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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1905
Page
7
Woodwards Lothrop York Washington Paris remnant day features bargains across hats milinery and calendar gifts. Special remnant sales claim uniformly low prices with stylish black hats trimmed in velvet ribbon and wings offered at half price and other hats at reduced rates. Milinery Salon on second floor Tenth Street.
We secured another lot of black taffeta petticoats to sell at nearly half price. The first batch sold quickly. These petticoats are good quality, six gore, wide, shirred rele on deep flounce, finished with a perforated dust ruffle. Price S393 each, regular value $550.
Bargain advertises outing flannel skirts for women in pink blue or gray stripe effects. Describes high quality fabric and finished hems. Appears to be a sale listing with a location on Eleventh Street and potential nearby shop on Seventh Street.
Friday bargain anchors at J B Corsets with a dozen braces of Bretch coutil corsets featuring Straight Crowchy hip and elastic at an attractively reduced price. Regularly 100 dollars, sale price not fully clear in readable text.
Bargain notice offers hemstitched linen towels in pure flax with hemstitched edges. Prices listed at $3.50 per item with sizes around three inches by three inches. Supporting text indicates sale location on second floor near non-eleventh street.
Sale notice for women's vests and fleece lined pants at discounted prices. Items feature trimmed details with crocheted accents. Prices listed around a74c per garment, with bulk and regular values noted. Details appear in a local bargain listing from Mil Noor Fat.
Bargain sale item listing includes women and children's umbrellas with steel rods, faux Randles, best for girls, priced at 65 cents for children’s and higher quality 1.25 dollars for women’s models. Describes fabrics, paragon frame, and cro} and fue handles. Main floor display.
Yeuna Lory Pants Suits Norfolk Jacket Sulta and Roy Russian Blouse Suits are marked down from higher prices to as low as 2 percent, with several items like knickerbocker pants shirts and boy waists reduced. Sizes range from 1 to 14, with brand names including Mother’s Friend and Wizard. Located on Third floor, Tenth St.
Remnants and specials include Men's Four-in-hand Ties at 25¢ each, heavy gray shirts and drawers at 50¢, Lisle thread Sox, Lisle thread box ties, natural wool underwear sizes 38 to 40, belts, suspenders, and automobile caps. Main floor First Street location.
A clearance sale offers odd and damaged lace curtains all perfect except samples. Numerous styles including Hand-made Arabian, Marie Antoinette, Cluny, Brussels Net, Irish Point, Tambour Muslin, Grand Dam, Sash Curtains, and Muslin Bedroom curtains with reduced prices. various counts and sizes listed. Also silk ang Grenadine curtains and down comforters on sale, with substantial markdowns. Second floor Eleventh St.
In the third floor at Tenth Street a shoe department advertises women’s patent leather lace and button shoes with web soles and Cuban heels, many sizes and styles, reduced from 6.00 to 2.50 per pair. Also included are patent coastskin lace shoes and opera slippers with beaded French heels, with further size ranges and discounts noted.
Fifth floor G St. offers extra large jardinieres with 15 inch tops inlaid gold detailing. Various items reduced from 5.00 to 250 each, including a porcelain soup tureen, decorated French and English china pieces, celery trays, pudding dishes, chop plates, and a chocolate pot.
Woman's department offers semi tailored Malta suits trimmed with elk braid and buttons at 18.50 each, silk shirt–paint suits at 10.00, many remnants including a navy blue ballenue suit and a rose Henrietta bust, large reductions from higher prices, third floor G street location.
Five girls velveteen coats in red green and blue sizes 4 and 8 reduced from 7.00 to 3.75. Four girls broadcloth coats with lace collars in red brown 10 12 and 14 reduced from 12.00 to 10.00 each. Six girls cheviot coats rimmed with velvet sizes 14 16 18 reduced from 10.00 to 8.00 each. Four tan covert cloth coats with taffeta silk sizes 8 10 18 reduced from 16.40 to 7.60 each. Third floor.
Infants' Bassinette on stand trimmed with white Swiss lace over blue silk and canopy with blue silk. Reduced from 35.00 to 25.00. Bengaline Silk Long Coat with lace trim now 26.00. Dark Blue Velvet Box Coat with lace collar and cuffs reduced from 14.10 to 10.50. Third floor Eleventh St.
A catalog listing many framed color and hand colored photographs and pictures with titles such as Landscape, The Pui gra the Gosling, Gainsborough scenes, Quo Vadis, and My Lady. Prices drop from high original amounts to low sale figures, with frames described as gilt, brown, or rosewood. Multiple items include large photographs and small colored pictures, all marked down on the Fourth floor Tenth at.
A damaged listing shows reduced prices on heavy leather couches tables and desks. Items include a Henuwvue Weatherea chair set at 20.00, Vernis Marten Table at 7.06, copper top desks at 20.00, a Parlor Suite at 1.00, a Mission Magazine Stand at 5.80, a Writing Desk at 18.75, a Bungalow Arm Chair at 7.50, a Bungalow Table at 6.25, a Maple Writing Desk at 18.95, all on sixth floor with varied ornate detailing.
Damaged housewares and tools reduced from multiple prices across a Fifth Floor Eleventh Street display. Items include wood fiber foot tub, water carrier, bread box, wrought iron stand, sheet iron broilers, electro heater, French knives, bone handled steel, drip coffee pot, waffle irons, floor shine stain, and coffee pots with clear price cuts noted.
Social and personal notes from Washington describe President and Mrs Roosevelt entertaining this evening at the season’s first musicale preceded by a dinner. Attendees include James Ford Rhodes of Boston Mr and Mrs P B Stewart and son of Colorado Springs and Mrs Cowles. Also noted are the Fairbankses returning to town to reopen their Massachusetts avenue home and other society arrivals and engagements around the diplomatic corps and prominent families.
About 150 people attended a Vaughn Bible Class dinner hosted by the Reds membership campaign committee at the Y M C A. Speakers praised the Reds and urged broader support for Y M C A membership, noting the need for 4 000 regular members and highlighting the Reds Blues contest progress and future plans.
The State Department reports Harry R. Burrill special commercial agent of the Department of Commerce and Labor in Shanghai has shown great improvement after hospitalization for brain fever. With rest he is expected to recover and friends in Washington are glad the initial danger has passed. Burrill is a well known newspaper correspondent.
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