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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1908
Page
4
A cluttered sale notice lists leather chiffon velvet butterfly coats, black lace robes, princess dresses, fisheye nets, and multiple fur pieces. Prices show steep discounts from $40 to $100 and higher, including mink scarves, ermine scarfs, and an electric seal coat, with the Clean Sweep sale highlighting dramatic reductions and limited stock.
Sale of kimonos and dressing stoques advertised with prices from 29c to 69c for flannellette dresses, heavy satin border kimonos, and long silk Japanese kimonos. Items include soft fleecy textures and floral designs in numerous colors, with many originally high prices marked down.
An OCR fragment lists a variety of household and personal care products with old price cues. Items include Sanito Powder, Lambert's Listerine, Dr. Charles' Flesh Food, Cuticura Soap, Cosmos Buttermilk Soap, Physicians' and Surgeons' Soap, Violet Witch Hazel, Parkers Tar Soap, Violette Poudre de Riz, Williams Shaving Soap, Senitar Tooth Brushes, Eastman Violet Cold Cream, Oriental Massage Cream, Eastman's Violet and Crushed Rose Talcum, Peroxide of Hydrogen, Munyon's Witch Hazel Soap, Woodbury's Facial Powder, and Woodworth's Tripla Wert, reflecting a late 19th or early 20th century catalog style.
A local sale advertises drastic discounts on dress fabrics including all-wool Tricot Cloth, Lenox Suitings, Cashmeres, Mohairs, Albatross, and more. Numerous yard widths and fabrics priced from 15c to 39c, with large selections of silks, linens, crepes, and Voiles offered for immediate purchase, no mail orders, and no C O D.
Advertisement notice lists waists of finest lawns checked nainbooks open front and back with long sleeves and embroidery trim in sizes 34 to 38. Also women’s drawers muslin neat, short skirts and corset covers, priced from 9 to 396.4 cents.
Readable line items describe men’s silk four-in-hand ties in various colors and shapes with bargain pricing from 25c to 123c per piece. Shield bows offered at 15c as a clean sweep price, with mentions of new lots and low sale figures.
A garbled list of sewing notions and bead items shows a sale style spread with hairpins threads needles irons and frames. Notable items include imperial white tape hair switches bone buttons and various combs promising low prices and broad color options.
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