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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1909
Page
39
We have carefully cleaned out our stocks in all lines and assembled the remnants for quick selling today. Some are soiled or mussed or imperfect, some are odds and ends or broken sizes. Some are reduced half, some not. Every department in the house is represented.
Fragments describe late 19th or early 20th century bargain ad listing lace trimmings, dresses, coats, gowns, underwear, and accessories with prices ranging from dollars to hundreds. Mentions reductions, fabrics, and items from infant wear to travel trunks, all framed as sale offers in a cluttered catalogue style.
A local furniture shop advertises reduced prices on bamboo shirts and boxes, including a bamboo shirt box with drawer and a stall large mission oak screen. Items show marked markdowns from high original prices down to hundreds, with several pieces described as slightly damaged or wear affected. Centered on a display at second floor eleventh street location.
On the first floor G st, a China department offers numerous richly decorated French and Limoges pieces at deep discounts. Pitchers, celery trays, sugar and cream sets, meat dishes, tea sets, salad bowls, and bread and butter plates are marked down from hundreds to modest sums with many items priced around one dollar. Limited quantities remain across multiple styles and finishes.
One of a kind and assortment of women’s shirt waists in batiste Irish linen and madras trimmed with lace embroidery tucks and handwork. Sizes 38 40 42 discounted from 75c to 250 each and more includes satin and net waists with tucked effects and button trims reduced to 875 1250 and similar.
Small lot of Girls percale dresses in light and dark checks plaids and polka dots trimmed with braid long sleeves full plated back skirt sizes 6 to 14 9% off. Remnants include full length coats brown velour garnet corduroy size 6 reduced from 31 50 to 10 50. Also tan broadcloth coat and Misses all wool cheviot jumper browses in dark blue garnet trimmed with silk buttons reduced from 16.00 to 10.00. Garnet broadcloth suits trimmed with black satin box coat fall plated skirt reduced from 13.00 to 10.00.
Women’s suit department offers green blue black and brown cheviot coats with satin skirts and double breasted coats. chiffon cloth coats and blue cloth two piece dresses reduced from high prices to low. Garments include croirns in velvet, broadcloth evening capes, velour coats, and other semifitting coats with trims. discounts range from a few dollars to over ten dollars, with many items marked down for a spring sale.
In the Fur Department a selection of reductions includes a 1 Bable Squirrel Fur Set with pillow muff and throw down from $150 to $190. A Black Wall Fur Set with pillow muff and throw drops from $200 to $192. A Japanese Mink Scarf 72 metres long with tails and heads reduces from $400 to $275. A Sable Fox Shawl Scarf trimmed with tails drops from $225 to $25. A 145-Inch Benson Seal Coat, handsome and lined, reduces from $676 to $390. Third floor.
Shopworn nickel plated chafing dish reduced to 195 dollars. White enameled pitchers at bargain prices. Aluminum pudding mold slightly damaged. Aluminum saucepan reduced. Infant fiber bath tub shopworn now 175 dollars. Fiber wash tubs discounted. Gas heater shopworn. Copper bottom wash boiler eightly damaged reduced to 12 dollars. Fifth floor seventh at
A formal Washington dinner last evening honored the Vice President elect. Guests included Mrs. Clifford van, Mrs. J Dundas Lippincott, Sareen Miss Tyler, and many prominent officials and diplomats. The event featured Richmond roses as decorations and Neapolitan Orchestra providing music at the New Willard.
Washington society bustled with receptions and luncheons at Massachusetts Avenue homes as Debutante Miss Marjorie Gould prepared for a grand dinner dance. Prominent guests included Gen James Hunt, Rear Admiral Hemphill, and Countess Granard as society awaited operatic tributes, theater outings, and gift showcases amid charity concerts and a notable million dollar wedding gift from E T Stotesbury for his daughter Frances.
In Washington memorial exercises honored George Jacob Abbot who helped replace pauper schools with free schools. A memorial volume by his daughters and M King opened with a read letter from Dr Edward Everett Hale praising his work. A twelve volume set of John Wyke's historical writings was presented by Mrs A T Mortigon, a Abbot daughter.
Prof James Rart Taintield at Northwestern delivered a lecture on The Lame Poems of Wilhelm Mueller yesterday afternoon in George Washington University assembly hall. Pref Hatfield, a renowned educator, has given a series of lectures in major Eastern cities. Ming Christine Church performed Schubert settings of Muellers poems, joined by Miss Brackett and Peter from the university.
Revival meetings run nightly through February 21 at the Cosmopolitan Temple Baptist Church between Ninth and Tenth streets northwest. Pastor Rev La Simon P W Drew will preside. Baptisms are set for Sundays. Next Sunday at 11 A M Dr Drew speaks on Death In the Pat. The Sunday evening topic is The Key of Hell. January 1 features The Church Constitution in the morning and A Voice from Hell in the evening.
The Most Rev Diomede Falconio, apostolic delegate, travels to New York to stay with the Paulist fathers on West Fifty ninth street. He will preside at Sunday evening services at Church of St Paul the Apostle and officiate a pontifical mass for 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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