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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1906
Page
7
A bustling clearance offers odds and ends from all departments at unusually low prices. Remnants include dresses shirts suits and robes with many items reduced from standard prices for quick sale. Offers cover home outfitting summer wear and vacation needs with frequent big savings and limited quantities.
A Friday sale offers deep discounts across menswear and boys apparel including straw hats at half price and various suits coats and dresses. Featured items include Norfolk jackets linen crash pants suits and a selection of white pelt outing hats with sizes noted. reductions range from modest to substantial across many departments.
Fragmented ad lists remnants of cotton goods with yardage and prices. Items include lengths from 1 to 8 yards and various prints. Prices range around fractions of a cent to modest amounts, reflecting a general sale listing in a local newspaper. The text is garbled but indicates fabric remnants offered by local merchants with per yard pricing.
Fragments describe a bargain or sale item linked to colored petticoats. The readable text hints at pricing and purchase terms but lacks full details. No clear names, places, dates, or organizations are confirmed in the legible portion.
Bargain notice appears for corsets with prices around $200. OCR fragment lists sizes and mentions a sale or advertisement. Names, dates, or specific store details are unreadable, but the item center is a sale of summer corsets with a promotional price.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a children's lingerie hat item with embroidered BMI and bow details. Mentions prices and quantities, but the text is garbled with incomplete names and numbers. Further readable specifics are needed to craft a precise card.
Readable fragments describe discounts in the Boys and Furnishings Departments with items like hats shirts and accessories reduced from higher prices to lower sale prices. Mentions include reduced prices on bows and girls items and straw hats with floor length items noted.
Readable text shows a Friday bargain section featuring white canvas oxfords in multiple sizes and prices, with linen fabrics offered at reduced rates. The listing includes remnants and discounts on women’s and children’s items, patent leather options, and assorted home textiles like table cloths and linens.
The ad lists silk umbrellas with various color patterns and frame styles, noting sizes and use as parasols. Priced at 245 dollars each amid a misprinted regular 4350 and 500 figures, emphasizing travel, seaside, and rain utility.
Bargain sale offers leather hand bags in black enamel and maroon leather with imported frames. Reduced prices include women and men sizes from 12nd to 15inch, belts and trunks, wardrobe items, and walnut cases. Prices cut from high amounts to several discounted figures in a basement display at Equitable Building.
Bargain details show discounts on oilcloth, batiste, yardage prices and striped lawn fabrics. Items include Imig end oilte Batiste at reduced per yard rates and yardage quantities. Open weave striped lawn fabric offered with lowered prices and nearby shop mention on Seventh Street.
Millinery Department offers reductions on ladies hats and childrens caps. Trimmed hats cut from 60 to 3 and 1.50 to 3 each, untrimmed hats offered in various colors, with prices down from 10 to 3, at the second floor on Tenth Street.
A sale notice lists women’s coats and jackets with silk empire and cannon cloth fabrics. Items include a silk coat size 4 reduced from 1850 to 1260, a white cannon cloth coat with gems and pearl buttons, and multiple jackets with lace, sizes 31, 36, and 26, all marked down from high original prices to lower sale figures.
Reduced prices on items in the Misses Department list from 18 to 5 dollars for lawn dresses to 3 1 000 for coats. White lawn guimpes pique dresses and linen coats at various sizes receive lace trimming and Russian style shoulder details. Third floor 6 st.
Readable ad items list upholstery offerings and window screens in assorted sizes with color finishes. Discounts shown for adjustable screens, wood doors, summer curtains, and related accessories. Prices indicate substantial reductions from prior amounts amid sale promotions.
Listing shows football shoes in sizes 12 7 and 9 with price cuts from 123 to 22 dollars and 39 cents. Also features Canis tennis oxfords reduced to a lower pair price and bicycle hose sizes 9 to 12 with markdowns from 100 to an indicated lower amount.
A dated advertisement lists price cuts in the furniture department. Items include mahogany rockers and settees with saddle seats, double woven cane seats, and a long metal box with a price drop. The sale emphasizes large markdowns from high original prices to low sale figures.
A sale listing details discounts on porcelain and china items including two Yeared and Coll Decorated Jara meres at 100 each, two Austuan plates, a Limoges chocolate pitcher 200, Limoges covered dishes 100 each, pink and green Limoges dishes 69, a Haviland game set 1250, Japanese cups and saucers 400 per dozen, German fruit plates 0 to 0 each, and other reductions on decorative wares.
A household department lists reduced prices on a gas oven freezer kitchen table and assorted wares. Several items show markdowns from high to lower amounts including enameled ware double boilers brooms and a water cooler. Damaged goods noted include a dented copper bottom wash boiler and a steam cooker with price cuts on fifth floor eleventh street.
Social and personal notes cover a late afternoon ceremony at the Emery home where Miss Alice Crane Harkins wed Dean Bret Swingle of the Agricultural Department. The couple, joined by close friends, left for Canada for a summer canoe trip. The event featured palms, ferns, and pink asters, a white batiste gown for the bride, and a large bridal party. Friends and relatives from Washington and beyond were noted in attendance and subsequent travels.
Matthew Blacklock ties his fortune to textile and coal ventures while courting Anita as he fights debt and market ruin. Amid stock busts and broker schemes, he wrestles with temptation, friendship, and a perilous love that could cost him control of his empire.
Testimonial benefit will be given by Miss Howell at the Chevy Chase Inn Friday night August 3 with an interesting program. Howell will recite several pieces and Gen John S Black will be among the orators. Music by Howard, William Ger, and the Fort Worth band will close with vocal selections by Hoover and Mors. Col Donelson burial noted at Rock Creek Cemetery after services at St Pauls.
The will of Mrs S VE Rei a late inmate of the Baptist Home was filed for probate by Mrs Elizabeth Hole president of the home. She directs two life insurance policies to be assigned for the Baptist Home to cover funeral expenses and remaining funds to be used at the board of lady managers’ discretion. The document notes her gratitude and recognition of the Home’s interest in her life.
The Guild of the Chapel at Antivits corner in Southeast plans to raise funds to build a new church at the Tot at Thirteenth Street and Massachusetts Avenue SE. A series of entertainments support the building fund, starting with a lawn party held last night at Tennessee Avenue and East Capitol Street.
A narrator reflects on gambling's lure and finance driven pride. He reveals a failed pursuit of a woman and social ascent, facing ruin as the life he built collapses. Inner rage, self-doubt, and a moment of existential crisis follow, leading to a cliffhanger for tomorrow.
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