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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1907
Page
25
Friday Is Our Remnant Day offers prices well below intrinsic value. The store urges careful buyers with perfect, clearly marked remnants and original prices noted on tickets. All departments feature items of interest and the day’s collection highlights broken assortments and odd lots available today.
Advertises women's gowns and skirts in cambric with embroidery or lace trim. Includes long and short skirts, well-made and proportioned, offered at 50c for choice versus regular 75c. Location noted as third floor Eleventh.
Small lot of batiste corsets with straight front hips and attached elastics, sizes 18 to 30, priced unusually low at 50c. Also 100 dozen pairs of women's extra fine black cotton hose with double soles and high-spliced heels, 35c per pair value 50c, located on Malan floor F.
Twenty dozen women’s ribbed silk and lisle thread vests with low necks and hand crocheted fronts offered at 75 cents each. Value 1 dollar 25 cents. Main floor F street store inventory listing.
Embroidered French flannel 200 yards at 27 inches in odd colorings for skirts and similar items priced at 25 cents a yard. Regular price is 75 cents. Located on the second floor Eleventh at.
A large lot of hand bags medicine cases and travel cases arrives via Georgetown custom house. All items offered at exactly half price due to shipment delays. Jewelry department features discounted gilt miniature dog collar bracelets brooches pendants and more with significant reductions. Main floor eleventh street brass and copper bric a brac items include trays vases jardinières and candle sticks with steep markdowns.
A furniture sale lists items with reduced prices including a music cabinet claw feet from 200 to 1175, mahogany library table, cane seat git chair damaged to 3 percent, golden oak rockers and weathered oak chairs with various markdowns, brass and jewelry drawers noted, and several damaged pieces finalizing at lower costs.
A vintage sale lists large imported white teddy bears and domestic bears heavily reduced. Mechanical train set with track and locomotives drops from 660 to 295. Lead soldiers and English coach items cut to bargain prices. Kestner dolls and jointed soldiers appear with marked discounts. Fourth floor Eleventh at.
Fifty dozen hemstitched all linen handkerchiefs in generous size and good quality offered at 75 cents per half dozen. Twenty five dozen silk four in hand and string ties in a wide range of fresh spring colors priced at 25 cents each. Main floor Fat.
About 30 pairs of men's trousers remain in stock offered at reduced prices to close. Devices and worsteds in neat stripe effects across all sizes. $5.00 trousers now $3.50 pair. $7 and $8 trousers now $5.00 pair. Also 9 Black Thibet suits for stout men sizes 37 to 44, $11.00 for choice. Regular value $18. Main floor Tenth St.
All wool suits and Knickerocker pants offered in a clearance with sizes from 8 to 16 for children and adults. Coats, overcoats, and russet serge suits reduced from high prices to around $1.95 to $8.00 per item. Shoes, pumps, and leather goods discounted with multiple sizes. Fabrics including chiffon, albatross, taffeta, and voile sold by the piece at substantial cuts. Second floor goods at G street store, with varied reductions across departments.
A local shop advertises white lawn waists trimmed with lace and embroidery in all sizes at discounts from 1.90 to 1.15 each. All-wool challis, crepe de chine, taffeta silk and messaline options on sale, with sizes 34 to 49 and prices cut from listed amounts to as low as several dollars per piece.
Garment list shows Havana Brown Velvet Skirt reduced from 2100 to 500. Buck Silk Skirts in black terete size Grop reduced from 3800 to 1350 each. Plaid skirts platted style cut from 31250 to 2.76. Riderdown Bath B Ropes gray red sizes 36 and 2 reduced from 5.75 to 25. All-wool Serge Skirt reduced 1250 to 500 on third floor 6 at 1.
A classified sale lists multiple women’s suits with varied reductions. Items include blue chiffon Panama and gray broadcloth designs in sizes 8 to 38, trimmed with lace, braid, or velvet. Notable discounts push prices from mid hundreds to as low as $20 to $30, with several entries showing substantial markdowns.
A local cloak department slashes prices on multiple jackets and coats. Reductions include satin trimmed broadcloth jackets in sizes 38 to 40, a tan covert cloth jacket, gray lined broadcloth coats, black broadcloth jackets trimmed with taffeta silk, plaid serge cheviot tourist coats, and a reda cheviot tourist coat, with discounts ranging from about 12 to 65 percent.
In the Misses department and girls wear, serge dresses in brown and blue size 16 drop from 1860 to 10 dollars. A lightly soiled white English Rep Russian dress size 8 falls to 7.50. Navy blue pales dress size 4 down to 5.00. Misses blue serge suitor dress size 36 now 10.00. Two girls Al-wood serguesan dresses sizes 6 and a few left at 2.50. Eight white lawn dresses with embroidery sizes 6 8 10 12 reduced to 2.50. Twenty dark chambray sailor dresses sizes 6 to 14 now 2.50. Third floor eleventh pt.
Chester store advertises imported Madras fabrics in varied colors with rich patterns and heavy drapery textiles. Prices slashed from 2.50 to 1.50 yard, 3.00 to 1.60 yard, and other reductions noted for fringe, drapery cross strips, muslin curtains, and a box couch priced dramatically down from 1350 to 10.00. Fourth floor offers attractively discounted upholstery materials.
On the third floor at Eleventh Street the Infants Department features deep cuts. Infants Cream curora Cord Long Coat trimmed with braid drops from 350 to 2.50. Blue Nun's Yelling Short Coat trimmed with lace and ribbon lowered from 1500 to 8.5. Black Worsted Drawer Loggins reduced from 50c to 25c per pair. Finely Tacked Silk Caps 60c each from 100. Short Dresses with tucks and embroidery cut from 4.40 to 3.00.
The Fifth floor displays numerous discounted items including Limoges china salad bowls berry bowls and dessert plates with marks of wear. Prices slashed from figures like 800 down to 1.50 and from 5c to 25 each for plates. Also listed are teapots sugar and cream sets soup tureens and covered dishes with reductions to as low as 50c and 1.00.
Picture Department offers reduced prices on hand colored photographs and watercolor prints in gilt frames. Holland scene, landscape and Pisa photos discounted. Marine View and Homeward Bound pictures cut to low figures. Fourth floor Tenth St.
Imported glass Puget set imperfect reduced from 5.00 to 2.50. Gold decorated wine decanters reduced from 1.00 to 0.01 each. Decorated water set reduced from 1.60 to 1.00. Glass vase reduced from 3.75 to 0.50 per dozen. Kitchen tumblers reduced from 0.20 to 0.35 per dozen. Fifth floor G Street.
A Fifth floor Eleventh Street sale advertises numerous housewares with deep discounts. Waffle irons ovens and steam cookers are marked down, along with nickel plated coffee pots and teapots. Dust beaters and polish products are offered at reduced prices with multiple items noted.
Washington society notes dinners and gatherings hosted by Mrs. and Mr. Arthur Lee and Mr. and Mrs. James Barbour with guests incl Judge and Mrs Holmes, Admiral and Mrs Cowles, Count and Countess Hatzfeldt, the Danish Minister, and the Japanese Ambassador among others. Also mentions travels, marriages, bridge party at Countess Seckendorff, and engagements including Miss Lansburgh and Mr. Lyon. racing society figures Haggin and family referenced for American sports backing.
Whooping cough keeps Mrs. P A Valentina in New York with her ill ten year old son Lester Armour for care. Lester, famed for last year’s regatta at Oconomowoc, now faces hospital news as his mother travels to Michigan and Park Avenue homes amid unfinished Easter plans. Miss de Peyster of New York raises showy pigeons for market supply yet gifts them, while Miss Florence Conrad weds J Ford Thompson Jr in Geneva, Switzerland, after earlier engagement in Washington.
Mrs Thomas C Noyes will headline the Belasco Theater production of We Are in Society by Phelps Brown on April 1 2 and 3 for the National Junior Republic benefit. Noyes known for voice beauty and magnetism portrays Vyoletta Farsons Packington daughter of a Western Senator and love for a government clerk. Her songs include I am longing for a real flirtation and a double male quartet.
Washington Playground Association votes to open a recreation center at Western High School the week after Easter. Opening night likely Tuesday April 9 with sessions Tuesday Thursday and Saturday 7 to 9 30. Lighted gym needed. books expanded for young readers and two more from Washington Boys' Club. rooms to host games and clubs in a nonpartisan setting inspired by New York Boston Newark Rochester Cincinnati and Chicago charter supports broader use of school buildings for clubs and meetings.
Dr Charles H Clark of the Government Hospital for the Insane medical staff is named superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane in Cleveland Ohio, replacing Dr A B Howard who resigned. He will assume duties April 1 and has ties to B Elizabeths since 1998. He belongs to 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 attorney dies at his home at Fifteenth and U streets northwest. Born in Dayton Ohio forty eight years ago he studied law there and found success in Washington. Survived by brother Edward Randolph Greer and sister Byrd Greer both of the city. Body taken to Dayton for burial. Elizabeth Macartney wife of Nicholas Macartney dies in Atlantic City leaving three children J W Macartney Mrs Eleasior Macartney Lane and Miss Mary Macartney. Funeral arrangements not yet made. Bryce to be guest of Cheate ambassador leaves for New York to speak at banquets then to Ottawa to see Earl Grey. Educational Contest answers accepted through April 1 with back numbers or catalogues available at the publication office.
Luiz Arenas de Lima is appointed first secretary to the Portuguese Legation and will arrive to act as charge d affaires in the absence of Minister Viscount de Alte, who is in Europe. The Brazilian Embassy has managed Portugal affairs for months, after a dispatch to Ambassador Nabuco announced the rejection of the charge.
The Men's Society of Epworth M Church South held a banquet at Martyn's in honor of 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 answered The Parsonage toast with remarks as attendees joined in singing Abide with Me. Attendees included Rev D L Blakemore L Bierce Boteler W J Brower L A Getter F Hummer S W Goodson B Reasing H Paypee E Moore D J Finn B Compton T Myers J W Slant Dr CH Monroe H Bogley Jack Frost Fred Weeg pay J C Comery H Woolf and J S Edmunds.
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