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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1911
Page
12
Woodward & Lothrop lists business hours from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily and references its New York Washington and Paris branches. The notice specifies hours until further notice.
Catalog-style sale note lists womenswear items on third floor Eleventh Street with discounts on nainsook gowns aprons petticoats drawers corset covers and lingerie dresses. Notable price cuts include 50c gowns 25c aprons 69c drawers and 15 to 34 size ranges with samples and two special $6.75 and $29.76 dresses reflecting spring stock.
Readable sale listing detailing children's wear on the third floor including muslin skirts in sizes 2 to 10 years at 25 cents each. Also offers red and blue felt hats, mushroom beaver hats, and white French felt hats with decorative ribbon, all heavily discounted from various prices.
Readers are offered a selection of P N corsets in medium bust and long hip, made of good quality batistes, priced at 95 cents a pair for sizes 18 to 24. Also featured are Ivy and Parame corsets, with discounts from several dollars to as low as five dollars per pair, located on the third floor of the Eleventh Street shop.
Clearance of odds and ends and broken lines from regular stock includes patent kidskin and kidskin tops gun-metal calfskin black suede and black Romaine silk in good sizes. Special price two dollars fifty cents per pair, values three fifty to five dollars. Third floor Tenth street.
Upholstery fabrics and decorative goods priced 25 to 50 percent off. Fourth floor offers rugs including Smyrna and Axminster with marked reductions, plus remnants, cut glass and porcelain pieces. Fifth floor features decorated Japanese china sets, cups, saucers, chop plates and crumb jars with lowered prices.
A sale of women’s suits in cheviots serges and basket weaves. Coats plain or trimmed with plaited skirts in popular colors. Prices slashed from 35.00 to 18.75 and from 87.50 to 18.75 per suit. Broadcloths and admiraline styles also discounted to 27.50.
A Friday clearance offers soiled and mussed shirt waists in linens batistes madrases and marquisettes with hand embroidery valenciennes and Irish crochet. Prices from 0.68 to 4.75 with many items from 1.50 to 10.00. third floor G street.
Women’s coat department lists 10 rubberized cloth raincoats in man nish styles and odd sizes reduced from 15.00 to 3.75 each. Imported blanket cloth coats in brown and blue for steamer and automobile use cut to 327.50. A cherry red broadcloth evening coat with satin and black velvet trim drops from 67.50 to 88.00. A chamois broadcloth evening coat lined throughout with black velvet collar and cuffs falls from 39.50 to 25.00. Tan broadcloth evening coat with black silk and Persian braid trimmed down to 19.73.
President Taft and Mrs Taft attended a dinner hosted by Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock at Raucher's. Guests included Norton, Longworth, Wilson, Titles, Winthrop, Hale, Cosby, McCawley, Crowninshield, Lester, Thom, McClintock, Gibson, Westcott, Summerlin, and many other officials, diplomats, and society figures. The evening featured varied entertainments and forthcoming engagements noted around the diplomatic and social circles.
Washington social notes list the many ladies presiding at teas and receiving hours across venues such as the Congressional Club St Rose's Technical School and the Confederate Memorial Home benefit opera. Several guests include Mrs McSherry of Martinsburg and district presidents aboard the Minnetonka. Some hosts cancel due to illness or death in the family. the page notes continued coverage on the ninth page.
A diet science note advocates satisfying sweet cravings with natural fruits rather than cane sugar. It cites German army experiments showing limited injury from sugar during vigorous activity but warns mixed foods raise risks for sedentary individuals. Emphasis on grape sugar from prunes, bananas, dates, figs, raisins, and apples.
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