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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1909
Page
13
We have cleaned out stocks in all lines and assembled remnants for quick sale. Some items are soiled mussed or imperfect. Others are odds and ends short lengths or broken sizes. Some are reduced half or more. Every department is represented.
Fragments describe slate of discounts on lace trims, dresses, coats, gowns, underwear, and mens travel cases. Items list reduced from $100 to $200 with varied colors and fabrics, including children's wear and local department store pricing. Numerous product descriptions with old monetary amounts appear amid bargain terms and stock lines.
Reduced prices across Lamoo shirt waist Hox Bamboo Laundry Bay and Bamboo Shirt items. Arcd quality matting and green silk velour center panels noted as slightly damaged with cuts in cost from hundreds to modest sums. Second floor Eleveneth Street.
On the fourth floor at G Street a sale offers Richly and Decorated French and Limoges china sets, trays, meat dishes, napkin rings, sugar and cream sets, salt and pepper trays, and bread and butter plates. Prices drop from hundreds to modest amounts including 12 to 135 dollars, with many items reduced further to clear stock. Includes sauce dishes and ramekins with marked savings throughout.
A miscellaneous sale of women's shirt waists in batiste Irish linen and madras with laces embroidery tucks and trims. Items include sizes 38 40 42 with prices from 75c to 2.50 and various reductions on satin and net waists many with long sleeves and decorative detailing. Third floor G St.
Frugal shoppers can save on a small lot of Girls Percale Dresses in light and dark checks plaids and polka dots with braid trim long sleeves and back fastenings sizes 6 to 14 reduced from 9 dollars to 5 dollars. Also priced are full length brown velvet garnet corduroy coats size 6 down to 10 50 each and Misses All wool Cheviot jumper dresses and Garnet Broadcloth suits with trim and box coats reduced from higher prices to 10 dollars or less.
Sale notices list green blue black and brown semi fitting double breasted coats with satin gore skirts, blue cloth two piece dress, blue chiffon dress, taupe gray chiffon velvet suit, Blick caracal and black cravenetted coats, and chiffon evening capes on third floor. Prices slashed from $1500 to $1000, $69.90 to $40.00, $60.00 to $28.50, $49.90 to $29.50, $57.50 to $80.00, and more.
Reduced from 1500 to 1900 for a 1 Bable Squirrel Fur Set. Black Wall Fur Set cut from 2000 to 1920. Japanese Mink Scarf 72 inches trimmed with tails and heads drops from 4000 to 2750. Sable Fox Shawl Scarf trimmed with tails. 145-Inch Bensom Seal Coat offered at 3900, down from 6760. Third floor.
A fifth floor seventh at location lists reduced prices on several shopworn items. Nickel plated chafing dish white enamel pitchers aluminum pudding basin aluminum sauce pan infants fiber bath tub fiber wash tubs gas heater wash boiler with price cuts from original figures to new lower amounts.
A large gathering at the New Willard honored the Vice President elect and Mrs Sherman. Guests included Senator and Mrs Scott, Representatives Dalzell, Alexander, Perkins, Moore, Fairchild, Bates, and Vermont’s former Governor Proctor, with many ambassadors and socialites from New York, Paris, and Vienna. The event featured white flora, Richmond roses, and Neapolitan Orchestra entertainment.
Washington society buzzes with debutants and charity events. Mrs Herbert Wadsworth hosts a Thursday reception followed by a dance while Miss Grace Denlo Litchfield and Miss Marjorie Gould headline a high society luncheon and a lavish dinner dance in honor of Mr William Burr. The Dramatic Club plans an opera for spring as Mrs Huntington Wilson sails to Argentina and Stotesbury funds his daughter Frances Stotesbury's wedding with a $1,000,000 gift plus jewels. Attendees include numerous gowned society leaders, ambassadors, and notable families at The New Willard and The Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
In memory of George Jacob Abbot, whose work led to free schools replacing pauper schools in Washington. The Abbot School held exercises yesterday morning. A memorial volume by his daughters and M King was opened. A letter from Dr Edward Everett Hale praised Abbot’s reforms. A twelve volume set of Whiskes writings was gifted by Mrs A T Mortigon. An address by Mr Abbot’s daughter was read from New York.
Prof James Tartt Talneld of Northwestern lectured yesterday afternoon at George Washington University on The Lame Poems of Wilhelm Mueller. Pref Hatfield, famed educator, delivered a series in Eastern cities. Ming Christine Church sang Schubert settings of Muellers poems with Miss Brackett and A Peter contributing selections.
Union revival meetings run nightly through February 21 at Cosmopolitan Temple Baptist Church between Ninth and Tenth streets NW. Pastor Rev La Simon P. W. Drew will conduct baptisms every Sunday. Next Sunday at 11 a.m. Dr Drew speaks on Death In the Path. Sunday evening the sermon is The Key of Hell. January 1’s Church Constitution Sunday morning and A Voice from Hell Sunday evening.
The Most Rev Diomede Falconio will travel to New York tomorrow to stay with the Paulist fathers on West Fifty-ninth Street. He will preside at evening services at St Paul the Apostle Church on the eve of the feast of the conversion of St Paul and will officiate the pontifical mass on the feast commemorating the Paulist community's founding.
Funeral services for Mrs Mane Ingle Hanson widow of Grafton Delaney Hanson were held yesterday at 2 to 3 PM at the Church of the Ascension Twelfth Street and Massachusetts Avenue The Rev J Henning Nelms rector officiated assisted by the Rev W T Snyder Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery
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