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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1905
Page
7
During the heated term the store will close at 5 o'clock Saturdays at 1 and emphasize Our Remnant Day Friday. The policy is to clear out odds and ends by week end with strong remnants offered at half and less than half price. Fabrics include Mohair, Etamine, Crepe and Voile in various colors and yardages, with many items priced for substantial savings.
Remnants of high class cotton dress materials offered in 4 to 5 yard lengths at less than half price. Printed French organdie 15 cents per yard, half silk mousseline 2 cents per yard, domestics like lawns 8 cents per yard, percales 8 cents, ginghams 8 cents, and chambray 5 cents per yard. Also Panama straw hats on sale at about half price, sizes available, for men in the main floor men’s store on F Street.
Four women's trimmed hats cut from 6.00 to 2.60 each and hats priced down from 10.00 or 12.00 to zero or low. Four children's trimmed hats reduced to 1.00 each. One thousand women's untrimmed hats lowered from 20.00 and 8.00 to 1.40 each. Colored straw braids for hats, flowers in varieties, reduced to 0.15 per bunch. Second floor Tenth Street.
Friday sale in the White Goods Department with 2000 yards of Imported Figured White Madras at 2s per yard, reduced from 5d and 4d. Also natural flax Pla Linen Salting at 12 1/4c per yard and 140 yards Linen Suiting in fancy weave at 12 1/2c per yard, with other colored Linen Suitings offered at lower prices.
A small lot of copyright novels bound in Goeth, all printed clearly. Prices cut from 100 to 50, and some titles from 150 to 50. Remnants include Clever Sayings and Theosophical works, with several reductions across the shelf. Main floor on Tenth Street.
Large hosiery and lingerie sale on the third floor eleventh street offers Namsook gowns chemises and negligees with lace beading and embroidery at deep discounts. Includes 46 dozen women's stockings and ribbed hose in varied colors and sizes plus children's hose reduced from marked prices.
In the men’s furnishings section a sale lists reductions on items from madras ghirts to silk foulard ties. Many shirts and negligee fronts show price cuts from $1.50 to $1.00 or $2.00, with sizes 14 through 18. Stock includes novelty neglige ghirts, white china silk negligee suits, suspenders, and imported madras patterns. Several items note minor wear and bulk discounts.
Third floor sale offers boys long pants suits in sizes 14 to 16 at 7 50 each, and 2 piece double breasted and washable Russian suits in multiple colors reduced to 4 25 and 1 09. Eton collar and sailor styles, all wool options trimmed from 96.00 to 1 85 and 4.00 to 1 50 with selected bloomers and drill fabrics.
In the boys department, Straw Sailors in plain white and colored effects drop from two dollars to one half dollar. Milan straw hats fall to two dollars from higher prices, while broad brim sailor hats and Madras blouses receive steep cuts. White pique ties and golf caps also reduced, with assorted sizes and prices noted. Third four-tenth at.
Newspaper listing details shoe department discounts including Women's Dongola Kidskin Oxfords with light welt soles and patent options, women's slippers with French heels, Misses and Children's Tan Roman Sandals, and Boys' Patent Coltskin Oxfords. Prices slash from dollars to lower bundle prices. limited sizes and stock noted.
The China Department offers pieces including an 112-piece Green wocern set and Warwick Dinner Set with damaged items. Prices drop from $1600 to $11.05 and from $1.80 to $0.10 for covered dishes. Also listed are Gold and White Toler Set parts, Hand-painted Austrian Bread and Butter Plates, Limoges sauce tureens, and Blue Japanese Jardinieres with marked markdowns.
High grade mahogany steel lined marbleware packed with mineral wool. Old Hickory Swing chairs with woven Hickory splints. Fine Weathered Oak Dining chairs with morocco leather and upholstered backs. Rattan armchairs in colored cane with leather backs. Mahogany tables and ash marquetry seats reduced from 312 to 25 each. Weathered foot stools leather seats reduced to 6.6.
Readable items list limited to a few suit entries with lace embroidery English eyelet details and panel fronts. Includes white lawn shirt-waist suits in several sizes, reductions from high prices to lower sale figures, plus English rep jacket suits in multiple colors and sizes.
Four cloth skirts plaited bottoms cut from 7.60 to 1.70 each. Four cheviot plain brown skirts at reduced price. Four black linen plaited flounce skirts cut from 7.60 to 6.00 each. Third floor G street.
A list of women and girls garments on sale in the Misses Department. Includes white lawn guimpes, high neck dresses, embroidered trims, linen Peter Thompson suits, organdie dresses, white net dress, imported pique dresses, and white guimpes in sizes 4 to 16. Several items reduced from higher prices to sale figures.
On the third floor at 11th Street, the Infant’s Department offers muslin gowns and dresses in sizes 4 6 and 12 years, gingham drages and sun bonnets with embroidery and insertion, white pique hats, and India linen dresses with embroidery. Prices cut from 1.00 to 76, 1.50 to 1.00, and 4.00 to 2.00. bonnets at 1.00 each. third floor.
Upholstery department offers remnants of art ticking and cretonne in 3 to 6 yard lengths, reduced from high prices to 180 yards total. Belgian cotton stripes for slip covers, 26 inches wide, cut from 18 to 12 1 20 yard pieces. Various Renaissance lace bed sets and dressings discounted, including a Renaissance bed with lace edge and center and sample sets. Window screens, metal framed, 24 by 18 by 5 inches, marked down. Remaining awning materials in brown and blue stripes cut to yard quantities at reduced rates.
Special summer prices on upholstery work with discounts on fabrics from 1.5 to 8 yard lengths. Estimates available. Located on the fourth floor at street level.
Travel Goods Dept advertises reductions on winch brown grain leather bags and leather bound trunks with brass hardware, rivets, and locks. Prices drop from 3.5 to 0.5 inch equivalents and from 35.00 to 20.00. other trunks and cases show substantial markdowns across leather bound designs and alloys.
An itemized sale listing many housewares and appliances with discount prices. Preserving kettles, steam cookers, bread makers, gas stoves, baby tender items, baby bath items, and related shopworn goods show reductions from higher prices to lower sale figures. Specific prices include reductions from 16 to 1 and 4.00 to 1, with numerous items noted as shopworn or damaged.
Mrs Sackett and her sister sail to York Harbor joining Mire Leech Mire at Bac Harbor, while Mrs Norman Galt and Mrs Hale head to Paris. The Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs Peirce arrive at Bretton Woods for peace commission arrangements. Numerous figures from Washington visit Atlantic City, Newport, Bar Harbor, and Europe, with engagements and travel plans noted.
A cablegram to Gen Elliott reports a storm that wrecked the Marine Camp on Midway Island but did not harm the 20 marines stationed there. The detachment now quarters in cable building while a five building addition to the Marine Barracks is under way. Bids: Lipscomb & Co. $90,195. Masell & Wegner $301,200. W B Spier & Co $603,006. Charles McCaul Co $91,128. Cramp & Co $932,000. Capt Manuel Asueta of the Mexican Navy and Senor Gambon visit Annapolis Naval Academy. Newport, R I reports 1,433 apprentice seamen at training station. Secretary Darling approves limited repairs for cruiser San Francisco. Lieut Snyder reduced fifty numbers after court martial.
Obsolete leave granted to Maj Hagar Russell and First Lieut William Kent in the Signal Corps. Capt Guy C M Godfrey relieved from New York City duties and to Fort McPherson Ga. Extensions granted for Col William Wheeler and Laut on disability. Capt William Laeakes stays with Field Artillery drill board. Lieut William Hughes ordered to Fort Leavenworth Bank by Aug 8 1805 for aid-de-camp duty. Lieut James O Mos to report to Maj Willem A Arthur at Washington Barracks for board examination. Contract Surgeon Harper Peddicard to Vancouver Barracks for reassignment. An army resting board appointed at Washington Barracks for officer examinations. Detail for the bank Maj William Arthur and others listed.
A review of court martial records up to 1890 reveals only seventeen regular army officer cases referred to the War Department for intoxication. The low count surprised officials, given about 40 officers in the army, with yearly figures ranging from one to four cases in selected years such as 1899, 1900, and 1904.
A compiled notice lists captains and lieutenants on detached duty to Philadelphia works and naval stations, with assignments to Midware Steel and American Steel casting firms, naval academy, and ship engineering posts. It covers vessel movements among Newport, New London, San Diego, and other ports, plus transports and orders from Norfolk to Philadelphia and Honolulu.
Gifford Pinchot United States forester departed Washington for a Westward inspection tour of forest reserves. He will first visit Cass Lake Minnesota to review a ring project on ceded Chippewa lands of the Minnesota national forest reserve. Secretary Wilson will join later to continue the reserve inspections.
Acting Secretary Adke of the State Department received from M. Fussee rand the French ambassador a communication extending the thanks of the French government to Captain Murry and the crew of the Dora A. Lawson of Giou center Mae for saving the crew of the Pierrette on March igs washed twenty mica Plena.
John F. Stevens sails to assume control of Panama Canal operations as Shonts and Stevens outline plans to establish clubhouses and recreation facilities for Isthmian workers. The aim is to improve living conditions and morale, with a separate department to run amusements, reading rooms, games, and video entertainments.
Mr Stevens vows steps to improve sanitation and food at the isthmus and to secure low prices, aiming to end complaints and yield gains. He travels to the Canal Zone with an open mind, promising to adjust to conditions found and to experiment with labor options, including Chinese workers, until the best results are achieved.
Chief Engineer Stevens of the Panama Canal Commission recalls his Everett, Washington days as an industrial engineer for the Great Northern. A visitor from Everett notes Stevens once lived there and broke a rib in Everett. The Panama Canal Commission received word that Joseph A. Corrigan, an American employee at Panama, has yellow fever.
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