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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1906
Page
15
Woodward & Lothrop announces a Very Special Remnant Day with clearance of winter stocks and remnants across women and girls wraps dresses furs skirts waists suits overcoats and more plus household goods and defaced items at low prices. The sale covers this season’s production and even includes some spring remnants to brighten homes at minimal cost.
Friday bargains sweep through the dress trimmings and hat sections with reduced prices on hats petticoats long cloth and muslin sheets. Irish damask patterns and all linen items show marked reductions along with down comfortables silk and velvet applique trims and English long cloth pieces for undergarments.
Readable remnants from Priestley, Weenehy, and other firms offer reductions on wool, batiste, serge, and veiling. Prices drop from regulars like 1.25 per yard to 1.00-2.90 range, with items such as Twists and Granite cloth marked down. Merchandise includes wool crepe, cheviot, and storm serge with substantial discounts.
Deep discounts on a wide range of apparel and accessories across floors and departments. Women's black cotton hose and fast black cotton hose with double soles. men's Lisle half hose. various ties, shirts, pants, coats, vests, and suits. Youth and boys ranges include long pants suits and overcoats. numerous price cuts from one half to substantial reductions. Footwear includes Dongola kidskin shoes and Misses shoes with reduced prices. trunks, bags, and frames on sale in basement and fourth floor.
Display ad fragment listing screens and bamboo furniture with price cuts. One 1 fold Japanese screen reduced from 5.00 to 2.50. One 4 fold light oak screen with green burlap reduced from 31050 to 8.00. One bamboo table slightly damaged reduced from 2.25 to 1.26. Eight bamboo tables. price reduced from 5.00 to ?. Second floor G st.
A lengthy sale list details numerous women’s suits jackets coats and waists with reductions. items include blue plum and gray outerwear in sizes 26 to 44 with prices slashed from $21 to $76 down to lows like $3.76 and $10.00 noting multiple silk and broadcloth fabrics and several white and black pieces.
A catalog row lists multiple willow wood baskets and other baskets with price cuts from various old prices to new ones some entries appear garbled while noting 1 infant’s bassinette damaged and a general price reduction for several basket varieties including palm knife and birch bark items with unclear final prices.
Fur department offers neckpieces and fur wraps including scarfs ties boas of foxes blended squirrel. Prices cut from 10.00 to 3.75 each and from 15.00 and 18.50 to 7.50 each. Third floor Q Street.
A department sale lists girls coats in sizes 6 to 12 with assorted fabrics. Prices drop from 12.50 to 9.50 for lightweight velvet coats, to 18.50 for a white velvet trimmed piece, and to 2.50 for Blue Cheviot Reefers. Multiple dresses and serge pieces shown with marked reductions.
On the sixth floor a Furniture Department sale lists items including a Bird's-eye Maple Dresser with mirror, a matching Bird's-eye Maple Chiffonier, a Quartered Oak Buffet, a Mahogany Davenport with SAL upholstery, a Solid Mahogany Table with pedestal base, a Mahogany Music Cabinet, a Weathered Oak oval table, and a full size couch. Prices drop from high dollars to low, with markdowns ranging from modest to substantial.
From a Fifth floor sale list many items show deep markdowns. Japanned wine cooler to 1.00, coffee pots reduced to 1.00, enameled ware pots to 1.50, tea pot to 1.00, spice sets 0.25, nickel towel bars 0.75, copper bottom cooker 0.75, fish boilers 0.65, patent dish washer 1.00, large cooks knives 0.25, dining plaque 3.60, dish cover 1.00, stove kettle 0.50, floor filler 0.50 each, Pollux polish 0.20. Fifth floor Gata.
Pan American dinner in honor of Secretary Root and Mrs Root planned by Brazilian Ambassador and Mme Nabuco. guests included numerous ministers, ambassadors, and U.S. officials, highlighting cross‑continent unity. Elizabeth Warder and Ralph Ellis wed at the bride's mother’s residence. ceremony attended by fourteen guests with a formal reception to follow.
For over one hundred years it has been sufficient guarantee of quality to know that an article was bought at Galt's. The phrase Known Quality reflects a long heritage of exclusive designs that cannot be duplicated elsewhere.
A wide sale lists Sanitol Powder Paste and Tooth Soap items, Dentifrice, Arnica Tooth Soap, Woodbury powders, Hall’s Violetine, Combs, Tooth Brushes, and assorted soaps. Numerous prices in cents decorate the page, highlighting Nashua catalog style discounts on toiletries, perfumes, and luxury hygiene goods.
Washington social pages describe receptions hosted by Mrs J W Reynolds at Westover Street and several gatherings at Chevy Chase College and other locales. Notable names include Mrs Henry Villard, Mrs Charles Darwin, Mrs Rainey, Mrs Ransome, Mrs Reed, Mrs Wilder, Miss Richardson, and Miss Green. A forthcoming Post supplement promises a portrait of Mrs Nicholas Longworth (nee Roosevelt) with a new photograph.
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