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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1905
Page
39
Our Easter cards and novelties are on the Main Floor at 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday is Remnant Day. After weekly accumulation the remnants are offered at reduced prices often half or less. Bargain opportunities abound with goods suited for personal use or the home.
16 dozen Bon Ton Corsets with dainty white pink and light blue embroidery. Sizes 18 to 26 inclusive. Special price 1.59. Regular price 2.50. Third floor Tenth street.
Rich Lace Robes offers a short sale of lace and spangled robes with deep discounts on recent imports. Items include gray spangled robes at 30 dollars, white silk and princess lace robes 125 dollars, white net robes 17 dollars, and assorted embroidered linen robes and waist patterns, all marked down from higher prices.
A White Goods sale offers 1,000 yards of Imported White Shirt material with Madras weave in light weight patterns at 15 cents per yard, down from 30 cents. Also offered are 50 rolls of English Nainsook soft finish with minor weave irregularities at 1.15 for a 12 yard piece, regular 1.50. Second Noor-Eleventh St.
White bedspreads including Marseilles and White Satin Finish offered at $2.50 $2.75 and $3.00. Slight factory imperfections noted. second floor Eleventh St. store.
Women's Button Boots offer at nearly half price from $4.00 to $2.00. Fine black kidskin with slipper fox military heel welt sole. All sizes 2 to 7, A B C D. Third floor Tenth street display with a near $250 comparison stated.
Bargain Friday offers damaged samples of Damask Napkins and Table Cloths at reduced prices on the second floor Eleventh Street. Damaged napkins priced $2.00 to $3.00 per dozen, table cloths from $4.50 to $5.00, bath towels six for $1.15, and remnants of dress fabrics discounted to a quarter to a third. Also reduced wool fancies and zibeline fabrics with various yardage and prices. Second floor Dress Goods Department.
Bargain sale on Sample Bed Sets featuring muslin and net styles some display worn. Prices cut from high to low with sets in green pink blue and Renaissance trims plus a Black Derby hat sale and caps Leather automobile caps and a walking stick all priced for main floor shopping at Fourth door G St.
Local store advertises deep reductions on boys clothing and women’s outerwear. Includes long overcoats in multiple sizes reduced to 5 dollars, fine blue cheviots and serges to 4 50, sailer blouse suits to 2 95, 3 piece suits to 2 50, and assorted silk and voile items priced down from the 15 to 58 dollar range to 1 25 to 25 dollars. Third Near Ten St.
Several thousand pounds of writing paper in rough and smooth finishes and various sizes. Plain white and colors suitable for scratch memorandums and school use. No envelopes match, bought at nominal figure. Offered at 5c a pack or 4 packs for 20c. Center counter Main floor.
Bargain notice for box couches made in house workshops with steel springs and decorative coverings. Tufted cushions with adjustable lifts and end castors, priced at 10.00 each, with listed values of 12.50 and 14.00. Fourth floor G street.
In the shoe department there are two pairs of Women's Tan Russia Calfskin Oxfords with ribbon laces and Goodyear web soles, various sizes listed, reduced from to 2.50 per pair. Also 15 pairs of Children's Lace and Button Shoes with turn soles and patent tips in several sizes, reduced from 1.00 and 1.25 to 0.07 per pair.
Reduced prices across the Picture Department and children's wear. Hand colored and sepia art pieces reward bargain hunters with deep cuts, while children's reefers and coats drop from high to low. Substantial markdowns apply to Japanes e children prints and colored pictures.
Clearout at Matin floor Tenth st offers Shakespeare Complete Works in eight volumes reduced from 2.00 to 11.00 per set and 15 volume Dickens works at 2.00 per set. Also Library of American Literature, 11 volumes, $44 reduced to 7.50. Webster's Dictionary at 6.50 each. Popular Atlas of the World at 1.00. Century Encyclopaedia 1902 edition eight volumes, 3.50.
The store marks markdowns on multiple rugs including blue and green mottled bathroom rugs, Brussels and Smyrna varieties, and Lexi8 Smyrna pieces. Prices drop from $3.75 to $1.75, $9.00 to $0.95, and $12.50 to $2 per ax ft among others. Fourth floor discounts cover most displays.
Various beds and mattresses offered with discounts. 1 ft to 1 1 2 ft green and white beds with headboards cut from $10.00 to $6.00 and other enamelled brass beds cut from $9.50 to $7.50 and $3.50. 4 1 2 ft white enamelled bed at $2.30 down from $6.50. Cotton felt mattresses priced from $10.00 to $7.00 and $3.00 for two parts, note some soiled items. Second floor store area.
Screen Department offers a 1 4 fold Japanese screen in black and gold reduced from 8.00 to 3.00. An imitation embossed leather screen damaged is reduced from 27.50 to 10.00. A utility box with Japanese matting and bamboo finish drops from 11.00 to 7.50. A clothes box with Japanese matting and bamboo finish lowers from 10.06 to 7.00. Second floor G st.
The main floor offers men’s items with deep cuts. Bow ties mostly dark start at 0.25 each, shield bows for turn-down collars at two for 0.25, bath robes blue and pink striped down from 5.00 to 3.50 each. Fancy stiff-bosom shirts in several sizes reduced from 1.50 to 2.06 each. Lisle thread hose ends in assorted sizes offered at three pairs for 0.30.
Furniture department lists numerous items with drastic markdowns from original prices. Davenports, tables, couches, rockers, bookcases and a go cart are offered in mahogany oak and weathered finishes, with prices cut notably for a seventh floor sale event.
A midtown department store offers a liquidation of waists and skirts with assorted sizes. Black Taffeta Silk Waists in sizes 38 40 42 cut from 5.00 to 2.95 each plus other reductions on corded silk navy white wool and striped flannel waists and brown mixed cheviot and Mohal skirts with price drops from 40.00 to 12.50 for a Black Broadtail Velvet Skirt.
Cashmere Tea Gowns pink blue sizes 34 38 down from 00 to 43.73 each Pink Albatross Tea Gown lace ribbon size 36 down from 38.00 to 15.00 Blue China Silk Tea Gown size 36 down from 15.00 to 00 German Miannel Wrappers blue pink gray assorted sizes 34 36 40 down from 3.75 to 2.00 10 Flannelette Wrappers Persian effects sizes 34 36 38 40 42 down from 2.50 to 100 each 6 Elderdown Wrappers pink blue red gray sizes 30 38 40 down from 6 to 3.00 each Third floor G at.
Misses' Black Cheviot Coat Suits with plaited jackets and skirts and colored vests sizes 16 and 18 reduced from 30 to 10 dollars each. Girls' Blue Cheviot Blouse Suits trimmed with braid sizes 10 and 12 reduced from 15 to 8.75 dollars. 2 Girls' Fancy Mixed Wool Dresses sizes 8 and 16 reduced from 15 to 7.50. 1 Girl's Red Cheviot Serge Russian Suit size 6 reduced from 100 to 37.40. 4 Girl's Tan Covert Cloth Long Coats sizes 10 12 14 reduced from 15 to 10 dollars. 6 Girls' Fine Tan Covert Cloth Reefers sizes 6 8 10 reduced from 15 to 7.50. 3 Girls' Russian Dresses sizes 10 14 reduced from 12.50 to 5.00. Third floor G st.
A local department store lists remaining stock with deep discounts. One woman’s size 7 leather skirt falls from 34.00 to 11.25, two women’s leather coats sizes 38 drop from 20.00 to 5.00 each, a man’s leather coat size 44 reduces from 2000 to 5.00, a pair of men’s leather knickerbockers size 40 from 1500 to 3.76, and leather leggings size 131/2 inches cut from 3.00 to 1.50.
The Fifth floor on G street offers large markdowns across Chinese and Austrian china groups including 100-piece decorated sets, bouillon canes and dishes, imported sauce dishes, fern dishes, breakfast plates, meat dishes, toilet sets, limoges teapots, chop plates, and porcelain pie plates with prices slashed from cents to dollars. Limited quantities remain.
A crowded sale notice lists Department 1 items with heavy discounts on assorted housewares. Items include wine coolers bread makers tin boilers enamelled chambers garbage cans and more with prices cut from dollars to dimes and quarters.
The Festival of Nations at Rauscher's is the chief social event with a vaudeville show in the afternoon and evening to aid the Newsboys' Home. A German garden dinner at 8 o'clock, Marine Band performances, and world wares sale will accompany the program. Mrs. John C. Fremont leads the vaudeville, and guests are urged to reserve dinner tables in the afternoon.
Farewell service planned at Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church South as Rev F J Prettyman completes a four year pastorate. He has served as Senate chaplain and led a large church, with about 1000 members, in a period of active social life. next Sunday will be his last sermon before the Baltimore conference assigns him elsewhere.
Prof James C Egbert of Columbia University speaks this afternoon at 3 30 in Georgetown University Hall 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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