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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1907
Page
19
Friday Is Our Remnant Day offers merchandise at prices well below intrinsic value. Remnants and broken assortments are cleared with plainly marked tickets showing original prices. Every department features items of interest to careful buyers, making today’s collection particularly attractive for bargain seekers.
A sale of women garments including gowns and skirts made of cambric and nainsook, trimmed with embroidery or lace. Well-made pieces proportioned for fit offered at a special price of 50c for choice, regular value 75c, on the third floor Eleventh Street.
A small lot of batiste corsets with straight fronts and elastics offered in sizes 18 to 30 at 50c. Also 100 dozen pairs of extra fine black cotton hose with double soles and high spliced heels priced at 35c per pair, marketed as value purchases on the Malan floor.
Twenty dozen women's ribbed silk and lisle thread vests with low necks and crocheted fronts are offered at 75 cents each, value 1.25. Located on the main floor at F Street.
A sale note describes 200 yards of 27 inch embroidered French flannel in odd colorings for skirts and similar use offered at 25 cents per yard. Regular price is 75 cents. Located on the second floor Eleventh at.
A Georgetown customs pickup brings a large lot of hand bags medicine cases and fitted and unfitted traveling cases at exactly half price due to shipment delays. The sale also marks substantial discounts on jewelry and brass Munich crafted items including bracelets brooches pendants trays and vases with prices slashed on each item. Main floor eleventh street Bric-a-Brac department.
A catalog-style sale brief lists items in the Furniture Department with reduced prices. Items include a Music Cabinet with claw feet now $11 75, Mahogany Library Table, Git Chair cane seat, Golden Oak Rockers, Weathered Oak Chairs, Golden Oak Chiffonier with drawers, and more, many described as damaged or slightly so, with substantial price cuts across the board.
The sale lists reduced prices on assorted toys and dolls including two large imported white teddy bears from 10 to 50 each, six domestic bears from 2.50 to Tic, skin horses and carts from 7 to 2 50, a large mechanical train set from 660 to 295, and various dolls and figures with substantial markdowns across the Fourth floor Eleventh at location.
Men’s Furnishings offers 50 dozen hemstitched all linen handkerchiefs in generous size at 75 cents per half dozen. Also 25 dozen silk four in hand and string ties in new spring colors at 25 cents each. Main floor Fat.
About 30 pairs of Men's Trousers remaining in stock offered at reduced prices to close. There are devices and worsteds in neat stripe effects and all sizes represented. $5.00 Trousers now $3.50 per pair. $7 and $8 Trousers now $5.00 per pair. Also 9 Black Thibet Suits for stout men in sizes 37 38 40 42 and 44 at $11.00 choice. Regular value $18.00. Main floor Tenth st.
A liquidation sale lists deep discounts on all wool boys suits, knickerbocker pants, overcoats, and separate short pants with prices slashed from five to ten dollars and up. Ladies and children shoe reductions accompany heavy textile cuts in third floor and second floor departments, featuring coats, dress goods, and fabrics with marked-down prices.
A sale of women’s waists in white lawn, all sizes, trimmed with lace and embroidery, reduced from 1.90 to 1.15. All wool challis gray with black dots reduced to 2.50. Pink crepe de chine waists tucked fronts, sizes 38 and 40, cut to 4.38. Several plaid silk and taffeta waists offered with embroidery, many sizes, discounts from 8.00 to 5.00 and similar reductions. White messaline silk waist with embroidered front reduced to 10.00. Crepe de chine warrants with embroidered fronts in black and white, sizes 36–40, discounted from 5.00 to 1.00.
A Havana Brown Velvet skirt falls from 2100 to 500, two Buck Silk skirts priced at 1350 each, two Plaid skirts cut to 2.76, 20 Riderdown Bath Robes in gray and red sizes 36 and 2 reduced from 5.75 to 25, all on third floor six at one All wool Serge skirt cut from 1250 to 500.
Catalog of reduced prices on assorted women's suits including Panama and broadcloth styles in sizes 34 to 38, with trims in lace braid silk velvet and braid. Listed are reductions from high original price points to sale figures. Items include blue gray and black suits with various trims and coat or skirt styles.
A truncated sale list outlines numerous women’s jackets in broadcloth satin taffeta and cheviot. Items include sizes 38 to 40 with reductions from $16 to $10, $25 to $7.50, and similar markdowns on coats and tourist jackets plus trims and linings noted.
Fifth district department store marks down numerous items from suits to dresses. Misses size 16 wool serge gowns drop to 10, girls lawn and chambray sailor dresses cut to 2.50, broader reductions span white dresses and navy blue pieces, with sizes listed from 4 to 14.
The advertisement lists imported Madras fabrics and various drapery materials with reduced prices per yard or piece. It notes cotton and silk tassel fringe, cross-strips, muslin curtains, and a box couch with steel springs, all marked down from higher prices. Sale targets Fourth floor items with limited stock.
Third floor Eleventh St offers deep reductions on infant wear including cream cord long coats with braids marked down from 350 to 2.50 and blue nun's wearing trimmed capes from 1500 to 8.5. Finely tacked silk caps and lace dresses also cut to 60c and 4.00 respectively while black worsted drawers hover near 0. perfumed stock varies by size.
Upper floor sale offers decorated Limoges salad bowls berry bowls and teapots at deep cuts. Items include dessert plates teapots cream sets soup tureen and covered dishes with reductions from hundreds of dollars to small figures. Limited quantities vary by item with several pieces slightly imperfect and selling quickly.
Various hand colored and sepia photographs and pastel landscapes reduced in price at the Fourth floor on Tenth Street. Items include a Holland scene in Elle frame a Pisa image in carved gilt frame and marine view in a gilt frame with reductions from several dollars to two dollars or less.
Fifth floor G street offers reduced glassware from the Puget Set at 2.50 to 5.00 value, gold decorated wine decanters at 0c each, a decorated water set at 1, and a dozen glass vase deals. Also listed are kitchen tumblers reduced to 0.35 per dozen, with limited stock.
Floor sale at Fifth floor Eleventh Street lists wares with steep cuts. Waffle irons, coffee pots, and nickel plated items reduced from high prices to low figures. Numerous small goods including dust beaters and polishers discounted as marked.
Washington society notes guests at dinners hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lee and Mr. and Mrs. James Barbour include Dr. and Mrs Baltzell of Baltimore Mrs. Straue hosted a dinner with dignitaries and foreign officials such as the Japanese Ambassador Viscountess Aoki the Danish Minister and several judges and admirals. Additional items mention Miss Camille Lansburgh's quiet wedding Mr. and Mrs Lyon and the engagement of Miss Flora Wallace to Capt. Shipley and social movements of Mrs. Haggin as she prepares for English racing circles.
Social notes detail Mrs P A Valentine delaying trips to care for her son Lester Armour ill in New York with appendicitis. Lester, famed for winning last year’s Oconomowoc regatta, joins his father in hospital while Mrs Armour plans to visit her grandsons in Michigan. Also covered are Miss Ailes de Peyster’s pigeon horticulture, Miss Florence Conrad’s Geneva wedding to J Ford Thompson Jr, and other society updates.
Mrs Thomas C Noyes will lead the cast as Vyoletta Farsons Packington in We Are in Society by Phelps Brown at the Belasco Theater on April 1 2 3 for the National Junior Republic benefit. Known for voice beauty and magnetism she sings ambitious ballads amid a plot of romance and intrigue with a government clerk and a titled foreigner.
The Washington Playground Association will open a recreation center at Western High School the week after Easter, likely Tuesday April 9, operating Tuesday Thursday and Saturday 7 to 9 30 pm. Lighting delays keep the gym closed for now while books for young readers expand the library and rooms may host games and clubs. Other cities have similar centers and Chicago plans wider use of school buildings for public clubs and meetings.
Dr Charles H Clark of Government Hospital for the Insane medical staff is named superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane in Cleveland Ohio to succeed Dr A B Howard who resigned He will assume duties April 1 Clark has been with B Elizabeths since 1998 and is a member of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia the American Medico Psychological Society and the District Society on Nervous and Mental Diseases.
James W. Greer an attorney aged forty eight died at his home at Fifteenth and U streets northwest Washington. He was born in Dayton Ohio and survived by brother Edward Randolph Greer and sister Miss Byrd Greer. Body sent to Dayton for burial. Elizabeth Macartney widow of Nicholas Macartney of the city died yesterday at Atlantic City leaving three children. Funeral arrangements pending. Bryce to be guest of Cheate in New York addresses to be given at Banqueta and Ottawa visit. Educational Contest answers due April 1 with back numbers and catalogues available at the publication office.
Luiz Arenas de Lima is appointed first secretary to the Portuguese Legation and will arrive at once to act as charge d'affaires in the minister's absence. The Brazilian Embassy has handled Portugal’s affairs for months, and a dispatch to Ambassador Nabuco confirms the rejection of the charge.
The Men’s Society of Epworth M Church South held a banquet at Martyn’s to honor retiring pastor Rev. D L Blakemore. L Pierce Boteler acted as toastmaster, with toasts on The All-around Man The Sunday school The Epworth League and The Parsonage. Rev Dr Blakemore replied to The Parsonage with brief remarks as guests sang Abide with Me. Attending were Rev DL Blakemore L Bierce Boteler W J Brower L AL getter F Hummer S W Goodson E Moore W R Thonsen Wingfield Captain Tite D J Finn B Compton TE Myers J W E Slant Dr CH Monroe H Bogley Jack Frost Fred Wee pay J C Comery H Woolf J S Edmunds and others.
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