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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1908
Page
25
J Barance announces a comprehensive remnant sale featuring winter wraps dresses furs skirts waists suits overcoats reefs mens womens and childrens underwear dress goods draperies rugs and housewares. Many items are imperfect scratched or defaced yet priced to clear providing economical shoppers with bargains to brighten homes and meet daily needs.
Bargain sale listing a large mix of ladies umbrellas, feather boas, gowns, and accessories. Items include hand embroidered wiry silk chiffons, Swiss veiling, silk taffeta, and elegant trims with prices from $1 to $900. Also offered are children’s school trike tliets, gowns, and decorative garments with discounted rates.
Bargain listings from the Upholstery Department include discounted Porticres and draperies in various patterns and borders, with prices slashed from hundreds to modest sums. Also advertised are menswear, cotton night shirts, veiled gowns, and decorative domestic goods reduced for a sale event.
Fragmentary OCR text hints at shoe department items with misread codes and prices. Mentions sizes, leather, and a price drop from 200 to 159. Lacks coherent names, dates, or events to anchor a full item.
A fragmented catalog shows hat department items with sizes 8 1 2 and 7 1 4 and various reductions. Hats priced between 190 and 400 dollars appear alongside several marked down to lower cents and partial descriptions of materials and fittings.
Real estate style ad describing various framed art pieces and paintings for sale. It mentions large oval and broad frame options, gold and brick colored frames, and reduced prices from high amounts to lower sale figures. Items include landscapes and portraits with ornate gilt borders. Prices range from about $1 to several hundred dollars depending on size and frame quality. Several mentions of floor and street location cues accompany the sale notes.
Readers discover a special lot of boys woolen clothing on the third floor at Tenth Street, with deep discounts on reefers knickerbockers overcoats and Russian suits in sizes from 2 to 17. Prices slash from six to eight dollars to as low as two dollars and fifty cents for select items.
The ad lists numerous furniture and accessory items with steep markdowns. Bracelets, crystal beads, dog collars, chains, and wall pieces show reductions from hundreds to a few dollars. Sofas, chairs, desks, tables, and oak and mahogany pieces also reflect sharp declines.
Reduced prices on Stehle model with horse cage and key from 1226 to SY. Mechanical Base Box marked down to 794. 2 large Wertherel beds cut to 3.99 each. Drew Bidbold item now 190 from 200. various dolls and jointed figures discounted to 9 or 10 dollars. wooden and hairy dolls also trimmed. fourth floor Eleventh St.
A miscellaneous lot of Terris Waists and Corsets offered at clearance prices. The waists are of coutil and batiste in large and small sizes with slight jouse features. corsets are coutil with high busts and long tops with elastics. Sizes 28 29 and 30. Uniform price 79 cents for choice. Originally 100 and 150 dollars. Thrd from 11venth street.
The listing details discounts on solid oak screen mission designs reduced from 1150 to 750 and green burlap versions also cut from 1150 to 750. Silver Maple screens, blue and orange rove Japanese screens, and embroidered tan ground screens show prices slashed as marked, with references to second floor location.
A sale listing details men’s coats, vests, and matching outfits with reductions from original prices. Items include gray winter coats, black and gray overcoats, railroads check suits, tan vests, and silk trimmed coats with markdowns up to 90 percent.
China Department offers 1 1M piece decorated porcelain and Limoges sets with plates and accessories at steep markdowns. Several items include sugar and cream sets, tea plates, salt shakers, and jugs with plates, all reduced from higher prices to new lower figures. Some items note imperfections and limited quantities remain.
Washington society notes show Miss Shonts to wed tomorrow in New York with a prominent guest list. Diplomats, senators, and ambassadors from the French Embassy and Brazilian delegation figure among attendees and hosts.
Mrs Oliver of Franklin at the Norfolk Navy Yard is lauded by friends. Numerous receptions and home entertainments are announced for February with guests including Maj. W McClaughry, Mrs Crist, Mrs Wood, Miss Mason and others at various residences in Washington. Gossipy mention covers upcoming events and notable society visitors amid Lent preparations.
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