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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
13
Woodward & Lothrop promotes a Friday remnant sale across all departments from basement to seventh floor. Remnants of various lines offered at reduced prices to clear stock and refresh next week’s assortments. Narration emphasizes bargains in personal care, home decor, and fabrics.
Auction-like sale offers electric lamps bronzes marble statuary and hammered brass articles at substantial discounts to clear remaining stock. Many one of a kind pieces direct imports ideal for weddings or Easter gifts with prices ranging from modest to premium figures and busts.
Bargain sale features a large lot of women coat suits in desirable colors with sizes available. Tailored English tweed and broadcloth suits offered at 25 dollars, other suits priced at about 19.75. Remnants include velvet and voile Eton and garnet velvet ensembles with deep reductions.
A sale featuring a wide array of women’s waists in net lace and detailing. Includes deep cream dotted nets with filet lace, black chiffon, muslin, and plaid linen styles in multiple sizes. Prices reduced from around 10 dollars to under 3 dollars, with numerous items marketed as bargains.
A dated sale of women s wrap coats and skirts lists numerous items with reduced prices. Brown broadcloth coats with velvet and braid trim, gray and cream silk lined evening coats, white broadcloth and green shades, old rowe cape, fur lined and braided pieces, several black and olive coats, blue or black panama skirts and chiffon panama skirts show steep markdowns from modest to substantial sums. Descriptions emphasize trims, linings, lengths, and sizes with sale prices ranging widely.
Fragmentary text references men s clothing department and ads across a city page layout. Mentions time along with vague product notes and street names, but lacks coherent events, entities, or actionable facts to confirm a news item.
Fragmented OCR lists bargain terms and disjoint phrases about silk petticoats and related items. The readable bits mention prices, vendors, and fashion notes in a jumbled style, with no coherent event or人物. The text resembles an obsolete catalog or advertisement page with garbled lines and stray numbers.
A garbled sale notice promotes women’s hose with various prices and remnants offered in bundles. The fragment mentions Val e and Pecan, with unclear dates and vendors, focusing on discounted hosiery items and some fashion wording.
Bargains offered on waists and corsets at Charuie prices. The waists are made of fin fabrics in large sizes with attached features. Corsets described with torso bust and hip shaping, sizes 20 and 30. Prices previously listed as high as 100 dollars and 1.50 dollars.
Alaska mink and fox fur items are deeply discounted from prices like 17.80 325.00 and 345.00 to sale prices such as 10.00 11.00 and 109. Reduced counts include satin lined ties, sable fox collars, lynx scar scarves, mink edna may ties, white fox boa and shawl collar, Persian lemb pillow mul and sable squirrel pillow mutt, with multiple units on offer.
Readable ad notes Silver Electric Lamps with handsome shades offered for display on the main floor at G Street. The brief listing emphasizes lamp quality and location within the store.
Misses department offers gray and blue raincoats in sizes 6 and 7, Peter Thompson blue and gray coats sized 18, a white Valenciennes lace dress sized 10, and two Misses wool Serge Peter Thompson suits in sizes 16 and 18. Also listed are Peter Pan and Sailor dresses in dark blue serge and Panama, sizes 6 and 8 years. Prices slashed from high to low, including $45.00 dress down to $10.00 and suits to $10.00. Third floor.
Social and personal items from Washington describe the wedding plans of Miss Helen Ffoulke to Mr Emmanuel Havenith on March 26 at Massachusetts Avenue, with details of invitations and attendants. The piece notes diplomatic hostesses, Teas at the French Embassy, and other society gatherings, including visits by Senor Don Augusto Pulido and Mrs Ernest Roberts hosting guests.
Readers learn how Paris tailors shift to severe simple cuts and how Princess of Wales greeted Lady Naylor Leyland at a London chapel wedding. It notes Mrs George Law facing relentless society scrutiny, seeking a private press agent, and her fading presence as rumors about her Paris life dwindle from public print.
The article surveys high society life with multiple weddings and social maneuvers. It covers Mrs. Law’s London and New York circle after her husband’s death, the Montana frontier marriage of Lieut Gen. Young and Mrs. Annie Huntley, brand-new elopement tales in New York, and Bonnets of London brides. It also notes society figures at Palm Beach and New York events, including aristocratic brides, theater and concert visits, and accidents affecting Mrs. Quintard.
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