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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1907
Page
23
Woodward & Lothrop announces an important remnants day with cleaned out stock from New York Washington Paris. Items are imperfect or odd and offered at heavy reductions including many departments. Some pieces are single items and sold early, first come, first served.
A Friday sale offers sample coats for little ones at 14 to 13 below regular prices. The collection features serge and broadcloth coats in white, light blue, tan and gray with braid trims and embroidery, plus several reduced remnants including infants coats, reefers, and linen dresses. Prices range from 3 to 7.50 dollars, with crib comfortables at 200. Third floor Eleventh street.
Silk Petticoats in black and spring shades with ruffles priced at 3.00 each, half of value. Remnants in underwear include cambric drawers with embroidery, reduced to 1.00 pair. Nainsook gowns, lawn slips, and corset covers offered at marked reductions. items feature lace trim and ribbons. Third four Eleventh street sale notice.
Bargain sale page lists women's knit drawers at 50 cents per pair, knit corset covers at 50 cents, and various decorated china items with steep markdowns. Leather and luggage pieces also heavily discounted including trunks, leather bags, and a shell alligator purse. Fifth floor and basement sections noted for prices and items.
Silk umbrellas offered at special prices for Friday. 26 inch colored twisted silk umbrellas with woven borders in brown red green and blue priced at 2.25 each with value 3.50. Also 26 inch colored ta fleta silk umbrellas with natural wood handles in blue red green and black priced at 2.00 each with value 2.75. Main floor G st near entrance.
The third floor sale lists Boys and Young Men’s garments with deep discounts. Items include long pants suits coats and vests in multiple sizes, all-wool and fancy fabrics, reduced from high prices to as low as 4.95 for blouses and 10 cents per pair for pants. Various styles feature raincoats and all-wool pants with sizes spanning early youth to teen.
A bargain notice from a department store lists boys clothing items on sale on the third floor at Tenth Street. Includes boys shirts in madras 2 and 2 12 with reductions from $1.00 to 9, wash blouse suits in several sizes, and sailer blouses. Hats and tam o shanters for boys and girls cut from $1.00 to 80 cents.
A cluttered sale notice lists discounts on dresses and fabrics from Lupin’s Priestley and related brands. Items include chiffon, voile, wool albatross, panama cloth, mohair, taffeta, silk voile, challis, and batiste with price cuts from high original amounts to set sale figures per yard or by piece. Names of fabrics, yardage, and reduced prices dominate the text.
Fourth floor G street offers deep hemstitched muslin curtains and fur trimmed options. Lot sizes include 2 yards and 229 yards with various patterns in Madras linen taffeta and printed linens. Prices cut from $1.25 to $1.00 per pair and from 40c-60c to 30c yard with other discounted lots.
Japanese Unina tovereu Bouillon Cups and Saucere cut from $1.25 to 50¢. Decorated Japanese Tobacco Jar drops from $1.76 to $1.25. Richly Decorated Japanese China Cake Plate reduced to $1.71. Tea Cups and Saucers lowered from 50¢ to 35¢ each. Richly Decorated Japanese Vase imperfect now $1.00. Fifth floor G at.
Floor eleven display features dropped prices on lighting goods. A drop light with white shade is now 275, brass candlestick is damaged, and several Japanese lamps and lamp globes show convert prices. Decorated lamp globes and candle shades listed with adjusted cents. Fifth floor Eleventh St.
Cotton dress goods include six patterns of printed silk mousseline de soie with lavender flowers. Remnants listed with yardage from 214 to 5 yards priced from 10c to 37%4c per yard. Items include percale, batiste, gingham, outing flannel, and silks with various discounts. Second floor G Street.
A list of remnants and pieces in blue, cream, gray, terra cotta, mauve and other shades. Fabrics include Natte cloth, Persian designs in French chalis, Crepe de Paris, Voile, and Panama. Prices slash from $7.02 to $5.00 and from $5.95 to $1.50, with yardage and piece descriptions.
A historical corset sale advertises Ivy Sapphire Lily of France and Parame styles in pink blue and white batiste. Sizes 18 to 29 show boned fronts long hips and elastics with reduced prices from 8 to 0.66 dollars per pair and 9 to 3.60. Quantities include 6 4 4 and 3 pairs across styles.
The Shoe Department offers remaining women’s styles at deep discounts. One-eyelet Sailor Tiles and Poms in lavender or child and green with turn and welt soles in various sizes, reduced from 5.00 to 1.50 per pair. Also 48 pairs of Women's Dongola Kidek Ox ford Tiles in multiple sizes, reduced from 5.00 to 1.95 per pair. Women’s Tan Ruasla Calfskin Oxford Ties Blucher cut with web sole in several sizes, reduced from 3.00 to 1.95 per pair.
Second floor sale offers numerous sleep items with price cuts. White enamel bed with brass rods damaged. reductions shown from 36.50 to 8.00 and other items including mattresses pillows and bed springs, all priced well below regular amounts. Bring measurements to assist.
Jewelry department offers clearance items with deep price cuts including French gutuave jeweled bracelets from high to low, gilt Vienna bead and jeweled necklaces, sterling pin cushions, silver plated candelabrum, and a sterling decanter. Items show substantial savings advertised for the main floor sale.
Books on sale in green cloth editions and leather bound reminiscences discounted from high prices to cents. Bulwer Lytton Complete Novels 13 volumes, Simms Celebrated Novels of the South, Women of the World by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American Lecturers and Humorists with Twain and Nash remembrances, all reduced. Main floor Tenth St.
Reduced from 1000 dollars to 7.00 for a Clover Hug item and debt related pieces. Japanese Matting roll cut from 14.00 to 10.00. Lots of remnants in mattings and linoleum offered in 1 yard and 5 to 15 yard lengths at half price.
Listing of women's suits with multiple lines: light gray broadcloth sizes 36 and 34, reduced from 45 to 18.50 and from 20 to 10. Velvet braid trimmed gray suit 38 reduced from 58 to 25. Olive broadcloth 36 reduced from 68 to 25. Three broadcloth military style suits in sizes 34 38 and 36 reduced from 48 to 25.
A local department store clears a selection of women’s outerwear with marked-down prices. Featured items include green broadcloth coat size 38, plaid tourist coats size 42, gray raincoat size 48, black broadcloth coats sizes 38 and 40, black broadcloth jacket size 88, tan covert cloth jacket size 34, and black worsted serge coats size 38, all reduced from high to low prices with dollar amounts noted. Several items show substantial discounts, reflecting a clearance sale event.
A departmental sale lists multiple women’s waists in white black pink and crepe de chine. Sizes range 34 to 43 with reductions from various prices down to 1.50 to 7.50 each. Includes silk and lawn styles plus gray eiderdown bath robes. third floor clearance.
Readable fragments show a Misses Department sale with several dress items and price cuts. Items listed include a white cashmere dress size 6 reduced to 4 10, blue chiffon Panama dress size 8 reduced to 5 00, two serge dresses size 18 reduced to 10 40 each, a blue serge sailor dress size 116 reduced from 5 09 to 1, a brown broadcloth coat size 38 or 34 bust reduced from 35 00 to 1, and two blue serge sailor dresses size 6 and 8 reduced to 2 50 each. Third four-g statement appears garbled.
A department sale lists numerous discounts on framed art items. Burns Cottage photograph, Madonna of the Chair, Old Mill sepia, Parisian Madonna, Landscape pastel, At the Sea shore print, St Peters sepia, Propheta pictures, Messenger of Love photo, Tinported Oil Paintings and Tandecabe gilt paintings all see price cuts across various frames and styles at Fourth floor Fifth Ave location.
Toy Department features reduced prices on numerous items including Fanconi engines teddy bears weathered oak rocker Whirl-a-Stobies and Kestner dolls with prices slashed from several dollars to a low offer. The list hints at a fourth floor Eleventh Street location and various doll and toy names.
A local department housefurnish section lists items discounted from assets including tableware trash baskets door mats kitchen shelves and enameled ware. Many pieces show price cuts from dollars and cents to lower amounts such as a rubber door mat to be removed damaged items and several kitchen items like chafing dishes coffee pots and jelly molds with reduced prices.
The Italian Embassy will relocate to the North Shore with Montagna as charge d affaires while Baron Haymerle returns from Mexico. The French Ambassador and Mme Jusserand plan a summer abroad. the Brazilian envoy and Mme Chermont depart for Atlantic City for Easter holidays. Numerous social figures and marriages are listed, including Miss Ernestine Herbert Rowland's upcoming wedding and the engagement of Miss Katharine Britton with Easter visits noted.
A fashion oriented social note from Washington’s outskirts describes the open air season at the Country and Chevy Chase clubs with figures like Representative and Mrs. Longworth hosting guests including the President. Admiral Dewey held a breakfast for thirty at the Country Club while auto touring dominates. The Jamestown Exposition draws many to Washington through June as diplomats seek suburb stays. Mrs. Roosevelt is seen daily in the country, seldom at clubs.
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