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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1904
Page
27
Following a twice yearly custom, a three days clearance sale begins today to close out remnants and odd lots. All season's stock includes lagging styles and to be discontinued lines with decisive price reductions. Every department represented. Selected silks and satins offered at steep discounts from prior prices.
Clearance sale offers brass and enameled bedsteads and infant goods on main and second floors. Featured items include 14 1 2 ft solid brass bed at 45 dollars from 60, several enameled beds from 8 to 21 dollars, and numerous upholstered and lace curtain pieces with substantial discounts. Also listed are steel scissors at 25 cents a pair and upholstery fabrics with reduced prices.
Announcement of a clearance sale offering 500 yards of Fancy Printed Lawns in white grounds with mercerized stripes and dainty floral printings. Describes material as sheer, 29 inches wide, launder well, price reduced from 1 shilling and 6 pence per yard.
Clearance sale offers Buffy Wool Blankets with slight imperfections. About 50 lots remain in sizes for single, three-quarter, double, and twin beds in white gray and scarlet. Priced from 2.73 to 36.50 a pair, four dollars below regular. Seroni Moor eleventh st.
Summer Hosiery sale offers 10 dozen pair Women s Fast Black Cotton Hose with drop stitch effect double heels and toes all sizes. Reduced from 25¢. Also 5 dozen pairs Children s Fast Black Cotton Hose fine ribbed double knees heels and toes 16 and 64 sizes. An excellent take a pair. Reduced from 20c. Main floor F st.
10 dozen Women's Ribbed Vests with low necks and no sleeves offered at 20c each or 3 for 50. Also 3 dozen Women's Combination Suits with umbrella drawers and perfect fitting, all sizes. Main floor F Street.
A store advertises writing paper and matching envelopes in lavender and gray shades. Includes 1 lb of paper and 3 packs of envelopes, priced at 25 cents, reduced from 50 cents. Location noted as Main street near Foster Eleventh Street.
Odd French china sets including Bread and Butter Plates Tea Plates Pie Plates Breakfast and Dinner Plates in assorted designs. 2s each with values up to 75c. Decorated English porcelain covered vegetable dishes in assorted shapes and colors. 50c to soc each with values 75c to 1.25. Odd decorated French china sauce boats in assorted shapes and carvings 50c each value 1.00. Covered butter dishes in assorted shapes and colors 50c to 1.00. Fifth floor G Street.
A local sale advertises marked down mattings with four price levels per roll or yard. Four rolls cost 50c per yard, three rolls 40c, then 35c, two rolls 30c, four rolls 25c, and three rolls 2aic or 174c per yard. Remnants under 10 yards marked 15c, under 20 yards 20c. Located on the fourth floor at 6th Street.
A collection of imported paintings on wood featuring head and figure subjects with plaques, offered at a special price of 25 cents each. Located on the main floor at Eleventh street.
Mrs Taft and Mrs Hitchcock to follow. Arrivals include Gen Chaffee and Mrs Chaffee at 1731 1 Street. Bishop Satterlee, Mrs Shaw return. Shaw home readied for occupancy. Travelers and officials from Washington, Atlantic City, and Bar Harbor noted with multiple residences and holiday plans.
Special Washington Post correspondence from London notes the marriage of Lady Jane Seymour to Maj. Hugh Dudley Carlston. The piece traces the Seymour lineage from Henry VIII through Edward VI to present, detailing fortunes, misfortunes, and the family’s enduring social prominence and bankrupt finances that prompted a Yarmouth marriage abroad.
Public beauty contest on Vienna's St. Anne's Day at the Kahlenberg awarded Bertha Turk the first prize with 972 votes, a gold watch, while Minka Trappel Gisela Mlawelka and Melanie Matzner won the other top prizes. all winners were teens, none named Anna.
London authorities display the Titian portrait of Ariosto at the National Gallery after private funding of $292,500 and government support of $58,000. Contributors include J Pierpont Morgan Williams Waldorf Astor Lord Iveagh Lord Burton Lady Wantage and Alfred Bell. The painting measures about two and a half by four feet and is praised as a masterful likeness with rich red and black tones emphasizing the poet’s lips and gaze.
The Paris theatrical world buzzes over Edmond Rostand’s son and name for a new play in which all characters are birds. Couneélin barnyard fowl Thrush Nightingale stars as god from the machine. The London stage previews elaborate sets while Sir Arthur Sullivan’s music and Raymond Roze numbers enrich the spectacle.
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