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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1908
Page
48
Woodward & Lothrop announces a Friday remnant sale featuring a large collection of remnants and short lengths. Includes one of a kind articles and incomplete assortments with bargain sets offered at low remnant prices for quick clearance. Promotes New York Washington Paris lines and invites customers to shop early.
Readable items include silk petticoats in black and colors from 4.73 each, with value 6.73. Camille style lawn bimonos and long kimonos with button-hole edges. white lawn aprons with embroidery. cambric gowns with hemstitched details. various trims and reductions from old prices.
A selection of Peter Thompson suits for Misses and Young Ladies in navy brown black and checks. Made of fine all wool French serge in full regulation style in sizes 14 to 20 years. Priced at half original, $12.50 each, down from $23.00.
Special lot of girls spring coats in blue white and red with sizes 6 to 14 years. Remnants include misses dark blue serge suits with various coats and skirts, single breasted and feathered details, sizes up to 18. Prices slashed from high to about one half and below, with notes of damaged items and limited stock.
Local shop advertises discounts on children's muslin drawers for ages 2 to 14 with assorted styles including tucked hems and slit designs. Offers sets, hats, and garments alongside remnants and priced items, noting sizes and varied trims in a bustling bargain section.
A brief読 fragment notes a Friday bargain on women's white hose featuring white pretty lace. The readable text emphasizes sale pricing and lace details, signaling a women's apparel promotion in a bygone newspaper column.
Readable lines hint at shoe items, reduced prices, and a sale. Mentions brands and styles, sizes and women’s footwear. Ambiguous OCR fragments reference a storefront location and dollar amounts but lack clear event or outcome.
Picture Department offers deep gilt frames for landscape and marine scenes with shadow boxes. Oil paintings and landscape series discounted from 35.00 to 8.95. Athletic pictures in brown frames 10x10 and 11x11. Facsimile water colors landscape avenues and fancy heads in gilt frames. Dutch subjects in black and yellow frames 8x5 to 8x6. Fourth floor terrace street location.
Frantic sale details highlight women's handkerchiefs with embroidery and linen items, Madras waist specials, and assorted shawls. Prices listed include one dozen handkerchiefs for $1.00, Madras waists from $1.90, and various discounts on shawls and fabrics. Many items show wear or irregularities but remain offered at reduced rates.
Interior display reveals a wide range of dresses coats and coats and ensembles. Prices include reductions from 70s to 80s levels with items such as satin trimmed dresses lace two pieces crepe de chine and white taffeta options in sizes 24 to 38 and 44. Numerous coats capes and raincoats including chiffon taffeta and serge styles priced from 8.00 to 50.00.
Bargain sale on men s wear items including 15 dozen open end four in hand ties in navy with white pin stripes, 3 for 1.00. 10 dozen Batwing Ties in assorted colors. 25 dozen lightweight cotton night shirts up to size 19. 24 silk fourth hand ties. Madras pajamas at 1.00 per suit. 10 stiff-hasem shirts at 0.50. 10 pairs hand-sewn French Lisle thread socks at 1.00 per pair. Main floor.
A lengthy sale notice lists numerous boys clothing items with discounted prices. Includes coats, trousers, vests, knickerbocker styles, and blouses in sizes ranging from 7 to 19, with reductions from original prices such as 15.00 to 7.50 and 6.00 to 1.95. Items cover serge suits, pine Norfolk sets, sailor blouses, Russian blouses, light gray toppers, and light-weight reefers. Located at Child Moor Ninth Street storefront.
Fragmented ad describes upholstery items with remnants and discounts. Mentions portieres draperies cushion covers and yards of fabric with reduced prices. Reads like a damaged period notice urging customers to bring measurements and items for sale of remaining stock.
China department offers numerous discounts on porcelain and dinnerware. Items include richly decorated Japanese china plates and a variety of decorated English and French pieces. Prices drop from $4.50 to $1.00 for salad bowls, soup tureens, and cream sets, with several items marked down to under $2.00.
Quartered Oak desks chairs and tabourets advertised with reductions. Items include mahogany toilet table, parlor suite elements, white maple rockers, and bamboo pieces. Prices cut from higher figures to low sale prices, with notes of finishes and features like locks and pegs.
A list of reduced prices on a variety of houseware items in the Fifth Floor Eleventh Street shopworn section. Copper chafing dishes stoves and pots see marked drops. items include knives, an electric stove, drip coffee pots, gas stove, roilers, meat cleavers and a carpet sweeper.
Social and personal notes spotlight Maj. Harry Greenleaf and Miss Carrie McClellan marrying at the bride’s home. Representative and Mrs. Olcott host a 34-cover dinner. Augusta Boyd Stephenson weds Welding Dennis Owen at Higgs Place. numerous society figures attend receptions and dances with military families, diplomats, and Washington residents as summer plans unfold.
Variana Exchange ignition at the Plaza NY featured Paderewski in a benefit recital for Music School Settlement. A wreath was presented by a student but the pianist refused to accept flowers on stage. He played two hours with interruptions as mutterings and late arrivals disturbed the audience.
The King’s entourage halted at a small town for an address by the local corporation. A visiting man, Ward, nearly missed the train as Mayor restrained him from entering the royal coach. King Edward, amused, heard of the incident. Reports note cane use by fashionable women and suggest a change in cane customs. Russia’s grand court festivities are to resume in St Petersburg on a large scale.
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