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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1905
Page
7
Following a twice yearly custom, the store announces a three day clearance to close out remnants and odds and ends. Prices have been decisively reduced on this season's stock including lagging styles and discontinued items. Every department is represented with a partial list to come.
Clearance sale offers 66c printed mousseline 374c and 46c printed organdie 25c and 30c printed dimity 3a7he printed lawn reduced to 5c per yard. Cotton voiles in shepherds checks and tartan plaids priced at 10c per yard, reduced from 15c and 18c. Second floor G street.
Eight short lengths of plain and fancy colored silks in one to five yard pieces for waists skirts and children's frocks. Reduced from 75 cents and 1.25. Short lengths of colored pongee 31 inches wide for waists kimonos and rep skirts. See a yard. Reduced from 1.25. Second floor.
A miscellaneous lot of women's summer nainsook and cambric undergarments including gowns drawers petticoats chemises and corset covers offered at clear ance prices. One of a kind pieces with lace embroidery trims and ribbons priced 19c to 2.75 per piece, previously 25c to 4.50. Third floor Eleventh St.
Clearance prices on French Corsets including Sapphire Lily of France Parama and other brands with discounts from Were $7.50 to $12.00. Odd sizes and latest styles like straight-front and dip hip. Third floor Dieventh Street. Women’s fast black hose and children’s lace effects also reduced on main floor.
A late nineteenth century sale lists 89 embroidered tea cloths and pillow shams with hemstitching and scalloped edges, minor imperfections, priced from 1.25 to 3.00 for tea cloths and 2.25 to 6.00 per pair for shams. Towels and linen fabrics discounted, including all linen towels at 15c each and 1.75 per dozen, plus linen suitings and White Linen yardage reduced significantly.
Odd lines describe a clearance sale of women’s and children’s footwear including oxford ties low button oxfords and slippers in kidskin box calfskin and patent calfskin with welt and turn soles and patent tips. Also tan Russia calfskin oxfords. Special price one dollar per pair. Third floor Tenth at.
Eight lots of fitted leather hand bags offered in tan brown black and green with French gilt and gun metal frames and leather handles. Prices 3.00 4.00 and 500.00 each with reductions from 6.50 8.00 and 10.00. Main floor Eleventh at location.
A sale of men's lisle thread underwear offered at 3 cents per garment, reduced from 1.25. Also about 50 dozen men’s fancy half hose mainly fine lisle thread priced at 25 cents a pair, reduced from 35 cents. Additionally, 12 dozen neglige shirts mostly madras with cuffs attached and separate, 75 cents each, reduced from 1.00 and 1.50.
About 25 pairs remain from a sale of manufacturers seconds. Wool blankets are fluffy with tiny flaws invisible at wear. Prices range from 3.75 to 42 per pair for various sizes. crib blankets also offered with small imperfections. Second floor Eleventh et.
A sale offers 7 Irish Point Lace Curtains in white with net effects at 3.75 per pair, down from 4.50 5.00 and 5.50. Bebbinette Curtains trimmed with lace edging, 312 yards at 3.00 per pair. Genuine Arabain Lace Curtains priced as low as 18.50 per pair, reduced from 30.00. Renaissance Lace Bed Sets with center pieces and corner decorations 10 per set, reduced from 13.50. Moire Rep Portieres in green and red 7.50 per pair, cut from 15.00. Plain Rep Partlerts 7.50 per pair, down from 10.50. Silk Floss Cushions with cretonnes and other fabrics 1.25 each, from 2.00. Fourth floor. }
Two lots of decorated covered vegetable dishes offered in assorted shapes and colors. Lot 1 features English porcelain covered dishes at 60c each, down from $1.00 to $1.50. Lot 2 presents decorated French china covered dishes along with seat platters and ice cream platters at 85c each, down from $1.50 to $2.00. Fifth floor.
Seaside and mountain social items record marriages and engagements including Miss Ethel Lanman and J. Paul Ward at Harpers Ferry on July 31 and Miss Miriam Manning Kimball to Mr. Herbert King Stockton of Washington. Also noted are wedding details, honeymoons in England, hotel visits, and society gatherings with prominent names and residences in Boston Washington and New York.
Améing the recrit arrivals at the New Archdale Atlantis City are Mr. and Mrs. Gadi Morton Mattingly and child dren Mise A.V. Lally, and' sting wreon Alfred Ray, of Forest Glen. Mr. and Mrs. Mary Hodges Cashell of Rockville were married by Rev. Father Donovan at the Cardinal's residence in Baltimore on August 1. Afterward the bride and groom and a party of friends left for Atlantia City. They will reside at Ash land Mont. County Md. Mr. and Mrs. C. Shipe of Frenton N. J. were visitors in Washington yesterday. Mr. Shipe is city editor of the Trenton True American and was formerly with Baltimore papers. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Hacker of Chevy Chase are registered at the New Hotel Astor in New York. Miss Anna Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Lewis, and her cousin Mr. Harry Lewis of Memphis were married at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening at her home on I Street Northwest. A reception followed. The Lewises left on the 11:20 train for New York, with a farewell from friends as bells rang and horns blew. They will visit Niagara Falls and Atlantic City before returning to Washington to make Memphis their home.
Rabbi Stern and Simon Wolf express cautious optimism about improved Russian policies toward Jews following the czarist reform. Emigration to the United States is deemed impractical. progress requires deep government change over generations. Wolf predicts a brighter outlook, with eventual equality resembling the American Jewish experience.
The National Theater in Washington launches a new season with Hall Caine’s The Prodigal Son produced by Lisner Co with stars Edward Morgan Aubrey Boucicault Marie Wainwright and others. Tickets range from 60 cents to $1.60 with box office sales opening today.
A Lyceum Theater program for the week beginning August 28 features T W Dinkine High School Girls a promising company with many vaudeville acts. The show mixes farces with musical numbers and dances including Gillman sisters and Irene Lee Gregory in a lively bill styled to amuse.
Dr Davidson resigns as clerk to devote full time to medicine. Associates present him an instrument cabinet as testimonial. He joined March 22 1683, rose to Class IV, studied at Columbian now George Washington University, president of his class in 1891, graduated 1894, taught anatomy, admitted to practice 1894, built a large District practice and severed government ties. He has many friends in and out of the department.
St Pauls Episcopal Church choir boys from Washington are enjoying a summer outing at Choir Lodge a two story cottage a mile below Colonial Beach Mrs A M Weaver hosts the diocese’s choir boys who take turns staying there Boats hay rides melon feasts and plentiful milk and food mark the holiday The group plans to move on after three weeks with a return scheduled for next Saturday
Cardinal Gibbons will preside at the dedication ceremonies of the Immaculate Seminary under the Sisters of Providence. The event occurs Friday morning September 8 at 10 30 oclock on Wisconsin Avenue Northwest with prominent Catholic prelates in attendance.
M J Weaver of 996 Florida avenue created a dog eulogy hanger copying Senator Vest’s famous speech from The Post. He sold fifty copies, fueling demand as a novel canine tribute. Senator Clark, en route to Paris, remained ill aboard a steamer, delaying plans for weeks in New York.
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