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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1905
Page
7
Woodward Glothrop on Eleventh Street announces a Friday clearance of remnants from all departments including silk pieces, ribbons, lace, china, bric a brac, and dress fabrics. Special lots and silk petticoats offered at steep discounts to reduce stock before Christmas season. Third floor remarks for gift ware and textiles.
About a dozen tailored hats in hacks and colors on display offered at clear prices. Each hat trimmed with ribbons and wings, lightly mussed from handling. Prices from 5.09 for choice, earlier 3.00 and 10.00. Send for tenth street.
Embroidered linen shirtwaist patterns offered as traveler samples with many unique designs. Christmas timing makes this a timely opportunity with prices from 32.00 to 400. Also curtains, bed sets, portieres, bath robes, and remnants discounted on the Main floor and Fourth floor areas with substantial reductions.
In the Women’s Suit Department a clearance sale offers various tailored suits in Panama cloth, silk shirtwaist suits, and lace trimmed ensembles. Prices drop from 34.00 to 18.50, 25.00 to 10.00, 21.00 to 31.00, and 30.00 to 15.00, with selections in black and white checks, navy silk, taffeta, blue bolleone cloth, white waists, and gray wrapper sets. Third floor at.
Imported damask table cloths offered at substantial discounts from a Belfast manufacturer. 500 pieces with minor finish imperfections sold at reduced prices across various sizes from 2x3 yards to 2x9 yards, displayed on the center table on the second floor eleventh.
Bargain sale on women's wear features 40 dozen fleece lined Jersey Ribbed Pants and Vests for early winter use, priced around 37k per garment. Also remnants include one pair of cotton wool pants, merino tights, and assorted children's items with 4 to 12 off regular prices.
Decorated Jardinieres for palms and large plants offered at half price. Measures about 15 inches top by 7 inches. Gold stiping, decorated. Some slight imperfections do not affect appearance. Priced at $250 each, regularly $500. Fifth floor.
Imported decanters offered at less than half price. Pint size glass decanters in neat shape. Regularly priced, now a bargain. Fifth floor sale listing.
Parame and Lily of France corsets advertised in varied sizes with boned fronts and elastic attachments. Prices slashed from dollars to cents per pair, including 7.60 to 4.00 and 4.60, with several dozen pairs in multiple brands and sizes.
Outlined are infant and child headwear reductions in the store. Items include white silk bonnets with crown shirring and large ribbons, facing trim and lace, and a Napoleon style felt hat with satin rosettes. Discounts range from four to five dollars, with prices noted for third floor elevnth street display.
Three types of Namsook gowns and related pieces reduced to clearance prices. High neck long sleeve muslin gowns with lace details from $475 to 2.76 each. Hand-made low neck gowns with embroidery from 450 to 2 each. Nainsook gowns with lace trim from 1.50 to 7Bc each. Includes blue sstean petticoats and outing flannel gowns. third floor Eleventh at.
Shoe department advertises multiple women's shoe styles with large price cuts. 16 pairs of black suede sailor ties and various heels reduced from 60 cents to 2.60 dollars per pair. 12 pairs patent leather lace shoes cut from 6.00 to 2.25. 7 pairs Dongola kidskin button shoes trimmed with welt soles reduced from 8.00 to 2.35. Located on Turd floor at Tenth Street.
Third floor sale lists 8 youth long pants suits and 16 to 20 size all wool double breasted and Norfolk jackets with large price cuts. Items include Peter Thompson built suits and Rosa Rusatan blouses, knickerbocker pants, and sizes range from 6 to 30. Prices drop from high hundreds to small hundreds.
Classified listing offers 16o genuine unframed carbon photographs at 10c each, various subjects. Watches in gold and black frames priced down from 2.00 to 1.50 each, 20 artotypes in 8 inch black frames reduced to 60c, and multiple colored and hand colored photographs in ornate frames with substantial price cuts. A Gainsborough image in a Perserone frame marked down to 3.50, and other pieces including The Choir Boys and The Wings on Victory offered at deep discounts. location cited as Fourth four-Tenth st.
Classified sale notes deep markdowns on mahogany and oak furniture items. Highlights include cheval mirrors in Domingo mahogany frames reduced from 5000 to 2.65, and a variety of chairs, rockers, tables, and parlor items with prices slashed from hundreds to under ten dollars.
Bargain items include enamel and infant hampers, Japanese and Indian baskets, Birch Bark and Sweet Green designs. Prices slashed from several cents to a few dollars, with shopworn and damaged lots marked down as part of a Fifth Floor G Street reduction sale.
Smyrna and Wilton rugs discounted in reduced prices. 9x12 foot Smyrna rug cut from $20.00 to $17.50, 1.9x12 foot Wilton rug reduced to $3.75 each, 2x5 foot Amesminster rugs cut from $6.00 to $4.50. Also 2x8 inch antiwater rugs and other styles on sale on fourth floor.
On the third floor in the Misses Department a wide array of girls plaid dresses in pretty designs trimmed with velvet ribbon in sizes 6 to 14, priced at 4.50 each, regularly 6.00. Velveteen cloaks, braid trim, sizes 4, 6 and 8 to 10, reduced from 7.00 to 5.75 or 12.50 for the velvet trimmed tan cloak, and brown broadcloth cloak with lace collar in size 10, reduced to 10.00.
A retail notice lists reductions on white enamel beds in various sizes with brass and gilt trim, box springs, and wooden folding cots. Items show price cuts from ten to several dollars and one mattress described as slightly soiled. Beconé floor-F unit appears incomplete.
Fifth floor Eleventh street lists heavy discounts on household ware. Items include a kitchen table with drawers priced from 110 to 400, wire door mats 225 to 1 6, gas heaters 400 to 3260, oil heaters 400 to 2 50, and many small goods such as pudding molds cups and pots with reduced rates.
Listing from China Department shows multiple pieces of decorated American and French chinaware with severe markdowns. Items include porcelain vases dishes soup tureens and plates with prices cut from several dollars to a few cents each. Damaged pieces noted with pieces missing and odd plates. sale ends when sold.
The capital hosts a busy social season with Miss Cannon in town and a table d hote supper to benefit Mt. Vernon Seminary pupils. The British Ambassador and Lady Durand entertain visiting kin including Sir Edward Durand. Debuts, arrivals, and arrivals from France fill the week as society names, homes, and venues—Shoreham Hotel, Willard, and other addresses frame gatherings and previews for late year events.
Prominent speakers Holmes Conrad and John W. Yerkes headline a four year postgraduate program at Georgetown University Law School. Lectures cover development of law and comparative jurisprudence, railroad accident law, municipal corporations, natural and canon law, and U S court practice for a select group.
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