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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1905
Page
7
The New York Washington Paris store offers high class muslin garments and summer fabrics with trims and French-inspired designs at deep discounts. Men’s summer socks and four in hand ties are half price, with undergarments and shirts heavily reduced. Main floor Fifth Street location.
A dense sale listing covers boys clothing including pants coats and shirts at deep cuts from $5.00 to $1.25 and $12.50 to $2.5 plus upholstery items such as Nottingham lace curtains Mercerized Portieres and sofa cushions with price changes and remnants on Fourth floor items in green natural frames and tiered discounts across many sizes and styles.
Friday bargain in trimmed hats offering 19 hats at half price and less for clearance. Some hats show minor handling marks while most are pristine from work rooms. Styles for all purposes. Prices five dollars, previously ten to twelve dollars, with thirty items previously six to eight dollars. Second floor Tenth Street.
Printed Foulards offered at close prices split into lengths from 1 to 11 yards suitable for waists dresses lacques and children's frocks. Previously priced at 1.00 and 1.25 now marked down. Becond Moor GST.
Friday bargain item highlights 1000 yards of g2 inch imported white Indian dimity described as desirable and serviceable for summer dresses and shirt waists offered at 15 cents per yard. Regular price 37 4 on the second floor eleventh street.
Friday bargains feature Boys Regatta wash suits galateas ginghams and reps in sizes 2 to 12 years at 1.68 each, worth up to 4.00. Also Boys Russian Blouse wash suits with bloomer pants in white and colored effects, sizes 24 to 6 years, at 1.25 each, worth up to 2.25. Third floor Tenth St.
English Earth enware Meakin pottery sets in green with golf line and gold pattern offered for quick closeout. Available as 68 pc breakfast, 160 pc dinner, 112 pc dinner, 11 pc, and 130 pc sets plus odd pieces for add ons or exchanges. Fifth floor G st.
Fifteen colored silk parasols plain and fancy with straight natural wood sticks or pen metal finishes. Values range from five to eight dollars. Located at Malin floor at Tenth Street.
The advertisement lists discounted items in the Lace Department including hand embroidered linen rods reduced from eighteen dollars to fifteen, a linen shirt waist pattern reduced from twelve dollars to eight, printed net robes in blue violet and maize, and special prices on embroidered patterns. Main floor details show the sale framing and colors.
Book department offers Complete Works of Charles Dickens in 15 volumes buckram binding reduced from 7.50 to per set and Thackeray in 20 volumes reduced to 3.00 per set. Also Goethe in 12 volumes, encyclopaedia edition 1901, and Home Reference Atlas reduced to 20c each. Teachers Bibles and Handy Dictionaries discounted. location Main floor Tenth St.
A list of bed room items on the second floor F street area with reductions. Items include white enameled beds and basers, a felt mattress, pillows, and related accessories. Each note shows original prices and new discounted prices, though several lines have garbled descriptions.
Ingraty Brossels, Blue Brussels, and Axminster rugs discounting on fourth floor sale. 9x12 blue Brussels down to 12.0 from 18.0, 4 Ingraty Brossels at 13.90, 17ft matting reduced from 12.00 to 16, and linoleum pieces 3x3 discounted from 1.8 to 1.0.
Muslin underwear items include women's hand-made nainsook chemises with scalloped edges and Valenciennes lace, gowns with V necks and tucks, a neinsook gown with a scalloped neck, and a French lawn petticoat trimmed with lace and beading. Prices cut from 4.75 to 8.50, 3.00 to 3.75, and 315.00 for the petticoat.
A furniture department ad lists numerous items with old prices and sale reductions. Includes tables, desks, chairs, a book shelf, sewing table, a couch, rocking chair, settee, a water cooler, and an assortment of mahogany and oak pieces. Sale prices range from a few dollars to around sixteen dollars, with several items noted as reduced from higher amounts.
Readable notes list brown cheviot skirts including 10 brown cheviot kilting bottoms in assorted lengths, black broadcloth skirts with 13 gore welted bottoms, and fine cheviot skirts in blue and brown. Prices show reductions from five dollars to five hundred cents and from seven fifty to five dollars, with limited remaining stock and several missing values.
A department display offers white ta ffe ta silk waists skirts and linens in assorted sizes at deep discounts. Items include embroidered fronts in polka dot designs, fancy wallets, crepe de chine waists trimmed with lace, and percale wrappers, with prices cut from six to seven dollars to under four dollars and below. Third floor.
Catalog notes deep discounts on girls dresses including 6 All-then styles with embroidery in sizes 4 to 10 at five dollars each and 8 white lawn box-printed dresses in sizes 12 and up at 0 dollars. Also 2 organza dresses, 10 white lawn guimpes, 10 blue cheviot belts and 1 fancy cheviot suit plus 2 Peter Thompson suits and 1 white pique Russian dress with prices slashed.
Reduced prices on small hand-colored pictures Colonial Heads and Madonnas in various frames. Seventeen framed items include sepia Madonna and Fra Angelica Angels with deep or cathedral frames. Prices cut from two dollars to fifty cents and from five dollars to one dollar, with many items further reduced to mere cents. Fourth floor Tenth St.
Auction catalog item page shows numerous reduced prices on bronze, marble and porcelain figures pedestals jardiniere lamp shades and candle shades. Items include Jeweled spade burner lacera jewel shade green marble pedestals fancy pink silk lamp shade and candle shades with stated price cuts.
Twenty different line items note 90 pairs of Women’s Tan Russia Calfskin Biucher Oxfords with ribbon laces priced at 2.00 each, reduced from 3.50, plus 42 pairs of Women’s White Canvas Gibson Ties with ribbon laces priced at 1.95 each, reduced from 3.00. Third floor Ten?
A shop worn sale lists reductions on household items from the fifth floor on Eleventh Street. Prices drop on items including a square mirror, leather door mats, chair steps, bread boards, lawn mowers, bowls, pots, and polishes with many items marked down to one dollar or less.
Fifth floor G street marks a clearance of numerous decorated china items with steep discounts. Items include Limoges dinner sets, decorative soup tureens, teapots, cups and saucers, salad bowls, goblets, and pudding dishes with reductions from modest to hundredfold cuts, all listed in a dense catalog fragment.
Miss Anna Wilson and Mr Ernest Howe to wed at the Church of the Epiphany on June 7 as guests and relatives gather for social events. Baltimore society tables recount garden parties, horse show highlights, and receptions for visiting dignitaries including Japanese officials and U S officials.
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