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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1904
Page
17
Following a twice-yearly custom a three days sale begins today to clear remnants and slow movers. All season’s stock is reduced across departments including lagging styles and discontinued lines. Note many fabrics and silks offered at low prices with marked reductions from prior levels.
A district department store offers heavy brass and enameled bedsteads at reduced prices on multiple floors. Highlights include a 14-foot solid brass bed for 45 dollars, 41/2-foot enameled beds from 8 to 18 dollars, and various canary, Delft blue, and Napoleon style finishes. Also featured are infants’ garments, upholstery goods, lace curtains, and steel scissors at sale prices.
A sale notice for Fancy Printed Lawns offering 500 yards of white grounds with mercerized stripes half an inch wide and dainty floral print. The sheer material launderes well and is 29 inches wide. Initially priced at 1s 6d, now reduced.
About 50 pairs remain from a clearance of manufacturers seconds. Buffy Wool Blankets priced from 2.73 to 36.50 per pair, with minor imperfections hardly affecting wear. Sizes include single, semi double, double, and twin in white gray and scarlet. Seronid Moor eleventh st.
Summer Hosiery announces a clearance of cotton hose in various sizes and styles. Women’s fast black cotton hose with dropstitch effect and reinforced heels and toes reduced from 25 cents. Children’s fast black cotton hose with ribbing and reinforced knees reduced from 20 cents. Main floor front.
Advertisement notes a clearance sale of women’s knit underwear on the main floor of F Street. It highlights ten dozen ribbed vests with low necks and no sleeves, priced at 20 cents each or three for 50 cents. Also offers three dozen combination suits, low necks, umbrella drawers, perfect fitting, all sizes.
Delicate lavender and gray writing paper with envelopes, 1 lb paper and 3 packs of envelopes priced at 25 cents, reduced from 60 cents. Located on Main East Eleventh Street.
Odd French China sets including Bread and Butter Plates Tea Plates Pie Plates Breakfast and Dinner Plates in assorted designs priced 2s each with values up to 75c Also Decorated English Porcelain Covered Vegetable Dishes in assorted shapes and colorings 50c to 1 25 Saucepots and Covered Butter Dishes in various shapes 50c to 1 00 Fifth floor G st
A sale on mattings offers four price tiers with discounts up to 4 off regular price. Items sold by roll or yard, with specific bulk prices and remnants reduced further. Fourth floor 6 st.
A large assortment of imported wood paintings featuring head and figure subjects offered at 25 cents each. Display located on the main floor at Eleventh Street.
Washington society notes upcoming arrivals of Mrs Taft and Mrs Hitchcock plus Gen Chaffee and family as well as Bishop Satterlee and other officials returning or visiting. Mentions homes, travels to Atlantic City, Bar Harbor, and Lake region, with many names and placements across Washington, D C, and New England locales.
Special Washington Post dispatch from London notes the marriage of Lady Jane Seymour to Maj. Hugh Dudley Carlston. The piece traces the Seymour family’s rise and decline from Henry VIII through the Hertford line, earlier royal ties, and a later American marriage spurred by poverty in Ragley. It highlights heirs, titles, and the enduring historical burden of the Seymour name.
Public beauty contest on Vienna’s St. Anne’s Day at the Kahlenberg honors Bertha Turk a seventeen year old Bijou Theater actress who wins first prize with 972 votes. Second goes to Minka Trappel a seventeen year old brunette, third to Gisela Mlawelka eighteen, and fourth to Melanie Margner nineteen. None of the winners are named Anna.
London reports the Ariosto portrait by Titian has been purchased for the nation and is on display at the National Gallery. Sir George Donaldson sold it for $150,000 with $292,500 from private subscriptions led by J Pierpont Morgan and Williams Waldorf Astor, plus £58,000 government funds. The canvas measures about two and a half by four feet and depicts the poet against a green gray background with a three quarter view, highlighting Titian’s mastery of white black and red tones.
Paris theater circles buzz over Edmond Rostand’s son and a new play titled Chanteclair where birds figure as characters led by a rooster and a thrush as god. London scenes promise lavish staging for Midsummer Dream and a Tempest revival with a fifty foot ship, aerial shores, and Prospiro’s magic.
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