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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1905
Page
19
Friday sale highlights deep discounts across the store from silks and nets to linens and ready to wear. Special buys include black all silk net robes, lace trimmed pieces, tea cloths and centerpieces, plus heavily reduced men’s pajamas and shirts. Bargains span departments with featured remnants and special prices on rugs, furniture, and housewares.
All wool double directed and double breasted suits in dark tones feature deep reductions. Sizes range for boys from 8 to 16 with heavy and medium weight options. Rain coats offered in larger sizes with discounts from higher prices to ten dollars each. Third floor Tenth St.
Friday bargains on framed artotypes and remnants with heavy frames. Items include Char iot Race The Duel The Horse Fair and The Courier at g8c each, plus hand colored pictures, sepia prints, photographs, and mirrors with reduced prices. Located on fourth floor tenth street.
A classified sale notes deep discounts on a white enameled bedstead with gilt trimmings, a bedstead with brass fittings, sham bolster rolls, a bamboo laundry box, a utility box, bamboo stools, and an oak cellarette in mission style. Prices slashed from hundreds to small sums, with items located on the second floor F street.
A readable fragment notes aprons for maids or waitresses sold at 38 cents each in a third floor shop on Eleventh Street, with hemstitched bibs or embroidery trimming and a 25 cent speed.
Bargain sale listing on the third floor highlights Outing Flannel Petticoats in blue pink or gray with button hole stitches. Numerous reductions include Cheviot Suits, Silk Dresses, Mohair and Crepe outfits, and multiple waists and wrappers with prices slashed from near 100 dollars to 2.50 or 0.59 each, featuring sizes 34 to 42 and a black taffeta silk suit at $30.00.
Friday bargain offers a small lot of cotton filed bed comfortables with sateen coverings. Full double bed size, neat patterns, excellent quality, priced at $1 each, with value listed as $1.50. Second floor Hileventh Street.
Bargain prices on reinforced muslin sheets that last longer. 2x2 foot sheets at 68 cents each, value 85 cents. 24x23 inch sheets at 75 cents each, value 90 cents. Second floor Eleventh Street.
A fourth floor sale offers Bobbinette Curtains with renaissance braid and insertion white and corn, 3 and 34 yards long at 2.50 per pair, Grenadine and Snow flake Curtains in red green and rose at 1.25 per pair, Mercerized Portieres in olive and green plus imitated Bagdad stripes at 2.50 each, and remnants including Velours Brocades Damasks Armures up to 250 each. Also Renaissance Lace Curtains, Handsome White Cluny Lace Curtains, Whitt Marie Antoinette Lace Curtains, Renaissance Lace Bed Sets, Saxony Brussels Net Curtains, Tambour Net Curtains, all heavily reduced from higher prices.
In the main floor G street sale a range of bric a brac items are discounted. Bronze figure winged Mercury reduced from 22.50 to 15.80. White marble pedestals 700 each from 1000. Several vases and porcelains notably Italian marble vase to 12.50 and Royal Bonn and Nipen ware with light damage. Royal mortgage and fishing vases cut. pink lamp shade with velvet flowers offered at 12.50.
Classified furniture sale items including Weathered Oak and Mahogany chairs, cabinets, bookcase, and parlor set with various finishes and damages. Prices slashed from up to 36000 to modest figures, highlighting leather and damask details, claw foot and inlay features, and a seven floor GST tag.
Reading an old catalog style sale, the Misses Department lists girls garments at deep markdowns. Items include several dresses coats and jackets in sizes 4 to 14 with reductions from prices like 1350 and 115 to affordable figures such as 7.50 and 4.00.
The store flags heavy reductions on various basket groups from Japanese scrap to palm work, with prices slashed on straw, grass, and decorative china items. Notable cuts include dinnerware sets, meat dishes, tureens, and bonbon dishes, with several items marked down by fractions to clear stock.
Damaged list from Housefurnish Dept offering numerous items at reduced prices. Wood fiber tub, patent dish washer, tin boilers, hite molds, cork puller, lemon baueener, kitchen table, wire mats, sponge rack, towel racks, wine cooler, steeledom kettle, drip coffee pot, enameled coffee pot, patent grater, bread box, wash roiler, varnish stain and floor polish all marked down with new sale prices. location noted as Fifth floor seventh st.
Shoe department lists 10 pairs of Women’s Dongola Kidskin Lace Shoes with Goodyear welt soles and military heels in sizes 4 41 2, 6, plus 2 4 41 2BA 80 31 24. Prices cut from 4.00 to 2.00. Also women’s Box Calfskin Lace Shoes with welt soles in sizes 3 4 5 and related codes, reduced from 4.00 to 2.5 per pair.
The British squadron under Prince Louis of Guttenberg will anchor off Fifty fourth Street in the Hudson during its New York visit after Washington and Annapolis. Secretary Metcalf issued orders detailing anchorage positions and safety measures, with entertainments informal and limited to the White House reception and dinner.
Annapolis, Oct 26 Special to The Washington Pest reports that Naval Academy officers plan a regular raccoon hunt the night of Friday in November. Prince Louis of Battenberg and staff will visit Washington to pay respects to the President, so lower ranking officers may participate. Prof. N. M. Terry originated and leads the effort.
Washington society items report on major social events and movements. Attendees include Mrs Chaffee and Mrs Borden supporting the Army Relief exhibition at Fort Myer. diplomats Declarations from the Netherlands and Mexico. marriages such as Miss Fiorensco Lena Lowry to James Edward Gil. and numerous Washington dignitaries and families traveling, socializing, and planning receptions and winter residencies in the capital. Also notes on separations and postings, with troop movements to Texas Fort Ringgold.
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