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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1907
Page
19
A Very Special Remnant Day clears odds and ends from the Anniversary sale with many items marred yet most fresh and priced as exceptional bargains. Men s linen and silk items, gloves, hats, and a broad range of fabrics and suits reduced to half or less, with spring-opening plans noted.
Bargain sale on Friday offers black silk skirts and related apparel. Items include black taffeta skirts with plaited ruffle at $3.95, cambric drawers with embroidery and tucks, corset covers, pink silk slips, blue taffeta skirts, lawn slips, and handmade gowns, all marked down from higher prices. Third floor, Eleventh St.
Friday sale offers 30 dozen Swiss Rib bed vests crocheted fronts at 25c each. Lisle vests trimmed with lace size 6 reduced from 9c to 1c. other ribbed vests for women and children discounted.
A sale page lists infants silk caps priced 50 and 75 cents, with former prices 75 cents to 1.00. Also offered are children's bonnets, dark blue sweaters, nainsook dresses, linen dresses, Russian dresses, and misses skirts, all heavily reduced from various higher prices. Third floor Eleventh Ave.
A rug department sale lists numerous damaged or discounted items. 9x12 oak mats and 6x Kashmir Rue pieces show drastic price cuts from 850 to 0 or 4.00. Various sizes of Fatah and Brussels rugs marked down to 1.25 and 19.75 respectively. Remnants and matting offered at half price, with floor location noted as fourth floor G street. There are typographical errors due to damage in the source text.
A local Hardware and Stationery section advertises price drops on many items. 15 lb linen finish paper reduces to 1 cent per pound, envelopes lowered, desk pads and leather corner desks discounted to 2.00 each, pencil boxes and other supplies marked down, with several small items cut to a few cents.
A second floor notice lists fabric discounts across several 6 to 63 yard cuts. Items include 47 inch Old Rowe oe Re ee at 9.00 to 34.50, 46-8 yard Holienne at 60 to 40, and 48 inch China Blue Serge at 32.00 to 81.00, with many other reductions and yardage details.
Readable catalog fragment lists numerous curtains by type including Irish Point Cluny Renaissance and Real Arabian, with quantities and discounted prices. Also mentions plain muslin curtains, upholstery fabrics by yard, and Woodward & Lothrop box and head box couches with reduced prices.
A sale ad lists numerous shoe lots with various sizes and styles across women's patent Coltskin, Dongola, dull calfskin, and other uppers, including button and lace shoes. Prices are cut from several dollars to as low as 1.00 or 1.95 per pair, with a broad range of sizes and finishes, and children’s and infants’ styles included.
A cluttered catalog lists numerous large discounts on parlor suites, chests, dressers, and cabinets. Items include a 5 piece hand carved mahogany suite reduced from 275 to 85 and a Golden Oak dining table cut from 5500 to 29.76.
Catalog snippet lists reduced prices on various items including a white Eton jacket with braid trimming, black silk velvet jacket 27 inches, black heavy silk garment 45 inches, broadcloth jacket with ermine collar, light-weight Kersey coat size 34, and a white silk lined evening wrap, with reductions from higher prices to low sale figures.
White lawn waists with embroidery trimmed and short or long sleeves, silk waists in navy and white with collars, white and gray dotted woolen patterns, assorted sizes. Prices cut from 5 to 20 dollars, many items reduced to under five dollars.
Third floor offers price cuts on Misses coats and dresses. Red Cheviot coats reduce to 5.00 and 2.60. satin lined mixed Cheviot coats. all wool Russian dresses in red and blue drop to 2.60. sailor collar blue Cheviot dresses down to 2.50. White broadcloth and two piece dress reduced to 6.00 and 10.00. Elderdown bath robes cut to 2.50.
A fur department post announces steep discounts on assorted items including a genuine ermine fur set with muff and scarf, Russian pony fur set, natural Baum martenee two animals, blended mink pelerine, lynx ties, fox muff, sable fox items, and two-animal scarves. Prices drop from hundreds to tens or dollars. Specific reductions range from 0.00 to 20.00 with several items listed in error or incomplete prices.
China department offers heavily reduced prices on decorated items including 10 salt and pepper shakers, Austrian china tea plates, Peredian teanuts, porcelain sugar bowls, gilded Gandlesticks, fern dish, Limoges teapot set, French china dishes, and meat dishes. Discounts range from dramatic cuts like from 60e to 2c each to $2.40 down to $1.00, with several items listed at specific sale prices and a fifth floor location.
In the basket department several items are discounted. Japanese straw scrap baskets drop from 31 25 to five cents, prairie grass scrap baskets from 116 to five cents, Welss scrap baskets from SOF to five, splint wood basket from Be to Abc, prairie grass clothes hamper from E50 to 5 0 0, covered steel wire trash basket from $2 2 to 80, infants basket from 8c to toe, four mat sets, a basket on stand from $3.00 to $2.00, prairie tess handkerchief baskets from toe to 4 1 4 cents, and fancy hair receivers from 1 to 6c. Location noted as tenth floor Eleventh floor? Noted.
Third floor at Tenth Street offers a sale on boys furnishings including night shirts, bath robes, ties, suspenders, hats, caps, and telescope hats. Items heavily discounted from previously listed prices with a wide range of sizes available.
Fourth floor Eleventh Street offers marked-down items across the toy section. Teddy bears drop from 150 to 90 each, dolls wire beds from 25 to 10 cents, brass bed from 12 to 3.80, and various toy trains carts and dolls priced lower, including Japanese and French dolls with substantial savings.
Picture Department offers numerous items with dramatic price cuts. Included are oil paintings in imported green frames from 200 to 5 cents, a carbon print titled Head of Christ, an Aurora in brown frame from 5 dollars to 1.60, Holy Family in a shadow-box frame, Madonna of the Ghatr in black frame, and various plaques and prints marked down to a few cents each.
Miller Gil Peres offers house furnishings with marked down prices on gas heaters fire screens pudding molds enamelware and copper bottom wares. Items include smoking sets jelly molds enamel pitchers and various cleaning and polish products with discounts from cents to dollars. Sales apply to fifth floor eleventh street department with shopworn damaged and dented goods noted as reduced.
The Roosevelts hosted a formal dinner with a wide guest list including the British ambassador and Mrs Bryce, Justice and Mrs McKenna, the Secretary of the Interior and Mrs Hitchcock, and many diplomats and officials. Mrs Hobart and Mrs Richard Bauer hosted others, with plans for a future ball in honor of Miss Harriet Wadsworth.
An advertisement touts Altamont Spring Water as a superior pure soft water bottled at the source. It claims unrivaled cleanliness and sterilization, selling at 1305 F Street NW and at Eleventh and F streets through ward and Lathrop as agents.
The banquet hall hosted a festive dance with a flag centerpiece and candy baskets as souvenirs. Warner Harwood portrayed King Cole in ermine and crown, Florence Schneider wore white and pink clown attire, Gretchen Prescott played Teddy Bear, Franklin Schneider as a coon, Katherina Elson as Old Mother Hubbard, Helen Rogers as Pocahontas with beadwork, Harry Rogers as a Rough Rider, Milfred Needham as an Indian maiden, Chauncey Needham as a clown, and Dorothy Dixon, daughter of a representative, participated.
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