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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1907
Page
47
Friday Remnant Day offers prices well below intrinsic value as remnants are cleared from all departments. Every item is plainly marked with its original price, highlighting a wide range of perfect, discounted merchandise for careful buyers.
Bargain sale for women’s gowns and skirts on cambric and nainsook with lace or embroidery trim. Well-made, properly proportioned garments offered at a special price. Choice 50c, regular value 75c. Third floor Eleventh Avenue.
Small lot of batiste corsets with straight front and elastic, sizes 18 to 30. Special value 50c, third floor Hteventh. Also 100 dozen pairs of women's black cotton hose with double soles and spliced heels, 35c a pair, value 50c, Malan floor-F st.
Twenty dozen women’s imported Swiss ribbed silk and lisle thread vests with low necks, sleeveless, hand crocheted fronts offered at 75 cents each. Value listed at $1.25. Main floor F street.
Embroidered French flannel, 200 yards of 27 inch fabric in odd colors, offered for 25 cents per yard. Regular price 75 cents. Located on the second floor Eleventh building.
A Georgetown import sale offers hand bags medicine cases and traveling cases at half price due to shipment delays. Jewelry and bric a brac departments discount numerous items including French gilt miniatures dog collars bracelets brooches pendants enamel pieces and Munich copper bronze trays vases jardinières and candle sticks with large price cuts shown. Operating on Main floor eleventh street in the department store.
A catalog of discounted furniture items with reductions from original prices. Listings include music cabinet claw feet mahogany library table and multiple chairs and rockers in golden oak weathered oak and Spanish styles, many noted as damaged or slightly damaged, with prices and reductions.
A city catalog lists heavy discounts in the Toy Department including two large imported white teddy bears cut from 10 to 50 dollars each and six domestic bears reduced to tic. Other items include a large mechanical train set with track and two locomotives reduced from 660 to 295, plus dolls, soldiers, and Kestner jointed dolls with eye closures and wigs discounted to lone prices.
50 dozen men s hemstitched all linen handkerchiefs offered at 75c per half dozen. 25 dozen men s silk four in hand and string ties available in spring colorings at 25c 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 in all sizes. $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 to 44, $11.00 for choice. Regular value $18.00. Main floor Tenth St.
A second floor sale offers all wool suits and Knickerbocker pants in sizes 8 to 16 with prices dropping from 5 to 10 dollars and up to 3.76. Little boys and girls coats, serge russets, overcoats, and separate short pants are marked down. Shoes, pumps, and dress goods on third and second floors feature wide discounts on fabrics and linens, including chiffon, silk, and wool blends with most pieces cut to per piece or yard prices.
A department sale lists numerous waist styles in white lawn, all sizes, plus all wool challis, pink crepe de Chine, plaid silk and black taffeta options. Prices cut from 1.90 to 1.15, 2.06 to 2.50, 8.75 to 4.38, 10.00 to 9.00, 7.60 to 5.00, and 2.00 to 1.00, with various trims and embroidery noted.
A fragmented catalogue lists skirt items with steep reductions. Havana Brown Velvet Skirt drops from 2100 to 500, Buck Silk Skirts at 1350 each, Plaid Skirts at 2.76, and all wool Serge Skirt from 1250 to 500, plus Riderdown Bath Robes in gray and red sizes 36 and 2. Third floor merchandise noted.
Bargain basement women’s suits listed with many errors yet pricing shows deep discounts. Brown broadcloth and Panama styles in sizes from 34 to 38. several with lace braid velvet trim. Reductions claim large markdowns from high original prices to notably lower sale figures.
Itemized sale notes list multiple jackets and coats in size 38 to 40, mostly broadcloth and cheviot with satin or velvet trim. Prices cut from high to low amounts, including reductions from 25 to 7.50, 125 to 38, and 325 to 1800.
Department store announces deep discounts on Misses and Girls dresses. Items include brown and blue wool serges, sizes 16 and 36, marked down from 1860 to 10 dollars. white Rep Russian dress size 8 reduced to 7.50. navy blue pales dress size 4 cut to 5 dollars. several blue serge and lawn dresses with cuts to 2.50 or 2.50 each. sailor dresses and chambray options in multiple sizes. Third floor eleven point.
Upholstery dept advertises imported colored Madras fabrics with rich figured effects, now reduced from 1 per yard to a lower price, plus extra heavy figured upholstery fabrics and 20 yards tassel fringe reduced to sale prices. Cotton and silk tassel fringe, cross-strips drapery, muslin curtains, and a box couch are offered with substantial markdowns on the fourth floor.
Infants department offers trimmed coats and dresses at deep markdowns. Items include cream cord long coat with braid reduced from 350 to 2.50, blue nun's gown trimmed with lace and ribbon to 8.5, black worsted loggins and silk caps at reduced prices, fine tacked caps from 1.00 to 60c, and short dresses trimmed with embroidery, all on eleventh street third floor.
On the fifth floor a China Department sale offers numerous Limoges and German china items at deep cuts. Decorated salad bowls plates teapots tureens covered dishes and pudding sets listed with prices slashed from hundreds to low figures. Some lightly imperfect pieces noted with reduced prices reflecting condition.
Hand colored photographs and paintings on display with deep discounts. Holland scene water color reduced from 310 to 1.00. Pisa sepia photograph from 50 to 2.50. landscape pastel from 35 to 2.60. marine view colored picture from 6.60. There Is a Will There Is a Way frame 5.00 to 2.50. Homeward Bound hand colored photo 2.00 to 1.00. Fourth floor Tenth St.
Imported Puget set imperfect reduced from 5.00 to 2.50. Gold decorated wine decanters 1.00 each. Decorated water set 1.60 reduced. Glass vase 3.75. Kitchen tumblers 0.20 to 0.35 per dozen. Fifth floor G street.
Fifth floor Eleventh street offers a clearance of housewares with many items heavily discounted. Waffle irons steam cookers nickel plated pots and pans nickel plated teapots coffee pots and brass polish are listed with price cuts from dollars to under two dollars. Some items show damaged wording and inconsistent pricing due to OCR errors.
Washington social page notes Mr and Mrs Arthur Lee hosting Dr and Mrs Baltzell of Baltimore and guests including Senator and Mrs Bulkeley former Senator Henry G Davis Mrs John Reyburn and others. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor and Mrs Straube hosted a dinner with the Japanese ambassador and various dignitaries. more society movements include bridge parties and trips as notables travel or entertain.
Social notices recount Mrs P A Valentine delaying Chicago visit to care for her son Lester Armour in New York as he battles illness. Lester, famed for last year’s Oconomowoc regatta win, inspires pride in his family while Mrs Armour plans Eastertime travel. Miss de Peyster of New York pursues pigeons as a business hobby, gifting birds to friends. Florence Conrad, heiress, marries J Ford Thompson Jr of Washington in Geneva, with details on her aunt and family wealth.
Mrs Thomas C Noyes will lead the cast in We Are in Society by Phelps Brown at the Belasco Theater on April 1 2 3 for the National Junior Republic benefit. She is famed as a singer and actress and will portray Vyoletta Farsons Packington, daughter of a Western Senator, in a plot revolving around love and morganatic intrigue.
Washington Playground Association 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 pm. Lighting limits gym use though improvements planned. Library buys 800 volumes for youths plus two from Washington Boys' Club. Additional rooms may host games and clubs. Similar centers exist in New York City Boston Newark Rochester and Cincinnati with Chicago charter expanding school building use for clubs and public 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 succeeding Dr A B Howard who resigned He will assume duties April 1 Clark has long been connected with B Elizabeths since 1998 and holds memberships in the Medical Society of the District of Columbia the American Medico Psychological Society and the District Society on Nervous and Mental Diseases
J W Greer lawyer aged 48 died at his home in northwest Washington. Born Dayton Ohio he studied law and practiced here leaving behind brother Edward Randolph Greer and sister Byrd Greer. Body moved to Dayton for burial. Funeral plans not set. Also note Elizabeth Macartney wife of Nicholas Macartney a local resident died in Atlantic City leaving three children J W Macartney, Eleasior Macartney Lane and Mary Macartney. Funeral arrangements pending. Bryce to Visit New York then Ottawa for addresses at Banqueta and meeting Earl Grey. Educational Contest answers accepted through April 1 with back numbers or catalogues available from the office of publication.
Luiz Arenas de Lima is appointed first secretary to the Portuguese Legation in this city and will act as charge d affaires in the minister's absence. The Brazilian Embassy has handled Portugal affairs for months, and a dispatch to Ambassador Nabuco confirms the selection.
The Men's Society of Epworth Church South held a banquet at Martyn's to honor retiring pastor Rev. D L Blakemore. Toasts praised the pastor and church activities with remarks on the Sunday school Epworth League and parsonage. Attendees included Rev Blakemore and numerous members and friends who sang Abide with Me at the close.
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