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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1907
Page
25
Attention focuses on this week remnant collection noted as unusually appealing for price and quality across several classes of goods. Many small lots hold the best bargains and sell quickly, so early selection is advised.
Friday bargains appear across Muslin Underwear and Women's Silk Hose sections with discounted items. Shoppers can find reduced prices on muslin underwear sets, silk hose, and related accessories, including umbrellas and bags, in a clearance like display.
Special purchase offers 100 dozen men’s linen cuffs and related accessories at reduced prices. Some items labeled seconds show slight defects but retain appearance. Includes reversible subs and plain lap cuffs, all sizes, with prices advertised per dozen or half dozen. Also lists discounts on ties, socks, and shirts with varied reductions and sale terms. Some wording unclear due to OCR.
Readable fragments mention names and items like shirts, sets, and outfits in a boys' clothing department. Connections to vendors or stores are unclear, with mixed, jumbled words and partial phrases.
A Friday sale in the Picture Department offers distressed original owl paintings and landscapes in gilt framed shadow boxes reduced from 400 to 95 cents each, painted china plaques, and a selection of lace and curtains with marked price cuts across many items. Numerous framing options and decorative pieces are discounted, including Indian portraits, bear pictures, and panel curtains, with wide reductions noted throughout.
Local toy shop advertises deep discounts on teddy bears dressed dolls jointed gooses and infants, with figures showing price cuts from 2 to 9 dollars and bundled roller items. Shoppers are urged to visit the fourth floor department for sales through limited dates.
Fragmented lines mention a newt event with various partially legible names and places. The garbled text suggests a local report or notice with multiple individuals and locations but lacks clear dates or outcomes. Further readable fragments point to a community context and possible names like Pad Say and Lavon.
A historical price list for dress fabrics shows various goods with yardage and per yard costs. Items include silk cotton blends, madras checks, gingham, and cretonne with prices ranging from 10 to 124 cents per yard.
Fragmentary OCR shows fabric items with prices and yardages, listing various dress goods and reductions. Mentions nemed retailers and discounts, including values like 41 yards and references to reductions from prior prices. No coherent narrative or complete customer details available.
From $39 to 1970 dollars items include serge suit jackets velvet trimmed coats and dresses in sizes 18 19 and 34 with tailored collars plaited satin finishes and decorative codes. Reduced prices emphasize reductions from 8800 to 20 free-standing sale notes and limited stock.
A scanned item lists a China Department sale with numerous reduced prices on china, glassware, and tea sets. Items include oyster plates, pickle dishes, decorated ginger pieces, tea cups, and meat dishes with marked-down pricing and varied percentages. The irregular OCR yields many garbled names and figures.
Women’s garments including taffeta vest sets with braids, serge suits in blue and cream, trimmed skirts, and laces. Prices cut from hundreds to lower amounts, with sizes noted from 2 to 38. Includes Princess dresses with Valenciennes lace and satin trimmings, third-floor clearance on varied items.
Lace and Net Waists in Arabian and dark cream plus white options. Silk net with dluny valenviermes lace and medallions, priced at 575 each. Also tailered Madras Waists 125, white Batiste and Lawn Waists in assorted styles, reduced. Gray Eilardewn Bata Robes in sizes 2 to 35 and up, price reduced from 9 to 39s each.
Shoe department ad lists 16 DAIS Wovens Shoes in multiple sizes and colors with reductions from 120 to 190 per pair. It mentions women’s and children’s lace and button shoes, Dongola and Kidston, Cuban heel styles, military heels, and calfskin prices down to 150 or 190, with various size indicators and stock notes.
A trimmed men s clothing section shows weighty suits and coats with striped patterns and sizes including T1828 40 4% stout Reedund. Reductions from 32000 to 14 7a and 00 Pt? 06 oxen. includes Pall weight Tan Covert Cloth Top Coats and Cheviot Overcoats in brown blends sized 49 and 42 on the Main floor Tenth.
A cluttered sale notice lists reduced prices on a variety of furniture items including Morris chairs, armchairs, oak tables, a typewriter desk, mahogany pieces, bamboo tables, stands, and a split piano stool. Items show steep markdowns from original prices, with quantities and condition notes outlined across multiple lines.
The listings detail shopworn and damaged items with reduced prices including chafing dishes aluminum heating dishes teapots and various kitchenware. Items such as a seven foot standing stepladder a kitchen table cutting table and assorted holders show price cuts from original to sale figures at a Fifth Avenue Eleventh Street location.
The Shonts sisters including Miss Marguerite Shonts, long active in Washington society, host and attend numerous events. The engagement of Miss Theodora Shonts to the Duc de Chartres recently announced in New York brings attention as she arrives from New York for several days of social engagements and school reunions with friends in the city.
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