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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1904
Page
7
UR announces a joint weekly and July clearance sale featuring remnants and extensive general stock at reduced prices. Highlights include 12 women’s knit drawers lace trimmed and Swiss ribbed vests in all sizes, 17 cents each, down from 25 cents, on the main floor Fst.
A newspaper ad lists women’s undergarments on clearance including drawers corsets and chemises in cambric and cottons. Items feature tucks and embroidery with prices highlighted as low as one price per garment, with regular costs noted.
Friday Bargains in White Goods Department offer reduced yardage on various fabrics suitable for shirts, dresses, and children's wear. Includes sea yard deals and scraps with prices around 13 to 23 cents per yard, plus remnants in galater child and colored blue at reduced rates. Located at 7th Street.
Remnants of voiles and dress goods in tans grays reseda greens and other colors, ranging 42 to gy inches in width and 2 to 7 yards in length, suitable for women and children's wear. To close them out today they are marked at a single price.
A vintage notice advertises fabric remnants priced as low as five cents a yard with previous prices listed up to one dollar fifty. It highlights printed and woven fabrics including French organza prints, lawny, mercerized stripes, lace trims, and Madras, with yardage ranges from two to twelve yards and various discount levels. A terse shopper note cites names of fabrics and reduced yard rates in a period promotional style.
In the infants' department two white pique reefers and a Lennowren coat are advertised. Reefers are three quarter length with trimmed cuffs and collars reduced from 650 to 150. The full length coat with white braid and pearl buttons is offered with a noted price cut. Dresses trimmed with lace are also on sale.
Readable text shows reductions on Brussels rugs 19 by 12 feet and ingrain mats. It lists Japanese matting and remnants with percentages and yardage terms, though many words are garbled. The ad signals discounted area rugs and related textile items with unclear remaining stock details.
In the Picture Department a sepia photograph titled Maconna by Vilth is offered with a broad brown sold frame. Pastels Landscapes in green and gold were reduced from 700 to 240, while other pieces like Friend Musicians in a gold frame and Girl in Fury Press in a brown frame were cut from high prices to lower figures. Located near Fourth and Tenth streets the display features reduced art prices.
Furniture department lists price drops on a Adirondack Three Porch Table from 755 to 375 and a Mahogany Music Cabinet with adjustable shelves down from 214 to 0.609, plus an Oak Mantel Fading Hed with reduced value and an Arts and Crafts lamp with shade of iridescent glass now cut from 75 to 30 percent.
A sale of multiple women's suits and skirts across sizes 32 to 42 on the third floor G street offers drastic markdowns. Brilliantine, Norfolk, and linen suits from prices cut from 18.6 to 7.50, 12.50 to 3.73, and 6 to 2.25 to 36.25 for shirtwaist styles. Jackets and skirts also discounted, with silk lined coats and leather-like fabrics featured.
Listing of reduced prices on miss and girls dresses including Cheviot Tailor-made suits, white pique skirts, wash dresses, chambray dresses, lace and ribbon trimmed pieces, linen outfits, and Buster Brown style sets. Items range in sizes 4 through 14 with substantial markdowns. Third floor sale note.
White Lawn Waists in multiple sizes with plaited fronts and embroidery across shoulders and cuffs discounted from 1.25 to 0.5. Thirty assorted sizes 1.25 to 2.95 priced items across stores. five Pengee Silk Waists trimmed with lace and tucks from 5.00 to 2.95. Poulard Shirt Waists with black and white grounds reduced from 6.00 to 1.75 on third floor.
Millinery department offers women’s trimmed hats at reduced prices from five and eight dollars to four dollars and less. Six hats priced down to six dollars each. A small lot of roses, flowers, and foliage items discounted. Second floor north, Tenth Street.
Men's department offers 11 two piece home spun and worsted suits in sizes 35 37 39 42 and 46 at $8.00 each down from 12.50. 22 stock ties pink and blue reduced from 50c to 5c each. 89 red lisle thread Sox sizes 9 11 2 16 1 2 reduced from 3 for $1.00 to 3 for $1.00. Main floor F street.
INS Kay's wool suits in sizes to 11 plus 13 reduced from 3.00 and 6.00 to 2.95 each. 3 pairs of boys' golf pants size 10 cut from 2.60 to 1.00. Mays' white pique sailor blouse suits sizes 3 to 10 except 7 cut from 3.00 to 1.95 each. Russian and Ballet blouses sizes 21 3, 3, 4, 6 7, and 10 reduced from 1.99 2.35 and 2.59 to 1.00 each. Third floor Tenth St.
In the boys furnishing department several items are offered at deep cuts including separate vests in sizes 12 18 and 18 reduced from 260 to 80 cents each. White blouses sizes 6 to 16 marked down from 75 cents to 50 cents each. Straw hats stiff brim in blue and black down from 8 cents to 2 cents each. Straw sailors and blue and red neck hats for boys and girls cut from 9 and 1.00 to 39 cents. Fine white duck hats with stitched brims all sizes cut from 1.00 to 50 cents.
Shoe department offers Women's Burlap Bathers with carpet soles in green blue maroon at 25 cents a pair. 24 pairs Misses White Canvas Oxfords reduced from 1.50 to 1.00 and 0.00 per pair. 13 pairs Children's White Canvas Sandals half heel turn sole sizes 1.00 to 1.40 reduced from 1.40 to 1.00 per pair.
A sale ad lists a pink decorated American porcelain dinner set and a pink decorated tallet set with damaged stop jars, all reduced from higher prices. It also offers four medium Limoges china platters, vegetable dishes, Austrian ching sauce dishes, glass cruots, and other items with marked discounts and unclear remaining details.
A fragment from a store notice lists reduced prices on plain scrap baskets and miscellaneous kitchen items. The garbled text references garden items, a cutter, and a stove, with a note about reductions from higher prices and a location on the fifth floor of Eleventh Street.
Washington society notes detail Bar Harbor gatherings with Mr and Mrs Christian Hauge and guests. Secretary Morton to sail August 4 on Mohawk with Speaker Cannon and party for a New England cruise. Mention Peru’s Calderon minister, Elmore as envoy, and various Washington social arrivals and residences.
Admiral Walker seeks to clarify the Panama Canal Commission’s powers over zone disbursements and its relation to the United States. The comptroller rules the zone falls under constitutional spirit but not as U.S. soil, with President and commission steering policy until Congress acts. Revenues: not conclusively U.S. funds requiring Treasury accounting. no navy style payroll allotments allowed.
Panama permits steamers to clear at Ancon after friction over port control. A conference between Foreign Relations Minister Tomas Arias and the American Minister led to an agreement that ships may enter Ancon while Panama files protests but imposes no fines pending final settlement of the issues.
The funeral of Rear Admiral Henry Clay Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, was held at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Interment followed a morning arrival from Sudbury, Ontario, with Navy officials and family present, Marines and artillery guarding the grave, and Taps by a Fort Myer bugler.
A deep bayonet wound found in the breast at Westchester Creek leads to a presumed murder. a missing man from Fort Schuyler noted. Navy officers receive transfers and duty changes at Narragansett Bay and other stations, including Moore to Chicago and Berbery to naval training station Nar ragansett Bay, with paymaster clerk appointments and revocations.
The War Department announced six military schools with the strongest training and proficiency eligible for each to appoint an honor graduate as a second lieutenant, if vacancies exist. Norwich University in Northfield Virginia. Pennsylvania Military College in Chester Pennsylvania. Shattuck School in Faribault Minnesota. South Carolina Military Academy in Charleston District of Columbia. St. John's Military Academy in Manlius North Carolina. Virginia Military Institute in Lexington Virginia.
Gen Frederick Funston arrives in Seattle to inspect all army posts in Alaska with Maj R K Evans and Lieut J B Mitchell. The three will travel thousands of miles from the Canadian boundary to Cape Nome this summer before Funston assumes command of the Department of the East in New York.
The document lists leaves of absence from ten days to six months for officers including Capt. Ernest D. Scott, Lieut. G. Arthur Hadgell, Capt. Easton R. Gibson, Lieut. Andrew J. Dougherty, and others. Transfers are noted for John D. Burnett Jr. and Frederic Hinrichs Jr. plus duty moves for Maj. William Black and Maj. Rolomon Rawler. A ceremonial aside recounts an unveiling incident involving Gen. Sherman and a clergyman at Bartholdi statue.
Special Correspondent reports from London on the Duchess of Manchester known as the “scorcher” for reckless driving. Her chauffeurs face fines and license indorsements, yet she pays up and hires the best, demanding speed and rarely slowing on country roads. The duchess’s husband, the duke with a weak heart, prefers calmer travel when accompanying her.
A London flower seller, Margaret Smith, threw a bouquet at the King during his visit to lay the foundation stone of St Bartholomew's Hospital. The bouquet struck the King between the eyes but caused no harm, and he signaled forgiveness as a constable arrested Smith for assault. The King later ordered her release with a private note of loyalty.
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