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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1907
Page
7
Woodward & Lothrop invites shoppers to a weekend remnants sale featuring bright fresh merchandise at unusually low prices. The event closes odds and ends, broken sizes, and one of a kind pieces across many departments with many items not advertised due to small quantities. First comers secure the best bargains.
A miscellaneous lot of women s muslin underwear including gowns skirts drawers and corset covers. Sold at a single price of 69 cents for choice, with few pieces of a kind and high quality trim. Located on the third floor eleventh.
For immediate sale a number of tastefully trimmed hats offered at less than half price. Hats on display are mussed or crumpled from handling but remain desirable for street, traveling, and summer wear. Priced at 300 dollars were 3.00 and 7.00. Located at floor Tentl st.
V dot of White Lawn Dressing Sacques with pink blue and Juvemler figures. Made Car mille atyle and finished with buttonhole stitch. Special value, 25e each. The trial floor- senth at.
Muslin bed sheets offered at a bargain for 34 beds. Listing notes 16 musicneets and size 63.90 with good quality. Prices described as b&e each. Located near Se omt Quor-Teventh street.
13 dozen women's corsets made of net with sateen strippings straight front and short hip sizes 18 to 30 offered at a special price 39 cents and paired with a Thid flyor Eleventh at location placeholder not specified in available text
Bargain item offering 38 dozen pairs of women’s gauze lisle hose in extra size with garter top double seam double soles and h spliced heels. Described as excellent quality offered at 1.00 regular 30 cents.
Friday bargain features a large stock of women's combination suits in ribbed Lisle knit. The sale offers knee length, low neck ribbed slips at 115 each, with reductions on various imported ribbed bodices. Also included are women and children’s cotton vests and split undergarments, all on the Main floor F street.
Housefurnishing dept listing reduced prices on kitchenware and hardware with shopworn and dented items. Nickel plated pots teapots and soap dishes reduced. copper wash boilers dented discount. Auto Shine metal polish and varnish promos noted. Address cited at Eleventh Street.
A dated sale listing shows numerous men clothing pieces with deep discounts. Items include all wool spring weight coats suits trousers and vests in various sizes from 34 to 44, with reductions from original high prices to around 10 to 15 dollars per item and some as low as two dollars for trousers and two 95 for select trousers.
Men's department offers deep reductions on hosiery shirts and underwear. Lisle thread socks in various sizes and finishes drop from 2c to 9 for 30c, while black lisle web suspenders and drop stitch shorts see notable price cuts. Mercerized shirts and negligee styles reduced. imported blue cheviot fabric trimmed to 8c per yard.
Readable ad copy shows heavy discounts on youths and boys all wool long pants suits and double breasted styles. Items include sizes 7 to 21 with price drops from several dollars to low two dollars, offering knickerbocker pants and fancy gray russett styles.
A distressed advertisement lists drastic price cuts on boys clothing. Items include colored blouses up to size 16, wash bloomers blue and tan striped, suits in small sizes, bath shirts red and blue, four to hand tees, golf caps, white linen collars, and Madras blouses in mixed colors. Store location cited as Third Street and Tenth Street.
A ranged sale lists various luggage items including dresses trunks suitcases and bags. Descriptions note materials such as basswood ply leather and rawhide with riveted parts, locks and cloth lining. Prices slashed from higher values to targeted sale figures.
Shoe department advertises reduced prices on women athletic oxford and oxford styles. Items include white canvas fords and patent kid oxford pairs in multiple sizes with discounts from high prices to $1.95 and $1.99 per pair. Location noted as Third Floor Tenth Street.
A sale list shows numerous women’s tops and waists in styles from Marie Antoinette to lace and chiffon designs. Items include white lawn waists, navy taffeta blouses, lace waists in ecru and white, a green chiffon waist, with sizes HM BB 40 and 42. Prices reduced from 5.00 to 3.75, 3.76, and 5.00.
Women's Black and white striped linen suits in sizes 26 and 34 reduced from 8.00 to 10.00 each. One French Mousselin dress with lace jacket cut from 168.00 to 18.50. Black taffeta silk dress, French model, size 23, cut from 373.00 to 38.00. Handsome linen suit elaborately trimmed with lace, size 3, reduced from 8.00 to 25.00. Two all-wool novelty cheeched cloth suits, jumper style with Eton jackets, size 36, cut from 338.90 to 1509 each.
A garbled ads list offers women items including wraps in various sizes, raincoats in full length, black velvet jacket with taffeta silk trim, black taffeta silk novelty jacket with Dresden trim, and white English sample skirts. Prices show substantial cuts from original amounts, with notes on one-third off and multiple reductions.
Selection includes Misses sizes 14 16 18 and 8 with reduced prices from 7.29 to 5.08. Girls dresses include embroidery trimmed gowns down to 16.00 1 dress 8.50 and children's white lawn and batista dresses cut to 7.50 13.50. Novelty wool suit price cut to 15.00 feat. gingham jumper dresses 14 16 17 18 now cheaper.
Fourth floor at Eleventh Street offers infants dresses with dainty handwork and lace edgings reduced from 175 and 7 50 to 5 each. Chad's white serge reefer with pink collar trimmed to 5, a China dark blue cloth reefer with braid trim reduced to 2.00.
Furniture Department advertises a white enamel settee and matching chairs with large reductions. Items include arm chairs rockers and a wing chair with removable cushions, plus natural finish settees and rattan swing. Prices drop from moderate to deep discounts, all on sixth floor.
A Fifth floor sale notes damaged lamp items with reduced prices. Japanese silk lamp shades drop from 35.00 to 1.00, Japanese lamp shades from 1.25 to 1.00, lamp globe and other shades cut to small figures. Metal and nickel candlesticks see large markdowns, all framed as damaged stock.
An advertisement lists leather items with price cuts. Items include leather work bags, Vienna leather work boxes, green leather traveling bags, rose hand bag, envelope bag, and cuff boxes, with discounts from high to reduced prices. Store location noted as Male floor Eleventh St.
A long society column traces summer travel plans of Washington and New York elites. Calderons, Calderons Bolivian minister, and numerous families plan residencies and trips to Newport, Danridge, New York, Canada, and Catskills from mid July through September, with multiple crossings and host city visits noted.
A Washington widow, Mrs. Albert Clifford Bar ney, sailed for Europe after a formal legal declaration from a suitor that he loves her for herself alone and will not claim her fortune. He had proposed orally many times, and though she left to Paris, he followed to pursue her, while local society notes her as a prominent art patron and social figure with a composed, independent life.
United States Secret Service dispute centers on the reconciliation of Mrs. Charles T. McCawley and her daughter Bessie Lodge with the Duke of the Abruzzi. Surveillance by five agents followed a car chase in several cities as rumors of marriage and estrangement swirl around New York Boston Bar Harbor and New Hampshire. The story blends social intrigue with a police encounter and mentions a Somerset Club and influential families.
Mrs Herbert Parsons daughter of Henry Clews of New York will own Bonnie Brae the Barclay country seat at Lenox Massachusetts. Clews closed a purchase contract and will present it to his daughter. Bonnie Brae spans thirty acres opposite Anson Phelps Ackers estate and is famed as a handsome country seat. The piece discusses social climbing through wealth culture and education, Newport horse show judging changes, and named patrons and exhibitors including Alfred Vanderbilt William Moore and Clarence Mackay.
On Fourteenth street the Iwan fete enters its third night with fireworks displays and picnics all day. Maj. Hodgison and Capt. Lipscomb led afternoon athletic events including a watermelon race for children. A fortune-telling outfit burned in a minor lantern conflagration, but water and punch kept harm minimal as vaudeville acts and a moving picture show drew crowds. Tonight the fete promises new features and a strong finale.
London July 4 The King has conferred the Royal Victorian Order upon opera star Enrico Caruso in recognition of his artistic work. The honor allows him to add the letters MV after his name. The specific class is not stated, but Caruso is noted as the fifth recipient this year, with other singers such as Gillibert similarly honored.
Widow of sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi cedes his Colmar Alsace house and studio to the municipality to serve as a museum. The property will house sketches, models, and other items from his Paris studio.
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