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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1907
Page
2
January is the last month in our business year a time for clearing stocks and surplus winter merchandise from manufacturers mills and our own regular stock. Tomorrow begins clearing sales with prices down to zero to attract buyers and reduce year end stock. A Carnival of Underselling Values.
Stretching sale offers vast women’s outerwear including long black Kersey Touriat coats with velvet collars and satin linings, broadcloth and Kersey coats, raincoats, chiffon broadcloth evening wraps, and custom-tailored suits. Prices slashed from regular values up to $60 to as low as $5.00 with many items under $20 and selected coats from $0.75 to $17.98.
Silk section slashes prices on colored satins ta ffetas and peau de soie silks. Bold discounts apply to 20 inch and 36 inch ta ffetas 2inch to 4inch fo ulards and peaux de soie silks, with regular prices cited and bold savings promised for tomorrow shoppers.
Tomorrow only, 65 pieces of White Dotted Swiss on sale at 10 34 cents a yard, a superior launderable weave with all dot sizes. Also featured: White Cannon Cloth, White Lingerie Batiste, Imported Shirting Madras, White Pique, White French Lawn, and Imperial Longcloth, with regular prices and guaranteed steam shrink.
Manufacturer offers short ends of Lace Curtains about two yards long and 34 to 60 inches wide. A wide variety of handsome designs display the new season patterns. Housekeepers can find versatile uses for these sash curtain and drapery samples. Tomorrow, at each location.
Historic catalog style lists millinery items and other kitchenware with bold prices. Wings and feathers offered in blue, green, rose, brown, and white, with wide color ranges and large and small sizes. Royal Blue enamel ware and preserving kettles priced per pint, quart, and set, highlighting pre inventory sale discounts and assorted trims.
Enamel ware items include Royal Blue enamel rice boilers coated five times and lined with white. Sizes range from 3 pints to 6 pints with various prices per pint. Also listed are Royal Blue enamel buckets with switch covers and white lining, priced by pint quantities.
Manufacturer’s odd pieces and short ends of fine tapestry close out at nominal figures. Offered for furniture coverings pillow covers and other uses. All SQ inches wide shown in rich colorings and designs.
A list of discounted personal care products from Woodworths and Cosmo Buttonmill Soap includes Blue Lilies and Violet products, smelling salts, toilet cake soaps, Nina Violet Talcum Powder, hoof shaped manicure sticks, Emery Boards, a fountain syringe, and Sozodont toothpaste powder or paste. Prices range from 2c to 19c, with several items labeled regular values.
The waning season prompts strong price cuts in the Dress Goods Department. All-wool suitings and panama fabrics are reduced to as low as 29c per yard with many items halved from regular prices. турист tourist cloth and crepe paris also feature notable sale prices aimed at clearing stock for spring lines.
A sale lot offers gowns long corset covers and children s drawers with muslin and cambric trims. Includes long Petticoats skirts chemises and women s gowns with insertion lace and ruffles. Prices around 49c to 39c plus small lots of sewing silk and markers.
A local ad lists tomorrow's sale with Mercerized Table Damask at 39c per yard, 500 yards first quality Austrian damask, bleached bright, patterns including chrysanthemum and rose. Also 20 dozen Irish Latin Damask Dinner Napkins at 1.44 a dozen, Sliver Bleached German Linen Damask nearly two yards wide at 50c per yard, plus Scotch Irish Belgium Double Latin Damask and Flaxine Crash. Union Linen Huck Towels offered at 0. No. 10.
A sale listing offers SUNSET SHEETS and pillow cases for double beds with 23 inch hems, crochet spreads in Marseilles patterns, figured satin fabrics in multiple colors, white table oil cloth in full width, aprons and ginghams in blue grey pink and other colors, unbleached cotton for sheets, ticking, dress ginghams, yard wide cambric and percales in various colors, plus featherproof flannelettes and related items at reduced prices tomorrow.
A dense OCR catalog snippet lists canned goods and pantry staples with brand names and prices. Items include Bartlett pears in syrup, Nanticoke tomatoes, Fisher's brand peas, Armour products, baking powder, mustard, and lard. The fragment reflects a retail grocery lineup with regular price cues and commodity variety.
Fragmented OCR notes describe lace details and dress nets with patterns for waists and full garments. Mentions prices around 19 cents to 55 cents, noting 3 and 4 inch nets and decorative edges, inserted edges, and coin spots in clusters.
A special lot of tapestry Brussels rugs offered in various designs and colors. Full size suitable for large rooms. Regularly priced at eighteen dollars, the sale tomorrow lists eleven dollars and seventy five cents.
A jumbled inventory of sewing notions and accessories including various sizes of children s suspender waists, mohair laces, purses and belts, ribbon trims, dress shields, hooks and eyes, needles, pins, spools of cotton, leather knee caps, tapes and measures. Prices are quoted in cents per item or per dozen, with brands such as Warren s and Crowley Smith s referenced.
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