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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1904
Page
7
Woodward & Lothrop will close at 5 o clock during the heated term with Saturday hours ending at 1 o clock. The store serves New York Washington and Paris regions.
A July sale offers reduced prices on summer garments and surplus stock from manufacturers and importers. Large and small lots include Women s Mid Summer Under garments, Swiss Ribbed Vests, Panties, Umbrella Drawers and Vests. Samples, regular 50 to 75 cents, now 25 cents each or less. Main floor East.
The Upholstery Department has moved to the fourth floor on the G street side due to alterations on the second floor. The change provides better light and improved facilities, and customers should adjust to the new location.
A clearance sale offers lace curtains in 2 to 6 pair lots with price reductions averaging one third to one half. Styles include Arabian Curtains Chiny Lace Curtains Marie Antoinette Saxony Net Renaissance Brussels and Swiss Muslin Curtains. Savings appeal to buyers for now or fall use.
A fragmented price sheet catalogs numerous lace curtain styles and discounts. Items include Arabian Lace Curtains at 29.00 down from 27.50, Cathedral and Antique style curtains, Chiny Lace curtains, Antoinette and Renaissance effects, and Walley Lily designs. Prices range from 0.65 to 29.00 with multiple two-pair sets and wholesale quotations.
Prices dropped from 85 cents to 50 cents and up to 2 dollars for screen doors. Shoppers urged to bring correct measurements of height and width to avoid exchanges. Fourth floor G Street location.
A catalog of one-of-a-kind furniture offered at clearance prices. Includes library tables, dressers, chests, chairs, couches, and rockers in quartered oak and mahogany with mirrors, carvings, and ornate features. Prices range from $1.65 to $75, with many items discounted from higher amounts. Sixth floor-G at.
A new lot of Decorated Engish Porcelain Covered Vege table Dishes offered in assorted shapes and sizes at about half the regular prices. Special attention to items at 50¢ each. Also a lot of Odd Decorated Plates at roc each.
A Fifth floor sale advertises unusual values on VDecorated Half-gallon Water Ditchers in stoneware and porcelain, offered in assorted colors and shapes at 25 cents each.
A dealer advertises a new German China line with berry, corn on the ear, and tomato designs on green. It notes lettuce leaf and lobster ware from the same maker, lists items for inspection with prices for corn plates, corn platters, tomato plates, tomato dishes, melon plates, corn butter sets, and salt and pepper shakers, with a fifth floor showroom.
Miss Katherine Elkins and Miss Davis attend the Luzerne regatta seeking the International Contest, Bar Harbor hosts plan entertainments for Alice Roosevelt. Mr. and Mrs. Le Beau wedding plans for Mabel A McGill in St Patrick's Church. Salem and Norfolk guests visit, stage social rounds from Boston to Maine with many arrivals.
An import arrival offers Sweet Peas vases in red and green tinted tops and iridescent varieties. Small iridescent vases sell at 15 cents, with larger sizes up to 3.50 dollars. Various shapes and prices announce attractive, inexpensive options for floral displays.
Mrs Anna Chapman McGuire wife of Joseph D McGuire died Monday at Blowing Rock North Carolina. Body to be brought here services at Rock Creek Church tomorrow Tremoo apoplexy caused death. Mr Crist made private secretary to Secretary Metcalf Department of Commerce and Labor. Coughs and colds dangerous intruders expel them with Parkers Ginger Tonic. Parker s Hair Tonic aids hair growth. Store closed at 5 pm Saturdays 1 pm.
A Marine barracks tour with a baby monkey ends in a rooftop chase through Twelfth Street and D Street NW. Jack Rags, a messenger boy, scales skylights and roofs, finally corralling the Simian after a tense sprint from a printing house to a lodging house chimney. Meanwhile a frustrated customer-bureaucrat dispute over a $1.40 express charge escalates, and an army veteran recounts the Thirty-seventh Infantry hymn tale from Mindanao.
Judge John J Weed longtime Washington lawyer and Lincoln protégé died July 14 in Hinesburg Vermont kidney trouble ended a career marked by Indian claims work and opposition to Lincoln in a Springfield case Weed served as solicitor in the Court of Claims and counted Jefferson Chandler and Robert Ingersoll among colleagues He was a Republican campaign speaker widowed with no children and home at 1523 T Street NW.
In Boston on July 26 the Longwood cricket club doubles event moved to the fourth round as Ward of Orange New Jersey outlasted A E Bell California champion in a four set battle 7 9 6 4 6 2 6 4 Bell led 9 7 in the first set before Ward recovered to take the next three. Twenty three doubles teams entered the Eastern championship the next day with several other matches decided in straight sets.
Interest in the Potomac River regatta grows as August 83 approaches. The Navy has detailed the torpedo boat Talbot to serve as referee boat, joining races expected to draw large crowds. Potomac Boat Club trains three crews daily for the mile and a half course while Analesians conduct nightly fours amid pleasure craft on the river.
On Saturday July 30 a new direct route to Ocean City will open, running via the Chesapeake Beach Railway Eastern Shore Transport Company and the Baltimore Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway. Special train leaves at 4 20 p m. Tickets 3 60 good for return, with connections to Claiborne Easton and other eastern shore points.
The Rev. Dr C L Thompson of New York spoke at the Young People's Missionary Societies conference in Sliver Bay N Y on Home Missions He urged patriotic and religious reasons for evangelizing emigrants and for church work in new regions The gathering drew about 400 delegates and included Bible class and mission study sessions The annual entertainment replaced usual vesper services tonight.
The army issues several leave and transfer actions. Maj. Robert F. Ames receives four months leave due to sickness. Brig. Gen. William P. Hall gets two months leave starting August 5. First Lieut. Robert J. Reaney granted two months leave starting around August 31. Lieut. Col. William L. Pitcher assigned to an examining board at the Presidio. Col. Owen J. Sweet relieved. Capt. Jay E. Hoffer to Fort Riley as ordnance officer for the national match August 23-24. First Lieut. Peter Vredenburg to Fort Snelling pending regimental arrival. Transfers in Coast Artillery noted for Mason and Pages. Capt. Ralph H. Van Deman’s Ohio maneuvers trip reported as per instruction.
Navy orders Chicago to be commissioned August 15 at Boston to prepare for a Pacific cruise relieving New York as flagship of Rear Admiral Goodrich. Capt. Edwin K. Moore to command the Chicago. Newport News officials report Des Moines board inspection at Fort Monroe, with departure for Washington tonight.
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