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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1907
Page
25
Woodward & Lothrop announces a weekend remnants clear-up across departments with bright merchandise, unusual low prices, and many one-of-a-kind items. Odds and ends, broken sizes and short lengths are being cleared as a limited stock sale. First comers secure the best bargains.
A mixed lot of womens muslin underwear including gowns skirts drawers and corset covers. Some pieces are soiled or massed from handling and offered at a single low price to close stock before taking inventory. High quality pieces trimmed with lace and embroidery priced at 69 cents, regular 1.00. Third Floor Eleven?
Immediate sale offers a number of tastefully trimmed hats at less than half price. Hats on display are mussed from handling but remain desirable for street, travel, and summer wear. Prices range from $3.00 to $7.00, located at floor Tentl St.
Laundry item listing lawn dressing sacques in white with pink blue and jeweled figures. Describes camille style, buttonhole stitch finish, priced at 25e each. Note misread text mentions floor-senth and sizing unclear.
Muslin bed sheets offer 16 musicneets sized 63.90 for 34 beds. Good quality. B and E each. Value, Cc. Se omt Quor Eventh st.
Ad shows 13 dozen women's corsets of net with sateen strippings and straight front, short hip, sizes 18 to 30. Special price 39 cents each with payment terms partially noted, from a mid century retail listing.
Friday bargains feature 38 dozen pairs of extra fine black gauze lisle hose with garter top double seam and h spliced heels. Priced at 1.00, regular 30 cents, quality noted as excellent. Includes extra size leg and double soles for comfort.
Friday bargain sale for women's combination suits on the main floor. 20 dozen Jersey Ribbed Lisle thread combinations knee length low neck no sleeves, reduced from 27 1-26 to 15 per suit. Black ribbed Lisle high neck short sleeve suits reduced from joe to 7 1-20 each. Small set of women's and children's vests and ankle socks in broken necks at greatly reduced prices.
A Garden store ad lists numerous discounted wares in an unusual price ledger. Items include a 20 feet garden hose, stove, canner, coffee pots and cups, tea pots, chafing dishes, paper isorides, soap dishes, tumbler holders, toothbrush holders, wash boilers, varnish and auto polish. Each line notes original price and reduced price with shopworn or dented condition where relevant. The listing appears to be an early 20th century sale catalog entry.
A storefront advertises heavy reductions on men’s wear including all wool coats suits trousers and vests. Items feature tan covert cloth and worsted fabrics with discounts from high prices down to as low as two dollars per item. Sizes range from 34 to 44 with multiple color and fabric options.
Mens furnishings promo lists drastic price cuts across many items. Lisle socks, fancy cotton socks, silk and lisle blends, ties, undershirts and drawers, and madras neglige shirts mark downs from high to low cents and dollars. Includes small stock notes and sizes.
Youth all wool long pants suits and knickerbocker sets cut from high prices to 2.00 to 10.00 each. Sizes range from 6 to 21 2 noted. Several double breasted and fancy gray Russian blouses also reduced to low prices.
Local store lists deep discounts on boys garments including wash bloomer outfits, Russian blouses, suits, bath shirts and madras blouses. Items shown with reduced prices from higher tags, including collars and golf capes in assorted sizes. Third Floor Ninth Street location.
Inventory of traveling goods including skirts trunks suitcases and bags in basswood ply leather and rawhide frames with riveted joints brass locks cloth linings and multiple compartments. Prices slashed from several dollars to set low sale figures with reductions noted for customer bargains in basement Equitable Building department store.
Reduced prices on a selection of women’s shoes at the Third Floor on Tenth Street. White canvas oxfords and patent kid oxford styles in multiple sizes now marked down from high prices to 1.95 and 1.99 per pair. dongola and kidskin oxfords offered with turn and welt soles.
Ladies waists including Marie Antoinette styled white lawns with ruffled fronts collars and cuffs in various sizes. Navy blue taftas tunics in sizes 40 and 42. Lace waists in ecru and white sizes HM BB 40. Green chiffon waist with yoke in size 3, all offered at marked-down prices.
A catalog of women’s apparel items including linen suits, striped linen ensembles, and various dresses. Items include sizes 23 to 34 with discounts from original prices such as 168.00, 373.00, and 338.90 reduced to 18.50, 38.00, 25.00, and 150.90 each. Details emphasize style features like lace jackets and decorative trims.
A damaged catalog advertises women’s wrap garments and coats in sizes from 3 to 86, with reductions from $1.80 to $8.96 and $12.60 to $7.60 per item. Also listed are a black velvet jacket, a black taffeta silk novelty jack, and white English sample skirts advertised at one-third off.
Gunny of items listed with sizes 14 to 18 and 1 to 12 sets, reduced from 7.29 to 5.08 for patterns, 35.00 to 16.00 for embroidery dresses, 13.50 to 7.50 for a white lawn dress, 30.00 to 15.00 for a novelty wool suit, and 18.50 to 9.00 for gingham jumpered dresses. Third door price drop noted.
Fourth floor offers infants dresses with fine Peralan lawn and handwork trims, lace edgings, and embroidered details. Dresses reduced from 175 and £7.50 to 5 each. White serge reefer with pink collar reduced to 5 from 10. Dark blue cloth reefer with braid trim reduced to 2 from 38. Third floor Eleventh Street.
Furniture Department offers deep cuts on white enameled settees chairs rockers and wing chairs with cane backs cretonne cushions and Jap upholstering. Several items including a natural finish settee and a green finish rattan swing are marked down with final prices around two to eight dollars and the sale occupies the sixth floor.
In the fifth floor lamp department several items show heavy discounts for damaged stock. Japanese silk lamp shades and light globes are reduced from about 35.00 to 1.00 or less, with other shades cut to small fractions. Metal and nickel candlesticks are marked down from 159.00 to 1.00 and 0.00 respectively.
Leather Goods Dept offers reductions on leather boxes bags and trunks. Items include Vienna Leather Work Boxes priced down from 6 to 825 each, Glove cases, traveling bags, rose hand bags, envelopes and cuff boxes with cuts from 200 to 4250, 450 to 225, and 7.06 to 3.50 each, all at 11th Street location.
Washington society notes highlight summer travel by Calderons, Timmons, Bell, Watts, and other prominent families. Ministers and diplomats plan relocations to New York, Newport, and Canada, with many preparing for extended European trips or stays at Catskill retreats. The Atlantic City season draws a parade of Washingtonians, while society columns praise lavish entertainments and wedding gift ideas reflecting royal proximity and prestige.
A Washington widow Mrs Albert Clifford Barney sails for Europe after a formal notarial deposition promising she would keep her fortune separate if she marries. Suitor made repeated oral proposals with no success, and follows to Paris, while Barn ey remains sought after for portraits and architecture.
A page of social gossip traces the reconciled relationship among Mrs. Lodge the eldest son of a senator and the Duke of the Abruzzi. The story notes a long estrangement, secret service surveillance, and a public lessening of tension as families plan new alliances amid New York and New Hampshire ties.
Mrs. Herbert Parsons, daughter of Henry Clews, will acquire Bonnie Brae, Henry A. Barclay’s Lenox estate, amid social intrigue. The piece notes a culture shift toward literary and artistic influence, lectures, and refined education, contrasting past domesticity with modern prominence. It then shifts to Newport horse show judging, detailing changes in official judges to satisfy exhibitors and address past criticisms.
London July 4 Anno Caruso will henceforth add MV O after his name the King has conferred the Royal Victorian Order on the singer in recognition of his opera work five classes exist the class given to Caruso is unspecified but the fifth class is noted that singer Gillibert has also been honored
Widow of Frederic Auguste Bartholdi lends the Colmar Alsace house once occupied by the sculptor to the municipality to serve as a museum. The transfer includes portraits, sketches and other items from his Paris studio.
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