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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1905
Page
17
Woodward & Lothrop advertises a Friday remnant day on the seventh floor featuring odds and ends across all departments. It promises reduced prices to clear leftovers and make way for fresh assortments next week, highlighting bargains for personal use and home adornment.
A newspaper ad lists men’s accessories and clothing on deep discounts. Jet ties, half-dollar quality, silk dressing gown remnants, fancy handkerchiefs, lisle threads, madras shirts with cuffs, suede gloves, string ties, and pajamas all reduced. Men’s shirts and coats with significant price drops complement a large sale across floors and the tenth street location.
A sale offers women’s outing flannel petticoats in pink blue and gray striped effects. Petticoats trimmed at the bottom with buttonhole stitch. Price 25 cents each. Located on the third floor Eleventh street.
Bargain sale on women s cotton hose featuring 50 dozen double-sole fast black pairs at 20 cents each or 3 for 50 cents. Also remnants including striped and jacquard hosiery, lisle thread hose with embroidered tops, reduced from dollars to lower prices. sale located on main floor first.
A sample line from a manufacturer offers women and children vests tights and drawers at 25c to 50c each, lowering prices by a quarter to a third from regular values. The fall and winter weights suit the season, with limited pieces available at main floor East.
Advertises a sale of large etchings mostly landscapes in gilt frames with mats at $1.00 each, plus five hunting scenes in black frames and other upright colored pictures with various reductions on prices. Location near Fourth Street and Tenth Street, listing specific items and discount amounts.
Spanish olives offered in bulk with about 38 dozen bottles described as seconds or calls. Some bottles are spotted or discolored but eating quality unaffected. Special price offered per bottle at Pure Food Dept Fifth floor Tenth.
Fifth floor sale offers numerous items from the China Department with notable markdowns. Decorated porcelain tureens cups and saucers teapots and covered dishes see cuts from dollars to cents and a large imported Stein is slightly damaged.
Bargain display lists boys wear items on third floor Yenth street. Tan wash vests singlebreasted sizes 8 9 10 11 reduced to 26 cents each. Wash stocks cut to two cents each. Shield bow ties light colors drop to one cent. White cheviot shirts slightly soiled sizes 12 and 13 1 2% reduced to 75 cents. Madras shirts white and colors all sizes cut to five cents.
Fragmented listing details 22 pairs of women kidskin shoes with webbed soles and assorted sizes from 3 to 7 with codes like AA and DEB, marked down from 8.00 and 4.00 per pair. Also 22 pairs of dull kidskin lace shoes in multiple sizes with assorted codes and prices reduced from 4.00 to 3.50 per pair.
A store offers multiple corset styles with sizes 2 to 30 and real whalebone boning. Prices are cut from 9.5 to 0.50 per pair for Parame and related brands, with reductions on French and Sapphire girdle corsets, all advertised on the Eleventh Street third floor sale display.
Sewing Machine Dept 1 offers a New Victor machine with full set of attachments and a five year guarantee. Box top shows wood work marred. price reduced from 18.00 to 16.00. Second floor G street location.
Upholstery department offers 100 pairs of French Bobbinet and Arabic lace curtains with borders and assorted damasks and tapestries. Prices range from $0.50 to $10 per pair or yard, many items reduced from higher values, with selections in white, Arabian, cream, blue, green, pink, cerise, and red grounds. Fourth floor ceiling heights noted.
A catalog of discounted furniture including mahogany washstands quatered oak washstands cheval glass and parlor tables with price cuts from 25.00 to 12.66 and up to 1800 reduced to 865 plus other pieces such as rattan settees weathered oak cabinets desks bookcases and office tables with substantial markdowns across the sixth floor.
A list of boutique items with sizes 34 to 36 across mohair semi-tailored suits, black taffeta silk tailor made suit, black voile dress, black cheviot suit, brown pin stripe taffeta silk suit and black white pin check mohair suit. Reductions range from 1.00 to 42.50. Items include trims with lace braid moire silk and plain brown taffeta.
Waist and Wrapper Dept offers Ching Sik waists in varied styles sizes now 2.50 each from 6.00. Lawn waists and wrappers advertised in assorted styles with reduced prices. Black and white lawn wrappers in sizes 24 36 38 40 marked down. Percale wrappers in sizes 34 38 and 42 reduced to 59 cents. Third floor location noted.
A third floor sale cuts prices on Misses and Girls clothing including a blue tailor made suit for 18, white lawn dresses in several sizes, a white silk coat for girls, light cloth jackets, serge dress, and linen cambric dresses with embroidery, with reductions ranging from pennies to dollars.
Child's dark blue serge reefer trimmed with white braid reduced from 60 to 1. Dark red silk reefer with plaits and stitched collar reduced from 15 to 5. Light tan cloth reefer with panne velvet buttons reduced from 10.60 to 8.50. Gray corduroy reefer with white silk braid reduced from 350 to 875. Three cloth reefers brown tan dark red reduced from 16 to 10 each.
Muslin underwear and chemises offer reduced prices. Green taffeta and silk petticoats, fitted cambric corset covers, nainsook chemises, gowns, and a handmade pink silk negligee are discounted from several dollars to 79c to 18.60, with details of trims and lace patterns.
Sporting Goods Dept offers single-barreled shotguns with ejectors reduced to 4.50 each, Parker hammerless shotguns at 35.00, Bristol rods at 3.50 each, black waterproof fishing line at 0.25 per yard, waterproof aprons at 0.39 each, Hastman hydrochinon develop powders at 0.15 per half dozen, and other items on main floor tenth at.
A Fifth floor sale lists numerous baskets with shopworn or damaged status and reduced prices. Items include large willow baskets, rattan hampers, palm hampers, knife baskets, Japanese scrap baskets, sweet grass baskets, handkerchief baskets, and Indian scrap baskets with prices cut from fractions to a few cents.
Numerous houseware items listed with marked reductions from prices such as chairs ladders kitchen cabinets mirrors and cookware. Items include japanned cans pots knives and enameled ware with sale prices and shop worn notes, across fifth floor eleventh street.
Society notes from Washington detail autumn relocations and travels of diplomats, military families, and society figures. Belgian Minister Baron Moncheur and family attend Chevy Chase for the fall season. Bishop Satterlee and family sail in. Miss Beulah Bohrer wed John Bocock Thrift in a quiet ceremony. various relatives and guests circulate among Lenox, Dupont Circle, and embassies.
Continental Chapter of the D A R met at the Ebbitt House on October 16 to plan an November benefit for the Continental Hall fund under directors Cornelia Lloyd William Decker Mabel White George Cummings and Horace Fulton. A donation to the Spanish war nurse monument fund was also noted. Members listed include Mrs Mary Beach Mrs Bennett Allen Miss Emeline Clift Mrs Lillian Fressenger Miss Ella Reese Miss Siena Cooke Mrs Middleton Smith and others.
Miss Fannie Barbee daughter of Mrs Virginia Barbee and the late George Barbee and Mr Richard Kidder Meade son of Mrs and Mr Graham Meade of White Post Va were married last evening at Temple Baptist Church Rev J J Muir officiated The bride was given away by her cousin Andrew Tucker Barbee The bridal party included matron of honor Effie Barbee Robertson maid of honor Ruth Brock two bridesmaids Nathalie Boush Kate Howison The groom's best man Dr Edgar Snowden ushers included Russell Barbee George Elbert Robertson Robert Carter Broadus Moore After the ceremony family and bridal party shared refreshments at the bride’s sister Mrs George T Robertson home and left for a trip to New York and Niagara Falls They will live at 227 H Street NW Costly gifts included a Haviland china set from War Department friends and a large case of silver from the bride’s mother
Sionest G Walker will assume charge of the Boston Herald Washington bureau Monday succeeding Otto Carmichael who moved to the Detroit Free Press. Walker has twelve years with The Washington Post and has long reported Capitol affairs earning prestige for accuracy. He leaves with the good wishes of former Post colleagues.
The Naval Gun Factory Band gives the last open air concert of the year at the navy yard this evening starting at 7 30 under J G Moody. Program includes marches overtures serenades and songs with the national air The Star Spangled Banner. Tickets 1 25 via Pennsylvania Railroad with Saturday and Sunday trains.
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