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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1907
Page
45
Woodward & Lothrop announces an important remnant day in Paris New York Washington lines on the Main Floor Eleventh and G Streets. Stock cleaned out across all departments with various imperfect or odd items offered at reduced prices. Some pieces only one or two articles. early buyers gain best bargains.
A Little Mothers sale features sample coats in white blue tan and gray at 14 to 13 less than regular, price points 7.30 to 10 and remnants reduced further. Includes infants coats reefers linen dresses and broadcloth pieces with trims and belts. Third floor Eleventh St offers crib comfortables odorless down silk faced and priced at 2.00 each regular 5.00.
Friday bargain sale offers silk petticoats in black and new spring shades with ruffles and dust ruffle at 3.00 each, originally 6.50. Also remnants of undergarments including cambric drawers, nainsook gowns, lawn slips, a brown mohair petticoat, conbrie petticoats, and nainsook corset covers at reduced prices. Third fourteenth street sale listing format reflects limited stock and price cuts.
Bargains on women's knit drawers at 50c per pair and knit corset covers at 50c. Many discounts on decorated china, bowls, teapots, plates, and serving dishes with substantial price cuts. Also trunks, bags, and leather items on sale in the basement and main floors of the store.
The ad promotes 26 inch silk umbrellas in brown red green and blue with woven borders at 2.25 each, value 3.50, plus a 26 inch taffeta silk umbrella lot with natural wood handles in blue red green and black at 2.00 each, value 2.75, on the main floor near the entrance.
A sale of Boys and Young Men's wear details reductions on long pants suits coats vests and all wool outfits in sizes from 9 to 21 with prices slashed from high dollar amounts to low figures. Items include all wool suits raincoats and serge fabrics with discounts noted across several lines ending with third floor displays on tenth.
Bargain display in the third floor at Tenth Street features boys furnishing dept items. Includes terrifically reduced prices on boys’ shirts, wash blouses, sailor suits, madras pieces, and cloth hats with tam o’shanters, in multiple sizes. Prices cut from around $1.00 to as low as 80 cents and from $2.50 to 19 cents per item.
The Black Dress Goods Department lists deep discounts on chiffon, voile, wool albatross, panama cloth, wool taffeta, silk voile, all wool fabrics and more. Reductions range from small fractions to major cuts, with prices shown per yard or per piece and quantities noted. Petticoat and dress fabrics include 4 yard pieces and 44 inch to 52 inch widths.
Upholstery department offers muslin curtains, Madras, printed linen, and damask fabrics with hemstitched and fluted trims. Numerous yards and sizes reduced from $1.25 to $1.00 per pair, 40c, 50c, 60c to 30c per yard, and higher end fabrics from $1.50 to 95c per yard. Includes net sill curtains and willow armerara options. Fourth floor G St.
Fifth floor jewelry and housewares sale highlights deep price cuts on Japanese porcelain and glass. Bouillon cups saucers cut from 1.25 to 50 cents, decorated tobacco jar from 1.76 to 1.25, richly decorated cake plate 2.25 to 1.71, tea cups and saucers 50 to 35 cents, a richly decorated vase marked imperfect from 3.00 to 1.00.
A wartime style sale notice lists a drop light with white shade from 3.75 to 2.75, brass candlestick damaged, Japanese lamps damaged, imported lampes reduced, 21 inch decorated lamp globes trimmed to 2.50, 48 inch globes to 25, 12 candle shades shopworn, Fifth floor Eleventh St.
Cotton dress goods include six printed silk mousseline de soie patterns with white grounds and lavender floral embroidery at 15 cents per yard. Remnants offer percales, batistes, ginghams and silks priced from 10 to 37½ cents per yard, with a second floor G Street location.
A detailed sale notice lists colored dress goods and remnants with markdowns. Fabrics include Natte Cloth and Crepe de Paris with several 44 to 46 inch weaves in blues greens browns and grays, discounted per yard or piece from varied original prices to lower sale prices.
Readable catalog notes list Ivy Sapphire Lily of France and Parame corsets with straight front boned waists, long hip, elastic attachments and real whalebone. Sizes 18 to 29 include redutions from eight to ten dollars, with multiple pairs at discounted prices per pair.
A shoe department listing shows women models including one eyelet Sailor Tiles and Poms in lavender and green with various sizes. Dongola Kidek oxford styles and Tan Ruasla Calfskin Oxford Ties are offered in multiple widths and sizes. All items reduced from $5.00 to $1.95 and from $6.00 to $1.50 or $1.95 per pair.
A thrift shop listing on the second floor highlights reduced beds and bedding. Items include a white enamel bed with brass rods cut from 36.50 to 82.00 and other substantial reductions on all metal folding beds and mattresses. Pillows and bed springs also discounted with measurements requested.
The sale lists French gutveweled bracelets reduced from unknown to 1 each. French gilt and Vienna bead necklaces cut from 6 to 3.00. French gilt and jeweled necklaces drop from 350 to 3.00. Sterling silver pin cushions with velvet tops drop to 1.00. Silver plated electric candelabrum marked 15.00, and deposit ware decanter sterling glass reduced from 25 to 1. Main floor promotions emphasize substantial markdowns across the jewelry department.
A sale notice lists Bulwer Lytton Complete Novels in 13 volumes green cloth shelf worn 4.00 from 900 36 volumes Simms Celebrated Novels of the South Hutaw Border Beagles Guy Rivers and three others reduced from 300 to six volumes plus A Women of the World by Ella Wheeler Wilcox shelved worn. American Lecturers and Humorists reminiscences by Ward Twain Burdette Peck Nasby Nye and others cloth bound 570 pages reduced from 1.00 to 0.04 Main floor Tenth st.
Reduced from 1000 dollars to 7 dollars for a rug lot. Japanese Matting cut to 10 dollars from 14 dollars. Remnants of mattings and oilcloth/Linoleum offered in 1 yard squares at 5 cents each. Also mentions various rug and cloth items with discounts across the department.
In the Women’s Suit Department multiple items reduced from high prices. Includes light gray broadcloth suits in sizes 36, 34, 38 and 36 with trims of velvet, braid, and cota s fin braid, plus olive broadcloth with braid. Narrowed prices range from 25 to 45 dollars, featuring several military style broadcloth options in sizes 34, 38, and 36.
In the women’s cloak department several garments show marked prices. A green broadcloth coat size 38 lined with gray silk drops from 25 to 22.50 while two plaid tourist coats size 42 go from 25 to 7.60 each. A gray raincoat 48 lowers from 21 to 12.60. two black broadcloth coats sizes 38 and 40 fall from 12.50 to 7.50 each. A black broadcloth jacket size 88 drops from 25 to 10. a tan covert cloth jacket size 34 falls to 10. a black worsted serge coat size 38 falls from 21 to 10.00.
A pasted ad lists numerous ladies waists in white black pink and crepe de chine across sizes 34 to 43 with reductions from 15.00 to 7.50, 10.00 and 12.30 to 5.00, 10.00 to 3.75, and 7.50 to 5.00. Also featured are pink silk waists, white lawn embroidery pieces, and gray eiderdown bath robes reduced to low prices.
Readable ad lists reduced prices on dresses and coats for Misses and girls. Items include a white cashmere dress with hand embroidery in size 6 reduced from 12.10 to 4.10, blue chiffon Panama dress size 8 cut to 5.00, two Misses Serge dresses size 18 at 10.40 each, blue serge sailor dress size 116 down from 5.09 to 1, brown broadcloth coat 3 4 length size 38/34 bust at 1, and two blue serge sailor dresses sizes 6 and 8 at 2.50 each.
A catalog of reduced prices for various art items at Fourth floor Tenth St. includes Burns Cottage photograph discounted to 503 dollars, Madonna of the Chair to 7.50, an etching to 32, Old Mill sepia to 4.90, Parisian Madonna to 32.95, Landscape pastel to 2.40, At the Sea shore colored print to 2.95, St Peters sepia to 1.46, Propheta blacks to 0.50, Messenger of Love to 1.00, tinported oil paintings to 0.01, Tandecabe gold frames to 2.95.
Reduced prices abound in the toy department with items such as Fanconi 3 engines and Teddy Bears cut from $2.60 to 1 tic, dolls and Jaintea dolls discounted, a Child's Weathered Oak Rocker marked down, Whirl-a-Stobies and toy cows offered at lowered prices, and a Kestner Jaintea Doll reduced from $6.00 as Fourth floor Eleven at.
Inventory from Fancy oy Scrap Basket shows deep price cuts on tableware enameled ware and small appliances. Items include rubber door mats kitchen shelves chafing dish nickel plated pots and teapots jelly molds and a dented water cooler with many reductions from dollars to cents.
Diplomatic circles report the Italian Embassy will relocate to the Massachusetts coast, with Montagna as charge d affaires while Baron Haymerle of Austria has returned from Mexico. French Ambassador Jusserand and Mme. Jusserand plan a summer abroad, sailing early June. Numerous society notices follow, including arrivals, marriages, and Easter holidays plans for diplomats and Washington residents.
Social gossip notes the season starting six weeks ahead near Washington with outdoor living. Rep. and Mrs. Longworth entertain the President and guests on equestrian tours at Country and Chevy Chase clubs. Admiral Dewey hosts a breakfast party for thirty. auto excursions fill the days. Jamestown Exposition will draw many officials to Washington through June as diplomats seek suburban quarters. Mrs. Roosevelt seen daily in the country, rarely at clubs. Continued on twelfth page.
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