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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1905
Page
7
Woodward & Lothrop in Washington promotes Remnant Day with half price and deeper discounts on odds and ends across departments. Highlights include silks by the yard for gowns and waists, infant caps, boys' hand cars, and a large toy and hat selection, plus reduced fine books and prints on the main floor.
Friday bargains highlight around twenty trimmed hats offered at half or near half price, all spring and summer styles in fashionable materials. Hats are sold as remnants from damaged handling to clear display space, with discounted prices from $3.00 to $10.00 for various styles and imports. Also untrimmed millinery and ready to wear hats on sale with new flowers and foliage at 25c and 5c per bunch on the main floor.
A vintage ad lists Girls' White Pique Box plaited Tiwadan dresses in sizes 6 to M at 3.95 each, noting regular price 7.50. Also offers J HR Corsets in sizes 18 to 30 with lightweight hat fabric, straight front hip lines, priced at 1.00 per pair, down from 1.00.
A manufacturer offers samples of Black Sateen Skirts at one third off regular prices. Most styles are full flare and plainer walking types. Prices range from 735¢ to $4.00. Third floor Eleventh Street location.
Hosiery department ad offers Children's fine ribbed lisle stockings with double knees and toes in sizes 5 to 8, 3 pairs for 0¢, regular 25¢. Akko 2% dozenWomen's lisle thread laces trimmed umbrella drawers all sizes 374c a pair regular 50c. Main Floor Fat
An advertisement notes 400 yards of English Nainsook and 36 inches wide Nainsonk finishing for women and children's underwear and infants dresses at a yard rate. Regular price, 20. favor Eleventh at.
Linen Department sale features hemstitched and hand embroidered linen pillow and bolster cases with minor imperfections. Various sizes priced from $2.30 per pair to $8.50 per pair. damask napkins half to three quarters off. sample napkins listed. lace centerpieces and other linens offered on second floor Eleventh Avenue.
The department advertises substantial price cuts on boys wear including wool suits coats spring weight garments in sizes 3 to 16 and youth outfits. Highlights feature all wool sailor blouses linen wash suits and white pique items with reductions from six to seven dollars down to under five dollars and below.
A fragmented catalog page lists boys hats and furnishings with prices and reductions. Items include Civtn Hats and Fine Stiff-brim Straw Hats in various sizes, Madras shirt waists and blouses, shirt waists with checks, and shield bows. Old price reductions noted with limited readable sizes and styles. Third floor Tenth at.
A worn housewares list shows beds, mattresses, and boxes discounted on the second floor. Items include white and green enamel beds with high headboards and ornate posts, a felt mattress, bamboo laundry box, window beat, and utility boxes with noted damages and price cuts, reflecting a clearance sale.
A third floor sale on Tenth Street advertises many women’s shoes with Louis XIV heels and turn soles. Items include Tan Patent Gibson Ties, Oxford Ties in multiple sizes, Meredith Ties, Champagne Oxfords, Russia Calfakin Blade Oxfords, and Funkin Oxford Ties, all heavily discounted from original prices to around 1.96 to 9.95 per pair. Listings show varied sizes and descriptors amid garbled OCR.
Photo. Supply Dept offers multiple cameras at deep discounts. Items include Fate Camera 4x8 with wood lenses and automatic shutter now $10. Plate Cameras and 3 Plate Cameras in varying sizes with discounted prices. several entries show reduced from higher prices to low figures. Main floor Ten st.
A sale listing shows various bric a brac pieces with deep discounts including a white marble figure reduced from 35 to 15 dollars, a bronze figure, white marble pedestals, a 2 burner Bloctraker, hammered brass holders, hand painted vase and an Italian vase with reduced prices.
Main floor Eleventh at shows reduced prices on Hee Gelt Buckles Coppered Silver Lockets Sterling Bracelets and Clasp Bracelets. Items listed include two picture lockets, copper and silver finishes, and gold plate options, originally higher prices slashed to $1.00 to $1.50.
Massive reduced prices on Wilhelmina furniture pieces include tables desks dressers chiffoniers bookcases sideboards and more. Highlights feature hand made pieces in mahogany and golden oak with strong discounts from original amounts on most items.
Upholstery department advertises deep discounts on double bed sets with centerpieces and valances, bed bets with trimmings, grenadine and snowflake curtains, mantel scarfs, door portieres, couch covers, novelty cushions, and a Woodward & Lothrop box couch. Prices slashed from high figures to 1.25 to 1.60 ranges. notes defective items and floor location Fourth floor.
Vintage newspaper clipping lists deep reductions in the Women’s Suit Department including Panama cloth tees, broadcloth outfits, Voile dresses, and lace trimmed pieces. Items feature waist sizes 30 to 38 and prices dropping from 38.00 to 12.50, 64.00 to 1, and 10.00 to 7.50, with various fabrics like broadcloth milk braid and silk voile.
Cloak department offers 3 black silk coats size 1 to 3 and 3 black silk coats size 34 to 38, all reduced from 2000 to 20 each and from 2.00 to 1800 each respectively. Red ta fte silk long coat size 36 cut from 25 to 12.50. Tan rain coats sizes H and 3% reduced from 15 to 10 each. Silk long coats rubberned red and tan sizes 40 reduced from 338 to 219.50. Tan covert cloth jackets satin lined size 22 reduced from 910 to 5. Tourlot coat S 4 length size 4 reduced from 1860 to 37.00. Third floor G at.
Half price and more on a large range of girls and misses dresses and outfits. Blue linen sailor outfits in sizes 8 to 14 reduced from 12.60 to 5.00 and 10.00 to 9.75. White lawn and pique dresses, guimpe gowns, and tailor jackets marked down. several items list sizes 4 to 18 and reductions vary from cents to several dollars. Peter Thompson Sailor Suits in brown and white check, sizes 14 and 18, cut from 18.50 to 10.00.
Reduced prices cover a wide range of items from Green Border French china to White Haviland and German porcelain. Deals include 1 W piece green border dinner set, 1 extra large white Haviland meat dishes, and multiple decorated bowls, cups, plates, jugs, and candlesticks with discounts from notable original prices.
A fragment notes reductions on shopworn and damaged house furnishing items. Items include skirt hangers, smoking sets, cutting table, gas stove, cake boxes, bread maker, tin melt bollera, Delft chest, stove, patent clothes horn, washing machine, tea kettle, enamel ware pitchers, and other small wares. Prices shifted from higher to lower, with many items priced to clear.
Vice Admiral Lord Beresford visiting Washington attends teas and luncheons hosted by Senator Elkins and Mrs. Glover, with plans for a large Friendship Garden Party to benefit the Home for Inmates. Notables include Mrs. Taft, Mrs. Lorillard, and Mrs. Fish, plus a German dinner in honor of railway delegates and a busy bridal season unfolding across the capital.
A wedding at the bride’s Fayetteville home on Tuesday April 2% is reported, highlighting Mrs Ros a Washington figure who spent winters with her uncle G W Laka. Social events include a lawn fete at Col and Mrs Truesdell’s Washington Heirbta grounds for the Episcopal Eye Car and Throat Hospital on May 6. Rev Avert Evans and others are noted with Old Point Comfort trips and a large euchre party celebrating Mr and Mrs C Rammiing tenth anniversary. Senator Beveridge plans to sail for Europe via New York next week, possibly visiting the Mediterranean and Switzerland. The Japanese Minister Takahira has gone to Old Point Comfort. A post-operative wound from appendicitis has healed, with the patient regaining strength slowly.
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