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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1905
Page
7
Woodward & Lothrop closes out weekly remnants including odds and ends short lengths broken sizes and incomplete assortments. The store emphasizes strong remnant values for today with appreciable savings through careful shopping.
A local store advertises a clearance of men’s two-piece suits in Homespuns Cheviots and Warsteds. Prices drop from 12.00 12.50 to 8.00 for select sizes and 10.00 suits to 6.00. listing sizes Regular Long Stout across gendered stock at the Main store location.
Friday bargains highlight women s gowns with Suramer Clowns in fine Namsook fabric. Low neck short sleeves finished with embroidery and ribbon. Priced at $1.00 each, regular $1.50. Also Women's Lisle Hosiery in black white tan 33c per pair or 3 for $1.00.
Advertising snippet promotes a sale on forty dozen Women’s Swiss Ribbed Coron Vests in all sizes by Malin floor-F, offering a special value of 124 cents each.
Dress Goods Dept offers clearance on popular lightweight wools and dress fabrics including Volles Crepes Kuumines and Boullenging. Navy tan and brown lengths 11 4 to 534 yards priced 23c 75c 1.00 1.25 and 1.50 per yard.
High class cotton dress materials offered in 4 to 9 yard lengths at less than half price. Printed French Organdie designs priced by the yard. Domestic cotton remnants in 24 to 8 yard lengths with lawns 8c to 12c per yard and ginghams 8c to 30c. Danish cloth 10c per yard. Second floor Gallery.
Frugal shoppers are offered linen department deals with Irish linen fabric described as 36 inches wide for underwear fancy work and waistware with yard pricing and discounts indicated.
A damaged ad list from the Boys' Department details reduced prices on a wide range of apparel and linens. Items include towels, blouses, long pants, jackets, shawls, and linen goods with marked cuts from previous prices. Location noted as Second Floor, Seventh Street.
Hotel crockery ware includes plain white plates at 2 dozen price and hotel use. Remaining stock of Boys Straw Hats selling at half and less than half original prices. Styles include straight-brim, broad-brim Milan, and fine Milan straw hats for boys and girls with various discounts. Sales on third floor tenth street location.
Shoe department offers a large selection of women’s oxfords with welt and turn soles in sizes 4 to 7, plus several styles in 51-2 and 6 12 A. Also a small lot of white canvas oxfords in sizes 4 to 7, reduced from higher prices. Third floor Tenth st.
Items include Turkish bath robes, drawn down in price from 6.00 to a reduced tag, Leno mesh drawers in multiple sizes, and percale negligee shirts with attached plaited fronts, sizes M 16 15242 and 14, all reduced from dollar amounts to lower prices.
Upholstery department offers odd lots of lace curtains at clearance prices. Trish Point prints three price tiers with pair counts and discounting from original prices. Brussels Net and Tambour Net, Cluny and Ruffled Muslin curtains featured among 32 total pairs in various sizes and sale prices.
The millinery department advertises WW women’s hats marked down to five dollars each and a line of Toque and Sc hats reduced from 1.00 to 0.75. Also untrimmed hats in all colors, with reductions from 1.60 and 3.00 to 1.25 each. Second floor tenth at.
A garbled sale list details various women's suits and dresses with colors, sizes, and marked-down prices. Items include a white blue floral mousselina dress, organdie dress, silk shirtwaist suits, and taffeta pieces, with scattered reductions from original prices to lower sale prices.
Reduced prices on black linen guns and mixed cheviot skirts. Linen items drop from 37.50 to 6.00 each, while cheviot skirts fall from 5.00 to 2.50 each. Sale features steel Panama seats and assorted color options.
Store offers multiple girls dresses and outfits with reductions. Items include 10 white lawn dresses in sizes 6 to 12, 8 pique and chambray dresses with embroidered collars, 6 checked gingham dresses, 8 white lawn guimpes, 8 more white lawn guimpes with full skirts, and 4 gray all wool homespun suits for sizes 14 to 16. Reduced from $1 to 1.50, $2.60 to 1.00, $2.50 to 1.00, and similar savings. Third floor radar.
McNally & Co. enlarged Business and Shipware Guide editions with original engravings and portraits, plus Ridpath and Northrop works. Prices cut from $1.50 to $1.00 or $1.55 for sets. Leather-bound volumes, two volumes, on main floor Tenth Street.
Readable items include White Enameled Bed with scroll design cut from 6.60 to 43.60, Green Enameled Bed from 6.50 to 4.00, Felt Mattress from 9.60 to 7.00, Bolster Rolls damaged, Bed Upnopies with 4 frames offered at 2.00 each, Bamboo Laundry Box with Japanese Matting down to 6.00, a box reduced from 0.60 to 3.00, and burlap covered shirtwaist boxes at 2.00 each on the second floor flat.
Auction style list shows Warwick China and Fickle dish parts missing and marked down items. Decorated toilet set with jar reduced from eight fifty to three five four, plain white slop jars and stoneware jars trimmed. dainty French china oval tureen cut from four dollars to one. Odd decorated imported plates offered at reduced prices with floor location noted.
Catalog lists 2 4 foot iron frame lawn benches at 3.96 each, 46 12 foot folding benches with hardwood slats from 2.00 to 3.35, 2 hardwood ice chests from 15.00 to 5.38, a dark oak butter and grocer’s refrigerator from 20.00 to 96.85, weathered oak chair with rush seat, handsome rattan armchairs, sofas, and matching recliners with steep reductions, and 1 ride chair and 1 ride sofa in various finishes.
Damaged and reduced items include a 2-b gas stove priced down from higher. chamber pails cut to lower prices. Indian bean baskets and taned knife baskets discounted. hair receivers and fancy pipe baskets trimmed. fifth floor items at Eleventh Street.
Col Edward Mortill joins summer colony at Bar Harbor and Mrs Wilhelm Haeffner arrives in America for her first post marriage visit. Baroness des Planches sails from Washington to New York en route to Havre. embassy members to join in Manchester by the Sea. Casino Club Newport hosts semi finals with Miss Wetmore and Miss Sands advancing, amid society spectators.
In suspender style Vatican will insure them an audience with Pius X and Florence will extend an area to display the art treasures. George B. Boyland of the U S Pension Office hosts his former school friend Walter Pfeiffer of Cumberland Md this week. Mr and Mrs John M Conway travel to Aurora in the Alleghanies for the rest of the summer and are at the Aurora House.
William F Sullivan, died at his city home Tuesday, buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery after a Catholic service at St Aloysius Church. A Spanish American War veteran, he served in Company I, First Washington Volunteer Infantry, and later Company L, Thirty-sixth U S volunteer infantry, with a 188 day firing line record in the Philippines. Comrades, legions, and Fourth Immune Camp members attended the burial with volleys, taps, and floral tributes.
James Knox Taylor negotiates for the 39 000 square foot block south of the post office for a new Post Office Department annex. The block, valued at about 118 000, is offered up to 3500 a foot with an estimated total near 250 000, though Treasury officials deem the price high. About half the land is owned by Italians.
Rich's Shoes, the leading southern shoe house, announces today the inauguration of a new era. The store pledges expanded offerings, improved service, and greater emphasis on quality and value for customers.
The sale includes Rich's most desirable fashions and footwear for men women boys misses and children. offering the most serviceable satisfactory and fashionable shoes at greatly reduced prices to effect a complete clearance. Notably large reductions apply to tan shoes and summer footwear with broken sizes and lines to be discontinued.
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