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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1907
Page
15
Woodward and Lothrop markets the Easter remnant sale on the main floor at Eleventh and G Streets. Stock from all departments is being cleared with items that are soiled imperfect or odd sizes offered at half price or more reduced. Limited quantities. best bargains go early.
A Friday sale offers Little Children's sample coats in serge and broadcloth with trims of braid and velvet at 14 to 13 off. Prices include $7.30 and $10, previously $10 to $18 and more. Also listed are infant coats, reefers, and heavy linen dresses with substantial reductions. Third floor Eleventh St. Down Crib Comfortables offered at $2.00 each, regular $5.00.
Silk Petticoats in black and spring shades with ruffles and dust ruffle priced at 3.00 each, half the value. Remnants of undergarments include cambric drawers trimmed with embroidery reduced from 1.50 to 1.00 per pair. Nainsook gowns, lawn slips, and other items marked down. corset covers trimmed with embroidery see price reductions. Third four Eleventh St.
Antique sale notice lists women's knit drawers at 50c per pair and knit corset covers at 50c each. Also featured are porcelain tea pots, decorated china sets, and various dishes with deep discounts. Gifts include steamer trunk, leather bags, and garden items, all offered in basements and on main floors.
Friday bargain offers 26 inch colored silk umbrellas finished with woven borders in brown red green and blue for 2.25 each, value 3.50. Also 26 inch taffeta silk umbrellas with natural wood handles in blue red green and black for 2.00 each, value 2.75. Main floor near entrance.
The store lists deep cuts across boys long pants suits all wool boy coats and vests with sizes from 9 to 21-3 and youths items. Prices drop from several dollars to a few cents per pair and suits from seven dollars sixty to two ninety five amid a wide assortment including raincoats and all wool pants on the third floor tenth street location.
A vintage sale notice lists boys garments on the third floor at Tenth Street. Items include shirts in madras, wash blouse suits, sailor blouses, and cloth hats with tam o shanters, all discounted from values around $1 to about 9 to 19 cents and dollars.
The Black Dress Goods Department offers deep discounts on fabrics including chiffon, voile, wool, and silk. Items such as Lupin’s chiffon four yards at 4.50 per yard, striped voile at 2.00 per yard, and Priestley’s Panama Cloth at 4.76 per yard are advertised with substantial markdowns from higher prices.
Fourth floor G street offers upholstery bargains with muslin curtains 2 yards long, fur hem, heavy drapes in Madras, printed linen taffeta, and extra heavy figured fabric. Prices cut from 1.25 to 1.00 per pair, Madras 750 yard, linens 30c, 95c, and 5.00 per pair for various curtains and nets. Willow Armenara pieces, now 5.00 each after reductions from 7.50.
Japanese department marks deep discounts on bouillon cups and saucers reduced from 1.25 to 0.50, decorated tobacco jar from 1.76 to 1.25, richly decorated cake plate from 2.25 to 1.71, tea cups and saucers from 0.50 to 0.35, and a vase from 3.00 to 1.00 on the fifth floor, gallery area.
Fifth floor Eleventh street features a lamp department sale with items including a drop light with shade cut from 3.75 to 2.75, brass candlestick damaged, Japanese lamps reduced, 21 inch decorated lamp globes cut from .75 to .25, 48 inch globes from .50 to .25, and 12 shopworn candle shades.
A historic newspaper item lists prints and remnants for yardage including 15c silk mousseline de soie patterns white with lavender flowers, 12%4c Percale at 10c, 1234 Batiste 10c, and various ginghams, calicoes, and silks priced per yard. Items on second floor G St.
A sale listing many fabrics including Natte Cloth flecked in blue and cream, French Chantilly remnants, Crepe de Paris, and Volle and Drap d ete weaves. Prices drop from high to as low as reduced per yard and per piece, with numerous lengths and colors like gray terra cotta mauve brown blue and green. Limited yardage remains on best quality French fabrics and vaunted Silk and Wool designs.
Numerous corset styles offered with real whale bone and elastic supports. Ivy, Sapphire, Lily of France, Parame, and J. B Coxsat models listed with sizes 18 to 29, reduced from high prices to modest sale figures.
Shoe department offers women’s styles in lavender and green with one-eyelet sailor tiles and poms, sizes ranging from 3 to 6 1/2, reduced from 5.00 and 6.00 to 1.50 per pair. Also 48 pairs of Dongola Kidek oxford tiles with web sole, sizes 3 1/2 to 8, cut to 1.95 per pair. Tan Ruasla calfskin oxford ties, sizes 3 1/2 to 6, cut from 3.00 to 1.95 per pair.
A second floor sale lists a white enamel bed with brass rods and other beds and mattresses badly damaged or reduced. Items include all metal folding beds, a 41-21 inch mattress, pillows, springs and various discounts from original prices, with measurements urged.
The Jewelry Department marks down items including French jeweled bracelets from original prices to 1. Each neck laces once 6 to 3.00 and 7 jeweled necklaces from 350 to 3.00. Sterling silver pin cushions cut to 1.00. A silver plated electric candelabrum drops from 32500 to 15.00. A deposit ware decanter sterling glass reduces from 25 to 1 and from 2750 to main floor fat.
In the Book Department a 13 volume Bulwer Lytton complete novels in green cloth is reduced from 900 to 4 dollars. Sims Celebrated Novels of the South including Hutawab Border Beagles Guy Rivers and three others reduced from 300 to 2 volumes. A Women of the World by Ella Wheeler Wilcox shelf worn now 2 cents. American Lecturers and Humorists reminiscences by Ward Twain Burdette Peck Nasby Nye and others cloth bound 570 pages reduced from 1.00 to 4 cents. Main floor Tenth St.
Reduced from 1000 to 7.00 for a rug. One roll Japanese matting cut from 14.00 to 10.00. Remnants of mattings 5 to 15 yard lengths halved. Ollcloth and linoleum remnants sold in 1 yard squares at 5 cents each.
A fragment lists women’s suits with sizes 34 to 38 in light gray and olive broadcloth and mixed fabrics. Each item shows reductions from prices ranging up to $68 to sale prices as low as $20 to $25, including several 34, 36, and 38 size broadcloth ensembles with trims in velvet braid and military styles.
A list of garment markdowns in the women’s cloak department includes two green broadcloth coats, plaid tourist coats, a gray raincoat, black broadcloth coats, a black broadcloth jacket, a tan covert cloth jacket, and a black worsted serge coat. Sizes range from 34 to 48 with reductions from $2.00 to $25.00.
A local department store advertises deep cuts on numerous waists including crepe de chine silk and lawn options. Items range white black pink and gray with varied sizes from 24 to 43 and reductions from $1.60 to $9.60 per piece, highlighting third floor displays.
A period sale lists multiple girls and misses dresses with dramatic price cuts. White cashmere, blue chiffon, serge, sailor styles, and a brown broadcloth coat are reduced from high prices to low amounts, with sizes spanning infant to teen measurements and several items at deep markdowns.
Auction-style listing shows reductions on various artworks and photographs from Burns Cottage to Madonna of the Chair. Items include large photograph frames reduced to 503 and 7.50, etching 32.00, Old Mill 34 90, Parisian Madonna 32.95, Landscape pastels 240, Sea shore print 2.95, St Peters 1.46, Propheta pictures 50c, Messenger of Love 1.00, tinported oils 1c each, Tandecabe gold frames 2.95 each. Fourth floor Tenth St.
Fanconi 3 engines reduced from 15.00 4 Bien Engine cut to 3. Teddy Bears domestic make reduced from 2.60 to tic each. Child's Weathered Oak Rocker from 3.00. Whirl a Stobies, toys, and dolls on sale. Kestner Jaintea and Jainted Dolls discounted. Fourth floor Eleven at
Local Housefurnishings department promotes a clearance of damaged and reduced items. Reduced prices apply to tableware, enamelware, kitchen shelves, a rubber door mat, laundry table, chafing dish, coffee pot, teapot, pitchers, bed pan, jelly molds, burner, water cooler, auto shine polish, Krupp polish, and other small goods. Damaged or dented items listed with price cuts noted, located near Fifth Soot Eleventh Street.
Italian Embassy to relocate to the Massachusetts coast with Montagna as charge d affaires while Baron Haymerle returns from Mexico. French Ambassador and Mme Jusserand plan a summer abroad and sail early June. British and Brazilian envoys noted, plus numerous social visits and engagements across Washington including weddings, arrivals, and spring visits.
A country club season near Washington unfolds six weeks early with fashion elites, including Representative and Mrs. Longworth, hosting the President and guests on equestrian tours. Admiral Dewey hosts a breakfast for thirty at the Country Club while auto parties enliven rival clubs. Diplomats relocate to suburbs ahead of the Jamestown Exposition as Mrs. Roosevelt frequents outdoor walks, though she avoids club life.
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