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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1907
Page
23
Friday marks our remnant day with extra efforts by all departments to clear odds and ends and broken sizes. Bargain opportunities abound as shoppers find everyday home needs met with extraordinary value and assortments.
From manufacturers a large lot of women and Misses underwear including gowns drawers corset covers skirts in cambric and nainsook with lace embroidery hemstitched ruffles and trims. Offered at uniform price 50c for choice regular 75c third floor Eleventh Street.
White Goods Dept offers Cream Etamine a linen and mercerized cotton blend at 25 cents a yard, down from 30 cents. Suitable for suits and separate skirts, located on the second floor at Eleventh Street.
A Linen Department bargain features fine hand embroidered and hemstitched linens including bureau sideboard and washstand scarfs in two sizes. Sizes 18x36 inches for 1.10 dollars and 18x54 inches for 1.25 dollars each.
A small lot of fine and sheer white batiste robe patterns offered at a third off. The garments feature deep flounce and full English eyelet embroidery in heavy FOSE designs. Special price twelve dollars each, regular eighteen dollars. Mam for-G st.
Bargain alert in the Handkerchief Department Main floor six st. Fifty dozen men s all linen handkerchiefs offered in th wy and one inch hems. Generous size and quality. Special price 18 cents each or six for a dollar.
Bargain sale on cotton dress goods with remnants and yardage discounts. Items include silk blends, batistes, lawn, flannel, gingham, organdie, dimity, silk and fashion fabrics with reduced prices per yard. Second floor G Street location notes the sale with varying lengths.
A city shop lists deep cuts in toys including Boys Large Automobie and Large Patrol Wagon with huge markdowns from 1000 to 5 and from 90 to 50. Mechanical train sets, toy soldiers, dolls, bears and boots also reduced, with several items slashed to under 5 dollars. percentages and incomplete lines indicate an aggressive clearance sale on Eleventh Street.
Bargains slash prices on boys and young men’s winter wear to clear room for spring stock. Includes 15 suits from $7.50 to $10.00, all wool two piece suits, overcoats and remnants, with discounts from original $5 to $20 ranges. Locations on Thad fvuer Tenth Street.
An ad lists discounts in the Boys department with reductions on all wool garments up to nine years old. Items include blankets, robes, hats, cups, camel hair tams, and telescope hats and sailor tams in multiple sizes with prices cut from $1.00 to 25 cents and from $1.75 to $1.00, plus other reductions. Located on Third Floor Teneth St.
A sale of decorous mottled cuspidors at 25 cents each and various corsets offered at half price. Discounts apply to Ivy and Sapphire corsets with elastics, whalebone, and straight front designs in multiple sizes. Prices cut from $10 to $5 and other irregular amounts noted.
Reduced prices on various fabrics fill an advertisement, listing 41 to 50 inch voiles and chiffons with steep cuts. Items include Shadow Check Voile, Shadow Cheek Voile, Golden Brown Lansdown, Smoke Gray Lansdowne, and Black and White Novelty Voile. Purchases appear in quantities from 21 to 52 yards with multiple colorways and measurements.
A garbled list shows large markdowns across fabric and rug items in the Black Goods Department Second Floor. Prices fall from high figures to new lower amounts on chiffon, mohair, voiles, crepes de chine, Brussels rugs, and all wool fabrics, with numerous yardage measures and brand names like Priestley’s and Lupin’s noted.
A long sale listing details reduced prices on women's shoes in multiple styles and sizes, including patent kidskin and opera slippers. It also lists reduced china and kitchenware items, furnishings for men, and various decorative pieces with markdowns across multiple floors and departments.
Upholstery department offers imported Madras cotton tapestry and tapestry fabrics in pink green yellow and stained glass effects with marked reductions from 13.50 to 15.00 per pair and 100 per yard to Tc a yard. Also 60 yards cotton tapestry in red old rose Bajsdad stripes 3i a yard and 20 yards plain Mercerized Rep Tapestry at 1 3/4 a yard. 150 yards 50 inch extra heavy upholstery fabrics cut from 1.69 to 1.25 a yard. Woodward Lothrop hand made box couch built of seasoned lumber with steel tempered springs now 10.00 from 15.50.
A local ad lists heavy reductions on decorative items from $4500 to $25 for two figures and smaller savings on marble heads and jardiniere pieces. Marble heads drop from $9 to $4.60 each while a large marble head and pedestal set goes from $35 to $25. Jardinieres and lamps show substantial markdowns with prices moved to $10 for a jardiniere and $28 for an electric lamp. Main floor G street.
Listings of reduced price items from a department sale on Eleventh Street including smoking sets enameled ware molds pitchers and various kitchenware plus makeup items such as polish and polishers. Highlights include substantial cuts on brass cages copper boilers enamelware and an Ohio steam cooker with shopworn status noting sale on the Fifth floor.
Reduced selections include Plaid Silk and Wool Dresses with silk yoke sizes 6 to 32 trimmed with ribbon and velvet. Peter Thompson Suit size 16 cut from 25 to 10. Wool Batiste Dresses in red blue sizes 8 10 12 cut from 10 to 1. Brown Broadcloth Evening Wrap size 18 cut from 35 to 20. White All wool English Robe Dress size unspecified cut from 18.50 to 8.75. White Lawn Dresses sizes 6 10 32 cut from 5 to 2.50. Third floor.
Shaving sets with cup brush and mirror are discounted from seven dollars to three, fourteen to seven, one dollar to seven fifty five, three fifty to one seventy five, and five dollars to one hundred ten in the main room sale.
Fifth floor lamp department offers deep cuts on lamps and shades. Items include a large red silk lampshade, damaged Japanese lamp shades, green Japanese shade, blue lamp globe, decorated lamp globes, green porcelain globe, and numerous candle shades, all reduced from higher prices to fraction of original costs.
A department sale lists multiple women’s suits with varied colors and fabrics. Gray Uneviot, black broadcloth, and gray serge styles show deep discounts from original prices ranging up to 58 dollars, with sizes 34 to 96 in cataloged reductions.
Green broancloth Tourise Coat with gray satin trim and size 28 is reduced from 25.00 to 12.50. Two plaid tourist coats with velvet collars, size 40, cut from 25.00 to 10.00 each. Light-weight red cheviot tourist coat size 88, discounted from 28.50. Light-weight Hellotrope Kersey coat with plaid trim size 34, down from 350.00 to 20.00. Two tan raincoats sizes 49 and 42 now 10.60 each. One handsome silk coat with embroidery size 36 marked down from 90.00. Silk velvet wrap embroidered and lined white silk size 38 reduced from 168.00 to 68.00.
In the White department several skirts reduced from listed prices. One white serge skirt dropped from 12.60 to 6.00. three plaid Panama skirts in white and black cut to 5.00. a black taffeta silk plated style lowered from 10.00 to 7.50 each. a damaged ill described drop skirt reduced from 15.00 to 1a.00.
Large dress waist sale on the third floor with crepe de chine and silk waists in multiple sizes. Items include black crepe waists with embroidery and medallion fronts, blue taffeta silk waists, gray all wool challis waists, and lace trimmed lawn waists all marked down from high prices to low sale figures.
Reduced prices on a wide array of furniture items including parlor suites chairs tables cabinets and chests. Highlights show reductions from $25 to Nee, $10 to 1, $400 to 17.88, and other dramatic markdowns across oak and golden oak pieces with upholstery and glass details.
Mrs Swanson wife of the Virginia governor departs today for Richmond while Mrs Stephen B Elkins visits New York. Mrs Porter hosts a bridge party in honor of her guest Mrs Peter A Porter. Mr and Mrs Joseph P B Barber celebrate their seventh wedding anniversary with hundreds of guests as flowers and palms fill the rooms. Mrs Neale and others attend the reception and dining room features, with gowns described. The Paint and Powder Club of Baltimore plans performances of the Don of Doraya then Washington benefit, with Belasco Theater reserved for April 6. Other social tabs note visits, hosting duties, and upcoming society events in Washington and neighboring cities.
A New York social page reviews the New Colony Club’s plan to segregate smoking areas from certain sections, as members led by Mrs. Jack Astor and Miss Elizabeth Marbury advocate disciplined conduct. The piece covers fashion tastes, notable members like Mrs Reed Smoot, Miss Irene Crawford Moore’s stage debut, and winter leisure such as roller skating among Washington’s elite.
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