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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1904
Page
7
During the heated term the store will close at 5. Saturday at 1. A Special Remnant Day. I have cleaned out our stocks in all departments this week and assembled remnants for quick selling today. Prices are down everywhere remnants exist with splendid bargains in merchandise for personal and household uses. Many equally good items are not mentioned.
In tans grays and reseda greens remnants measure 42 to 48 inches wide and range from a to 7 yards long. Suitable for women's waists shirts and dresses and children's wear. To close them out today they are marked at the one price.
Fifty cent yard prices on cotton fabrics from remnants and reduced lots. Was 1.50 1.25 and 1.00 per yard now 0.50. Paney Printed and Woven Fabrics and other styles heavily discounted. Printed Lawns Percales Ginghams and Voiles offered at marked down rates on Main floor G Street.
Short lengths of colored silks offered at half price and less. 75 second group of fancy silks 1 to 5 yards at go per yard. Originally 75c to 1.25. 60 plain colored silks 1 to 4 yards at sec per yard. Originally 75c to 1.50. Main floor six storefront street location.
A sale listing offers dimity sacques with fitted backs and round collars in all colors. remnants include nainsook gowns with Valenciennes lace, cambric skirts with tucks, and corset covers trimmed in lace. Prices cut from 1 dollar to 5 and 10 cents to 2 dollars, with several items reduced further on fabric remnants.
A sale listing for a White Goods Department features striped Etamine at 5 cents a yard, Corded White Indian Dimity at 1 cent, and a dotted Swiss balance in blue pink and red at 25 cents a yard. Regular prices ranged 50 to 75 cents, located on the second floor Eleventh at.
A sale features White Linen Collar and Cuff Sets embroidered in colored Persian effects and cross-stitched designs at 30c per set, down from 75c and 1.00. Also White Madras Stocks embroidered in fuchsia colors at 7sc each, regularly 1.50.
Reads like an in-store sale listing with deep discounts on infants and children's clothing. Items include India linen dresses, infant cloaks, Nainsook skirts, gingham dresses, white pique reefers, and a red straw hat with price cuts from the third floor Eleventh department. Prices drop to as low as 1.00 to 3.75 per item.
The Upholstery Department has moved to the fourth floor on the G street side due to alterations on the second floor. The change should be welcomed for the improved light and better facilities as staff invite customers to adapt to the new location.
Limited cotton slip covers for a S piece suite offered at a special price while quantities last. Also 100 naka Awilwa Muatin Ruined Curtains at 47 capair, plus remnants including linen covers, porch blinds, bamboo blinds, summer sofa cushions and various doors at marked reductions. New location on Fourth floor, G street.
Nation Department advertises various discounted items including Gatin Fagatea collars in pink blue and lavender at 25c each, leather handbags at 25c, belts up to 1.50, camphor moth destroyers 3 cans for 50c, colored envelope bundles at 5c per package, and writing paper sets. Footwear bargains feature women's tan oxford, black kid oxford, youth patent calf bluchers, children's black kid oxfords, and misses black hid shoes with substantial price cuts. Third Floor Ten t h Street.
Traveling Goods Dept offers price cuts on 18 inch Alligator Bag 60 dollars 16 inch Sea Lion Bag 7 75 Leatherette Suitcase 1 50 small telescope cases 10 and 10 cents each 13 6 inch Trunk 2000 13 6 inch Steamer Trunk 15.00 basement Equitable bidg with gilt trimming brass clamps rivets linen lining and leather bound cases.
Women’s wait dept lists 2 dozen white lawn shirt waists with small polka data in sizes 34 to 42. Pieces include embroidered yokes, tucked fronts, lace and cuffs with marked reductions from original prices down to 75 cents to $1.50, featuring madras waists and white grenade designs in various sizes and styles.
Store cataloging a wide sale of women's wear on the third floor featuring white lace trimmed shirts, white coats, silk jackets, tailored suits in blue black and brown with white figures, and English Rep Wash Skirts. Reductions include prices from 98.75 to 7.90, 49.60 to 18.00, 18.50 to 8.80, and 13.50 to 5.00, with sizes 32 to 40 and various fabrics and trims.
A historical clothing list shows reductions on multiple items including Misses' Department mixed suits trimmed with plain cloth in sizes 14 16 18 from 1500 to 750 each Girls White Pique Skirts in sizes 13 14 and 16 from 250 to 150 each Navy blue polka dot skirts in sizes 10 12 14 16 from 150 to 9e each White Net Dress trimmed with satin ribbon size years from 1850 to 750 Girls Percale Dresses with white duck collar sizes 4 6 12 from 125 to 5 each White Linen Russian Dresses with embroidered emblems size 4 years from 273 to 1450 Seven Chambray Dresses sizes 4 to 12 from 350 to 150.
A local shop advertises reductions in the Mi'linery Department. White Lace Hat trimmed with roses and chiffon reduced from 1004 to 3600. Trimmed Hats cut from 400 and 500 to 150 each. Other hats from 500 and 3600 to 800. Tints slashed to 500. A selection of flowers and get-me-nots offered. Second floor Tenth St.
A dusty store page lists men underwear shirts and drawers in sizes 34 to 44, tees and mesh fabrics, with deep cuts from 6c to tde per garment. Exclusive fancy glassware, cheviot stocks, divers gloves, dresses, and all wool suits are marked down with prices slashed from high to low, including caps and golf pants across floors.
Third floor listings show White Cheviot Blouse Shirts with collars and ram e details in sizes 5 to 18, bathings suits for 3 and 4 years, assorted Jersey Bathing Suits in navy and red, straw hats for boys and girls, and duck sailor hats all heavily reduced from higher prices to cents and dollars.
Reduced prices on porcelain sets and individual pieces including Austrian cracker jars American china bread and butter plates pink decorated German cream pitchers Limoges gravy tureens flat cut glass fruit dishes and cut glass water pitchers. Most items cut to a fraction of their former price as listed in the sale catalog.
A second floor notice lists bed reductions including 2 ft outs beds from 713.0 to 106.00 each, 2 ft white beds from 156.00 to 4.00 each, 2 ft green and gold bed from 310.00 to 38.60, a 14 ft swell foot white bed marred, reduced from 7.50 to 5.00, and 20 gauge feather pillows from 1.75 to 1.00. items on second floor F Street undergo sale.
A damaged listing from Houv efurnishing dept advertises price cuts on several items including a Japanese styled flour bin oak plate rack and enamelware. Items described as shopworn imperfect or slightly damaged with reductions from higher prices to lower sale figures.
Society notes report Le Droit L Barber son of Mr and Mrs A L Barber in serious condition at Ardsley on the Hudson after recovering from typhoid in Europe. The item lists social visits and trips by prominent families to Lenox Colorado Springs Newport and Lenox again with multiple names and venues.
The fourth financial and economical annual of Japan, printed in English, surveys Japan’s resources, latest budget, and foreign debts with charts. It notes Russo-Japanese expenditures at 678 million yen, 621 2 cents per dollar, and includes a 40 million yen emergency reserve. Postmasters appointed include Laula M Kimmel and Joseph Chancey among others. James M Atwell named to Virginia. Charles Ray Dean named U S delegate to the eighth international geographic congress in Washington. Store hours: closing 5 p.m. weekdays and 1 p.m. Saturdays.
The Presidio of San Francisco hosted a board dissolving after officer examinations for promotion while several leaves of absence were extended. Captains and lieutenants received new duties, assignments, or resignations including a major transfer, with changes affecting the Engineer and Artillery Corps and staff college selections. Additional notes report a grounding dock at Mare Island and three more Naval Academy midshipmen admitted.
A cablegram from Mrs. John W. Timmons informs of Ensign Timmons III ill in Trieste with a threatening typhoid fever attack. He serves aboard the Kearsarge flagship of Admiral Barker’s North Atlantic Squadron now in Mediterranean waters. No further details on his condition beyond improving reports and the hospital stay.
The torpedo boat destroyer Blakely exceeded contract speed on the Newport measured mile test averaging 96.7 knots over eight miles. The vessel will proceed to a one hour run at 24 knots as part of standard trial procedures. Navy officials announce the forthcoming official speed test and list subsequent personnel assignments and movements.
A fragmented poem explores a life drift between dreams and reality. The speaker wanders crowded streets feeling hollow, while visions of jewels and royal garb tempt escape from dreary urban life. A yearning deathly calm closes the poem.
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