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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1905
Page
13
New York Washington store hours are 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. Remnant Day Friday on the Main Floor offers reduced prices on overstocked items. Thousands expect weekly deals as stock turns over, with some lots dusty or mussed after daily shopping.
sale of 16 dozen Bon Ton Corsets in embroidered batiste offered at 1.59, down from 2.50, in a third floor display on Tenth street. Corsets come in white pink and light blue with straight front and hip hips, sizes 18 to 26 inclusive.
Rich Lace Robes offers a half dozen or so lace and spangled robes at reduced prices. Individual items include Gray spangled robe $30, Brown robe $50, Black robe $50, white silk and lace robe $125, white silk robe $100, white lace robe $1300 misprint likely $13.00, white net robe $17 or $16. The sale lists Tosca nets by yard and hand embroidered linen robes and waist patterns with marked discounts. Lace Department Main floor Gust.
A Friday bargain on white goods offers 1,000 yards of imported white shirt material with Madras patterns at 15 cents a yard, along with 50 pieces of English Nainsook at 1.15 for a 12 yard piece. Regular prices are 30 cents and 1.50 respectively, with slight weave irregularities noted. Second Noor Eleventh Street.
Bargain sale offers white bedspreads in Marseilles and white satin finish with slight factory imperfections. Prices slashed to 2.50, 2.75, and 3.00 with 64 patterns available. Located on second floor Eleventh Street.
Women’s Button Boots offer sharp savings on fine black kidskin with slipper fox. Military heel and welt sole suit comfort and style, sizes 2 to 7 across A B C D. Originally about 4 dollars, marked nearly half price at 250 per pair in a floor ten sale on the third floor at Tenth Street.
Friday sale offers damaged damask napkins and table cloths at reduced prices. Includes samples priced from $2.00 to $6.50 a dozen, plus bath towels 6 for $1.50. Also remnants of colored dress fabrics greatly marked down on second floor Eleventh Street store.
Bargain sale on Sample Bed Sets with muslins nets and trims, some slightly soiled from display. Includes muslin sets in green pink blue and dot patterns, net sets Renaissance trimmed, and leather automobile caps. Hats and caps discounted, walking stick reduced. marked on Main floor First Street location.
Large sale on boys and women’s wear features long and short coats, sailor suits, and 3 piece outfits with markdowns from $10 to $58 down to $2.50 to $25.00. Items include teen sizes 1 through 18, Norfolk jackets, bloomer pants, and washable sailor blouses with Peter Thompson styling.
Several thousand pounds of writing paper in rough and smooth finishes and various sizes. Plain white and colors suitable for scratch, memorandums, school use. Envelopes unavailable, paper offered at 5c a sheet or 4 sheets for a quarter. Center counter Main floor.
Box Couches offered in own workshops with selected materials and sturdy springs. Coverings include denims cretonnes and Bohemian cloth with silkeline. button tufted and fitted with adjustable lifts and end castors. Special price ten dollars each, values twelve fifty and fourteen dollars.
Shoe Department offers 2 pairs Women s Tan Russia Calfskin Oxfords Blaher style ribbon laces Goodyear web sole up to date last sizes 21 4 3 6 7 A 21 2 3 31 2 4 6 1 2 and TD 21 2 3 31 2 6 and 6 1 40 21 2 41 2 51 2 6 7D Reduced from to 2 50 pair 15 pairs Children s Lace and Button Shoes turn sole patent tip spring heel sizes 6 7 712 and B lasts Reduced from 1 00 and 1 235 to 7tc pair 4
The page lists reduced prices on art items and children's outerwear across multiple floors. Pastels and hand colored images drop from $5.00 to $150 each, and various framed pieces see substantial cuts. Clothing items include reefers and coats for children with marked price cuts, some from high to low hundreds of percent.
An old bookstore advertisement lists bargains on literature and reference works. Shakespeare Complete Works in 8 volumes with red buckram bindings reduced from 2.00 to 11.00 per set. Library of American Literature 11 volumes nearly sold at 44. Reduced to 7.50. Webster's Dictionary latest edition marked down from 850 to 6.50 each. People Popular Atlas of the World 694 edition cut from 175 to 1.00. Dickens 15 volumes large type cloth bound reduced from 3.00 to 2.00 per set. 20th Century Encyclopedia 8 volumes reduced from 8.00 to 3.50. Matin floor Tenth st.
Clearout at fourth floor features reduced prices on Brussels and Smyrna rugs. Items include 4 bathroom rugs in mottled blue and green, Lexi8 Smyrna rugs, Roxbury Brussels rugs, and a 12 by 10 foot Axminster rug, all marked down from their former prices to as low as 7.50 and 8.50 with limited stock.
A local bed department advertises price cuts on multiple beds and mattresses. Items include 1 ft twin beds in green and white reduced to 6.00, 1.5 ft white enamel beds with brass fittings reduced to 7.50 and 3.50, and a 4.5 ft white enamel bed discounted from 6.50 to 2.30. Also listed are 12 ft cotton felt mattresses and two parts, slightly soiled, reduced to 7.00 and 37.00 respectively. Second floor storage area noted.
Four fold Japanese screen reduced from eight dollars to three with gold embroidery. Imitation embossed leather screen discounted to ten dollars from twenty seven fifty. Utility box covered in Japanese matting with bamboo finish reduced to seven fifty from eleven. Clothes box with Japanese matting and bamboo finish dropped from ten six to seven. Second floor G street.
Readily available men items include 23 bow ties mostly dark reduced to 25c each 27 shield bows for turn-down collars at 2 for 25c 6 Riderdown bath robes blue and pink striped reduced from $5 to $3.50 each 1? stiff bosom shirts sizes 14 to 17 reduced from $1.50 to $2.06 each 30 pairs fancy lisle thread hose various sizes reduced to 3 pairs for the lot Main floor bargains.
A catalog of heavy reductions across the seventh and sixth floors features davenports tables heads couches and rocking chairs in mahogany oak and weathered finishes. Items include a Verona upholstered davenport marked down from 50 to 25 and a library table from 41 to 2.50 with several other pieces slashed to substantial savings.
Lameta waists in sizes 36 38 40 with plaited fronts and backs from seven fifty to ten. later five dollars each. Black taffeta silks waist sizes 38 40 42 reduced from five to three twenty nine five. Navy blue 4 corded silks waists sizes 40 42 cut from seven sixty HY to five dollars. White wool stretch waists size 40 cut to three eighty five. Fancy striped flannel waists sizes 32 38 drop to two fifty. Brown mixed cheviot skirts bias folds down to three ninety five. Mohair skirts blue and black at three ninety five. Black broadtail velvet skirt down from forty to twelve fifty.
Sale advertisement lists 2 Cashmere Tea Gowns pink and blue sizes 34 and 38 reduced to 43.73 each. 1 Pink Albatross Tea Gown size 36 reduced to 15.00. 1 Blue China Silk Tea Gown size 36 reduced to 0.00. German Mianell wraps in blue pink gray sizes 34 36 40 reduced to 2.00. 10 Flannelette Wrappers Persian effects sizes 34 36 38 40 42 reduced to 1.00 each. 6 Elderdown Wrappers pink blue red gray sizes 30 38 40 reduced to 3.00 each. Third floor G at.
Misses department offers trimmed white and colored coats blouses and dresses on sale. Items include Black Cheviot Coat Suits sizes 16 and 18 reduced from 30 to 10. Blue Cheviot Blouse Suits sizes 10 and 12 reduced from 15 to 8 75. Wool Dresses sizes 6 to 16 reduced from 15 to 7 50. and Russian Suits and Covert Cloth coats with prices slashed. Third floor. Gst.
A department sale offers women and men leather goods at steep markdowns. One woman's leather skirt size 7% drops from 34.00 to 11.25. Two leather coats sizes 38 and a man's coat size 44 go from 20.00 and 2000 to 5.00 each. Knickerbockers size 40 fall to 3.76. Leather leggings size 131 2 inches reduce from 3.00 to 1.50.
China Department offers deals on 100 piece decorated American and Austrian sets. Prices drop from 320.00 to 15.00 and 15.00 to 9.95 respectively with other pieces such as bouillon can sets sauce dishes and meat dishes at reduced rates. Includes toilet sets dinner wares and Limoges items with multiple discounts noted on shelves of the fifth floor G street location.
Listing of sale prices on damaged and shop worn housewares from a department store. Items include wine cooler, tin boilers, bread maker, enamelware, garbage cans, bread boxes, smokers sets, infant baths, willow nursery chair, stepladder, umbrella jar, wash roller, oak plate rack, drip coffee pots, alcohol lamp, window brush, and furniture polish with reduced prices and damaged notes.
Social and personal notes describe the Festival of Nations at Rauscher s in aid of the Newsboys Home with vaudeville and a German garden dinner, plus a Marine Band program and world wares sale. Guests include Mrs McKee, Mrs Lee, and Mrs Fairbanks amid a flurry of Washington society engagements.
To night at Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church South members and friends bid farewell to Rev. F. J. Prettyman as his four year pastorate ends. He has been popular in the city and served as Senate chaplain. The 1000 member church expects a large reception with many Senators and Southern Representatives in attendance. Next Sunday will be his last sermon before the Baltimore conference assigns him elsewhere.
Professor James C. Egbert of Columbia University will deliver an afternoon lecture at Georgetown University Hall at 3 30 o clock on Augustus altar of peace and the excavations of 14 in the Roman Forum. The talk will be illustrated with stereopticon views under the auspices of the Washington Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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