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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1905
Page
17
The Woodward Glothrop store on York Washington Paris announces a 5 30 p m closing until further notice with a comprehensive winter and remnant clearance. Highlights include silks, crepe finishes, white goods, suede gloves, muslin pillow cases and assorted housewares offered at markedly reduced final sale prices.
Discounted linens and napkins in varied lengths with prices from $1.20 to $6.00, plus 50 dozen sample napkins and damask cloths. Men’s coats, vests, shirts, gloves, and hats on sale, with significant markdowns from regular prices on second floor Eleventh Street and main floor floors.
A small lot of extra heavy Sateen Comfortables at 2.00 each, regular 2.50. Lace and Muslin Curtains include a 0 pair Dotted Muslin Curtain at 100 a pair, value 1.35. Also 23 pairs Maslin Curtains at 1.35–1.75 each. Clearances cover Brus sels to Fish Net curtains with excep tional value. IO pairs Cross-striped Curtains reduced from 1.35 to 1.00. Fourth floor G st.
A sale offering a 4 lot of decorated sauce dishes in tinted and gold traced styles. Priced at a dozen in the china department on the fifth floor, once selling for 1.20 per dozen.
On the second floor at Tenth Street a millinery sale offers 5 trimmed hats reduced from 5.00 and 6.00 to 2.00, 2 untrimmed hats in colors and shapes reduced from 1.50 and 3.00 to 11.00, and 15 untrimmed hats in assorted shapes and colors reduced from 1.00 and 1.50 to 0.25 each.
On the third floor at Tenth Street, the store discounts 10 pairs of Women's Patent Calfskin Lace and Button Shoes in various sizes from four to six and a half, 2 pairs of Women's Box Calfskin Lace Shoes, 9 pairs of Women's Button Shoes with web soles in multiple sizes, and 4 small sets of Children's Velvet Bath Slippers with carpet soles, all marked down from high prices to fixed pairs.
A compact sale listing offers white enamel and brass beds in varied sizes with steep markdowns. Includes 1-7 ft enameled beds reduced to 7.60, 1-2 ft models to 3.50, green and gold enameled bed to 6.00, heavy brass bed at 40.00, white hair mattress at 20.00, damaged box spring at 5.00, and 24 ft woven wire springs at 1.00 each. second floor East.
Bronze figures discounted from 72.60 to 10.00. Marble Thorn Extractor cut from 335.0 to 2850. Venus marble figure marked down from 600 to 50. Damaged Art Nouveau finish figure reduced from 260 to 10. Dawn bronze figure lowered from 1500 to 740. Marble pedestal now 0.00. Lace lamp shade trimmed with silk and flowers cut from 300 to 1500. Two silk lamp shades 1000 to 750 each. Ten silk candle shades pink green red cut from 0.50 to 0.25 each. Two bronze chandeliers with beaded-edge silk shades reduced from 25.00 to 10.00. Main floor Eleventh st.
Picture Department offers untramcu genuine platinum prints and sepia photographs at deep discounts. Items include unframed sepia prints, cats and coaching scenes, landscapes, Monks hand colored pieces, golf girl, all in, hunting, plunger and old man in wine cellar subjects with price drops from cents to dollars. Special reductions list multiple framed and hand colored works.
A cluttered ad lists reduced prices on boys and youths coats suits and wash outfits. Items include reefers overcoats fine corduroy suits long pants suits and wash suits in multiple sizes with markdowns from high to low prices. Third floor Fat reflects a department store clearance.
Large lot of flannelette wrappers in Persian patterns sizes 34 to 44. Open front and loose cut. Priced at 9.90 each, previously 2.50. Velvet skirts tucked style brown and black now 5.00. Mixed Cheviot skirts 2.95 each, down from 6.00. Tan Mohair skirts kilted bottom style 7.50, down from 12.50.
A damaged screen department note lists several items with reduced prices including 4fold yapanese wcreen at 10.00 from 27.50, 3fold Nursery Screen at 12.00 from 15.00, Bamboo Laundry Box 7.00 from 9.00, Bamboo Window Seat 8.50 from 11.00, Utility Box 7.50 from 39.00, and another item 8.60 from 10.60 on the second floor Gst.
Japanese lamp pieces and glassware advertised with dramatic price drops. Lamps drop from 2.50 to 1.75, shades from 8.00 to 5.0, and jeweled globes from 5.00 to 3.50. Shopworn items noted at reduced rates on the eleventh floor of the store.
A Fifth floor sale list details numerous baskets with marked reductions. Covered sweet grass, bayonets of prices from 85c to abc, 3 and 6 unit lots. various straw and waste paper baskets. infant hampers and palm items with discounts from dollars to cents. Location noted as Eleventh street.
A Fifth floor sale lists numerous discounts on dinnerware and china items from the China Department including a02-piece blue and gold set, decorated French and Austrian pieces, Japanese and German china, and various trays bowls and jugs. Prices drop from cents to dollars with many pieces down to under a dollar and several sold out.
All wool batiste waists in brown and black with embroidered fronts offered in sizes 34 36 42 and price cut from 6.00 to 2.95 each. Also six wash planner waists in assorted striped effect sizes 34 36 38 marked down from 5.00 to 4.95 each.
A local fur department advertises deep discounts on a range of items. Natural squirrel ties silk lined drop from 10 to 5 dollars each. sable squirrel collars silk lined from 1000 to 5 dollars. Persian lamb ties satin lined from 1000 to 5 dollars. Natura fur sets muff and collar from 75 to 150. white Thibet fur sets from 460 to 2.95. sable Baum martens collar from 74 to 50. imported broadtail Persian blouse jacket with vest from 296 to 175. Persian lamb jacket brocaded silk lined from 125 to 75.
Reduced prices on a Gray English Homespun Ragtan cloak with braid trim and belt. Size 36 now 15. Also a black zibeline cloak with silk tail and satin lining offered at discounted price from 40.00 to 16.00. Third floor G Street store location noted.
The department offers Misses' Cheviot suits in blue, brown and black with vests. Also a garnet velvet coat for girls, plaid wool dresses, Russian embroidered dresses, and navy cheviot coats and jackets. Several items see reductions from $30.00 to $18.50 and lower, with Peter Thompson coats and reers priced at five dollars.
Miss Adele Picot Morton, daughter of Col. Charles Morton, wed Lieut. John Victor Spring of the Seventh Cavalry at Fort Myer with a white silk dress adorned with lace and orange blossoms. A reception followed attended by Secretary Taft, Lieut. Gen. Chaffee, War Department officials, and Fort Myer officers and families.
Fifth floor Eeleventh st offers shopworn and damaged kitchen cabinet items at reduced prices. Items include a kitchen table, oak plate rack, enameled cookware, pitchers, bowls, cake boxes, buckets, cuspidors, mixing bowls, tins, ash steves, flour bin, gutters, mats, buckets, and care products with substantial markdowns from original prices.
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