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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
39
The store announces a Friday remnant sale across all departments from basement to seventh floor. Remnants are offered at reduced prices to clear stock and refresh assortments for next week. The message emphasizes bargains in personal, home, and adornment goods and notes remnants of various kinds available at lower prices.
A seasonal clearance offers electric lamps bronze statuary marble and hammered brass pieces at substantial discounts. Many are one of a kind from direct importation, suitable for gifts or Easter purchases. Prices shown include various bronze figures and decorative items with notable reductions.
A sale of women’s coats and tailored suits offered in various colors and sizes. Includes English tweed and broadcloth tailored suits at 25.00, plus a range of coat suits reduced from high values to 25.00 and 15.00, with remnants such as voile Eton and garnet velvet pieces while supplies last.
An assortment of women net waists, crepe and chiffon pieces offered at deep discounts. Items include cream dotted net waists trimmed with lace, Dutch neck Crocker Lave waists, black chiffon taffeta suits, muslin tailored waists, plaid work waists, and assorted lingerie styles. Prices from $2.93 to $6.73 each.
Dept offers brown broadcloth coats velvet and braid trims in sizes 41 and 36 reduced from 68.00 to 5.506 each. black velvet jackets. gray evening coats. cream evening coat. white broadcloth and olive evening coats. rowe evening cape. brown mixed cloth coat fur lined. black velour coat. gray caracal jacket. black broadcloth coat. dark blue Panama and chiffon Panama skirts. black panama and serge skirts with trimmed folds all marked down from original prices to markedly lower sale figures.
In a city retail update, a Men's Clothing Department unveils a gray fashion line with seven pieces in assorted fits. The store promotes a modern, minimal look targeting shoppers seeking refined wardrobe basics.
Local page item notes silk Petticoats on sale with varied styles and prices. Mentions specific garment types such as long and short petticoats, trims, and potential discounts. Presents a fleeting, shopper oriented register of offerings and pricing.
A fragment describes a Friday sale on women's hose with assorted stock and pricing hints. Mentions include stock items, discounts, and partial prices, suggesting a clearance or promotional listing with unclear branding and product names. The readable portions indicate hosiery items and sale language from a local catalog or newspaper notice.
Bargain listing for Ferris waists and corsets at Charuie prices. Waist styles include formals and batiste in large sizes with solid corsets. Notes on bust, hip, and attached fasteners, with prices previously listed as high as $1.50 and $100, though details are fragmented.
A Fur Department listing offers reductions on Alaska mink ties and a variety of sable fox, lynx, squirrel, and white fox items. Prices drop from hundreds to ten dollars or less, including satin lined ties, shawls, pillows, boas, and a beaded shawl collar. Strong entities include Mink Edna May, Persian Lemb, and Sable Squirrel Pillow Mutt, with multiple items spanning collars, scarves, and wraps.
Local listing describes silver lamps with handsome shades, suitable for main floor use on G street.
Third floor sale items include two gray and blue girls raincoats sizes 6 and 7 years reduced from 6.75 to 3.75. Peter Thompson dark blue togt size 18 years reduced from 10.00 to 4.00. white Valenciennes lace dress size 10 made over pink silk reduced from 45.00 to 10.00. Also two white all wool Serge Peter Thompson suits sizes 16 and 18 reduced from 340 to 10.00. dark blue Serge Peter Pan and Sailor dresses sizes 6 and 8 years in plain Panama reduced from 6.00 and 9.75 to 2.50 each.
A Washington social column notes the engagement of Miss Helen Ffoulke to Emmanuel Havenith, Belgian Minister to the Shah, with a March 26 ceremony at the Ffoulke home. Guests include Mme Jusserand at Paris embassy teas, Cardinal social lines, and preparations for a velvet spring setting at 1 Massachusetts Avenue. Several diplomats and society figures depart or visit, with teas, hostesses, and a home wedding forming the season’s social rhythm.
Readers learn how Paris fashion now favors severe tailored coats and skirts over gowns. The piece notes Princess of Wales greetings to Lady Naylor Leyland at a London wedding and sketches the social orbit around Mrs George Law, the lawfully famed beauty seeking a private secretary to curb publicity. It mentions the Naylor Leyland family and several high society figures and intrigues, with Mélange of Parisian chatter and American visitors shaping the gossip.
A flurry of society news describes heiresses and heiresses in New York and Chicago, detailing weddings, elopements, travels, and high society activity. Notable items include the Young-Huntley nuptials at Grace Episcopal Church, a climactic elopement between Charles A. Ruggles and Florence Clark, and various high-profile gatherings of the Belmont, Vanderbilt, and Whitney circles with international chaperones and royal-adjacent intrigue.
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