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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1907
Page
7
During the heated term the store will close at 5 o clock, Saturdays at 1. Progressive merchandising demands the eviction of all goods especially wearables in their seasons. There are many remnant items including outer and under garments for all ages priced low for quick sale today. Odds and ends and broken sizes fill all departments.
Bargains available Friday on hats, parasols, and lawn fabrics with deep discounts. Yardage pricing ranges from fractional to several dollars, plus reduced prices on men and boys clothing, suits, and undergarments across multiple departments in the store.
Readable fragments describe various children's white dresses with trimmed or inserted lace, sashes, and ribbons. Mentions sizes from six to twelve years, prices up to 300, and notes promotional reductions. Notes include gowns with lace, feather trim, and embroidery.
White Lisle Hosiery sale offers several items in white gauze and Persian slip styles. The ad lists 3 pairs for 100 cents, 40 cents per pair, and a few assorted hosiery pieces priced to clear.
Bargain nook lists price cuts across boys and girls apparel and accessories. Men and women shoe options include Dongola Hidskin Oxford Ties and Patent Coltskin Oxford Ties with reduced prices. Childrens querys and Sailor Tams show marked discounts, along with leather belts hats and caps and plain wash trousers offered at lower tag.
A local store lists steep markdowns across the Jewelry Department. Jeweled pins shrink from 41 to per item, French gilt necklaces from 100 to 30 0, bracelets cut from 4 to 1, and back combs lowered from 5 to 0 or 1 dollars. Miniature pieces drop to 1.0 each as main floor sale continues.
A furniture department advertises discounted items including Old Hickory tables and porch rockers. Multiple pieces show reduced prices from higher amounts to sale figures, noting damaged or slightly worn condition. Items include a 36 inch round table, large porch settees, porches swings, rustic birch tea tables, and a tall refrigerator on the sixth floor.
An old ad lists umbrella department specials with reduced prices on silk umbrellas and parasols. Items include 8 inch Best Grade Union silk handles, silver trimmed umbrellas, women's blue red and brown silk umbrellas with natural wood handles, and 24 inch parasols in heavy wool with embroidered selvage. Prices cut from 1000 to 499, 490 to 780, 300 to 190, and 500 to 250 respectively.
In the Women section several Eton suits and coat suits are discounted. Pink and blue linen Etons in sizes 34 36 and 365 are cut from 31800 to 1999 each. Other items include gray plaid skirts 34 36 38 at low prices and mixed light gray braiding suits with plaited skirts offered at major markdowns.
A local sale advertises women's waists and dresses including white china site trimmed tops blue taffeta silk jumper and chiffon waistpieces. Prices slash from high to about 3 to 4 dollars, with multiple sizes 36 40 42 and 98 noted.
Womens wrap coats and jackets are discounted significantly with items including a grey tin and blue size 860 coat reduced from 3700 to 150, a faux leather jacket from 109 to 9 each, a white lace collared jacket down to 1800, a yarned brick yode jacket at 19, rain coats in tan and brown at 16, and a fitted white cannon cloth coat halved from 100 to 50.
An inventory list shows Misses Department clothing with lowered prices across items such as waists, dresses, and coats. Reduced values include lace trimmed waists, emerald embroidered pieces, percale and gingham dresses, light jewel tone coats, and jaunty suits for sizes 10 to 16, reflecting clearance pricing.
A damaged ad lists travel trunks and cases in various sizes and finishes from basswood to leather. Discounts show reductions from high prices to lower markdowns, including steamer trunks, suitcases, gags, and bags, with references to materials like basswood and canvas and features such as riveted construction and brass locks.
China Department offers heavily reduced prices on porcelain sets plates bowls and trays with discounts from regular figures. Items include decorated imported luncheon and tea ware bowls cake plates chop plates and celery trays with price cuts up to substantial amounts. Fifth floor clearance event notes limited stock and end dates.
A printed sale notice details reductions on several items in the house furnishing department. Items include a 12 burner Wickless Oil Stove from 00 to 300, a Copper Washer from 9625 to 846, 1.10 quart Heavy Tin Coffee Boiler from 1 a to 5c, 1 2 quart Ice Cream Freezer from 1% to 120, 1 d quart Ice Cream Freezer from 735 to 200, an Infants Bath from gf to de, and a garden hose at per foot. Location noted as Fifth floor Eleventh at.
Long list of society notes covers engagements marriages and travels. Katrina Wight to marry in Tokyo Embassy and Miss Sherman wed in Washington while families and friends plan summer trips to Nova Scotia Ocean Grove and Narragansett. Notables include Dent Sherman Palmer and Gray households with domestic and social movements across the Atlantic and U S coastal resorts.
A gossip column details Lady Paget recovering from a long illness and resuming a busy social pace in London. It highlights the Gould family influence, pearls of famed wearers, and a Vanderbilt led charity fete at Oakland Farm Newport with extensive society attendance and activities.
An American hostess in Curzon Street hosts large gatherings at Mrs Adair's rooms, with Mrs Wackey arriving from Windsor. The piece notes her lively entertaining, a famed party with Yme Granler, and details about dolls and fashion trends at the doll counter.
Hanin J Clapp of St Paul and Susan HG Wilkes of Charlottesville wed quietly last Monday at the New Willard Hotel with Rev H EL Wright officiating. The couple, after a brief ceremony, sailed for New York and then England on Wednesday. The bride, 35, is known in St Paul. the groom, 30, is Yale educated and a relative of Senator Moses E Clapp. They plan to reside abroad until late autumn.
Miss Balish of New York City sustained a broken leg when the top of a coach was jolted and the entire party fell near Pat Pond hill at Saranac Inn. The group, including four others from New York and Philadelphia, were traveling to enjoy a lakes excursion. An illness benefit sale and entertainments are planned today at 1708 C Street NW with ice cream and cake to support the Fresh Air Fund. Reverend Mr Palmer, a noted Presbyterian preacher, will lead services in Columbus and will speak in Washington at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church next Sunday and on August 4.
Fragmentary verse admonishes self reflection and charity urging a reader to examine their own life and avoid judgment of others. It contrasts borrowed light with inward virtue and warns against pride while presenting a moral prompt.
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