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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
45
The notice describes a sale featuring season's production items from many departments. It promises clean, nearest-perfect odds and ends in newest styles, suitable for personal and home use, with exceptional value. Inspecting leftovers is encouraged to find unique one of a kind pieces.
Clearance sale on third floor G street offers half to less than half price on a full stock of women and misses woolen dresses. Includes serges, broadcloths, cashmeres in shades like rose and blue, with princess and belt styles. Also shirt waists and fancy lingerie waists at about half price, and girls and misses college suits with long jackets and full skirts at one fourth to one third off.
A selection of girls and misses coats offered at a quarter to one third off regular prices. Coats are full length with braid and button trims, made from serges, cheviots, bread cloths and other materials. Some lined, some unlined. Sizes 6 to 14. Offered at reduced rates.
Attention is called to a large assortment of elegant furs now offered at special prices. Notable items include Imported Baum Marten Set in soft brown with long scarf and muff. Natural Wolf Set in cream to brown with scarf and muff. Russian White Fox Set in clear white with scarf and muff. Prices range from 50 to 125 dollars, reflecting value boosts.
Holiday sale offers 214 to 7 yard lengths of cotton dress goods on clearance. Prices range from 10 to 45 cents per yard for prints, flannels, ginghams, batiste lawns, chiffron, silks, and more. About 400 remnants remain on the second floor G Street W.
A lengthy Washington society note reports President Taft’s secretary Mr Carpenter closing invitations to a White House inception event on Tuesday January 4 due to overwhelming interest. It also details Mrs Charles Anderson of Cincinnati and her three daughters visiting Washington, guests at the White House and related social hosting at various dinners and cotillions with prominent guests such as Miss Helen Taft and other society figures in the capital.
The debutantes Pilling and Ruth Pulling led a busy social yesterday with luncheon tea by Mrs Ransail Goes, a guest-of-honor honor at a tea with Katherine Brown, dinner at Mrs PUbngs Ithwic home, and cotillion at the Club of Colonial Dames in Connecticut avenue. Guests at Mrs Hoes Rhode Island avenue tea included many young people, with Poinsettias and greens decorating a house preserving Washington's early history collection. Mrs Green Clay Goodloe and Miss Gouverneur presided at the tea table with a poinsettia centerpiece. Mrs Hoes wore white and gold crepe de chine.
The schedule lists reception times and attendees from 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. at the White House. It names the Vice President cabinet members diplomatic corps chief justice and justices Congress leaders military officers Smithsonian and other commissions plus veterans groups and civic societies, before citizens are received.
A holiday gathering at the Colonial Dames Club featured Mrs James C Puling hosting guests including Miss Marion Leutze Miss Bather Dentty Miss Katherine Brown and many others. A cotillion followed in adjoining rooms with an orchestra, elaborate favors for dancers and a late buffet supper.
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