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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1905
Page
7
Woodward & Lothrop announces early close at 5:30 pm with calendars and odds and ends deeply discounted. The sale includes dress goods, silks, ribbons, lace, linens, underwear, china, glassware, hats, and remnant fabrics with many one of a kind bargains and specific lots listed with reduced per yard prices.
Manufacturer's sample line offers Corset Covers, Drawers, and Combination Suits in fall and winter weights. Entire lot of 76 dozen pieces priced for immediate sale. Also sample line of Women's Lisle and Cotton Hose at about half price, three for 1.00. Handkerchiefs and more clearance items on main floor G street.
Lace Curtains sale offers small and broken lots in Brussels Arabian Renaissance Tambour Net Irish Point Point Arab Fish Net Antique and Maria Antoinette. Multiple pairs listed with yardage and floor location noted for fourth floor.
Readable sale listing notes Renaissance Lace Bed Sets with sample use and slight soiling, priced from 4.75 to 18.50, reflecting former values up to 22.50. Snowflake or Grenadine Curtains near one dollar per pair, Hungarian Cloth for curtains and upholstery offered, alongside Cretonnes and other fabrics in multiple widths and colors.
Hurt Books offers slightly soiled and scarred volumes at immediate clearance prices. A varied collection including art religion history biography essays fiction and juvenile titles, some damaged some pristine, now on center tables for 10c 25c or 50c on the Main floor Tenth St.
The Black Goods Department offers widespread reductions on fabrics including 48 inch plain Cheviot and Panama cloth with price cuts from 875 to 340 per yard. Other items feature Crepe de Chine and Venetian silks, with many menswear fabrics marked down to attract shoppers.
White Enameled Beds with heavy posts gilt brass trim and massive swell feet reduced from high prices to lower figures. Utility and Bamboo boxes and mats discounted with various cuts, including burlap coverings and damaged items. Items on second floor F street sale noted with further price drops.
Seventh floor items include parlor suite tables and étagères with reduced prices. Highlights: Weathered Oak Round Table, Mahogany Turkish pieces, Satin Bird’s-eye Maple Desk, and Mahogany Bureau with large mirror all discounted. Damaged pieces noted with reduced values.
Inventory reduced from high prices. Includes 18 pair French Lisle Thread socks in black with clockwork, 9 pairs embroidered clockwork socks in various sizes, a black on white brocade dressing gown, six double faced cloth gowns, 11 Contes paddock and sur tout styles in multiple sizes, plus three pairs of Natural Gray drawers and a size 40 shirt all marked down. Main floor Ir at.
Large selection of boys garments marked down. Suits in multiple sizes reduced from 12.50 to 3.75 and from 4.66 to 2.96, plus coats, knickerbockers, wash suits, shirts and blouses discounted. Location listed as Third floor on Tenth Street.
A China Department sale advertises discounts on dinner sets, toilet sets, cracker jars, cake plates, salad bowls, tea pots and sugar creamer sets. Items include Haviland china plates and covered slop jars with price cuts from high original amounts to fraction of original costs.
Fourth floor G street offers deep markdowns on Smyrna and Axminster rugs with prices slashed from hundreds to under $40. Items include 3x12, 6x70x60, 4x36x72, 90x60, 18x36, 19x12, and large 11 1-4x16 foot rugs plus a Witton rug, all reduced from hundreds or thousands to bargain figures.
Classified sale item lists numerous canvas and paper artworks with varied titles including Snow Bank and Water Scene and The Horse Fair. Items feature hand colored pictures, pastels, artotypes, photographs, and sepia prints in assorted frames. Prices drop from original amounts to low sale figures as discount offers span across fourth floor items at Tenth Street location.
A vintage sale notice lists 18 pairs of Women's Patent Leather Lace Shoes with Louis XIV heels and various sizes reduced from $9.50 to $1.9 per pair, plus Box Calfskin Blucher cut and other styles in multiple sizes, marked down from $4.00 to $2.50, and Button Shoes, Misses' Kidkin styles, all offered with steep discounts and assorted sizes.
Department sale offers multiple women’s suits in plum cheviot, gray worsted, camel hair and broadcloth with velvet trims and kilting. Sizes span 26 to 38, including Eton styles and shirtwaist options, all heavily reduced from original prices. Descriptions note jackets, skirts, and check silk patterns with substantial markdowns across many items.
Readable fragments describe discounted cloaks and coats in varied fabrics and colors. Items include Kersey and Cheviot jackets, long blue and tan rain coats, gray moire silk coats, and covert cloth jackets with sizes from 2 to 42. Prices drop from high to low, many discounted to under ten dollars.
A department sale offers 6 Eiderdown gowns trimmed with satin in gray heliotrope and pink in sizes 2 a8 and 40, reduced from 35.00 and 3690 to 2.00 each. Also 4 Elderdown gowns with embroidered satin bands in heliotrope and blue, reduced from 8.75 to 3.75 each. A table features assorted silk waists in white and colors and sizes, plus Wille Town and Madras waists in assorted styles at deep reductions. Third floor 6 ft.
In the third floor ladies department a variety of girls and misses coats jackets and suits are discounted. Velveteen coats in red blue and green in multiple sizes priced at 8 50 each. Heavy tan covert jackets trimmed and silk lined mostly priced at 7 50. Rain coats tan and gray in several sizes reduced to 6 50. Tailor made suits with braid trimming sized 14 cut to 13.00. Peter Thompson blue serge suits reduced to 12 50 for sizes M and L. Heavy novelty cheviot coats with hoods reduced to 5 00 to 6 50. Blue cheviot winter coats trimmed with braid reduced to 5 00. Third floor offers.
Fifth floor Billlington store pages list reduced items in the Housefurnishing Department. Nickel plated items, drip pots, trays, bread box pairs, enameled pitchers, and polish products show substantial markdowns. Several damaged or shopworn goods include coffee pots, trays, and oak commodes with price cuts noted.
Warner's monthly report shows a net pension decline of 759 for November versus October. Death causes lead losses with 241 deaths and 1,418 total drop in Civil War invalid pensioners, plus misses for marriage minors and nonclaims. New pensions granted include various named recipients across districts.
Night schools report higher November enrollment at 2670 with stronger attendance and eleven buildings serving both white and colored pupils. The second term starts next Wednesday at 7 30 PM and ends in February due to limited funding. Calls for more Congress funding to extend the season and add northeast schools, plus more work like carpentry and sewing.
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