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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1907
Page
7
A Woodward & Lothrop sale announces a special remnant day with items offered well below intrinsic value. Remnants include broken assortments and odd lots across departments, clearly marked with original prices to attract careful buyers and clear out remaining stock.
Friday bargains feature substantial price cuts on boys clothing and accessories. Deals include Boys' Outing Flannel Pajamas, All-wool Sweaters, wash blouses, wool caps, and a wide range of suits and overcoats for boys and young men, with reductions from current prices to under a dollar up to several dollars off. Many items list sizes and new sale prices.
Bargains listed for J B Corsets with corsets in assorted styles and sizes 13 to 44, featuring coutille whalebone and elastic attachments. Prices cut from 37.00 to 30.00, 11.50 to 8.00, and 5.00 to 2.00. Also skirt protectors reduced from 0.80 to 0.16 each. Third Floor Eleventh St.
Muslin underwear sale items include flannel short kimonos in grey blue and pink with wide sleeves and neck trim, silk petticoats with shirred lounce and narrow trim, remnants of drawers gowns and chemises in valenciennes lace, and handmade chemises with embroidery priced from 50c to 3.95 or 1.90 each with various reductions noted.
Fifty dozen Hemstitched Damask napkins at 15 inches square priced at 3.00 per dozen from Fable Linens. Regular 3.75. Twenty five dozen Fringed Damask for luncheon or tea at 1.33 per dozen. Regular 73. Secomt Aoor Eleventh street features fine Scotch Damask Napkins of 22 inches square at 30 per dozen.
Infants department offers several handmade and banded long dresses with yokes, tucks, lace, and embroidery. Originally priced up to 55.00, many styles reduced to 2.50 to 3.50 each, with several at 3.5 percent of prior price. third floor Eleventh street.
Men’s ribbed Balbriggan shirts and drawers offered in full weight with ribbed neck on shirts and a close fit. Drawers stay well and are thoroughly finished. All sizes available. Special value, 50c garment.
Bargain sale lists 50 dozen air linen initial handkerchiefs at 75 cents per half dozen. Men’s medium weight white merino underwear, two thirds wool, reduced from 10 to 5 dollars a dozen. Extra heavy ton cotton socks, heavy yarn, sizes 9 to 10, cut from 3 to 5 cents per pair. Sweaters both collarless and turtle neck, 40 to 42 sizes, cut from 4 to 2 dollars. White all wool jumpers, 40 to 42 sizes, cut from 37 to 8.69. 12 dozen linen collars from retired manufacturer, sizes 14 to 17, cut from 1.50 to 0.60 per dozen. 38 pairs tan kid walking gloves, sizes 7 to 8. Overall, main floor clearance at the store front.
Men’s Tan Covert Cloth topcoats in various sizes downsized from 16.00 to 16.06, another line from 20.00 to 15.00, and extra fine tan covert cloth tapcoats cut from 82.60 to 20.00. Fall weight suits and separate trousers marked down, with sizes listed, from 15.00 or 1 to 10.00 and 6.00 plus notes of ends of several lines. Main floor Tenth st.
Readers are invited to shop a Fourth floor sale of upholstery fabrics and curtains with large price cuts. Ivory and Cody curtains, lace panels, cable net styles, and tapestry panels are discounted from high original prices to modest sale levels. Many items feature exotic patterns and decorative details, with fabrics advertised per yard or per pair.
Furniture Department offers a range of parlor suites and settees with substantial markdowns. Items include a solid mahogany armchair and multiple 2 and 4 piece parlor suites in various fabrics, reduced from prices mostly in the low to mid tens of dollars. Sixth and Seventh floors reference.
Picture Department origin oils in gilt frames with shadow boxes. Landscape and marine views offered, reduced from 20.00 to 49 each. Original frames in good condition. Fourth floor Tenth Street location.
A list of toy items with damaged condition notes and price reductions. Mechanical Fish Drums Wooten Animals Sonophones and other toys show markdowns from various inflated prices to lower sale figures. Several items are described as soiled or damaged, including a large dressed doll and a mechanical officer model.
JA lot of Women's Sample Skirts made of fine all wool materials including panamas cheviots and smooth cloths in black and colors also fancy mixtures. They are all this season's best styles and being samples there are no two alike. A splendid collection of smart Walking Skirts.
A catalog of garments offered at deep discounts including a light gray French voile suit with braid trim and full plaited skirt reduced from 342.60 to 25, a light gray Eton suit with Persian vest cut from 40.00 to 5.90, a Princess dress with Wall of Troy embroidery reduced to 15, a silk wool evening dress reduced to 35, and a White Dotted Filet lace dress reduced from 8 to 4.00.
Department wide reductions on coats and rainwear including gray English mixture raincoats from 31.00 to 16.00 gray mixed cheviot coats size 38 from 320.00 to 310.0 each serge prince coat trimmed with taffeta bands size 9 10 from 25.00 to 10.00 black pony jacket sizes 24 and 36 from 20.00 to 10.00 Gloria raincoat black size 8 from 35.00 to 15.00 black and white lawn wrappers sizes 4 6 4 from 1.40 to 1.00 each. Third floor G Street.
Misses department offers white lawn and linen dresses trimmed with lace and embroidery in sizes 19 to 1d, now 75 cents each. Pine white lawn dresses reduced from 1.90 to 75c. girls white linen suspender dresses cut to 2.80. Also white Peter Thompson suits in sizes 1 and 2, now 1.50. All-woven light-weight coats in sizes 8, 10, and 12 reduced to 5.90 on the third floor.
Shoe department offers women's Gun Metal Catsiin Blucher Lace Shoes with military heel and gondyear welt sole in sizes 4 to TA-5,6 and TB-21-2 31-2, reduced from 9.50 to 0. The Misses Dongola Kidskan Buty ton patent welt ear half heel sizes BU 4 11a 2a 12 TER and 26-0 12 14-2 wid Pg 2a 4d reduced from 3280 to 1.90. Third floor Tenth st.
Bargain event offers assorted Austrian and French china pieces with heavy discounts. Items include tea sets, bowls, covered butter dishes, vegetable dishes, soup tureen, casseroles, and meat dishes. Prices slashed from as high as 600 to as low as 1.00. Fifth floor st.
A city store advertises drastic markdowns on houseware including nickel plated paper holders tooth brush holders and dessert forks with prices slashed from dollars to cents. Heavy copper bottom wash boilers and japanned bread boxes also see large reductions as damaged items listed for sale.
Mrs Lovelton A Brown issues invitations for the marriage of her daughter Gertrude Folwell to Mr George Lewis Huntress Jr. The wedding is set for Saturday afternoon November 1 at 4 o'clock at St Margaret's Episcopal Church in Washington. Various social notices mention other arrivals, gatherings, and forthcoming weddings of Washington society.
Social gossip outlines Washington society figures, Mrs Pearsall and others, with details on hats, gowns, and headgear. It covers dress trends like plumage hats, Mandarin coats, and arm length gloves, plus fashion notes on perfume, lace gloves, and jewelry. It also notes Swiss altitude dining, exotic footwear, and Mexican Indian beauty standards shaping mid‑season taste.
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