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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1908
Page
7
Woodward Lothrop advertises a remnant day with deep discounts across departments. Men’s lisle and cotton socks, stiff shirts, madras and percate fabrics, and a range of winter coats, suits, and dresses are featured. Many lots are small yet strong bargains, with early selection advised.
Mrs Meyer hosts luncheon and Mrs E Hope Slater entertains in honor of Mrs Henry Clews as a midwinter ball looms at Rauscher's. Many guests from out of town expected. list includes Van derhilt Wadsworth Lorillard Slater and Beckman Winthrop. Embassy counselor and Mme des Portes de la Fosse to sail March 4 for France. Des Portes to relinquish Connecticut Avenue residence February 7. Strong exposure to high society with dinners at Lorillards and Blair households, advances for visitors from Philadelphia and Santiago.
A butchered catalog fragment notes men’s hat dept: derby hats in several imperfect signs, prices from 7 to 8 dollars, plus reshaped trim and ties. Golf caps in gray checks and tape facings offered in multiple sizes, with barathea and floor F street styling, prices around 5 to 30 cents.
A special purchase of Linen Torchon Laces with edges and insertions to match offered in widths from to 2% inches. Suitable for underwear, children's aprons, and other garments. Values, 9c and 12c. Mata door, Gst.
Hemstitched damask table cloths offered at sale prices. 100 cloths with various designs priced at 52.25 on August 4 and 2.75 on August 10. Located on the second floor of the store at Eleventh street.
A sale offers boys all wool suits with knickerbocker trousers in sizes 7 to 16 at 00 each, with values up to 10. A selection includes reefers and overcoats in sizes 3 to 16, excluding 10 and 11, at 3.93 each, values up to 6 to 7.50. Also separate knickerbocker style trousers for ages 3 to 7 at 0.85 each, valuing 1.25 to 1.50.
Bargain alert for women’s cotton vests at 19 cents each, down from 25 cents value. Main floor Fat department.
Readable catalog style list shows reduced prices on a variety of furniture items in the Sixth floor G St department. Items include chests, buffets, cabinets, parlor suites, tables, desks, and drawers with price cuts from tens to dozens of dollars.
Women’s lisle hose on sale at Mala floor for 30 dozen pairs. Black lisle thread hose with double heels toes and soles priced as a special value at 5 cents a pair. Limited stock and sizes available.
Dated notes describe corset types and discounts ranging from elastics attached bustier to coutil and batiste styles. Entries mention various sizes, hip measurements, and partial price reductions from several dollar amounts, with a note of third floor and eleventh street location. The legible details read like a clearance listing for a department store corset section.
In the Fourth floor Eleventh Street toy department several items are discounted. Children's Shooflys drop from eight dollars to five ninety five each. Dolls and beds are reduced with weathered oak beds 20 by 52 inches now 2.95. Large standing pieces with horses drop from 12 50 to 5.00. Katzenjammer figure marked down from 1.93 to 2 cents. Peacock and other displays reduced as shown.
A sale offers children's and misses cambric petticoats with tucked ruffles trimmed with lace edges and dust ruffles. Finishes with dust ruffle. Priced at $1.00 each, reg. $1.25. Third four Eleventh Street.
Bargain sale in the Upholstery Department featuring a small lot of Rich Porticres in new designs with cord edges or tapestry borders and lace. Prices cut from $3.75 to $2.50 per pair, along with discounts on lace curtains, Swiss curtains, filtenet, and silk textiles. Second-floor bargains include reduced prices on various curtains and fabrics, while supplies last.
A clearance listing offers reduced prices on various fabrics including 45 inch Chichinette, 44 inch Wool Henrietta, 44 inch Silke Stripe Grenadine, 44 inch Nun a Volling, chiffon Votin, 4 inch Herringbone Cheviot, and Panama Clock. Quantities and new prices are noted though some entries show OCR errors. The sale targets second floor stock on G Street.
Daintily decorated English porcelain dinner set butter dish missing. Various Limoges and Austrian china pieces including plates ramkins and sauce dishes reduced from higher prices to lower sale figures. Green mottled umbrella jars noted with fifth floor location.
Local store advertises discounts on glassware including a cut glass water exener with minor imperfection reduced to 1.30 from 1.85, a chipped 4 inch cut glass bowl down to 8.25 from 35.0, an imported glass ware reduced to 1.25, five pressed glass ice cream bowls cut to price, and a mind table mirror marked down from 3.55 to 1.50 on the fifth floor flagship area.
Mrs. Rudolph Kissel hosted a costume dinner for her daughter Gladys Kissel in West Fiftyfifth Street with guests in powdered hair and period gowns. Notable attendees included James Ely Miller, Col. Astor, and many society figures. a musical and Bavarian inn themed supper followed, with later guests and a charity tea planned at the Plaza for Wnaseny Hospital Mineola.
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