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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1905
Page
7
The Woodward Glothrop store announces a special Remnant Day with deep discounts on silks nets laces and India Linen Waist Patterns including gowns drawers and undergarments. Prices are cut to roughly one third regular, with low per yard rates and third floor displays in the main area.
In the dress goods department a Friday sale offers Wool Waist Patterns at 30c per yard, down from 75c and 85c, plus remnants and colored Percaline at reduced rates. Remaining stock of Women's Cashmere Hose and Fleeced Hose is discounted, with children's cashmere hose also cut. Also Children's Combination Suits drop to 19c each. Main floor F street.
Clearance sale offers trimmed hats from 3.00 to 5.00 with former prices up to 10.00. untrimmed hats 2s5c and 1.50 tops. Men's garments include gymnasium jerseys maroon no sleeves, blanket robes, house coats, double faced pla in, percale shirts, pajamas, gloves, and handkerchiefs with substantial markdowns. Main floor F St.
A hardware of women's button and lace shoes with patent tips, in multiple sizes, perked down from 3.50 to 2.00 and 4.00. Misses' button and lace shoes cut to 1.00, 2.00. Children’s calfskin lace shoes reduced to 1.50, 1.50. other items include negligee shirts and shirts waists. Third floor on Tenth Street with additional night shirts and blanket robes discounted.
A small lot of full size Comfortables 72 by 78 inches with white cotton filling and silkoline covers in pretty patterns offered for 1 dollar each on the second floor at Eleventh street.
Friday Bargains in Silk Petticoats offer black and fashion shades in umbrella style with accordion plaits and two section flare ruffles at 300 dollars each, value 6.95. Also 150 dozen napkins, soil ed but not damaged, at 25 dollars and 1.50 to 10 dollars per dozen. Sample napkins and table linens offered at various low prices on second floor Eleventh Street.
The Second floor Garment Goods department slashes prices on extensive fabric selections. Patterns and fabrics including dress crepe, serges, voiles, and wool blends drop from high original tags to low per piece figures, with many listed by yard or piece as low as several dollars.
A catalog of discounted novels and literature titles with prices as low as 35 cents per volume. Includes The Poet and Penelope by P Trescott, The Suitors of Yvonne by Raphael Sabatine, Qualty Corner, The Sheep Stealers, Royal Rogues, In Piccadilly, The Deeps of Deliverance, and more. Main floor Ten by Main and details on hats, walking sticks, and ebony sticks on sale with substantial reductions.
Third floor on Tenth Street offers boys and girls outerwear and suits at deep discounts. Hand-made Peter Thompson reefers in sizes 3 to 7, spring weight reefers, heavyweight navy coats, winter overcoats, and all-wool two-piece suits reduced from high original prices to as low as 2.75. Includes youth long pants suits in sizes 18 and 19.
Special purchase of 200 pairs and remnants of Renaissance and Brussels pattern curtains at about 25 percent off. Includes lace curtains bed curtains netting and portieres with varied yardages and reductions from $1.00 to $7.60 a pair or item, fourth floor G street location.
Main floor Eleventh street offers a clearance of fans, leather cases, bags, and wallets. Items include gauze fans cut from $2.00 to $1.50 and $4.00 to $2.25, a $70 fan reduced to $350, leather card cases, handkerchief boxes, green leather boxes, portifolio tops, traveling cases with accessories, suede and leather handbags, and 23 pocketbooks with silver trim, all at marked discounts.
A seventh floor furniture sale lists mahogany and oak pieces with marked reductions. Items include arm chairs, rockers, chiffoniers, dressers, and a box couch with significant price cuts, highlighting green velour seating and polished oak frames.
A storefront sale lists numerous items with reduced prices. Large Houndwork baskets, Indian Scrap Baskets, Covered Indian and Sweet Grass baskets, dress cases, infant bassinet, and racks all shown with steep discounts from cents to dollars. Purchases include shopworn and rented items on Eleventh Street.
Fifth floor G ost presents a China Department sale featuring Austrian German French and Limoges pieces. Items include 100 piece Austrian china sets reduced to 12.95 and 15 pieces dark blue toilet sets cut to 10.85 with many plates cups bowls and pots priced per item from 1.00 to 3.50, some minorly damaged, as part of a major clearance across various patterns and finishes.
A period sale lists numerous women’s garments with deep discounts. Items include black broadtail velvet suits, green broadtail velvet suits, blue mixed cheviot suits, tan silk mohair and black cheviot sets, silk and wool creeper dresses, black capes, camel’s haircloth capes, brown velvet coats, black velvet coats, silk coats and jackets, zibeline toursuit coat, velvet skirts, and blue cheviot skirts. Prices drop from $12.50 to as low as $1.50, with many cuts to under $30.00. Deals feature sizes 26 through 38 and emphasize white silk linings, braids, and decorative trimmings.
A local sale lists deep discounts across waists in Krisk Clark Flagge make and 34 to 46 sizes, with reductions from 96.00 to 1.90 and similar markdowns on wool batiste and lawn waists. Fur sets, ties, and coats from Sable to Sable Squirrel reach marked-down prices, including white fur sets and Nutria and Thibet items, with most reductions hovering around half or more.
A large assortment of Persian pattern wrappers opens down the front in loose fits, sizes 34 to 44, now reduced from 2.50 to 1.90. Eiderdown robes in gray red and lavender, sizes 40 to 44, trimmed from 2.98 to 2.95 each. Also 10 two piece house dresses in gray percale sizes 34 to 40 reduced from 1.25 to 0.70 each. Located on third floor G Street.
Reduced from 5000 dollars to 25 dollars for a Colonial Combination airror with ornaments and heavy mantel top. Mirrors and frames including French Bevel Plate and large bevel plate mirrors at deep discounts with various sizes and styles. Many items cut to fractions of original prices and offered on the Fourth floor at Tenth Street.
Infants Department offers a brown bonnet with front ruffles reduced from 22 75 to 5c. Close-fitting suk caps in brown and blue cut from 5c to 25c each. Velvet Tam O’Shanter set at 60c from 1.00. Two cloth coats in gray and burnt onion, trimmed and fastened alike, cut from 15.00 to 7.50 each. Third floor First.
A local department store advertises markdowns across a range of house furnishings. Oak sewing cabinet wall mount damaged priced down from 3.25 to 1.00. various shopworn or damaged items including cabinets tables mats and bowls reduced to small amounts. reductions cover bread plates jars tins and kitchenware with many items priced per unit.
The second state dinner of the season honored envoys from nations with diplomatic ties to the United States. Cavers set for over sixty. a mirrored plateau with Brazilian orchids and Hilles of the valley formed the centerpiece. Attendees included President and Mrs. Roosevelt, Baroness des Planches, Count Cassini, Italian and Russian ambassadors, and many other ministers and guests.
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