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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1904
Page
33
Continuation of the store sale highlights twice yearly stock clearance with new season bargains. Surplus stock and odds and ends fill the floor at extraordinarily low prices, many not advertised due to small demand but offering rare bargains throughout the house.
Clearance sale offers discounts on Madras Neglige shirts white and colored with cuffs in sizes 13 12 to 17. Prices range from 1.00 to 1.50 per shirt with values up to 1.50. Also features Half Hose with decorative embroidery, priced at 0.73 per pair or three for 1.60, per a New Village catalog.
French Corsets clearance sale featuring high class models in odd sizes with straight front effects. Prices start at 1.00, with items formerly 1.75 to 9.00 and now reduced to 3.50 and 5.00. Third floor Eleventh Street.
A third door offers a clearance sale on shirt waists and shirt-waist suits. Readable items include lawn and dotted Swiss styles in medium and extra sizes, prices listed from $7.50 to $7.50 and up, with white china silk waists among available pieces.
A store advertises a clearance sale on all linen and damask items with seconds stock in several sizes and widths. Prices list a range from 50 cents per yard to 30 for napkins per dozen, including all-linen twill crash and damask pattern cloths, with many items noted as seconds or soiled from handling but of high quality.
Fancy Printed Lawns offered in 500 yards bundles with white grounds and mercerized striped patterns. Very sheer material prints with dotted florals, 29 inches wide, 8 cents a yard, reduced from regular price. Matin floor G street, Washington D.C.
Clearance sale offers few bed blanket pairs left from manufacturers seconds. Wool blankets are fine and fluffy with minimal imperfections barely noticeable on close inspection. Sizes for single, twin, double and three quarter beds in white gray and scarlet priced 2.75 to 6.50 a pair on the second floor Eleventh Street.
A local ad promotes a clearance sale on rugs including 2 4x12 ft Bigelow Wilton rugs at 35 each from 40, 4 6x12 ft Bigelow Axminster rugs at 25 from 28 50, 3 9x12 ft Smyrna rugs at 17 50 from 25, 2 11x8 ft Brussels rugs at 13 50 from 17 50, and 4 2 1 2x12 ft Imperial Smyrna rugs at 7 50 from 10, on the fourth floor.
Basement Equitable Building hosts a clearance sale of trunks including 28, 30, and 32 inch models. Strong traveling trunks with iron protection, hardwood slats, sheet iron bottom, and brass lock priced at 2.25 to 3.25 dollars. Heavy canvas-covered trunks with iron bands and brass fittings priced 2.95 to 3.95 dollars.
Odd lots of china including Bread and Butter Tea and Dinner plates in various designs priced at 25c each. Decorated English porcelain vegetable dishes 50c each, values up to 7c to $1.25. Decorated French china cups and saucers 23c each, value up to 50c. Decorated French china butter dishes 75c to $1.00. Fifth floor G St.
A clearance sale offers matting patterns at four different discount levels. Rolls priced at 50c per yard 30c per yard 40c per yard 27c 35c per yard 25c 30c per yard 22c and 25c per yard for four roll lots respectively. Remnants under ten yards priced at rs¢ per yard and under twenty yards at 7Oc per yard.
News notes social life in Newport and Washington. Countess of Yarmouth and her sister join their mother at Creason Pa. and plan mid October reunions. Miss Mary Elizabeth Cutts and Mr Benjamin Ogle Tayloe to wed Thursday. Alice Roosevelt and Mrs Vanderbilt host dinners and maintain Newport engagements with diplomats and friends.
Edgar Stephan is to take place at Grace Lutheran Church on Wednesday evening September 7 at 8 o'clock. Mrs. M. J. Crane and Miss Maud M. Crane have gone to the Aurora House in Aurora West Virginia for the latter part of summer and early autumn. Miss Marion Wolff of Capitol Hill has returned from vacations at Kenfield Place Herndon Virginia and Atlantic City.
Special to The Washington Post Chicago report quotes Miss Daisy Leiter denying any truth to engagement rumors with the Earl of Suffolk. The Leiter family, gathering in Chicago at 101 Rush Street, plans a reunion as Joseph Leiter assumes estate authority after his father’s will. An heir session will address questions about the estate while the family dismisses the rumor as a newspaper pastime.
Miss Alice Roosevelt fainted in Willam Payne Thompson's automobile early Saturday after leaving a dancing party at Col and Mrs William Jay's residence. A. de Navarro's chauffeur sped the car and Michael Woods, Navarro's chauffeur, was jailed five days for fast driving, with the Thompson car stopping the crash from becoming severe.
Mrs Mary Lee Chamberlain wife of Eugene Tyler Chamberlain United States Commissioner of Navigation died at Providence Hospital at 4 15 o clock yesterday afternoon of heart trouble and dropsical complications. She was the daughter of Capt Dudley P Barrett and resided at 108 North Fulton avenue Baltimore. Funeral services will be private on Wednesday morning and interment at Loudon Park Baltimore. Judge Pritchard is in Washington spending time at City Hall and will soon leave for Asheville. Funeral of William H Gettings held at 11 a m yesterday at the home of his daughter 2456 Brightwood avenue. Interment at Rock Creek.
Special to The Washington Post Gainesville Va Aug 2 Headquarters of the army maneuvers has been established at Manassas Thoroughfare Gen Henry C Corbin in command with Mrs Corbin present About 30 000 troops mobilized all regulars must be in camp by Aug 28 Reports show divisions at Thoroughfare and Manassas are healthy and camps praised for sanitary setup Corbin will convene a officer meeting and arrange press lectures at the camp while Gen Grant and Gen Bell inspect routes and gaps on duty in wide scale maneuvers
A Daughters of the Confederacy monument to Confederate dead at the first Bull Run battle will be dedicated at Groveton. Gen. Hell commands Thorughfare troops with Seventh Cavalry, Gov. Montague to give the dedication address. A nine mile practice march will have five cavalry sections reaching Groveton by 10:30 a.m. and the dedication will start half an hour later. No drills were ordered today.
Maj F Eltonhead, 50, veteran of Indian and Philippine wars and former regimental commander, died by suicide in his Lothrop apartments Detroit today. Despondency cited. He served at Fort Wayne in 1902 and Fort Brady before retirement about a year ago and had since lived in Detroit. A Chicago businessman brother and a east coast niece are named as immediate relatives.
Newport R I Aug 24 The battle ship Kearsarge flying Rear Admiral Barker's flag and the Alabama arrived this afternoon Pasque Island Mass Aug 3 The North Atlantic fleet of battleships sighted off Menemsha Bight Martha's Vineyard heading toward No Man's Land for target practice Rear Admiral Harker commands the fleet which includes Kearsarge Alabama Minots Iowa Missouri and Maine Also several officers receive leaves transfers or resignations including Maj George Pahner Lt Frederick Stopford and Chaplain William Colbert The Chesapeake arrives at Annapolis after cruise with midshipmen commanded by Lieut Commander W F Fullam
Sidney Bieber reports to Philadelphia to command the double turret monitor Puritan for the district naval militia cruise. The Fern will be turned in, Minnesota seeks the vessel, and Bieber denies press claims of advising the Navy against the transfer while urging a vessel better suited for Minnesota.
Assistant Navy officer Paymaster Sanderson resigns in Wisconsin and will be accepted after arrival in the United States. News items cover naval movements including ships arriving at Bremerton Hampton Roads and Solomons, plus Treasury receipts and postmaster appointments. Hood's Sarsaparilla is promoted as a tonic for loss of appetite.
Army officers at Manassas and those preparing to leave are directed to a comprehensive showing of regulation boots shoes and leggins in tan and black including pigskin Puttee Leggins. Mail orders receive prompt careful attention from our Mail Order Department with full facilities.
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