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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
23
Woodward & Lothrop advertises a Friday remnant sale featuring New York and Paris goods. Many lots are small but highly bargains abound, with high quality classes on offer. Early inspection advised to capture best values.
Friday bargain sale offers high grade men suits in new season colors and patterns. The advertisement invites inspection and calls for visit to view several lots, described as splendid bargains with lines including stripes and blues.
Readable remnants and reduced prices cover a broad selection of boys wool suits from ages 7 to 18. Includes various fabrics such as navy line serges and gray worsted, with reductions from high original prices to 8.50 and 9.00 figures.
Friday bargains in muslin underwear feature heat and sateen pieces at reduced prices. The collection includes nighties and chemises in various prints and trims with simple flounces and ruffles. Sizes range from small to larger, marketed as quality summer wear at strong values.
Fragmentary text lists prices 25, 22 50, 18 and 16 75 for choice items. Mentions shapes, cuts, and stripes but wording is garbled. No clear event, person, or organization is identifiable.
Bargain sale on women's trimmed hats featuring silk and feather trims. Offers include items priced at 300 dollars marked down from 600 or 800 with second floor display. Limited stock on various styles including wings and fibers.
Advertisement notes discounts on Silk and Gloria umbrellas with prices listed as 30, 27 50, and 25 dollars. The fragment mentions a sale event on a Friday and references stock or variants, but the remainder is garbled.
Bargain sale items list includes children’s drawers, dresses, and gowns with lace, ruffles, and trims. Various priced wardrobes and accessories feature values from $40 to $595, with selections for men and women and multiple floor locations noted.
Weekend sale highlights Semmer Silks with reduced prices on Canary Crape and Valenciennes laces, allover Embroidered White Net Wats, and India and Winter Madras Waists. Discounts apply to fine batiste garments, white linens, and wool basemats, with ranges from $7 to 50 cents per yard and many items slashed from higher prices.
A readable fragment notes value details for women’s waistwear in department store listings. The brief item highlights a price point around the $14.30 range, indicating a promotional tag or sale value in the department.
A garbled sale page lists various fabrics and discounts including gray wool, plaid, silk, and striped serge. It references prices like 113 for pieces, reductions from 48 to 16, and other fabric notes with incomplete fabric names and color descriptors. The text is a jumbled OCR of a department store or market catalog.
Canvas covered dress trunks and cases reduced from high prices to low rates. Leather suitcases and bags cut from hundreds to a fraction of former costs. Solid leather bags and packing boxes offered at substantial discounts in basement bargains.
Bargain offer on cotton voile etamine fabrics with discounted yard prices. The listing highlights a ground fabric in shades of tan and black with reduced cost. sample swatches show armure texture and a faint pattern. Aimed at shoppers seeking affordable material for sewing projects.
An on page sale lists numerous porcelain items including Rose Decorated and Gold Stippled French china sets, teapots, sugar bowls, cream sets, and covered dishes with price cuts from high amounts to low. English and French items, bowls, vases, tankards, and dinnerware are marked down with substantial savings across the collection.
Readable fragments show a Friday sale offering Misses tailored cloth suits with significant reductions up to 50 percent. Styles include stripes blues browns tans and serge fabrics, with many sizes up to bust measurement 34. Also advertised are silk dresses dimper dresses gingham dresses and jumper dresses with varied trims and embroideries, all sale priced from about $0.80 to $9.90 range, some items reduced from higher prices.
A catalog-style notice lists numerous lamp types and candle products with reduced prices. Items include electric portable lamps, green metal gas portable lamps, brass oil lamps, nickel study lamps, wrought iron hanging lamps, jeweled hall oil lamp, brass candelabrum, patent candle holders, wax candles, paper candle shades, silk candle shades, and silver cuirasses. Main floor gross.
Listing of women’s shoes with Gun Metal Calfskin Oxfords Blucher and similar designs in multiple sizes and prices. Reductions from $300 to $195, $350 to $195, and $359 to $195 across coarsely described styles and quantities. Some items slightly soiled or with wear noted.
A sale item listing shows silk dresses, jumpsuits, and coats in solid colors and stripes. Prices drop from high figures to reduced amounts across numerous items including crepe de chine, taffeta, lawn shirt waists, and imported capes, with sizes and specific trims noted.
Readable items include leatherette couch with frame noted as oak and springs intact reduced from 27 to 379, green Veloc couch, Morris chair with cushions, table, mahogany piece, two quartered oak dressers, Morgans Chieftain four long drivers, Winnie Go Cart with folding feature. Prices show steep markdowns across multiple items, some listed as zero or rounded.
A sales list shows numerous reductions in a department store inventory. Items include enameled ware dishpans, tea kettles, kitchen cleavers, imported ice cream molds, drip coffee pots, soap and tumbler combos, chafing dishes, a meteor coffee percolator, wash boiler, gas stove broiler, oak commode cover, cutting table, rose knife sharpeners, and bottles of furniture polish, with prices slashed from higher to lower figures.
On sale our third shipment of American-grown rose bushes featuring Champion of the World Crimson Rambler Isabella Sprunt Baltimore Belle and The Bride at 25 cents per five-pack. Fifth floor Eleventh street.
Social notes report Mrs Taft leaving Washington for Bryn Mawr to attend her daughter Miss Ethel Roosevelt as a bridesmaid at the wedding of Miss Georgianna Farr. Gen Guerra hosts a Cuban ministers dinner with numerous generals and diplomats in attendance.
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