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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1908
Page
29
Woodward Lothrop catalogs a remnant sale with broad menswear cuts and home goods. Highlights include lisle socks from 35¢ three for $1, stiff shirt lines at $1.10, and winter weight suits and overcoats reduced from $25–$30 to around $16.75. Also offers silk petticoats, black satin petticoats, and a range of raincoats and coasts across floors two and three.
Mrs Meyer hosts luncheon with Miss Paul of Philadelphia as guest. Dinner hosts include Judge and Mrs Anderson and Mrs Slater entertains in honor of Mrs Clews. Counselor of the French Embassy and Mme des Portes de la Fosse plan March France trip. they leave February 7 for a summer in France. Numerous Washington residents host and attend dinners and luncheons with a mix of senators ministers and foreign dignitaries. changes of residence and guests are noted throughout the social calendar.
Men's Hat Dept features derby hats and silent price cuts. Displays show hats priced from 83.50 to 5 and ties at 15 with a sale on golf caps in gray checks. Stock includes barathea fabrics and floor displays on F Street with several items reduced from their regular prices.
Special purchase of Linen Torchon laces with matching edges and insertions in widths from to 2% inches Suitable for undergarments and children's aprons and other garments Values, 9c and 12c Mata floor Gst
Hemstitched damask cloths offered at bargain prices. 100 patterns of good quality and attractive designs. Prices 8-4 at 52.25 each and 8-10 at 2.75 each. Second floor Eleventh Street.
A sale listing many boys garments including all wool suits with knickerbocker trousers high-grade coats and reefers in sizes 3 to 16 with prices around 3.93 to 10.00. Separate knickerbocker trousers in sizes 3 to 7 sold at 85 cents a pair. Values cited up to 8.50 and 10.00 for suits.
Fat department store ad lists women's cotton vests on sale for 19 cents each, valued at 25 cents, offered on the main floor as a Friday bargain with no other items or dates noted.
The catalog lists numerous reductions in the Furniture Department including Quartered Oak, Mahogany, and Oak Buffet pieces. Notable markdowns cover chests, buffets, china closets, parlor tables, a parlor suite, office desk, and a rolltop desk with adjusted prices across multiple items.
Women’s lisle hose advertised at Mala floor in Fat store offering 30 dozen pairs of black lisle thread hose with double heels toes and soles, priced at 5 cents per pair as a special value in a Friday sale.
Readable text outlines a Corset Department sale listing多 styles and sizes with price reductions. Includes Z F Corsets batiste and corset styles, Sanphire Corsets, Parume Coxsets and other models with elastics attached, waist sizes 9 and 3, and reductions from several dollars to lower amounts. Located on the third floor eleventh street.
Readable catalog notes bargain prices in the toy department. Items include children's shooflys beds dolls and figures with reductions from several dollars to low prices. Fourth floor Eleven Street location listed with various discounted toys and furnishings.
A sale listing offers Children's and Misses' Cambric Petticoats with tucked ruffle lace edging and duster tucks finished with a dust ruffle at $1.00 each, down from regular 1.30. Located at Third four Eleventh Street.
A sale in the Upholstery Department offers Rich Porticres at half former prices with pairs listed from $2.50 down from higher tags. Lace curtains in multiple patterns, 30 pairs, reduced from various prices. Swiss curtains, net fabrics, and drapery pieces heavily discounted. Fourth floor Get.
A stray OCR listing fabric items shows reduced prices on 45 inch Chinchinette and 44 inch wool Henrietta as well as chiffon and herringbone Cheviot fabrics. The fragment notes quantities, reduced prices, and misread credits, ending with a garbled line about a second floor display.
China Department offers a 100 piece English porcelain dinner set with missing butter dish, various decorated china pieces, and Limoges items on sale. Discounts include reductions from a dollar range to prices as low as 50 cents and similar cuts on Austrian and other decorated china. The notice cites floor location and multiple item types such as plates, ramekins, chocolate pots, and sugar cream sets with limited availability.
A fragment lists reductions in a department store glassware section. Items include cut glass water exener and 4 inch cut glass bowl with chips, imported glassware, pressed glass ice cream dishes, and a mind table mirror, all with price reductions noted from various old currencies.
Mrs. Rudolph Kissel hosted a fancy dress dinner in West Fifty-fifth Street for her daughter Gladys Kissel and guests in powdered hair. Attendees included Miss Ing Kissel, Miss Katherine Atterbury, James Ely Miller, and Col. John Jacob Astor among others. A second event featured Robert Francis Dilton Fitz Gibbon and Georgette Folsom in Paris, with details of formal wear and a garden-like reception.
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