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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1905
Page
7
Comprehensive sale of remnants and irregulars across women’s, men’s, and children’s wear plus home goods. Includes dresses, wraps, furs, skirts, outerwear, undergarments, draperies, tableware, and decorative china. Notable prices listed for petticoats, gowns, silks, waists, and reefers with limited quantities on multiple floors.
Bargains on Muslin and Net Curtains with numerous lots priced from 50c to $2.75 per pair and bulk reductions on bed sets and decorative fabrics. Highlights include 23 pairs of muslin curtains at 50c, 48 pairs ruffled net curtains at $1.65, and large discounts on upholstery sets and tapestry pieces. Fourth floor G Street.
A shoe department advertisement lists numerous women and misses footwear with wide size ranges. Items include patent Coltskin wing tip lace shoes and beaded toe opera slippers, all reduced from $3.00 to $1.50 or $2.00 and similar cuts. Also notes Misses Dongola Kidskin lace shoes and Box Calfskin Goodyear soles with price drops. Third floor tenth street location implied.
A local ad announces a Friday bargain on Huck towels and bath towels. It offers dozen bleached Irish linen towels in white, size 24 by 45 inches, 0.75 a dozen, down from 9.00. Also two dozen Rub-dry bath towels, boasting quick absorption, priced 6 for 1.15, with items on the second floor of Eleven Street.
Tea and Tray Cloths note a sample line of embroidered and damask pieces in rich effects, offered at a bargain from regular prices. The sale highlights embroidered damask tea cloths tray cloths and centerpieces, with a second features section at reduced rates.
Muslin Pillow Cases in a Friday sale offer 30 dozen cases sized 45 by 30 inches made from ends of Wamesutta New Bedford and Wamsutta Percale, the top priced cottons. Regular price 1 50 per case. Also inaugural muslin sheets full size priced at 65 cents. Located on second floor seventh street.
Bargain showcase of bedspreads offered in multiple colors and sizes. Prices marked as sale values with notes of imperfections and reductions from higher original prices. Includes Marseilles spreads and extra large options with reductions described.
A sale offers boys wash suits in sailor Peter Thompson and Russian Tilouse styles in plain white and fancy galatea cloths plus plain linen. Sizes 2 to 11 years. Special price 2.95, values 3.50 to 6.75. Third floor Tenth Street.
Reduced gloves sale lists women’s glove types including pique glace and suede at 1.23 per pair, down from 2.00. Remnants include seven pairs of black pique kid gloves with two clasps in sizes 63-1 and 71-4, plus seven pairs of kid gloves in sizes 51-2, 53-4, 62-4, all cut from 2.00 to 7Be pa.
Leather Goods sale offers Women’s Card Cases in tan red and gray at $1.00 each with value $1.00. Hand Bags in tan brown and black with gilt or nickel trimmings at $1.00 each, value $1.25. Jewel Boxes covered with fancy French cretonne slightly soiled at 50 cents. Main floor F St.
In the men’s department a large sale lists 27 muslin night shirts priced 50 cents each, 30 blue cashmere undershirts, 46 and 48 sizes, at a cut from $1.75. 18 ribbed undergarments in multiple sizes reduced from $2.00 to $1.59. Rain coats include Scotch mixtures silk lined and paddock styles with discounts from high prices to $15.00 and $8.00 respectively. Also marked areWash vests, dress shirts, stiff-bosom shirts, luxury socks, knitted wool gloves with many pieces at substantial reductions Main floor F street.
Picture Department offers 4 colored pictures in unfinished oak frames with name plates reduced from 5.00 to 1.95 each. Additional items include sepia landscapes and children in boats, Holland windmill, Burns cottage, a head of a child study, a landscape scene, deer in the woods, fancy heads, choir boy mantel piece, children heads in bread oval frames, upright pastel landscape, and black and gold oval frames. Fourth floor Tenth St.
Fifth floor sale of china items with numerous reductions. Listings include 100-piece Daintily Decorated American See Dinner Set and 112 piece Decorated Tallet Set with missing small pitcher. Prices cut from 3800 and 17.50 to lower figures with multiple items such as blue Japanese bowls French and German china pieces and various dishes.
A department store offers several women’s garments on clearance. Tan Suk Mohair and blue cheviot suits in sizes 36 and 38 drop from about 48 to 18.50 and 12.50. Navy silk and wool crepe voile dress, and light blue lace trimmed dress, both size 86 and 36, reduced to 25 and 20 respectively.
A department sale lists multiple coats and jackets with sizes 34 to 40, including broadtail velvet jackets, peau de soie silk jacket, Persian lamb collar cloak, broadtail velour coat, Zibeline coat, camel hair jackets, covert coats, homespun long coat and Kersey jacket. Prices drop from 40 to 68 dollars to 2.50 to 30 dollars, with most large reductions.
A newspaper ad lists fur scarfs in Marten Mink Squirrel Persian Lamb and Fox at 12.50 each, discounted from 20 and 21. A table of fur scarfs in Mar ten Mink Persian Lamb Squirrel at 10.00, down from 15. Blue Lynx Pelerine linen with satin slashed to 2.00, 1 stripe Sable Fox Muff 24.00 to 15.00, 1 Black Lynx Muff 30.00 to 18.50. Also a Broadfall Blouse reduced from 296.00 to 150.00, and a Squirrel Set pillow muff and scarf cut from 195.00 to 75.00. 13-stripe Mink Pelerine, satin trimmed, from 75.00 to 42.60.
In assorted Percale wrappers and patterns all sizes at 59c each, down from 1.00. Flannelette kimonas in Persian patterns, all sizes, 1.90 each, reduced from 2.50. Two double-sized blewliderdown wrappers trimmed with satin, sizes 38 and 40, reduced from 36.00 to 3.96 each. Third four-gst.
The notice lists Misses Black Cheviot Taylor-made Suits box-plaited coats and vests in sizes 16 and 18. Miss' Gray Mixed Homespun Suit size 18. Misses Russian Suits in sizes 8 to 10. and Girls Navy Blue Reefers sizes 6 and 8. Prices cut from 30.00, 321.00, and 12.50 to 15.00, 3.00, and 3.00 respectively. Third floor G street.
Traveling Goods Dept offers trunks of various sizes and leather bags with substantial markdowns. Discounts apply to fiber bound 1 inch trunks, leather bound leather trunks, paper covered packing trunks, a woman's wardrobe trunk with compartments, a cowhide suitcase, and leather hand bags. Prices slashed from 60 cent to 25 dollars and more. Basement Equitable Bld.
Fifth floor eleventh st offers a clearance of assorted housewares at deep cuts. Brass coffee pots, enamelware, cake boxes, pudding pans, teapots, kettles, and towels reduced. shopworn items and damaged goods noted. quantities listed with new prices.
A Washington social page details Miss Cannon hosting a large tea to greet Mrs Le Seure and Mrs Loose while arranging plans for Miss Anita Poor and Lieut Bulmer wedding. Senator Knox and other dignitaries attended a formal dinner hosted by Rep Siblef. Numerous teas, luncheons, and weddings reflect a busy social season with arrivals from diplomacy and Congress.
The granddaughter of the late William Bailey and a great great granddaughter of Samuel Davis, a Revolutionary War veteran, is wed to a Postal Service employee, son of Jacob Crisman, of German descent. A luncheon followed with guests from Red Springs North Carolina to Vienna Virginia and Dallas Texas. Afterward the couple planned visits to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore before returning home.
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