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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1905
Page
7
Woodward & Lothrop announces a special bargain day to clear remnants since January 1. The event features heavily discounted apparel and home goods, including scarves, suits, cashmere, shirts, bed robes, and assorted men’s and women’s wear. Store hours extend to 5:30 p.m. until further notice.
Reduced prices on boys and youths outerwear and suits across sizes from 3 to 20. Featured items include fancy overcoats, reefers, tourist overcoats, long pants suits, all wool two piece suits, torfeliz jacket outfits, sailor and blouse suits, and cheviot Peter Thompson reeters with marked reductions. Location noted as tenth floor at Turd floor Tenth st.
The notice lists deep discounts on boys silk neckties night shirts and blouses plus hats robes and pajama sets. It also details reductions on men's suits including cheviot broadtail and novelty styles with sizes 28 to 38 and prices cut from the hundreds to modest sums. Store location cited as Third floor G ft.
A third floor sale offers Misses and Girls blue cheviot reefers and suits with sailor collars, braiding, and brass buttons. Sizes range from 6 to 16 with reductions from high prices to $5.00 to $10.00, including long coats and a chinchilla reefer, all described with trim details and reduced prices.
Weekend sale offers infants and little children's white dresses in Persian lawn and pique with lace embroidery at a third off. Prices range from 75 cents to 5 dollars, with many values listed from one to seven dollars. Eight trimmed hats, some mussed, reduced to 1.50. Untrimmed hats and fancy wings also discounted in the millinery sections on the second and eleventh floors.
Extensive sale of French Corsets in multiple sizes with real whalebone and price cuts from $6.00 to $2.75 per pair, plus B and J B models, hip fronts and elastics. Shoes include lace, button, and Russian calfskin styles in varied sizes with deep discounts. sewing machines feature the Surprise drop head at $22.00, New Enterprise at $15.00, and Howe at $19.00. discounts apply across textiles and accessories on the second floor at G st.
Fifth floor Eleventh St features shopworn and damaged baskets and waste paper holders with deep discounts. Items include Japanese waste paper baskets, sweet grass baskets, fancy work and glove baskets reduced from several prices to fractions and cents.
Salid mahogany music cabinet with carved pillars and glass pulls down from 10 to 25 dollars. Oak parlor table from 4 50 to 11 50, mahogany chair cut to 25, hand carved chiffonier marred and reduced, princess mahogany dresser 30 to 15, library table 20 to 20, mahogany dining table 50 to 34 90, white enamel dresser 16 60 to 10 00, oak china closet 100 to 69 8, morris chair 12 50 to 38 95, oak bookcase sections 13 50 to 50c, oak bases 1 50 to 60c, box couch 17 75 to 8 95, small box couch 8 95 to 5 60, full Kol rattan baby carriage 32 to 22 50. Seventh floor.
An itemized sale list from the Picture Department shows discounts on art pieces including two Brown pictures The Punch Bowl and The Children Sailing in mission frames from 500 to 250 each, Burns interior in weathered oak from 750 to 450, The Poppy Girl in large hand colored frame from 3500 to 2.50, Old Man With His Wine in ornate green frame from 1200 to 40, Heads of Girls in black shadow box frames from 350 to 250 each, Hunting Scene in green frame from 850 to 75, Coaching Scene from 1500 to 750, Landscape Scene etching in dark frame from 70 to 400, Heads of Girls in black and gold frames from 350 to 150 each, 356 Landscape Scenes in leatherette frames from 2c to 6c each, Fourth floor-Tenth at.
China department sale offers heavily discounted hand painted German French and Austrian pieces slightly damaged. Items include trays bowls plates chop dishes meat dishes oyster and pickle dishes salad bowls cake plates tea wares and a 100 piece dinner set with a missing plate, all reduced from double digits to cents and dollars.
Fifth floor Eleven Street clears stock with large markdowns on chairs ladders sewing cabinets tin boxes cake boxes and oil heaters. Items include oak wall cabinets enameled ware rice boilers pudding pans and coffee pots with prices slashed from dollars to small coins. Purchase limits and stock note vary.
Store ad lists Brussels rugs in various sizes with dramatic cuts from original prices. Highlights include 231 4 by 131 2 foot Brussels rugs at 14.00 each and 9 by 12 Smyrna at 17.50. Large misprints obscure some items and prices.
Long notice of the first formal White House levee dinner of the season with over fifty attendees, including First Secretary Riana of the Spanish Legation and Miss Alice Ward. Details cover the guest list, decors, and upcoming related social events and weddings amid Washington society.
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