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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1906
Page
8
Woodward & Lothrop announces 5:30 P M closing until further notice and a Friday Remnant Day with deep discounts across the home and fashion sections. Hats, vests, corset covers, boys and girls outerwear, and suits are marked down, including women’s hats, untrimmed felts, and wool coats, with prices slashed from dollars to cents and garments on the main and third floors.
40 dozen Women’s Fancy Hose in lisle and cotton with boot and stripe patterns. Special price 25 cents per pair, regular 45 and 50 cents. Also 40 dozen Women’s Plain Black Gauze Lisle Thread Hose in high quality. Special price 25 cents per pair. Main floor F Street.
Advertises Irish damask table cloths with bleaching imperfections but intact weaving. Prices range from $2.25 to $6.95 per piece, varying by size and yardage, with numerous listings such as 2x3 yd and 2x4 yd lots. Includes notes on average reductions and availability, concluding with a final line about a floor display.
300 New York Mills muslin sheets in full double bed size 81 by 64 inches. Priced at 63 cents each, value 75 cents. Located on the second floor of the building on Eleventh Street.
Muslin undergarments including gowns drawers short skirts and corset covers sold at a low price. Comprises cambric trims embroideries laces tucks and ruffles with a dainty outing flannel skirts in pink and blue stripes. Also children’s muslin drawers waists skirts gowns trimmed with embroidery laces and insertion. Special price 25 cents per garment. Third toor eleventh st.
A local offer features American made men's black half hose at a special price. Sizes range from small to extra large, six pairs for one dollar, touted as favorable compared with abroad products though slightly below the normal quarter grade.
Friday Bargain offers Men's Fancy Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs at 25¢ each, with a range of remnants and heavy discounts on socks, ties, scarves, gloves, shirts, gowns, coats, and rainwear. Items include 18 pairs of merino socks, 75 four-in-hand ties, 20 puff scarves, 85 walking gloves, 9 stiff-bosom shirts, and multiple coats and rain coats. Main floor-first.
A Friday sale offers eight shapes of high grade men’s derbys at one third and a half off. Slight imperfections do not affect wear and are barely detectable. Available in black and brown shades, all sizes in combined lots. Special price 1.90 each, regularly 3.00 and 4.00 at the Men’s Store on the Main floor Fourth street.
Special sale of Renaissance Lace Bed Sets and bolster covers in full double size, slight display wear. Also discounted Snowflake or Grenadine Curtains, Maslin Bedroom Curtains, and Oriental Tapestry Couch Covers from manufacturer samples. Prices from 1.00 to 2.50 with various original values. Fourth floor storefront display.
Sporting Goods Dept on Main floor Tenth st discounts canvas hunting coats with mackintosh lining from four dollars to two dollars each in various sizes. Corduroy hunting coats and pants marked down, including coats in multiple sizes and corduroy pants reduced to around two to three dollars per pair.
Traveling Goods Dept offers historic trunks and cases with leather bindings iron clamps and slate hardware. Items include 40 and 44 inch dress trunks 24 inch grain leather suitcase and 1 semnen men trunks with multiple trays bound with leather and canvas, all reduced from higher prices. Basement Equitable Building.
Smyrna shop offers deep cuts on rugs with Smyrna and Wilton pieces priced from 7.50 to 17.50, Axminster rugs from 10.00, plus half price on linoleum and cloth samples. Remnants of mattings under 20 yards also cut to half price. fourth floor clearance noted.
On the fourth floor of Teneth street gallery several dozen items reduce price from dollars to cents. Landscape and figure scenes in gilt frames drop to 50 cents each while hand colored photos and pastels see steep cuts. Highlights include Gainsborough piece to 1.50 and English Horse picture to 1.00, with a Matinee Gibson picture marked at 7.00.
A damaged display lists mission style 1stfold Oak Screen options reduced from 14.00 to 10.00 and 14-fold screens, Japanese screens, and utility boxes with varied burlap and leather coverings. Prices drop from several dollars to under six dollars amid storewide markdowns on items like panels, tapestries, and matting.
Department store listing narrates shopworn housewares with deep cuts. Numerous items including wash bows coffee pots kettles trays and waffle irons feature price drops from prices like 2.50 to 7c and 1.60 to 1c with mentions of Yankee gas stoves and electric heaters on the eleventh street fifth floor.
Reduced prices on fine black and white waist pieces in assorted styles and sizes. Bath robes in Elderdown and Hiderdown styles offered, with satin trimming and sizes 38 to 40. Flannelette wrappers in several sizes discounted, third floor goods desk.
A sale of girls heavy winter coats in blue green and red cheviot with assorted blends size 6 8 12 at 7.50 each reduced from 15.00. Also 6 rain coats tan and ame sizes 10 13 at 5.00 each reduced from 10.00. Three gray winter coats sizes 14 16 18 at 3.75 reduced from 8.76. One tailor made suit size 14 reduced from 25.00 to 10.00. Six blue cheviot dresses sizes 1 3 4 5 reduced from 6.00 to 3.75 each. Five plaid dresses sizes 8 10 12 reduced from 4.50 to 3.25 each. Third floor department.
In the Infants' Department four Children's Cloth Coats with box backs and double-breasted fronts drop from 8.75 to 6.50 each. One Child's Brown Corduroy Coat with turn-over collar and cuffs drops from 11.60 to 8.50. One Child's Gray Bearskin Coat in double-breasted style with frog fastenings drops from 25.00 to 15.00. Third floor Eleventh St.
The Fur Department offers marked reductions on assorted items including 5 Squirrel Ties in Holna May style from 5.90 to 3.00, 3 Imitation Ermine Sets with hat muff and satin lining from 10.00 to 7.50 each, and Imitation Ermine Throw Ties from 6.00 to 3.76. Also listed are 2 Egyptian Mink Muffs, a 1 Persian Lamb Bion Jacket with vest from 300.00 to 100.60, 2 Children's White Lamb Sets from 2.95 to 1.50 each, 3 White Thibet Fur Sets from 7.50 to 3.75 each, and 1 Red Fox Set with muff and boa from 8.75 to 5.00.
Various ladies and children's shoes offered at sale prices. i strap and opera slippers in nar row widths discounted from 1 25 and 1 50 to 0 0 per pair. Box Calfskin Lace Shoes Goodyear welt and low heels cut from 8 50 to 2 50. Gun metal calfskin Blucher and Dongola styles reduced from 4 00 to 2 60 and 6 00 to 3 50 respectively.
List of reduced furniture including a mahogany chair from 37.60 to 325.00, a parlor suite, a mission desk, a large armchair, an odd seat, a pine book table, a quartered oak sideboard with mirror, a natural finish arm rocker, a revolving chair, and a revolving chair with paddle seat. items on the sixth and seventh floor nearest GST.
A fifth floor sale features numerous china pieces with marked reductions. Richly decorated French china bon bon boxes drop from 2.50 to 0.51, chocolate pot from 3.50 to 2.00, covered dishes 4.00 to 1.00, a soup tureen 6.00 to 2.50, vegetable dishes 1.25 to 0.60, Royal Copenhagen ware dishes 5.00 to 2.00, meat dishes 4.00 to 1.06, porcelain covered dishes 1.50 to 0.60, blue stoneware mugs 0.25 to 0.10, game plates damaged, fern crocks 1.50 to 1.00.
A crowded Gardiner Green Memorial Hall hosted M. Guillen Tiersot’s France song lecture with notable guests including the French Ambassador and Mme Jusse rand. Debutantes and society figures attended dances, teas, and weddings, with Miss Violette Kimball and Mr. J Malcolm Dunn planning a Washington wedding after a Broadway career, and many receptions featuring politicians and social leaders across January events.
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