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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1906
Page
21
Woodward & Lothrop advertises a Remnant Day sale with marked down odds and ends in summer apparel house keeping items and fabrics. Includes remnant cotton and wool dress goods at half price batista lawn jacquard calico printed linens and dimity priced from 8 to 25 cents per yard. Second floor G Street.
Friday bargain on women corset covers in cambric and nainsook, trimmed with lace embroidery beadwork and ribbon. Special price 25 cents each. Third floor Eleventh St.
Friday Bargain advertises women's silk umbrellas 26 inches with various handles and tassels priced at 145 each, and novelty silks at 165 with natural wood handles. Also features men’s silk ties 23c, wash four-in-hand ties 2 for 25c, and assorted remnants and hats with deep discounts on main floor clearance.
Linen department offers hemstitched moercerized cambric sheets, damask tablecloths in multiple sizes with sale prices and versus regular prices. Lists include 2x3 yard cloths at 275 and 390 each, damask options, hemmed Huckaback towels, and white goods with per yard prices and discounts.
A garbled sale notice lists various dress fabrics with 34 yards Minch Tan Crepe de Paris and 44 inch Brown and White Mo dr, priced down from 938 to 463, plus 48 inch Gray Cashmere and 35 yard Tan Silk and Crepe at reduced amounts. Details are unclear due to OCR errors.
Readable items show dramatic price reductions on fabric categories including 48 inch French foulé 35 inch Panama from Priestess and 44 3d3 35 inch fabrics. Notes list reductions from high hundreds to lower tens per yard with several items dropping to around 30 to 150 per yard depending on material and width.
Local shop offers significant markdowns on boys wear including all wool sailor blouses, double breasted suits with pants, Russian blouses, navy play suits, white duck pants and long styles. Sizes range from 2 to 16 with discounts from 20 to 50 percent. Third floor at Tenth Street location.
A newspaper ad for Avan Boys department store announces discounts across multiple men’s and women's items. Men’s shirts and hats reduced from listed high prices to sale prices. Children’s clothing, straw hats, and millinery items noted with reduced prices. Limited quantities and department locations on the second floor tenth street.
The Fourth floor offers corsets with straight fronts and high busts in multiple sizes at reduced prices from $6.00 to 1.00 per pair, plus Sapphire and Net corsets. Matting and Brussels rug remnants are marked down from $12 to $9 and 12 dollars respectively, with several lengths and patterns available.
A grocery and home goods listing shows numerous price cuts across a basket department and a China department. Items include lunch hampers, scrap baskets, telescope baskets, straw dress suit cases, and various decorative plates, mugs, basins, celery trays, salad bowls, soup plates, game plates, bonbon boxes, and hatland china pieces with markdowns from high to low prices. The reductions span per item prices and bulk deals, noting specific sale prices and quantities where readable.
A catalog of women's suit department reductions lists white linen Eton jackets in sizes 34 to 38, white cannon cloth coat suits, and lace trimmed ensembles. Prices drop from high amounts to modest sale figures, with multiple styles including prince chap coats and lawn shirtwaists in varied sizes and trims.
Black Sikh Eton Jacket with plaited front and cuffs. size 38, reduced from $6500 to $12. Black Sik Pony Jacket trimmed with bias, lined with white taffeta silk. size 38, reduced to $875. White Cannon Cloth Eton Jackets sizes 34 46 and 38, reduced from $30 to $2.00 each. Willite Linen Shirt trimmed with same material, reduced from $1000 to $5.00.
An assortment of white lawn waists with a variety of styles and all sizes in the combined lot, with many pieces at greatly reduced prices. Also a large selection of lace and silk waists at reduced prices. Third floor G street.
Inventory fragment outlines reduced prices on girls coats and dresses at Gris' Wilte Linen Coats and an assortment of garments. Items include linen coats with lace collars, blue serge reefers, striped percale dresses, and white India lawn garments with tucks and embroidery, all marked down from high to lower sale prices.
Infants and children's garments priced to move with marked reductions. Nainsook blips on necks and sleeves dropped from 2 bf to 150 each, dresses from 38 to 275, 450 to 360, and coats from 509 to 00. Women's white canvas oxfords reduced to 1.50 a pair. Third floor displays at Sleventh and Tenth streets.
Washington society circles report a gala performance of Cuauhtemoc in Mexico City with Gen Porfirio Diaz and Mrs Diaz in attendance and Ambassador Thompson present. Other items list diplomatic envoys, travel to Alaska and Europe, marriages in Philadelphia, and several Washingtonians vacationing at Newport Bar Harbor Lenox and Paris, with updates on residencies and upcoming departures.
A confidant diplomat and an American officer become entangled in a Luxembourg intrigue. An exchange of passports leads to a deadly confrontation on a train then a tense prison sequence where a woman cloaked in scarlet hooded silk confronts romance and loyalty amid risk to reputations and nations.
Silk finish Madras portieres in multiple colors cut from 250 to 125. Pair portieres in brown red green and rose priced at 250 per pair. Trish Point Lace Curtains 12 yards long 89 inches wide reduced from 900 to 75 per pair. Hand made couch upholstered in cotton taffeta discounted from 3000 to 223. Stoop seats filled and covered. Hardwood screen doors with fixtures 2 sizes reduced from 125 and 180 to 95 each. Fourth floor sale items listed.
The Blanket Department lists several wool and India blanket items with reduced prices. Imperfect and soiled blankets receive marked-downs from 600 to 450, 800 to 61, 625 to 500, and 750 to 36, with damaged items cut to 525. Sikeline Comfort damaged at 125, and India blankets sold at 1.23 each.
A Bamboo Furniture department advertisement lists shirtwaist boxes and covers heavily discounted. Items include burlap wrapped box reduced from 750 to 508 dollars, denim covered box cut from 3600 to 300, imitation feather covered box trimmed to 400, and inflation leather bound box dropped from 550 to 90, among others.
Aluminums shopworn reduced from 175 to 100 dollars. Drip coffee pots shopworn 2 qt porcelain-lined preserving kettle shopworn reduced from 20 to 16 cents each. Gut reduced from 40 to 2 cents. 2qt items reduced from 126 to 1? cents each. Enameled ware pitchers reduced from 85 to 6 cents each. Enameled ware soap ladies reduced from 1? to 5 cents each. Fifth floor eleventh wt.
Ty, Md, stays with cousin Mrs E Max Hasselbach at 121 H Street NW while Mrs Robert Page, visiting Rochester relatives, has returned home from six weeks away. Mrs Fred F Schrader spends part of summer at Bluemont Virginia. Washington reports from Dublin New Hampshire tell of Lieut Commander and Mrs William Sims welcoming a daughter and of Mrs Sims being the Secretary of the Interior’s daughter. Commander and Mrs Sims spent winter at Stoneleigh Court and summer guests at Hitchcock place in Dublin NH.
Prizes offered at Camp Good Will for quarters kept clean during the week. The camp adopts “Spotless Town” as the theme with music, swimming sessions, and a fund-raising appeal for continued support. A long list of donations is acknowledged, totaling 375,885 in receipts to date. A separate Catholic Standard and Times item quotes a dramatic marriage remark exchange.
Unmarried Capt Frank McCoy of the Third Cavalry named as replacement for May McCawley at the White House. President Roosevelt provides a complimentary note on McCawley’s marriage and services. McCawley and wife plan Bar Harbor residence and social duties after a three month leave. Ethel Roosevelt visits Meadow Croft on Long Island as Sayville reports a week’s family outing.
Tapestry remnants from prior sale offer inches and yard lengths suitable for pillows and chairs. Includes 5c to 7c odd pairs and lace trims matched into pairs, with patterns similar to fish Point and Le Brussels. One pair of a kind, up to 1.29 dollars per pair.
Bargains on satin taffeta and plain ribbons in all colors and black. Prices list per yard for various widths from 2 to 11 inches, with examples like 1 four to one half inch and 5 to 6 inch ribbons. Firet floor bargain tables showcase Mesalines and Park rettines materials.
These charcoal tin steam cookers with copper bottoms offer full meals over one burner. Priced at 2.48 and 2.98, they present great value as real worth far exceeds the tag. A must see for fuel saving and heat prevention this Friday.
A dramatic, unnamed scene unfolds as a wife confesses a selfless, jealous love for a man bound by duty to another. she hands him a rug and a ring, pledging to share his happiness in memory, then vanishes as guards and a prefect close in, leaving the moment unfinished for tomorrow.
A fragment from a catalog listing white lawn and white poplin fabrics in various grades and patterns. Mentions yard wide white corded and striped entries, and a 192 yard grade Renmant with pricing notes, all described as durable yet prone to wash-out.
Advertisement notes $1 long kimonas and 50¢ such kimonas, never sold so few. Lawn kimonas offered in black and white effects or large colored rat designs, cut full and trimmed in white lawn, folds down front and around sleeves. Also a cool house gown for half a dollar. Second Floor S Kann Sons & Co.
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