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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1907
Page
7
Sample outfits in Russian and Sailor blouse styles advertised as hard to find novelties. One-of-a-kind effects shown as new items, offered well below regular prices at four dollars twenty-five cents and five dollars per piece.
Displayed assortment includes School and Jumper Dresses, Sailor Dresses, Evening Dresses in silk wool and nets, three quarter to full length coats, and cravenetted raincoats. Highlights include special prices on jumper and shirtwaist styles, tailored full length coats, raincoats, and chic hats on second floor Tenth Street with navy, brown, and blue color options.
A Washington store advertises a collection of French imported infant and child dresses made by hand. Prices range from 1.75 to 2.00 for short and long dresses with beading, lace, and tucks, plus hand-made pillow caps and capses. Also notes butter pricing elsewhere.
Woodward & Lothrop presents men’s suits as comparable to custom tailoring. Each suit is hand-shrunk and individually cut with high quality linings and trimmings. Savings come from bulk material purchases and better workshop organization, using fine imported and domestic woolens in exclusive patterns.
Display of overcoats in the men's clothing department features popular styles and weaves. Garments come in black, Oxford gray, brown, and tan with careful tailoring and stylish finishes. Prices start at $15.00 and up, offered as excellent values for cool days.
Fall hat line offers three original stiff Stetson Derbies with cushion sweatbands and self conforming fit. Hats come in various brim widths and crown heights to suit different proportions and feature wear resistant fur felt and premier shaping. Colonial style targets young men and emphasizes value on the market. Mutn floor F st.
The new importation highlights exquisite hand embroidery and delicate laces in French Namsook gowns chemises and drawers with eyelets, ribbons, and scallop edges. Prices range from 1.05 to 5.00 for garments, with many items offered on the third floor sevent h street, plus a wide array of French percale petticoats. Shoes for all ages are also featured, including boy, girls, and children styles with patent calfskin and button shoes in various sizes, on the tenth street floor.
A Fourth floor Elaventh display shows a large range of Halloween favors including lanterns pumpkin figures and Bonn bon bon boxes with pumpkin faces Rattles Flower balloons Satan pumpkin figures and climbers priced from fractions of a dollar to about a dollar Bouts and balloon displays feature movable pumpkin heads and figures with green and yellow cloth designs
A messy OCR list from Pure Food Department items featuring Colonial Blend Coffee one pound can, Colonial Pure Apple Cider, tomato ketchup, Alpha Sated Cream dressing, Maraschino cherries, Old Virginia Breakfast Herring, New Pack Columbia River salmon, pure apple and sugar syrup, Indian Corn Starch, boneless codfish, Maple Butter Compound, Lemons, Tokay grapes, pineapple, cheese varieties, ginger ale, and assorted confections. Includes pricing hints and floor location Fifth floor Tenth.
Miss Amy McMillan will wed Sir John Lane Harrington at Eagle Head Manchester Massachusetts at noon. Carolyn Borrell Hut will marry Marray Addison Cobb in Greensburg Pennsylvania. Miss Elsie Bacon will marry Joseph C Laverley in Jamaica Plain near Boston. Guests include Miss Grace Heil and Mat Shouts party.
At a New York dinner Mr Léwin D. Morgan announced the engagement of Mrs James Lornard Kernochan and Mr Alexander Butler Duncan. Sources say Duncan pursued the match about a year ago to block an English suitor from Kernochan. The tale hints at romance behind the betrothal and notes the Englishman was abroad preparing for marriage.
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