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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1906
Page
19
The Woodward & Lothrop department store announces a clearance sale on winter stocks and remnants across departments including dresses wraps suits coats and underwear. Store hours extend to 5 30 p m until further notice with discounts on damaged or imperfect items and some spring merchandise items.
A distorted Friday sale notice offers women’s cotton hose with price hints and unclear discounts. The garbled OCR mentions prices around 350 to 450 and notes various reductions, but many words are unreadable, creating a confusing listing of items, dates, and amounts.
Readable fragments show a furniture and fabric sale with reduced prices on upholstery items, garments, hats, and coats. Notable discounts include wool fabrics, Madras, Panama cloth, and various men’s wear. Includes price cuts from several dollars to under ten dollars and mentions of floor locations and department notes.
A third floor sale lists reduced prices on boys and young men suits and coats, including outfits down to 4.49 each and coats from 9.50 to 29.95. Women receive discounted wool suits, velvet ensembles, and fur pieces with prices slashed from $60s to under $40.00. Lively discounts cover coats, shirts, dresses, and a selection of faux and real fur sets and accessories.
A shopping list of cloak department reductions features numerous coats and jackets with sizes 36 to 40 and discounts from original prices to low sale amounts. Items include rain coats, three quarter length coats, broadcloth jackets, covert paddock coats, velvet trimmed jackets, satin velour coats, and silk jackets with various trims.
A Misses Department sale advertises multiple lots of Girls' Heavy Winter Coats in sizes 8 10 12 and 14 with prices from 7.50 to 10.00. Coats include cheviots mixtures velvet braid trims and Kersey options with reductions from 12.50 15.00 32.50 38.00 and more. Includes a wine velvet coat and a wine broadcloth suit with reductions to 23.00 and 20.00. Third floor grading.
Fifth floor G Street sale offers reductions on white and gold French china and other ceramics. Items include soup tureens, covered dishes, meat dishes, bowls, breakfast plates, tankards, and sugar sets with marked markdowns from high original prices to low sale prices. Quantities vary with several items priced under five dollars.
Weathered Oak and mahogany furniture heavily discounted with items like Weathered Oak vancurettes reduced from 6c to 37c, Rockers from 5.00 to 1.50, Weathered Oak Settee from 1000 to 5.00, China Chest from 90.00 to 1923, and parlor suites cut from 7500 to 40.00 and 500 to 3475. Includes a Wine Chest Chiffonier and assorted desks, chairs, and corner pieces on sale on Sixth floor.
A department sale lists multiple household goods marked down from higher prices to low sale figures. Items include kitchen tables, towel bars, soap holders, tea kettles, coffee pots, crystal ware, gas heaters, fish bowls, dish washers, foot tubs, furniture polish, and silver polish, all described as shopworn or reduced significantly, with prices noted for each. Seventh floor Eleventh St. sale location.
Baron Hengelmuller informs the diplomatic corps that President Roosevelt and his wife prefer no official gifts for their daughter’s forthcoming marriage to Tone worth. Gifts sent will be personal expressions of goodwill, not government gifts. The notice signals a coordinated, discreet approach among European governments. The social pages detail numerous Washington society events, dinners, luncheons, and receptions at the Willard, Belasco, and other venues, with attendees including ambassadors, senators, and prominent figures.
The Earl of Yarmouth and the Countess formerly Miss Alice Thaw arrived in New York on the Baltic from Liverpool. A New York jewelry house rep is in Washington to arrange handling of wedding presents and reported sales Monday on the Longworth Roosevelt wedding reached 320000 dollars.
Mr and Mrs C G Stott and Co station ery employees gathered Wednesday at 188 Germon t avenue for a cordial welcome and a banquet. The dining room offered a sumptuous dinner with music by Miss Suele Warren. A word guessing contest determined prizes with Arthur Tew i winning first and C G Powell taking booby.
The House will adjourn from February 16 to after February 17 for the marriage of Miss Alcea Roosevelt and Mr. Longworth. No official notice will be taken, and members invited to attend may be present, reflecting respect to Mr. Longworth. From the Philadelphia Press. A clerk jokes about lacking a diploma but claiming something better.
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