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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1905
Page
7
Woodward & Lothrop announces a semi annual stock clearance with special offerings across the store. Many items are not advertised and prices are extraordinarily low to clear surpluses broken assortments and odds and ends as the store closes at 5 on weekdays and 1 on Saturdays. Rare bargains abound throughout the house.
A period sale offers one of a kind dress patterns and remnants at deep discounts on woolen fabrics. Tan Etamine, Light Gray Etamine, and Castor London Cord dress patterns reduced from higher prices to 5.00 each. Numerous remnants and fabrics priced at 8c to 25c per yard. Men’s hosiery, drawers, suspenders, silk gauntlets, ties, neglige shirts, rain coats, and bath robes offered at substantial cuts. Second floor Main Store, Men’s Department.
Cotton dress goods clearance featuring 18 remnants of printed French or gandie fabrics in white grounds with pink blue and heliotrope flowers. Offered in 2 to 6 yard lengths at 37 and 40 cents per yard reductions. Located on floor G, street name omitted.
Black silk skirts on third floor Eleventh Street offered at five dollars each, trimmed with a full flare ruffle and finished with a percaline dust ruffle. Value listed at six fifty. Excellent value for shoppers seeking women’s taffeta silk garments.
A sale listing shows Fimbroideres and White Wash Stocks neatly trimmed with Valen ciennes lace, each priced to clear from 25c. Driving Stocks in madras with embroidered ends offered at 25c, reduced from 56c. A camall lot of Cal lara items, prettily embroidered, priced to clear. Main floor-G street.
Sale at Main floor G offers a clearance of women s kid belts in black brown navy tan red and green with gilt buckles back pieces price reduced from 50c
A newspaper ad lists Insh Point Lace Curtains in five designs at 3 1 2 yards long for 375 a pair, reduced from 4 50 to 5 50. Bobbinette Curtains trimmed with Cling lace, 3 1 2 yards, 3.00 a pair, reduced from 4 50 to 5 ac. Tapestry Table Covers in red green blue shades, 1 yard, including fringe, as low as 75c. Silkaline fabrics offered at 8c a yard, broadly reduced from larger prices. Adjustable Screens with hardwood frames, various sizes, heavily reduced. Metal Frame Screens with black wire, several sizes at 20c to 25c. Screen Doors marred and damaged, priced 4ac to 1 50 each, from 75c to 2 50. Fourth floor.
Odd rolls of 11¢-warp China Matting described as the best matting for wear in small effects. Priced at 2 1/2 cents a yard, reduced from 6 cents. Located on the fourth floor of G street.
Porch Cushions in circular shape with fancy cretonne coverings in assorted colors offered at 15 cents each, reduced from 35 cents. Also Laundry Bags in fancy cretonne with tying and drawstring, 25 cents each, reduced from 75 cents. Main floor F street.
The ad lists heavy markdowns in the Men’s Hat Department including 36 White Duck Hats at 25.6 cents each, 8 Golf Caps in black and white plaid from 50c to 25c, 2 White Felt Hats size 7 to 7 1/8 from 20 to 1, and 2% Automobile and Yacht Caps from 1.50 200 3.00 to 1.00 each. Also 17 Straw Hats in several sizes from 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 to 60 cents, and 6 Coachmen’s Tan Hats from 4.50 4.00 to 1.00 each on the Main floor Fat.
Third floor sale features boys and youths suits in multiple styles. All wool doublebreasted and straightcut options with bloomer pants reduced significantly from original prices. Sizes range from children to teens with blouses in dark blue and tan.
Reduced prices on boys departments items include Madras blouses from 150 to 100, white duck pants 6 to 11 years from 125 to 50, white and tan duck vests 9 to 11 from 100 and 135 to 8 1 2 cents, Milan straw hats 60c, 60c and 75c, straw sailor hats 10 to 15 cents, and assorted mixed color sailor hats 260.
Reduced prices listed for various items including a 9 by 12 foot light blue fiber bug at 410.00, two 1 by 2 foot fiber bugs at 3150 each, and a 3 by 6 foot bath bug at 33.00. Numerous remnants and mattings priced at one third to one half off. Bring room measurements. Fourth floor G at.
Reduced prices on a range of linen items including a 4 K inch renaissance Doarues round piece, a square linen Dolly with Renaissance edge, a linen center piece with lace edge, a linen drawnwork tray cloth, all cut from higher prices. Main floor Fat.
In the basket department, several items are discounted including an infant meket and infant bassinette, large palm mending basket, covered sweet grass basket, large work baskets, and various scrap baskets. Prices cut from high to small figures with limited quantities.
The China Department offers a clearance of decorated dinnerware and accessories with deep markdowns. Pink recording American china set drops from $20 to $5.08. gauze tureen and celery tray marked down. French china soup tureen and blue ceramic vase discounted. assorted coffee cups, cake plates, tea pots, and more on fifth floor attic sale.
Readable fragments describe cloth shopping bars with steel frames and multiple leather and cloth trunks and cases on sale. Items include 10 inch cloth bars, 14 inch suit cases with leather corners, brass locks, two trays, and white bound trunks with sheet iron bottoms. Prices drop from $35.00, $27.00, and $22.00 to $7.75 and similar amounts.
Catalog lists Brown checked suit sizes 32 to 34 with white collars reduced from 28 50 to 18 50 White linen and organdie dresses sizes 35 86 trimmed lace reduced to 18 50 Silk mull dress 36 trimmed lace reduced to 18 50 Black cheviot skirts knee length 40 to 48 inch reduced to 8 95 Navy mohair set 43 inch lengths price marked per item.
A lot of Fine White Lawn Shirt Waists in assorted styles and sizes offered at greatly reduced prices. A lot of Silk Shirt Waists, assorted styles and sizes, also at greatly reduced prices. Located on the third floor G at.
Catalog snippet shows multiple girls dresses with sizes 4 to 8, featuring white Hinglish Russian style hand-embroidered gowns and English Ren Guimpe with buttonhole embroidery, grass linen plaid outfits, gingham dresses with braid and patent leather belt. Prices cut from high to lower sale figures.
On the Eleventh floor the Infants Department lists折 o reduced prices on several items. One Childs Plague Hat with blue ribbon is cut from 2.50 to Bic. Two Children White Corded Hats feature buttoned crowns. One Childs White Pique Bonnet trims with hand embroidery and pink ribbon reduced to 1.04. Two Children White India Linen Dresses long-waisted with embroidery reduced to 2.00 each. One Childs Lingerie Coat with medallion lace trimmed reduced from 38 75 to 00.
Muslin underwear features nainsook gowns round neck short sleeves lace trim with ribbon reduced from 100 to 79 cents each. Cambric corset covers tuck back loose front embroidery large sizes reduced from 1 to 2 cents. Nainsook gowns square neck embroidery reduced from 150 to 95 cents each. Green taffeta petticoats full umbrella ruffle with ruched trim reduced from 5.00 to 8.95 each. Third floor Fifty-seventh Street.
The listing details Lily of France Corsets in multiple styles with real whalebone and elastics, sizes 28 25 38, reduced from 8 75 to 7 50. Parame and Jory corsets in various sizes discounted from 850 to 35 00 and from 5 50 to 34 00. Third floor Eleventh Street offers these reduced items.
On the main floor entrance a sale offers 24 inch hemstitched silk umbrellas in red and black with a blue accent reduced from 4.76 to 92.95 each. One 26 inch folding umbrella of union taffeta quality reduced from 4.00 to 32.95. Five green union silk 4-1/2 inch umbrellas with neat borders reduced from 200 to 1.45 each.
The notice outlines discounted pieces from the Furniture Department including an Arm Rocker a Childs Chair a Table and a Green-finish Rattan Swing with prices cut from 4.80 2.25 1.60 3.00 25.00 7.60 38.00 10.00 to lower amounts. Also mentions a Natural Ash Swing and a Mission Cellarette in telephone form with reduced prices and a sixth floor location.
Inventory notes damaged items in Housefurnishing Department with reduced prices on ladders wash bench brushes and pans enameled ware bread boxes and ice cream freezers. Marks indicate shopworn condition and price cuts from dollars to cents. Items listed along with quantities and new sale prices.
A festive season in Chautauqua and Lenox sees society wedding ceremonies. Miss Josephine Morrison of Pittsburg wed Wallace C. Franklin of Washington in Higgin's Hall with lavish floral décor and music by noted quartets. Attendants include Pauline Showalter and Howard Morrison. The event is followed by a reception at McKee Cottage. Also noted are social visits by diplomats, officials, and prominent families at Newport and Mohawk Valley summer retreats.
Various society items include multiple weddings at the bride’s mother’s home in Washington with bridesmaids and best men named, a ceremony in Capitol Hill, and couples planning honeymoons. Also noted are a series of travel and visiting notices, postmaster general’s rest trip, and musical concerts at the Navy Yard and Dupont Circle with program details. Delta Tau Delta officers elected in New York and venue for next meeting set.
A 1905 letter from Willis L. Moore of the U S Weather Bureau refutes claims of friction between Belen College observatory and the Weather Bureau. It asserts cordial relations, notes local observers lacked Gulf port authority, and commends the Bureau’s warnings on the Galveston hurricane.
Mrs Charlemagne Tower wife of the American ambassador sailed today from Hamburg on the steamer Bleacher bound for New York. She traveled with her sons Geoffrey and Roderick and Mr Tower's nephew John M Briscoe of Pottaville.
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