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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1909
Page
11
A special remnant day clearance offers remaining winter stock at reduced prices. Suits, overcoats, and tuxedo vests from Hart Schaffner and Marx Wickwire & Company and others are priced from 1.75 to 4.00 per item, with 200 white wool blankets and Marseilles bedspreads offered on the second floor for hotel and household needs.
Bargain sale listings for men's black stiff hats with near perfect condition, silk bindings, and sweatbands. Includes other items like bleached canton flannel, pants, cotton hose, linen collars, tan gloves, silk ties, ready-to-wear shirts, and automobile tires accessories, all heavily reduced from original prices.
Bargains feature high grade suits in plain worsteds and cassimere, sizes up to 18, priced 7 to 13.50 dollars. Also fancy detite and reefers, belts, bows, and overcoats in heavy weight wools with velvet or cloth collars, sizes 1 1/2 to 16, values up to 10 dollars. Sale location Punch Mezzanine at Tenth Street.
Readable OCR lists price cuts on children's cotton hose ten dozen pairs Two and Two Ribbed Hose with double knees toes and heels sizes six to ten priced at 17c per pair Remnants include women's Lisle-thread hose with embroidered ankles sizes nine to ten 1 pairs and 9 1 1 Reduced from 50c to 1c and 9 1 2 sizes 81 2 and 9 9 0 9 9 0 2c pairs including black gray check Lisle-thread hose sizes 10 2 Reduced from 5c to 2c Main floor store sale context implied
Women’s trimmed hats offered at half price or less for clearance. Styles for all occasions with genuine bargains at $3.00 each, down from $6.00 and $8.00. Also $5.00 items from $10 and $12. Untrimmed hats in popular colors and shapes priced at 25¢ to 50¢, from $1.00–$3.00. Second floor Tenth Street.
Friday bargains in the muslin underwear department feature heavy tafted petticoats with deep flounces and circular edges at 2.75 dollars each, gowns in muslin cambric and naingook seven near 69c, and fine nainsook chemises in varied trims at 69c each, third floor Eleventh street.
Bargain sale on colored dress goods with several fabric remnants and yardage offered at reduced prices. Items include striped broadcloth in smoke brown and olive, 41 8 yds smoke novelty chey lot, self striped brown chev, self striped smoke serge, brown diagonal lupin, and tan and light blue checked novelty cloth. Discounts range from substantial to half price with quantities and sizes noted.
Bargain priced Friday for 22 dozen women’s Swiss ribbed combination suits with low neck, no sleeves and lace trimmed drawers. Good quality at 35 cents each, value 50 cents. Main floor F street.
Collectors can save on several framed prints and photos at the Fourth floor on Tenth Street. Items include Venetian View in black and silt frame reduced from $5.00 to $2.50 and 8 carbon pictures labeled Congressional Library and White House in broad brown frames, cut to $1.50 each. Other pieces feature Coming From Pas in a broad gilt frame, Country Village Road in git frame, The Village Inn in old brown and gilt, and Madame Raymond by Gaineborough in old-style gilt.
A newspaper item advertises reductions on various china pieces. Tea cups and saucers drop from 1.50 to 0.60 each, salad dish to 1.25, bread and butter plates to 0.30, jelly dish to 1.00, mayonnaise tray to 1.00, celery tray to 1.65, combine bee tray to 1.00, nut dish to 1.00. fifth floor Gat.
The Roosevelts hosted the final official dinner of the administration in the state dining room. Guests included Chief Justice, Associate Justices Harlan, Brewer, White, Peckham, and McKenna among many senators, governors, representatives, and diplomats. Other gatherings featured luncheons, musicales, and numerous bridge and musical events surrounding White House social season entries.
Mrs Carter wife of Senator Carter of Montana hosted a large reception at her home with aides and many guests including Gen. John M Wilson and Baroness Marie von Paumgartten. Tea was served at white lace and pink satin tables with red carnations at each plate. Additional luncheons followed at the homes of Mrs Thropp Mrs Reid Rogers Miss Collier and others with a dozen or eight guests respectively.
A Washington charity event features St Paul’s choir of men and boys giving Christmas carols at 4 45 in the Hauscher ballroom. It benefits the work for poor churches under patronage of women active in the cause. Debutantes from Winter will sell programs.
Dirs Charles M Tammett and daughters Mrs William R Myers and others will be at home today until 6 o clock at their street home. Mrs Richard Butler receives this afternoon for the last time this season. Miss Aukam and Mrs R L Allen of Waynesville NC will be at home formally this afternoon until 7. Mrs Frederic Robert Harris not at home today but will be at home Fridays February 12 and 6. Mrs Ainsworth wife of Gen F Ainsworth not at home today but at home the following Friday February 5 from 4 20 to 6. Mrs William Stanley and Mrs William Huntington of Massachusetts avenue will receive today. Mr and Mrs R T Thorp of Norfolk VA are at Hotel Grafton. Mrs Howard Clark at Florence Court will be analyzed by a number of the season s debutantes. Mrs Gage of 4 Dupont circle not at home today and has cards for Friday February 5 at 8 o'clock. Miss Katherine Carter Critcher not receiving today at her studio 178 Riggs place and has gone to Philadelphia for the private view of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where she will be guest of Admiral and Mrs Miles at the Naval House.
A bride of yesterday sails for New York with plans to reach England soon. Mrs Townend and Mrs Jewett of New York, and Mrs Cladys Gittings of Baltimore visit Gen and Mrs Medorem Crawford. Wytorg and the Misses Wryborg of Cincinnati lease a Rhode Island avenue home for winter. The Nicaragua minister and Mme Corea depart Washington. he heads to Nicaragua while she may stay in New Orleans until a new post is filled. Charles Dana Gibson and family return to New York after visits with Bourke Cochran. Shester leaves with Secretary Straus for New York. Mrs Pilson and Mise Pilson travel to Philadelphia for the opera. Mrs Allen of Rochester visits Rep Perkins. Mrs John Howley of Nelson County visits her son Dr Shelton Howley in Richmond, now aligned with Mrs Orlando H Smith at 1703 Kulbourne Place. Mrs William Sinclair returns to her Rochambeau apartment after a Monroe visit.
Miss Lilian Corale Love wed Lieut Woolman Gibson Emory U S M at the Pow ell Thurston Manning residence with family and friends present. The groom, of Centerville Maryland, will report to Port Royal SC after a visit to his in laws in Mississippi. Also a second wedding at the Herman home and other nuptials noted with details of gowns and attendees.
In fogbound London a thief gang robbed Mrs. George Keppel near Portman Square as she walked home. A Shamrock decorated purse filled with banknotes vanished, with the incident adding to earlier burglaries blamed on the fog. Police have not recovered the valuables.
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