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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1905
Page
42
Woodward & Lothrop promotes a Friday remnant sale across all departments from basement to top floor. The event features odds and ends of home goods and personal adornment at reduced prices to clear remaining stock ahead of next week’s fresh assortments.
A large sale offers 15 dozen small jet two tone ties at 25 cents each along with remnants including bathrobe silk kim, mens fancy handkerchiefs and lisle shirts. Numerous reductions across mens wear from shirts to suits and coats with marked prices cut for quick sale on multiple floors and at specific sizes.
A sale offers women s outing flannel petticoats in pink blue and gray striped effects trimmed with buttonhole stitch at the bottom. Priced at 25 cents each, located on the third floor in the Eleventh street area.
Friday bargain item offers 50 dozen fast black cotton hose with double soles heels and toes at 20 cents each or 3 pairs for 50 cents. Includes remnants of fancy stripe jacquard lisle thread hose with reductions and decorated tops, size 9, on main floor.
A sample line from a manufacturer offers women's and children's knit underwear at special prices. Vests tights and drawers priced 25c to 50c each, a quarter to a third off regular values, with weights for fall and winter. Limited pieces remain at Main floor East.
Auction style sale offers numerous framed pictures at reduced prices. Large landscape etchings in gilt frames sell for 1.00 each, hunting scenes in black frames are 5.00, several upright colored prints reduce from 3.800 to 395, 25 to 1, and 2.140 to 0.80. Other items include portraits of girls, a violinist, and a George and Sani scene, all with decorative frames. Fourth Ward Tenth Street location.
Special sale at Pure Food Dept Fifth floor Tenth Street featuring about 38 dozen bottles of Spanish olives in root and cherry bottles. Some bottles are spotted or off color but eating quality remains unimpaired. Limited to bargains offered at the department store.
Fifth floor G st sale offers Decorated Toilet Set and jar price cut from 500 to 385. Porcelain soup tureens reduced to 50 cents each from 130. French china sauce tureen drops from 8 50 to 25. Gold in crusted cover dish cut to 24 from 650. Imported meat dishes discounted to 3 sizes at 150 and 2.00 each. English porcelain covered dishes down to 5 each. French china A D coffee cups and saucers down from 100 to 50 each. Tea pot sugar and cream set now 25. Ice cream plates fall to 15 from 25. Large imported stein damaged, now 75. Cut glass sugar and cream sets cut to 2.50 each. Fifth floor G st.
Bargain sale in the third floor Yoneth street shop offers boys clothings with deep cuts. Tan wash vests in sizes 8 to 11 drop from 150 dollars to 26 cents, stocks from 2 cents to ten cents, shield bow ties 25 to 1 cent, white cheviot shirts 12 and 312 sizes fall to 75 cents, Madras shirts cut from tic to 5 cents.
Wholesale notice lists 22 pairs Women's Kidskin and Dull Kidskin Lace shoes with webt soles in assorted sizes. Describes reductions from $8.00 and $4.00 per pair to lower prices, listing various size codes and stock conditions.
A salvage catalog advertises multiple corset styles with bone stays elastics and satin ribbons. Items include Parame French P D I C and Sapphire girdles in sizes 2 to 30, discounted from various higher prices to $4.00 to 7c per pair, with third floor Eleventh Street location noted.
New Victor sewing machine with full attachment set and five year guarantee. Wood finish lightly marred. Reduced from 18.00 to 16.00. Located on second floor G street.
An assorted Fourth floor upholstery sale lists 100 pairs of French Bobbinet curtains and numerous lace curtain sets from Renaissance and Arabian origins. Prices drop from $80 per pair to $5.00, with many pieces like damasks, tapestries, velour cushions, and tapestry fabrics offered at substantial discounts, all described with varied grounds and border styles.
A list of furniture markdowns includes a mahogany washstand from 25 to 12.66 dollars, a quartered oak washstand now 1, a mahogany cheval glass reduced to 32.85, and multiple other pieces such as a rattan settee, rattan chair, parlor table, oak cabinet and desk, china closet, and office table. Prices vary with substantial savings, including a large mahogany parlor table marked down from 1800 to 865 and a weathered oak smoker’s cabinet from 220 to 996.
Several garments listed with sizes 34 to 36 including Mohair semi-tailored suits trimmed with lace and braid, a Black Taffeta Silk tailor-made suit with a 3-4 jacket, a Black Voile dress, a Black Cheviot suit, a Brown Pin Stripe taffeta silk suit, and a Black and White pin check mohair suit. Reductions range from 10 to 42.50 dollars, with items originally priced up to 85 dollars.
Waist and Wrapper Dept lists 15 White Ching Sik Waists in assorted styles and sizes reduced from 6.00 to 2.50 each. Lawn waists and 10 Black and White Lawn Wrappers in various sizes marked down from 1.90 to 0.59 each. Black and White Percale Wrappers in multiple sizes reduced from 1.50 to 0.59 each. Floor three locations.
A local department store offers deep markdowns in the Misses and Girls section. Items include a blue cloth tailor-made suit reduced to 12.50, white lawn dresses from 10 to 2.50, lace trimmed dresses to 3.78, a white silk coat now 3.75, and multiple coats and dresses in sizes 4 through 18 with prices dropping from high figures to under five dollars. Third floor, G St.
Child's dark blue serge reefer with large collar reduced from 60 to 1. Dark red silk reefer with plaits trimmed in white braid cut from 15 to 0.50. Light tan cloth reefer with panne velvet buttons marked down from 310.60 to 8.50. Gray corduroy reefer with white silk trim reduced from 3350 to 8.75. Three cloth reefers brown tan dark red discounted to 10.00 each.
A dated catalog ad lists muslin underwear and nightwear items with price cuts. Green taffeta and silk petticoats, fitted cambric corset covers, nainsook chemises and gowns, and a pink silk negligee are marked down from several dollars to lower prices.
The sporting goods department lists various items with drastic markdowns. Single barreled shotguns and Parker’s hammerless models reduced from high prices to a few dollars. Also offered are Bristol rods, fishing line, waterproof aprons, and Hastman’s hydroquinone powders with marked reductions. Main floor-Tenth at.
Large round willow basket and palm hampers discounted from two dollars fifty to one fifty, four fifty to two sixty, six fifty to six hundred. Various knife and palm baskets cut to one dollar or less, sweet grass baskets trimmed to between one and twenty five cents, Indian scrap baskets slashed to five to ten cents. Fifth floor clearance sale on all listed items.
A catalog of discounted household items on the fifth floor eleventh street. Chairs ladders and kitchen pieces show markdowns from two dollars to low dollar amounts, plus shopworn and damaged wares like copper pots, tea sets, canisters, enamelware, and cookware.
Social and personal notices describe Miss Bohrer wedding to John Bocock Thrift at the Bohrer home, elder relatives, and plans for a late autumn nuptial tour. The piece lists society figures, embassy guests, and families like Greely, Oliver, Durand, and Hamilton, with travel, residences, and upcoming events in Washington and Lenox.
Continental Chapter D A R met at Ebbitt House on October 16 with Mrs Mary C Beach presiding It was voted to hold a November benefit for the Continental Hall fund under the direction of several members A donation was noted for the Spanish war nurse monument fund Appointments were made to draft resolutions to support ex regent Mrs Louise L Bacon after her husband s death The meeting listed numerous attendees with many officers and attendees named involved in the organization
Miss Fannie Barbee and Mr Richard Kidder Meade wed at Temple Baptist Church with Rev J J Muir officiating. The bride, daughter of Mrs Virginia Barbee, wore a wedding gown of white satin and carried bouquet of violets. Guests included relatives from Fauquier and White Post, with a reception at the bride’s sister’s home and a trip planned to New York and Niagara Falls. The couple will reside at 227 H Street NW after their return, gifts included a Haviland china set from War Department friends.
Sionest G Walker will take charge of the Boston Herald Washington bureau on Monday succeeding Otto Carmichael who left to run the Detroit Free Press. Walker, a longtime Washington Post staffer, will bring captiol reporting experience and strong political writing credentials. The note also mentions semi annual Sons of Jonadab visitations and a missing name for Dr Ambler A Mersteller with police involvement. A brass sign theft at 1224 F Street NW is noted, and Earl A Badger of Salt Lake City is elected president of the George Washington Law Denoyment class.
The Naval Gun Factory Band presents the last open-air concert of the year at the navy yard this evening at 7 30 under director J G Moody. The programme includes marches overtures medleys and songs ending with The Star Spangled Banner. Tickets 1 25 via Pennsylvania Railroad with weekly Saturday and Sunday trains.
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