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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1907
Page
15
Friday remnant day draws shoppers to Woodward Glothrop in New York Washington Paris shops. Managers push to clear remnants odds ends and broken sizes, offering extraordinary value and bargains for home use with a focus on practical needs.
A city retailer advertises a Friday bargain on girls muslin underwear and women s garments from a manufacturer. The sale features cambric and nainsook gowns drawers corset covers skirts and more at 50 cents for choice down from 75 cents with a third floor Eleventh Street location noted for the offer.
White Goods Dept offers Cream Etamine a linen and mercerized cotton fabric at 25c per yard, regular price 30c. Desirable for suits and skirts. Located on the second floor Eleventh Street.
Linen Department offers fine hand embroidered and hemstitched linens including bureau sideboard and washstand scarfs in two sizes. Prices are 18x36 inch at 1.10 dollars each and 18x54 inch at 1.25 dollars each.
A small lot of fine white batiste robe patterns offered at a third less than usual. They feature deep flounces and are heavily embroidered with English eyelet and FOSE designs. Special price twelve dollars each, regular value eighteen dollars. Mam foor-G st.
A linen handkerchief sale offers 50 dozen men’s all linen handkerchiefs with th wy and 1 inch hems. Described as generous in size and quality, priced at 18 cents each or six for one dollar. From Handkerchief Department on the Main floor.
Cotton Dress Goods sale offers 123 yards of Silk and Cotton Bo henne in nile red and heliotrope at 50c per yard. Remnants include 50 yards Lachine Silk blue faded 37c. 124c VPereale 10c. 244 Batiste Lawn 10c. 1214c Outing Flannel 10c. 1c Outing Flannel 8c. 12%c Gingham 9c. 23c Printed Silk Organdie 15c. 23¢ Irish Dimity 15c. 37 Ve Japan Silk 25c. 50c Banzai Silk 37% per yard. Lengths 2 to 5 yards. Second floor G street.
List of toy reductions includes Boys' Large Automobie with molber tires cut from 1000 to 5.00, Large Patrol Wagon, Mechanical train set, Toy Horse and Cart, Toy Whirl, Mechanical Boots, Toy Iron Soldiers, Jointed Dolls, Teddy Bears and more with multiple price drops described and a note of a fourth floor location on Eleventh Street.
Local department store offers half price and better on boys and young men winter clothing to clear room for new spring stock. Includes 15 suits in multiple fabrics, 2 piece and double breasted styles, with prices cut from $7.50 to $10.00 range for many items. various overcoats and remnants deeply reduced. boys raincoats and youth sizes also discounted. Located on Thad Fver Tenth Street.
Local department store advertises deep cuts on boys and girls clothing and accessories. Items include woolen suits up to nine years old reduced to 25 cents, blankets and bath robes priced at about $1.00, hats and cups marked down to 10 cents, camel hair tams discounted to a few cents, and telescope hats and sailor tams available in multiple colors with most sizes reduced from $1.80 to $2.00 to low prices. Third floor, tenth street location.
A vintage advertisement promises Decorated Mottled Cuspidors at half price and corsets heavily discounted. It lists multiple corset models with sizes and dramatic price cuts from high to lower figures, highlighting elastics, whalebone, and French coutil materials across several brand names.
Second floor sales offer assorted dress fabrics at deep discounts. 24.8 yard remnants and 40 to 46 inch voiles and chiffons are marked down from high prices to several dollars and cents per piece. Includes Shadow Check Voile, Shadow Cheek Voile, Golden Brown Lansdowne, Smoke Gray Lansdowne, and Black and White Novelty Voile with limited yardage remaining.
The list details widespread markdowns in the Black Goods Department featuring fabrics and rugs. Prices drop from high to low, including Chiffon Panama, Whipcord, Mohair Br Mantine, Albatross, Brussels Rugs, Silk Crepe de Chine, Japanese Matting, and Voile. Deals spread across yardages and various brands, with several items cut to about half or more of former pricing.
A department store advertises heavy discounts across footwear and china. Women’s patent kidskin and opera shoes drop to $1.95 to $1.50 a pair, with numerous sizes listed. extensive Limoges and Austrian china pieces reduce to $0.35 to $8.26, plus glassware and baskets on fifth floor clearance.
An upholstery sale offers Imported Colored Madras and Tapestry fabrics in pink green and yellow with several colorways and patterns. Prices drop from 13.50 to 35 yards and from 15.00 to 35 pairs, plus a box couch priced from 15.50 to 10.00.
Readable fragments show price cuts on decorative items in the Bric a Brac department. Marble Heads drop from 9.00 to 4.60 each and larger pieces like Jardinier and Pedestal reduce from 40.06 to 25.00. An electric desk lamp moves from 18.00 to 14? and other items list discounts.
Store notes deep discounts across many housewares and hardware items. Smoking sets, jelly molds, pitchers, wire dust beaters, silverware, brass bird cage, copper bottom wash boilers, japanned water carriers, alcohol stoves, and more are marked down from higher prices to reduced figures. Items include enameled ware, chrome fittings, and polish products with items listed by quantity and sale floor location on Eleventh Street fifth floor.
Retail ad notes large markdowns across girls and misses wear. Silk and wool dresses trimmed with ribbons, blouses, and wrap, in sizes 6 to 32. Prices slashed from high figures to low figures, with wares including plaid silk, Peter Thompson suit, wool batiste dresses, and white lawn dresses. Third floor department displays these reductions.
Multiple shaving sets listed with variations in cup brush and mirror configurations. Original prices from $7 $14 and $1 to sale prices as low as $3 $7.55 and $1.75. A final note reads Main Floor Get.
A Fifth floor lamp department advertisement lists reductions on light shades and globes. Items include a large red silk lamp shade damaged now 2.50 from 3.50, Japanese lamp shades damaged at 1.00 to 0.40, 10 inch blue globe imported from 0.15 to 0.08, and 13 candy shades shopworn from 0.10 to 0.05 each.
In a department sale several women’s suits are discounted with prices cut from 25 to 506 dollars to as low as 20 to 40 dollars. Notable items include gray and black broadcloth ensembles with silk linings, Eton jackets, plaited skirts, braids, and trims in sizes 33 to 96.
A vintage cloak department sale lists a Green bougaincloth Tourise Coat size 28 trimmed in gray satin reduced from 25.00 to 12.50. Two plaid tourist coats in velvet at size 40 cut from 25.00 to 10.00 each. Light-weight red cheviot tourist for size 88 and a light-weight Hellotrope Kersey coat trimmed with plaid. sizes 34 and 49/42 respectively, marked down from 28.50 and 350.00 to 20.00 and 10.60. Also a handsome silk coat embroidered, size 36, reduced from 90.00 to 1. Silk velvet wrap size 38 cut from 168.00 to 68.00.
Women’s skirts on sale with marked-down prices. A white serge skirt shows slight soiling and is cut from 12.60 to 6.00, while three plaid Panama skirts in white and black drop from 12.50 to 5.00. Black taffeta silk skirts in plaited style drop from 10.00 to 7.50 each.
Large reduced prices on assorted waists. Crepe de Chine and silk options in multiple sizes from 26 to 98, 33 to 40, and 24 to 42. Specials include silk waist with medallions and blue taffeta pieces, with markdowns from high to low dollars. Limited quantities remain.
Reduced prices on parlor suites chairs tables and cabinets from many brands including Mahogany Oak and Golden Oak. Items include a 5-piece parlor suite down to 17 88 and weathered oak hall rack at 1800, extension tables, chests and sofas with prices slashed dramatically across the display list.
Social column notes Mrs Swanson wife of Virginia's governor departs for Richmond. Mrs Stephen B Elkins visits New York. Mrs Barber hosts seventh wedding anniversary reception for Mr and Mrs Joseph P B Barber attended by hundreds with spring flowers and palms. Guests include Mrs Howry Mrs Bikins and numerous society figures.
A turn of the century note describes New Colony Club leaders including Mrs Jack Astor and Miss Elizabeth Marbury dividing club spaces by habit, with smoking allowed in certain precincts and allowed elsewhere only for crochet and conversation. The piece paints Washington society’s fashion and personalities, from Mrs Reed Smoot to Miss Irene Crawford Moore, with vivid notes on dress, color, and social routines.
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