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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1905
Page
7
Friday bargains in the linen department offer 2,000 yards of White Irish Linen in 36 and 42 inch widths for dresses underwear and more at 25c per yard values up to 37hc 35c and 37k¢ per yard Also 500 yards Linen Suiting in checks and blues lavender brown and pink at 1c per yard and 2,000 yards 40 inch India Linen at 17$¢ per yard Second floor Eleventh st.
A sale offers many women’s corset covers in summer cambric and nainsook, trimmed with lace, beading, and ribbon, full fronts. Priced at 50 cents each, valued at 75 cents, located on a tiled floor at Eleventh Street.
An advertisement offers 1 dozen net corsets with coutil strips in long and short styles, sizes 18 to 30, priced at 39c. Remnants include Lully of France corsets with whalebone, various sizes, and discounts on several models from 950 to 850, 5.90 to 4.00, 10.00 to 5.00, and more.
Marseilles bedspreads offered in small lots with slight mill imperfections. Sizes for single, twin, double, and extra large beds priced at $2.25, $3.00 and higher with value references. Also three soiled Roman blankets reduced to $1.50 each on second floor.
Furehasera advertises choice remnants for gowns wrappers and children's wear. Cotton remnant fabrics include Percales 8¢, Ginghams 8–25¢, Dimities 8¢, Organdies 15–25¢, Mousselines 15¢, with fabrics in various lengths from 2 yards. Second floor garments department promotes durable latest weaves.
Millinery department offers untrimmed hats in many shapes and colors priced down from 1 and 1.50 to 2 cents each. Straw braids in all desirable colors cut from 7 cents to 25 cents each. Flowers reduced from 60 cents to 2 cents per bunch. Trimmed hats sharply reduced from 6 dollars and 8 dollars to 3 dollars each. Floor tenth at.
Lot includes Franch Madras and Gills Gronsdixe curtains, floral and dark grounds, 1 to 4 pairs at 3.50 pair, values 5.50 to 8.50. Samples and patterns in poloura tapestries damasks brocades, 11 2 to 8 yards, for furniture coverings or couch drapes. Cushions, cretonnes, damasks, and art tickings 75c each. Cretonnes reduced to 1¢ yard, box couches with springs $9.95, mercerized portieres $1.25, rope portieres $1.50, more reductions on ruffled muslin curtains and lithographed pillow tops. Fourth floor at.
Shoe department offers numerous pairs of tan Roman sandals and Christie ties for misses and children at reduced prices from two to three dollars. Highlights include sizes 1 to 12 and various widths with prices cut to about 1.00 to 1.25 per pair, plus several Calfakin Oxfords and patent tips on sale.
Describes three go carts with features such as tan or enamel finishes, rail edges, rubber tires, and full steel gear. Prices reduced: from 5.50 to 8.95. from 21.00 to 13.65. from 90.00 to 17.88. Sixth floor G street storefront.
The notice lists multiple basket items with marked price cuts on Hanokerchien, Scrap, Glove, and Indian baskets. Reductions include prices from Se to Me and from 60c to 5c, with several items dropping from higher amounts to low figures. Fifth floor Eleventh at indicates location for these sale items.
Parasol Department offers 13 colored silk parasols in tan brown sand red reduced from 34 50 6 00 and 9600 to 2 00 each one pongee and pink parasol cut from 7 00 to 8 75 lavender silk parasol trimmed order white chiffon parasol reduced from 25 00 to 15 00 main floor tenth st
Auction style notices show numerous trunks and leather goods with discounts. Items include rawhide bound steamer trunks, leather bound cases with brass clamps, and various sizes from 2 to 38 inches, all reduced from original prices to listed sale figures. Additional items mention carets, suit cases, and a basement Equitable bid.
Floor wide sale showing heavy reductions on men shirts drawers and vests plus boys clothing including top coats spring-weight coats and wool suits. Notable discounts include shirts and drawers from 4c to 75c, madras pajamas at 1.50, and boys coats and suits dropped to under 3 dollars.
The Fourth to Sixth floors list deep markdowns on art work pictures and frame items including woodland scene colored pictures, Madonna by Randael, Gainsborough portrait, heads and figures in gilt frames. Camera gear plates boxes lamps and a wide range of oak and mahogany furniture from library tables to dressers with substantial price cuts.
Readable sale notes list brown cheviot suits silk-tined options, plaited skirts, and lawn shirt waists with lace and embroidery. Prices drop from high amounts to as low as 3.00 to 12.50, including white and check patterns, various sizes from 22 to 44, 34 to 40, and multiple pieces in stock.
Local department store advertises heavy discounts on skirts and jackets. Brown cheviot and Panama walking skirts reduced from 5 to 2.60 and 7.80 to 5.00 respectively, lightweight gray bidets cut from 16.09 to 9.00, black cheviot jackets 16.00 to 7.60, tan rain coat 15.00 to 7.60, and red silk auto coat 28.00 to 16.00. Limited sizes noted.
In the Misses' Department a clearance lists numerous girls garments with sizes from 4 to 19. Sailor suits, homespun tailors, Sulta coats, guimpes, pique dresses, linen and percale robes, white pique Russian dresses, lawn and lawn dresses, and mackintosh frocks feature substantial price reductions across multiple items and sizes.
The Fifth floor offers deep cuts on Japanese china items headlined by eight dozen bread and butter plates at 1.80 per dozen down from 2.50. Items include oatmeal bowls, a large hive vase, trays, chop plates, becolate pots and vases with marked reductions from 60 cents to 2 cents and other discounts.
Classified ad lists discounted English porcelain dinner sets and china items. Includes Wipe face blue and gold deco sets, decorated toilet sets, French china plates, saucers, mustache cups, fern dishes, jardiniere, cut glass wineware, and Austrian nut dish with markdowns listed before Fifth floor G Street.
A Fifth floor Eleventh Street display lists numerous reductions in the Housefurnishing Department. Items include Flemish oak medicine cabinets, Wren Biaker pieces, Delphos off can, heavy tin fish rollers, bread halger, coppery cuspiders, wash basins, and more with prices cut from cents to dollars. Includes shopworn ice cream makers and several canisters, steel hardware, and polish products.
Washington society notes target a week of travel and visits. Nellie Grant Sartoris and party guests at Poland Springs join Chinese Minister and family en route to Amherst. A Washington wedding unites Miss Charlotta Lemmon and Mr. W Walter Benton at Mount Pleasant. others include Roswell Brown and Ada Meade wedding in Yonkers with plans to Porto Rico. Socials in Atlantic City Newport and Narragansett Pier feature many officials and relatives. A surprise party honors Miss Anna B Thompson, Slater School principal, at 217 L Street.
Miss Brown manages a booming Colorado mine project with a strong crew, overseeing development and profits. She buys ore, ships lead and silver, and plans to extend operations while preparing to travel to Washington in the fall.
Reports from the West accuse the Roosevelt administration of weak stand amid anti Catholic criticism sparked by word that Rev M J O Connor a Catholic priest might be received as a papal ambassador. Clarifications state he had not ambassadorial credentials but was allowed duty free entry of a late archbishop’s jewelry under a pledge not to sell or keep them in continental U S provinces.
The will dated May 3 19M directs debts paid and leaves Washington Post stock in equal shares to widow Emily J Wilkins and sons John F and Robert C with widow to receive the residua. Executors named as wife and two sons with no inventory or bond required. A $1000 trust for Beriah W Edwards of Maysville to mature at 18 and 21, investment at trustee's discretion, with remainder to his mother Harriet J Edwards or surviving brothers. Special bond of $2.00 posted by executors.
John H Hennage aged died at 4 Massachusetts avenue northwest Tuesday. Funeral services were conducted at his residence by Beacon Lodge of Odd Fellows. A delegation from New Jerusalem Lodge No accompanied the body to Leesburg Virginia for burial today. He was employed for years at Lansburgh Brothers.
Miss Euza Beth Killingsworth Brown eldest daughter of the late David Wolfe Brown becomes owner of the Lone Star claims near Red Cliffe two miles from town. The two men who held the claims sold them for little and left work impossible, though Cripple Creek mines like Vindicator and Finley have produced millions. Brown arrived a month ago with Miss Gunn for the summer and will run the mines as owner.
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