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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1906
Page
7
Friday is our remnant day with Bargain Day offerings across departments. Managers push to clear odds and ends short lengths broken sizes and assortments. Shoppers can expect extraordinary value for personal use or home needs today.
Sale notes go on about handmade infants slips and lisle vests with discounts. Items include infant long slips hand made, price $1.75, value $2.50, and various remnants of children's dresses, bonnets, hats, and Swiss rib lisle vests with discounts from $6 and more to lower prices. Located on Main floor Eleventh Street.
Frugal sale at the Malin floor F store offers defective but usable men's spring undergarments at deep cuts. Shirts in sizes up to 48 long and 46 half sleeves. drawers up to size 4. Cheviot shirts and pajama sets discounted. four-in-hand and teck ties, collars, and other items offered at substantially reduced prices.
Bargain on OO dozen pairs of Women s Black Cotton Hose with double soles and high spliced heels. Five pairs for $1.00. Also remnants in navy blue and black with dot effects. Hand embroidered hose and extra fine items advertised with sizes. Main floor.
Classified ad lists white lawn dressings and hand made gowns with embroidery and lace edging. Items include Percale gowns reduced from $70 to $30, Cambie and Maslin gowns from $273 to $20, Nainseok gowns from $225 to $170, and a Golden Brown Taffeta Petticoat discounted to $730. Located on Third floor Eleventh st Yr.
A catalog of upholstery fabrics and window coverings with white French Madras curtains in red green and gold suitable for dining rooms and libraries offered at 3.00 per pair from 7.20. Remnants of Bont Renaissance Jambour Net Cluny Arabian and Nottingham curtains priced 1.50 to 6.00 a pair, plus manufacturers samples of fine fabrics and gat remnants with substantial discounts. Also include trims and oriental couch covers with heavy reductions. Floor G St.
A designer sample line of leather suit cases in cowhide and folio leather, offered at 25 to 35 percent below regular prices. Prices listed include $6, $8, $10, $10.50, $12, and $20, with various popular sizes.
Second floor on Eleventh Street advertises Huckaback towels at 2.63 per dozen and Irish Damask napkins and yard goods at reduced prices. Includes 2x25% yard bundles and references to value pricing and reductions per dozen.
A local sale lists deep price cuts on boys and youths overcoats, suits, and pants. Items include youth overcoats reduced from 18.50 to 8.75, boys overcoats from 60 to 2.9 each, youth and boys suits with various sizes, and bloomers pants at marked-down prices.
A newspaper notice lists Corset Department bargains at Third floor Eleventh St. Parume Corsets in various sizes with real whalebone boning and elastics, reduced from high prices to low figures. French Corsets and Bonita Corsets feature straight fronts and hip emphasis, with several size options and multi pair discounts.
Footwear sale lists 7 pairs Women s Whalic Calfskin Lace Snors with welt sole and military heel priced from 8.0 down to par. Misses Dongola Kidskin Lace Shoes and Infants Dongola Kid skin Lace Shoes shown with spring heel and turn sole, reduced to set price per pair. Third floor Tenth St department.
Department offers shopworn items at reduced prices including wine baskets infant baskets sweet grass catch alls fancy straw whisk holders birch bark trinket boxes and handkerchief boxes green wood baskets market baskets palm knife baskets and straw dress care goods on the fifth floor at G street with substantial markdowns across multiple items.
Household goods listed with shopworn and dented items reduced from various prices. Kitchen table, aluminum milk shaker, coffee pots, dining plaque, teapots, cake pans, enameled ware pieces, bread and cake boxes, japanned hoods, wash boiler, cleaners and polishes appear with specific markdowns. Located at Fifth Noor Eleventh St.
Women’s suit department lists several items including navy blue broadcloth suits with velvet collars and vests in sizes 38 to 41, and wool shirtwater sets. Prices show drastic markdowns from original amounts to low sale figures, with multiple color and pattern options such as wine and plum, plus various jacket and coat styles.
Cloak department offers reduced prices on coats and jackets. Black Velour Coat with Persian lamb collar and cuffs marked down from 88 to 45 dollars. Other items include velvet trim coats and a long empire coat with brown and black mix, sizes vary.
Wrapper department offers 18 blue and white flannelette wrappers reduced from 1.00 to 1.25 and 1.90 to 1.25, plus three all wool eiderdown bath robes in gray hellotrope and pink discounted from 1.00 to 2.50 each.
In the Misses Department girls receive deep discounts on all wool dresses in brown blue and red styles with sizes from 6 to 22. Prices drop from 315.00 16.50 18.50 and 19.50 to 16 and 11.50 while coats and lounge pieces also see reductions including a winter coat 15.50 and a white lawn dress with lace embroidery.
Toy Department offers reduced prices on damaged dolls go carts wooden express waxon and jointed Kostner dolls. Prices drop from 1.50 to 1 each and 150 to 3 cents for select items. Children’s pastry tables and other damaged stock cited with reductions to clear.
A garage sale style listing shows a Furniture Department discount spree with Mahogany divan, parlor suite, tables, rockers, and a phonograph cabinet. Items include a 4 feet mahogany divan, 3 piece parlor set, oval mahogany table, weathered oak round table, mahogany rockers, a sectional phonograph cabinet, a mahogany Davenport, a wine dining room suite, a garden oak buffet mirror, and a solid mahogany corner china closet all reduced from high prices to sale figures.
A neighborhood sale advertises reduced prices on Austrian vase with raised fingers, Dutch vases, Martie Fieve and Mignon items, Cupid and Psyche marble figure, a jardinere stand, a jardiniere set, a bronze electrolier with shade, and a pink silk lamp shade. Discounts range from modest cuts to deep markdowns as items on Main floor G Street.
China Department advertises bargains on assorted decorated china and stoneware items. Reduced prices apply to sugar sets, cracker jars, pin trays, plates, covered dishes, mugs, and meat dishes from various original amounts, with several items showing steep markdowns. Main floor items include Royal Dowdor ware and blue stoneware stein mugs.
Brazilian Ambassador Nabuco and Portuguese Minister Viscount de Alte will visit California and Canada in Col. Shannon's private car departing April 13 and returning mid May. Baroness Rosen hosts dinner with Russian Ambassador and guests. Persian Minister Morleza Khan to spend two summer months in Europe visiting Paris Brussels Ostend and London. A movement to liquidate Episcopal church debts is under way.
John D. King a longtime Post-office Department official died at 7 oclock yesterday from paralysis at his home in Roanoke He had worked recently for the Civil Service Commission He leaves a wife and son Harry D King superintendent of the National Supply Company in New York The body will be taken to Danesville for burial Lieut Rowland S Pike of the Alexandria Infantry at Fort Dea Russell Wye died of pneumonia noted by the army military secretary a past Infantry and Cavalry School graduate Class of 1903 Special sale hats from E H Fielding Co and Miss Dove at The Band Boy store in Washington
The Washington Architectural Club held a banquet in Cairo on Wednesday evening honoring the judging committee that finished hanging exhibits for the annual show opening March 17 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Guests included Donn Barber, EB Crane, and Sid Nealy, with club members and officials present. After dining, Crane spoke on The Architectural Club, Barber on The Strenuosity of New York, and Nealy on Building Methods in Pekin.
At the Woman's Presbyterian Home Missionary Society meeting in Church of the Covenant Rev. Robert M. Stevenson urged support for Westminster College Salt Lake City noting Utah as a missionary field with 2600 Mormon youth in state colleges. Officers were elected and $108 voted to furnish a room at Santa’s new industrial school in honor of longtime treasurer.
FP Larrinaga, Porto Rico’s Resident Commissioner, clarifies mistaken Washington Post report about a 3000 wedding gift bill for Mrs Alfen Longworth. He notes February bill No. 38 by Delegates Palmer and Ochoteco, proposing 1000 for Miss Roosevelt, not for early date, as a courtesy and tribute to the bride after her island visit.
Bishop Satterlee administered the rite of confirmation to a large class of children and adults at Church of Our Saviour in Brookland Washington DC. The service began at eight with a procession, the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers sung by thirty male voices, and a sermon by Bishop Satterlee on The Sermon on the Mount stressing the importance of the step.
Funeral for RL Smallwood holds at his late home 137 Twelfth Street this afternoon at two. Rev Dr Stafford of St Patrick's Church will conduct the service. Mr Smallwood died Wednesday after a short illness at age fifty two. He leaves a wife and two children.
By the terms of Eugene B. Daly's will dated October 15 1905 his widow Nore M Daly is named as beneficiary in the probate matter. The notice notes timing of ads in the evening and morning papers reflecting business hours for public notices.
The will of Samuel Pierpont Langley state Secretary of the Smithsonian was offered for probate. It directs cash bequests to John W Langley in trust for Samuel P Langley and to several relatives, plus specific sums to Mary Langley Cyrus Adler Isabel Winlock Sewardo Humé and J G Traylor. Residue to be divided among Annie Ciocca Pierpont Langley and Julia Goodrich and John Langley. American Security and Trust Company named executor.
A George Thompson H. Jones chaired committee report outlines the Wheeler Memorial in Atlanta on March 27. The event aims to be the era’s most representative veteran gathering since the Civil War with speakers from Confederate and Spanish War groups and several state governors.
The Second Corps Association Army of the Potomac has perfected arrangements for its annual banquet at the Shoreham on March 18. Elected to active membership are Representative Thom W. Bradley of New York, late captain in the New York Volunteer Infantry and brevet major U S Volunteers, and Josephus Perry, late sergeant Company F 5th New York Volunteer Infantry.
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