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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1906
Page
7
Progressive merchandising pushes eviction of all goods per season with deep remnant prices on wearables for men women and children. Many items can be worn until late fall along with odds and ends, short lengths, broken sizes, and assortments. Nearly every department is represented in this low priced sale.
Bargains on a full sample set from a manufacturing source include leather belts in gray tan and black in sizes 32 and 34, offered at half and under half price. lots priced 25c, 60c, 75c, and 1.00 each. Also Friday sale on Madras and Percale Neglige shirts with price cuts from 1.50 to 1.00 and tweed neglige shirts reduced from 2.00 to 1.50. Main floor, Street.
Friday bargain in muslin underwear and dressing sacques. Stock withdrawn for soiled items. sale at uniform prices. Cambric drawers, lace-trimmed skirts, gown sets, corset covers offered with lace trimming. Variety of sacques in stock. inspection invited. Third floor Eleventh Street.
Summer corsets in good quality with straight front dip hip design and conut strippings. Sizes 18 to 20 inches. Special value priced at 50 cents.
Hosiery sale offering Lisle and Cotton Hose in black and stripe effects at 25 cents per pair, regulars 35 and 50 cents. Also black cotton hose with double heel at 23 cents per pair, and Swiss ribbed vests remaining light and sleeveless. Nearby store display at Main flagpole.
Bargain prices on children s dresses with box plaits and stitched white belt trim. Practical frocks suitable for town or out of town wear. Priced at $1.00 each, lower than typical values of $1.23 and $1.30. Available along Third Street and Eleventh Street.
A small lot of White Linen Pattern Hobes embroidered by hand and slightly mussed from handling. Priced at 10.00 each. Also a small lot of Sheer White Lawn Waist Patterns embroidered and lace trimmed priced at 1.23 each, marked down from 1.75. Main floor G street.
White Goods Dept offers 309 yards of striped sheer white lawn with open-work effects at 20 cents per yard. Also featured are Embrosierea Swiss with grounds and colored dots and stripes at 75 cents per yard. Second floor Blevanth at.
Inventory listing from the Basement Equitable Building describes 42 inch skirts trunks leather lined cowhide bags and suit cases. Items show price cuts from 50.00 to 4.00 13.00 to 4.00 15.0 to 10. etc. Small damages noted with locks pockets and catches.
Manufacturer samples offer decisive price concessions on table cloths and towels with minor factory imperfections not affecting wear. Bleached Irish Damask table cloths, various sizes priced between 2.25 and 6.00, towels listed by the dozen from 73 cents to 5.00, all on the second floor Eleventh Avenue display.
Fourth floor G Street offers importers samples of upholstery and drapery fabrics in 1 to 3 yard lengths with discounts. French hand made lace curtains and Irish point lace curtains are offered along with remnants such as printed linen Tafretas and tickings at reduced yard prices. Short lengths of upholstery trim and fringes are included with reduced prices, and slightly damaged window screens are offered as needed.
Frugal shoppers can grab two lots of Printed Organ dies and Silk Mousselines at half price and less. Lot I Printed French Organdie Lisse features pink helitrope and blue floral on white, 15 cents per yard. Lot Y Silk Mousseline plain and dotted with floral prints, 15 cents per yard. Also Batiste Lawns 8 cents, Percales 10 cents, Gingham 10 cents, Mikado Silks 25 cents, Mousseline de Soie 15 cents, and Printed Tulle or Net 25 cents. Second floor G street.
Twelve trimmed hats for women and children offered for immediate clearance at prices 2 3 dollars, previously 6 8 and 8 10 dollars. Untrimmed hats in desirable colors priced 2 3 dollars, previously 2 3 dollars. Also miscellaneous bouquet flowers 0 50 and 0 75 dollars. Second floor, tentant.
A small lot of 26 inch colored novelty silk umbrellas with natural wood handles offered at 2.85 each. Values reach 4.50 and 5.00. Main floor G at entrance.
Reduced prices on a diverse selection of women's garments across sizes 26 to 38. Includes white dotted Swiss princess dresses, linen Eton suits, novelty cloth jackets with circular skirts, cream serge suits, waste serge suits, and a white batiste princess dress. Third floor clearance alert.
Women cloak department offers 2 coats in sizes 36 and 40 with reduced prices from 10.00 to 5.00 each. A Brown mixed automobile coat with black velvet collar reduced from 30.00 to 15.00. A tan automobile coat with adjustable hood satin finish reduced from 88.00 to 18.50.
A third floor sale features girls dresses coats and guimpes with substantial cuts. Items include size 12 years black red embroidered pique skirts linen dresses white pique coats and lawn guimpes with discounts from two to nine dollars and more.
Parasol Department offers 9 colored silk parasols with natural wood sticks reduced from 3.00 to 1.00 each. One magenta tucked silk parasol down from 7.00 to 3.00. Three light gray tucked silk parasols cut from 36.00 and 27.00 to 33.50 each. Two odd rose tucked silk parasols reduced from 5.50 to 3.00 each on the main floor tenthat.
Fifth floor sale items include Limoges teapots sugar cream sets and china plates with deep discounts. French Japanese and imported pieces such as choc ainte pots and gold Incrusted dishes reduced from high original prices to a fraction of cost. Many pieces list reduced prices in small fractions, suggesting a clearance event across decorative tableware.
Furniture Department offers deep cuts on outdoor pieces. Rattan porch swing in apple green with ropes reduced from 20001 to 9.95. Rustic lawn seat with canopy top down to 5.95. Rustic lawn rocker and porch table also marked down. Heavy Maple Forest Rocker and Maple Porch Chair slashed to 4.95 and 2.95. Bungelow porch tables cut to 3.95 each. Located on the sixth floor.
Special sale of Sateeh Covered Dress Shields in popular sizes offered at half the usual price. Shields priced at a pair, with regular price noted as 20c. Located at the main finer-q street.
Fourth floor items reduce prices on boys long pants and double breasted suits in multiple sizes. Gray, blue and black serges feature savings from regular to sale prices across youth sizes 1 through 38, with items like wash Russian blouse suits and light tan breeches included. Limited details on stock and exact quantities.
Door mats and cookware are discounted in the Fifth floor sale listing at Eleventh St. Items include wire door mats, steel copper plated sauce pans, planished tin coffee urn slightly shopworn, enameled ware, pitchers, sauce pans, infants baths, Pallox furniture polish and Easy Bright cleaner with price cuts from high to low.
At a London luncheon in honor of Ambassador and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and Representative and Mrs. Longworth at Dorchester House, Mrs. Longworth impressed in black and white muslin with pink rose embroidery and silver stripes, complemented by two pearl strands. The gathering, hosted by American women, drew 200 plus guests including the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and Lord Curzon, with American circle tea at Lyceum Club and recitations.
A luncheon at Pittsburg Country Club staged by Airs Frank Hays followed by a Park Place Hotel dinner for Mrs. Lawrence Peason chaperoned by Mrs. C. Wilson and Charles Wilson in Atlantic City. A National Catholic Educational Association convention in Cleveland July 12 endorsed wider reading of the New Testament in parochial schools. A cable from the Pope was read, thanking attendees, and the Catholic Educational League elected officers including Mgr D J OConnell president, Very Rev James Burns vice president, and Rev Francis Moran treasurer.
Philadelphia reports Judge Jaimes Harvey MacLeary of Porto Rico Supreme Court remarried to Mary King MacLeary of Auburn after a 1901 divorce for abandonment. He is sixty, she forty-nine. The ceremony was at Holy Trinity P E Church with Rev Fredrick J. Clark officiating.
Postmaster Barnes announced changes in clerical staff and salaries at the Washington post office. Several promotions raised pay from 900 to 4000 dollars and updated job titles from assorter to superintendent of second class matter and other positions. Barnes and Albert J. Xanten toured substations to inspect operations and familiarize themselves with staff.
Clarence H Mackay and his mother donate 100000 dollars to the University of California Berkeley to establish a professorship in electrical engineering. The annual income funds a professor’s salary and department maintenance. principal to be kept intact perpetually.
Eight women’s tourist coats in medium gray shades with fing turtlenecks, three quarter length, half lined with satin. Former price nineteen dollars, now four eighty eight.
A middle aged woman at Oyster Bay, claiming ties to a brigadier’s family, walked toward Sagamore Hill and demanded an audience with Mrs. Roosevelt. Secret Service officers blocked her entry after almost an hour of insistence, a frightened but persistent Ms. Esac insisted she must see the First Lady or her life would be in danger.
In Towa Illinois and other states the juvenile law was denounced by C W Schnurr president of the Sheriffs Association at a convent meeting where 100 sheriffs from sixteen states gathered. They argued the law fails to curb youth crime and is ineffective in reforming offenders.
Sugertor to L Horsford's Acid Phosphate. A teaspoonful added to cold water with sugar yields two delicious summer conic. Prepared as a prompt flavor enhancer and beverage aid for refreshing drinks.
Secretary Bonaparte awarded contracts yesterday for two 16 000 ton battleships to Will Ham Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia and to the New York Shipbuilding Company of Camden New Jersey. Neither ship will use turbines as the navy experiments with scout ships first. Cramp bid 3 610 000 less than New York but Congress limits to one ship per company. Cramp bid 3 610 000, New York bid 9 585 000.
Rear Admiral Royal B. Bradford is ordered home from command of the Minneapolis in the North Atlantic Squadron and will be placed on the retired list. The retirement promotes Captain William Swinburn to rear admiral, Commander Willam H. E. Sutherland to captain, and Lieutenant Commander C. C. Marsh to commander in the fleet around Dominican waters.
Forty young Chinese students sail to the United States aboard the Tango to enter American colleges, with thirty sent by the government and the rest paying their own expenses. Dr. Charles D. Fenny, former head of the Chinese University at Tientsin, will direct the program in Britain and America. The group includes Chinese graduates on the rise as reform spreads, including Tong Sha, a supervisor of imperial customs and Yale graduate.
Batteries from Fort Myer under Maj. D. J Rumbrough camp at Linden Virginia tonight en route to Crickenaugua Park for maneuvers. They will march to Salem then train to Georgia. Belleville Indiana reports a town burned by an incendiary fire destroying twenty two buildings and causing about 75000 dollars in damage. The town with 100 residents is nearly wiped out.
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