street’s home in Leapright New Jersey. The bride, renowned for beauty and music, will vacation then tour Virginia and Italy with the groom, son of the late Representative George Kapils.
Herbert Colman Hunter of Washington, assistant editor of the National Weather Bureau Review, marries Miss Isabel Sewall of Farmington, Maine in Old South Church. Attends include college friends. reception at Abington, Massachusetts. The bride, a Maine Normal School and Massachusetts Normal Art School graduate, taught drawing. the groom, a Harvard graduate, will reside in Washington.
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