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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1909
Page
21
We have cleaned out stock across lines and gathered remnants for quick sale today. Some items are soiled or imperfect, some are odds and ends or short lengths. Discounts vary from half price to smaller reductions. Every department is represented.
Readable fragments describe a Friday bargain event in Valenciennes offering lace notions, dresses, undergarments, coats, gowns, and accessories at deep discounts. Items include infant wear, gowns with yokes, and various trimmings, with prices noted from $100 to $200 and up.
Listing of discounted bamboo furniture and related items with price cuts noted. Items include lamoo shirt waists, bamboo laundry bays, bamboo shirt boxes, and a stall unit in mission oak with green silk velour panels. Prices drop from hundreds to a few hundred dollars, with several items marked as slightly damaged.
A sale lists numerous richly decorated china items with steep price cuts. Richy decorated French china and Limoges pieces include pitchers trays sugar sets meat dishes and sauce dishes with reductions from high to low hundreds, and several bread and butter plates and ramekins offered at bargain prices.
A sale offers a range of women s shirt waists in sizes 38 40 and 42 at 75c to 250 each with batiste Irish linen and madras plus trimmed and embroidered varieties. Remnants include white messaline satin waists and amethyst chiffon cloth waists with tucked effects and long sleeves. several items reduced from high original prices. Third floor G St.
Small lot of Girls Percale Dresses in light and dark checks and plaids with braid trim. Long sleeves and back platted skirts. sizes 6 to 14. Prices cut from 9 to 9 percent. Also gowns and coats in brown velvet and garnet corduroy in size 6. other items include a tan broadcloth coat and all wool jumper browses in blue and garnet. Reduced from 125 to 90, 1500 to 1050, and 160 to 100.
A third floor sale offers reduced prices on women’s wear including green blue black and brown semifi tting double breasted coats with satin gore skirts and chiff on pieces. Items include blue two piece dresses, blue chiffon princes dress, taupe gray chiffon velvet coat sets, Blick caracal cloth coats, black cravenette raincoats, and chiffon broadcloth evening capes with satin lining, all marked down from high original prices to substantial discounts.
Archive ad lists fur items with steep markdowns including a babble squirrel fur set pillow muff and throw reduced from 1500 to 1900, black wall fur set pillow muff throw from 2000 to 1920, a Japanese mink scarf 72 inches long trimmed with tails and heads from 4000 to 2750, sable fox shawl scarf trimmed with tails and heads from 2250 to 250, a 145 inch Benson Seal Coat heavily lined from 6760 to 3900, located on third floor.
A shopworn clearance listing for a Housefurnishing Dept offers items with reduced prices including nickel plated chafing dish bedside appliances and enamel pitchers. Items show varying damage levels from slight to shopworn with price drops from originally listed amounts to sale figures. The note mentions location: Fifth to seventh floor.
A high society dinner 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, Governor Proctor of Vermont, and many diplomats. Attendees wore formal attire as music by the Neapolitan Orchestra accompanied the event.
Society circles in Washington recount lavish receptions at Mrs Herbert Wadsworths residence and formal dances for debutantes including Miss Marjorie Gould. The report details luncheons hosted for Mr William Burr of Cazenovia N Y and a grand night at the Willard with plans for a charity opera, plus coverage of embassy guests, box seats at the Metropolitan Opera, and notable bridal gifts from E T Stotesbury to his daughter Frances.
Memorial exercises for George Jacob Abbot recall his role in replacing pauper schools with free schools in Washington. A memorial volume by Mrs Abbot and M King was opened, with a letter from Dr Edward Everett Hale praising Abbot’s work. A twelve volume set of John Whiske’s writings was presented to the school by Mrs A T Mortigon, a Abbot daughter. An address by Mrs M JC Throop’s father, read at the exercises, was also shared.
Prof James Tartneld of Northwestern University delivered a lecture on The Lame Poems of Wilhelm Mueller yesterday in the George Washington University assembly hall Pref Hatfield, a noted Western educator, has led a series of lectures in major Eastern cities. Ming Christine Church of GWU sang Schubert settings of Muellers poems with Miss Brackett and A Peter contributing selections.
Union revival meetings run nightly through February 21 at the Cosmopolitan Temple Baptist Church on a street between Ninth and Tenth Northwest. Pastor Rev La Simon P W Drew will lead baptisms each Sunday. Next Sunday at 11 am Dr Drew speaks on Death In the Past. Sunday evening the topic is The Key of Hell. On January 8 the morning service covers The Church Constitution and the evening sermon A Voice from Hell.
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 the Sunday evening services at St Paul the Apostle Church on the eve of the conversion feast and officiate the pontifical mass celebrating the Paulist founding.
Funeral services for Mrs Mane Ingle Hanson widow of Grafton Delaney Hanson were held yesterday at the Church of the Ascension Twelfth Street and Massachusetts Avenue with Rev J Henning Nelms and Rev W T Snyder officiating. Burial followed at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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