All Calendars Reduced to Half Price on Main Floor G Street
Fr iday Remnant Day offers include 25 dozen pairs of men's medium weight cotton socks with double heels and toes priced at 6 for $1.00. Remnants feature 19 pairs of men's heavy tan walking shorts and various underwear, suspenders, and suits. prices cut from $1.00 to $0. ten and up, with coats and trousers listed. Third floor G Street notes fabric lots in Lot 1 and Lot 2 with deep discounts on silks, muslins, and crepes, and coats from $9.75 to $15.00 each.
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G Street
Aizes
Friday Special in Boys' Wash Suits
Friday special features a sale on boys washable Russian blouse suits in heavy winter fabrics, white and colored, with varied collars, sizes 24% to T, priced at 1.95 each, with many items discounted from higher prices. Also listed are colored Madras blouses, cotton pajamas, khaki flannel blouses, sailor tam o’shanters, and telescope hats with a third floor location at tenth street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noor
Tenth St
Clearance sale on boys clothing and fabrics at second floor
The store offers deep discounts on boys wool suits coats knickerbockers and blouses in sizes 2 to 17 with prices cut from six to ten dollars to three seventy five or six dollars. White serge sailor and Russian blouse outfits also reduced. A varied selection of cotton dress goods including ginghams poplins and jute fabrics priced per yard from ten to twenty five cents, plus assorted serges and batistes with notable markdowns.
Cut Glass and China Department Clearance Sale
Fifth floor sale offers extensive cut glass items and decorated French and Japanese china with many pieces discounted. Glass pieces include olive dishes bowls and vases with chips or imperfections and prices slashed from dollars to fractions. china items feature cake plates teapots bowls and plates with reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China Department
Haviland
G St
Friday Special in Black Taffeta Waists
A small lot of 50 Women's Black Taffeta Silk Waists priced at 2.95 with value 4.50. also Navy Blue and Black Taffeta Silk Waists reduced from 5.75 to 4.50. Olive Green Messaline Satin Waist cut from 1.60 to 0.9. Hunter's Green Messaline Satin Waist cut from 16.00 to 1. Black Chiffon Cloth Blouse down to 12.50. Green and Copenhagen Blue Chiffon Cloth Blouses and a Brown Chiffon Cloth Blouse at 7.50 to 12.50 etc. Third floor-Gst.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taffetas
Serges
Poplins
Messalines
Me Voiles
Wistaria
Copenhagen
G St
Friday Special in High-grade Shirt Waists
A sale showcases a mixed collection of high grade shirt waists in various styles materials and sizes all offered at significant savings. Prices drop from ten dollars to six seventy five eight seven fifty to four seventy five four five dollars to three seventy five six thirty seven fifty to two ninety nine two fifty to one seventy five and two dollars to one fifty.
Women’s Suit Department Coat and Skirt Reductions
A Black Panna Velvet Coat Suit in size 36 with satin trim and braid buttons, 32-inch coat and hobble skirt offered at 95 dollars after a 150 dollar price cut. An 13 piece Black Velvet Coat Suit, braided chiffon yoke and sleeves, size 36, reduced from 150 to 95. An 18-piece Wistaria Coat Suit with braided trim and love yoke, hobble skirt, size 36, cut from 135 to 95.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wistaria
G St
Women's Skirt Department Reductions Announced
Heavy worsted skirts in gray and brown pin stripes with hobble flounce are cut from 8 8 75 to 1 00 each. Navy blue Panama skirt plain with buttons 24 inch waist 49 inch length reduced from 5.00 to 3 75. Black voile skirts full plaited style 30 and 42 inch waists 40 and 41 inch lengths reduced from 4.75 to 7 50 each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G St
Pur Department Bargain List of Fur Set and Dress Reductions
An itemized sale note lists discounted fur sets including Australian opossum, natural fisher raccoon, ponyskin coat, Hudson seal coat, gray squirrel set, and girls dresses. Also mentions reduced prices on girls bath robes, lawn dresses, sweaters for women, and several sizes. Third floor bargains at the G St store.
Bargain Beds and Funiture Reductions in City Store
The Bed Department advertises white enameled beds with various sizes and trims, many marred or damaged and reduced from high prices to low sale figures. Other items include kitchenware, spoons, bread box, cake pan, and roasters with shopworn or damaged condition and steep discounts. Floor locations noted as Fifth floor and Eleventh st.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleventh St
Society Notes From Washington With Debutantes And Delegations
Society items detail visits and gatherings in Washington over the holidays. Guests include John Fowler of Williams College, Boston visitors, and European connections. Teas, dances, and theater outings are listed alongside upcoming travel plans and official duties for prominent families and diplomats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Fowler
Williams College
Massachusetts
Entertains at Luncheon and Social Guests Mentioned
Miss Elsie Browning hosted a luncheon with guests including Miss Amelia Doughty of New York and others from New York and Nashville. Box party at Chase's hosted by Miss Anne Lovick Kondrup with several young women. Mrs. Grayson Dulin has guest Mrs. Livingston Hagan from New York and Florida. Cadet Charles Janvrin Browne visits home on Christmas furlough. Col. Pendleton birthday reception hosted by Mrs. Brida Shepard with about 100 friends. Bermuda trip planned for Miss Maude Foster. January home days noted for YW Robertson and Miss Robertson. Mrs. Sweeney Pescia and Miss Fish to spend New Year’s in New York. Ritchie family spending week in Norfolk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell
New National Theater
Justice
Hughes
Arthur Les
Charles D. Walcott
Myron M. Farker
Ruth Parker
Yvonne Townsend
Townsend
Borden
Julian James
John R. McLean
Murray Cobb
William Barret Ridgely
Allerton Cushman
J. Hentey Smith
FP. W. Coville
E. D. Durand
Ruth Putnam
F. A. Holton
Spencer Cosby
Joseph Garrard
Anna. Wilson Haywood
M. M. Parker
A. D. Addison
J. M. Culp
W. C. Borden
C. A. Baker
Washington
New Willard
Elsie Browning
Henry Clay Browning
Amelia. Doughty
New York
Miss Browning
Dorothy Herberger
Isabel Johnson
Mildred Bacon
Annie Ganford
Nashville, Tenn
Ida Norment Smith
Nina van Arsdile
Helena Oyster
Harriet Lothrop
Marian True
Grayson Dulin
Stoneleigh Court
Livingston Hagan
Florida
Dolin
Col. C. Mason Pendleton
Brida W. Shepard
Highteenth Street
Col. Pendleton
Shepard
Diet and Health Hints From Dr T J Allen
An old column notes a merchant who slimmed eight pounds by eating toast and milk for three months. It argues milk is hard for adults to digest with other foods, favors toast as a better dairy pairing, and claims milk has excess protein while toast speeds digestion and balances starch to sugar.
War veteran Christopher Meade dies at 1842 birth
Christopher Meade longtime civil war veteran and War Department clerk died Wednesday. Funeral services will be at his family home 1307 Third Street NW with Lebanon Lodge No.7 F A A M in charge and Rev James H Taylor of Central Southern Presbyterian Church officiating. Interment in Rock Creek Cemetery. Pallbearers drawn from No.7 lodge. Meade enlisted with Company H Eleventh Massachusetts in 1861.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Meade
War Department
Third Street
Mr. Meade
Lebanon Lodge
James H. Taylor
Central Southern Presbyterian Church
No. 7
Fudge
Rock Creek Cemetery
Lincoln
Massachusetts Volun
Civil War veteran noted for saving nearly $1 million in mail contracts
He was captured at Malvern Hill and confined in Libby prison for eight weeks. He was wounded at Chancellorsville. Best known in the War Department, he saved the government nearly $1,000,000 on mail contracts during the war. His wife, a son, and four daughters survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weers
Malvern Hill
Libby
Chantellorsville
War Department
Funeral service for James C. Hooe in Washington
Funeral rites for James Cecil Hooe, prominent Washington businessman, who died at his Blue Mont country home last Wednesday of tuberculosis, will be held at 12 o'clock tomorrow at the Church of the Incarnation. Rev. William Tayloe Snyder to officiate with pallbearers Franklin K. Lane Richard V. Quinnan Samuel G. Blythe Louis A. Coolidge Beott C. Bone Elisha Theall. Body to be brought from Bluemont on a special car to arrive in Washington at 10:30 and taken to the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Cecil Hooe
Washington
Bluemont
Church of the Incarnation
William Tayloe Snyder
Franklin K. Lane
Richard V. Qulahan
Samuel G. Blythe
Louis A. Coolidge
Beott C. Bone
Elisha Theall
Also Mentioned on This Page
Woodward & Lothrop
Paris
Men’s Clothing Dept
Boys’ Clothing Dept
Cotton Dress Goods Dept
Black Dress Goods Dept
Chiffon Brosdelath
Lupin's
Priestley
Cut Glass Department
NPP
Women’s Suit Department
Women’s Skirt Department
Pur Department
Mrs. Lynch
Mrs. Perry Belmont
Frederick Winthrop
Boston
Beekman Winthrop
Preston Gibson
Gibgen
F. R Brandegee
Connecticut
Mrs. Zalinski
Col. Zalinski
Quartermaster's Department
Waldorf- Aptoria
John W. Weeks
Miss Orme
Eloise Orme
KE. D. Tibbitts
Hoosac
N. Y
Twenty-eighth Street
Noel Symons
Guest
Charlotte Dorsey
Mary Thomas W. Symons
Col
Mrs. Symons
South Carolina
Mrs. L
Bacon
Miss Bacon
Miss Sanford
Knoxville, Tenn
Mrs. A. ©. Johnston
Migs Johnston
Westmoreland
Europe
Friedrich Luethy
Legation
Switzerland
Santi
Yale
Columbia Theater
Nation
T. Lawrason Rigga
Rem9 Street
Yale Dramatic Club
Huntingtion Wilson
H. Morgan Hill
Diane Morgan Hill
California
N Street
Claude A. Swanson
Philadelphia
Henry Bohmer, Jr
John N. Garner
Representative Garner
Texas
Misses Kincaid
San Antonio
Tex
Miss Turman
Farr
Uvalda
Garner
Guegta
Miss Story
Miss Townsend
San
Anne Lovick Kondrup
Chase’s
Margaret Foster
Margaret Davis
Marcella Yinging
May Markely
Mildred Campbell
Charles Janvrin Browne
Gorpa
West Point
Ciliton Street
Tom Ritchie, Jr
John Ritchie
Norfolk, Va
T. J. Allen
Joseph B. Bowles
Cairo
THE
Shoreham
John T. Devine
Propristor
Sheffield
China and Glass
James C. Hooe
Pennsylvania Avenue
J. A. Small & Sons
New York Corner
Mth
Louvre
Ferman
Mknew
Juilet Ostrich Feather Shop
Hattie
Shacklette
Marinello
Hayler
V.D. Rosen
Keno Bidg
Cor
11Th &Gsts
N. W
Liebster
Arthur G. Borden
Ogram’s Gift Store
Ogram’s Drug Sore, Cor
14Th St
Penns. Ave
Cornwell Cox
Moselle
G.G. Cornwell & Son
Penna, Ave
Banking Dept
U. S
Connecticut Avenue
L Street
Seventh Street
Philipshorn
ELEVE
Brentano
Library of Fiction
J. Gumpertz & CO
F St
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