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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1905
Page
11
Woodward & Lothrop advertises a Friday Remnant Day with substantial discounts on men s furnishings. Includes four in hand ties, embroidered night shirts, tan madras pajamas, linen mesh underwear, wool serge robes, and mesh suspenders, with prices cut from high dollars to a few dollars per item. Main floor first.
Newspaper ad lists deep cuts on boys double breasted suits coats and pants in various sizes with prices slashed from five to three dollars and more. Women department features check suits mohair and camel hair options marked down from high sums to around ten to twenty five dollars. Includes floor locations and style notes.
Twenty dozen night gowns with tucked yoke and cambric ruffle around neck and sleeves, made of Masonville muslin noted for its quality. Offered at 50 cents each, regular value 75 cents. Third floor Seventh Street.
A small lot of eight dozen P N Corsets in straight-front style with high bust and hip elastic. Sizes range 18 to 30. Made of French coutil valued at 1.00. Located third floor Eleventh Street.
English Nainsook fabric offered in a Friday bargain. 2,000 yards of 36 inch fine sheer material for women undergarments and children's wear. Priced at 12 cents per yard, down from the regular 20 cents. Available on the second floor in Belleventh Street store.
Friday bargain offers from Wm Liddell & Sons Bel fast Ireland include damask table cloths and napkins at deep cuts. Cloths priced around 3.00 to 4.50 per piece with irregular yardages and bleaching notes. Also a small lot of Women’s Patent Ideal Kidshin Lace Shoes reduced to 2.50 from 5.00 with multiple sizes listed across two departments.
Bargains featured on the Fourth floor s display include imitation engravings in 13x23 inch oak frames at 75 cents each, plus sporting scenes in 9 4x30 inch black frames at 1.00 each. Also offered are artist proof etchings in gold frames, ruffled muslin bedroom curtains at 1.00 per pair, Nottingham lace curtains, tapestry borders, reversible tapestry chair covers and table covers with special values.
Classified notice lists several sewing machines with upgrades and five year guarantees. Items include W. L. drop head and cabinet models, New Victor, Wm L, Eldredge Automatic drophead with attachments. Prices slashed from high to low with woodwork marred notes. Second floor G Street.
A catalog of reduced prices on mahogany and oak furniture including mirrors, washstands, chiffoniers, parlor suites, chairs, buffets, and dressers. Items feature hand carving, inlays, claw feet, and velvet or satinwood finishes with markdowns from $10 to $50 to amounts such as $12.65, $19.35, and $84.85. Sixth floor.
Fifth floor offers marked down china sets and decorative pieces including limeges china dinner plates hot cake dishes celery trays cracker jars and covered dishes with discounts from fractions to several dollars each as listed in the sale event. Many items show reductions from 305000 to 11868 and 98.00 to 4420 each across varied dinnerware categories.
Several garments offered at Cloak and Skirt Dept 1 Van Hein Usat with marked down prices. Items include coats and jackets in various sizes with reductions from 10.00 to 5.00 7.60 to 5.00 and 5.00 prices for silk blouse jacket black and white skirt and blue cheviot skirts across multiple sizes.
Wholesale sale notes deep discounts on White China Silk Waists in multiple finishes and sizes. Items include platted front and back waists from $2.76 to $1.50, silk waists from $5.00 to $2.95, and assorted styles from $6.00 to $3.75. Also lawn, taffeta, and linen shirt-waist suits with marked down prices, plus wrappers in various grounds and sizes. Third floor Goods.
The third floor offers Misses White Lawn g-piece dresses trimmed with lace in sizes 44 and 16 reduced from 1000 to 3.76 each. Misses White Lawn two-piece dresses in sizes 14 36 18 reduced from 12.50 to 5.00. Broadcloth tailor-made suit size 16 reduced from 25 to 12.50. Blue striped serge dress size 18 reduced. Girls brown cheviot suit size 14 reduced from 28.50 to 15.00. Three girls light-weight coats sizes 6 and 8 reduced from 10.00 to 3.73. Misses black broadcloth coats sizes 14 15 18 20 reduced from 20 to 2. All-linen sailor suits size 14 reduced from 10 to 3.75. Seven girls white pique dresses sizes 4 8 reduced from 6 to 2.50. Girls white lawn dresses sizes 4 6 8 10 reduced from 2.75 to 1.00. Third floor goods.
Large lot of baskets and hampers marked down in the Fifth Floor sale. Items include linen baskets, covered work baskets, lined work baskets, sweet grass baskets, hair receivers, scrap baskets, a Japanese scrap basket, clothes hampers and round willow hampers with reductions ranging from a few cents to several dollars.
The catalog lists reduced prices for damaged and shopworn goods on the Fifth floor Eleventh St. including commodes, enamelware pitchers, coffee pots, brass and nickel items, teapots, knives, broilers, oyster fryers, fish butlers, molds, roasting and storage ware, coal hods, japanned boxes and bread and cake containers with notable markdowns from original figures.
Miss Genevieve Holtzman, daughter of Mr and Mrs William F Holtzman, married Baltimore’s Charles W Hendley at the Pro Cathedral Church of the Ascension. The ceremony featured white and green decorations with palms, ferns, and Bride roses, and was followed by a reception. Attendants included Flo rence Holtzman, with bridesmaids from Chicago, Altoona, Louisville, Baltimore and Auburn. The bridal procession showcased Princesse gowns of silver gray Liberty silk and gray tulle veils.
A bride from the Alpha Phi sorority at Women’s College in Baltimore married amid white chiffon gown and intricate lace. She wore a pearl and diamond pin, carried Bride roses, and entered with her father as floral decorations and orange blossoms from Port Rise framed the ceremony.
A Washington society wedding feature describes a ceremony with a harvest moon bridegroom theme, roses and amilax decorations, and a reception at the bride’s parents’ home on Twelfth Street. Attendees include Judge Thomas S. Baer and numerous out-of-town guests from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and beyond.
A dense list of discounted items including rubber dressings, gloves, hot water bottles, brooms, nail brushes, tooth powders and pastes, tooth powders from Dr. Lyons to Schieletine, various perfumes and colognes from Roger & Gallet, Woodworth, Hoyt, and more, plus talcum powders from Mennen, Bradley, and Benton. Prices range from a few cents to about one dollar, with notes on imperfect items not exchangeable.
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