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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1906
Page
27
Woodward & Lothrop announces a 5:30 p m close until further notice with a wide clearance on winter stocks and remnants. Main floor specials include men and women's apparel, dresses, furs, outerwear, underwear, draperies, and housewares at reduced prices.
A fragmented ad note describes Friday sales on women's cotton hose with various prices and percentages. It mentions pairs, discounts, and adjustments but contains many garbled phrases and unclear figures. The readable bits indicate bargain pricing and store activity without a coherent narrative.
A historic newspaper ad markets Friday bargains in the Upholstery Department with heavy discounts on furniture pieces and fabric remnants. It lists prices for chairs, posts, bolts of cloth, and numerous cut-rate garments and fabrics from the department’s second floor, with reductions on menswear, coats, vests, shirts, and gloves.
sale displays drastic markdowns across boys and men’s outerwear and dresses. Young men suits overcoats and boys coats drop dramatically. wool pants and caps cut to low prices. Also sample lines of lace, draperies, and fur accessories offered. women’s shirtwaist suits and velvet ensembles discounted with fur pieces and full sets in bold savings.
A vintage cloak department advertises deep discounts on coats and jackets in sizes 36 to 40. Items include tan rain coats, three quarter length coats, broadcloth jackets, covert paddock and velvet trimmed pieces, with price cuts from hundreds to low figures. Pieces emphasize silk velour jackets and lambskin details with substantial markdowns.
A Misses Department sale advertises one lot of Girls' Heavy Winter Coats in sizes 8 10 12 with prices 7.50 down from 12.50 and 15.00 another lot 8 10 12 14 at 10.00 down from 15.00 18.50 plus reductions on several coats including a Reseda Green Kersey Coat from 38 to 15 and a Tan Covert Coat 21 to 10 2020 pearls of reductions noted for Venetian Cloth coat and wine velvet coat and a wine broadcloth suit with velvet vest at 20.00 Third floor department store.
A Fifth floor sale lists discounts on White and Gold French china and German and Royal Doulton pieces. Items include soup tureen covered dish meat dishes bowls plates and tankards with reductions from 3600 to 2.50 and other cuts to as low as 0.40 per item, with quantities noted. Street and department specifics appear as Fifth floor Gst.
Inventory from Weathered Oak includes vancurettes heavy round top rockers and settees with carved mahogany options. Items reduced dramatically from $1000 to $5.00, $5.00 to $1.50, and $7500 to $40.00. Highlighted pieces: parlor suites, china showcase, music desks, wine cabinet, all with mahogany frames, carved details, and upholstered backs.
Multiple kitchen and home items listed with defects shopworn or reduced prices. Items include a kitchen table with drawer, towels bars, soap holder, tea kettles, coffee pot, ware, gas heaters, fish bowls, dish washer, foot tubs, furniture polish, and silver polish, all marked down from various original amounts at the Fifth floor Eleventh St location.
Baron Hengelmuller informs the diplomatic corps that President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt prefer no official gifts to their daughter on her marriage to Toneworth. Gifts sent will be private expressions of goodwill, not government presents.
The Earl of Yarmouth and the Countess, formerly Miss Alice Thaw of Pittsburgh, arrived in New York on the Baltic from Liverpool. A New York jewelry and art house representative in Washington said sales for the Longworth Roosevelt wedding Monday totaled 320,000.
Mr and Mrs C G Stott and Co stationery workers were guests at 188 Germont avenue on Wednesday night. Mrs Stott warmly welcomed them, then a long dining room feast followed with music, games, and a word guess contest. Miss Suelle Warren provided piano music. Arthur Tewi won first prize while C G Powell took booby. Guests hoped for a repeat occasion.
The House of Representatives will adjourn from February 16 until after the wedding on February 17 in honor of Miss Alcea Roosevelt and Mr. Longworth. The Philadelphia Press reports the decision to allow invited members to attend the ceremony and show respect to Mr. Longworth.
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