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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1904
Page
7
Woodward & Glothrop announce a new work titled Important Book published today by Bong Sidis and S P Goodhart. The experimental inquiry explores human individuality, priced at $2.50 a copy, with primary focus on New York and Washington markets and availability for rent.
Very Woman advertises a remnant sale with bargains across many departments. It highlights remnants such as short ends, small odd lots, and broken sizes marked to sell quickly. The notice mentions muslin underwear garments including chemises gowns and matching items, trimmed with lace and embroidery, with details given where possible.
Friday bargain sale features damask breakfast cloths and reduced prices on garments and accessories. Highlights include per gar ment pricing, French gauze veils, undergarments, gloves, shirts, and percale items with substantial markdowns from higher original prices. Local shoppers urged to act on limited stock and sizes across multiple menswear and linen categories.
A fragment notes a sale or event at Fancy Feathers and Flowers with unclear details. Mentions MW Woo and Tet of Plowers, plus references to Corned Paney and Zoe, but the text is garbled and unreadable for concrete facts.
Bargain shoppers encounter a sale on children's ribbed hose with multiple styles and sizes. The ad highlights basic wear and general stock availability, urging readers to visit the store for bargains and stock details.
Fragmentary OCR text references shoe department items, sizes, prices, and a floor plan note. It mentions Fenrelhet Bath and Jac Footth Odea with dates or times unclear, plus references to delivery or display areas and tenants in a department store context.
The Boys Department offers all wool suits in navy blue and mixtures, Norfolk jackets, double breasteds, and knicker pants in sizes 7 to 17, with many reduced from 16.00 to 1.00 each. Hand made white sailor suits, sizes 9 to 6, cut from 12.00 to 3.00. Reefer coats and other garments also marked down, with belts and belts offered in multiple colors.
A chaotic OCR list details numerous decorated china pieces and dinnerware items with price reductions. Items include English porcelain, Japanese china, German cracker jars, and Limoges style pieces with discounts from high to low figures. Many entries are partial and rough but convey a clearance sale of tableware.
In the boys furnishing department prices are cut across shirts blouses and negligees. Blouses drop from 12 to 2 and 4s, neglige starts fall to 9 cents, jerseys and sweaters are reduced, sizes vary widely. Third floor at Teath street showcases the sale.
A fragmented classified ad describes sewing machine departments offering full sets of attachments and tools. It mentions year figures, automarine bows, and reduced prices from 000 to 84, with references to partial terms like head and woodwork components.
Picture Department ad lists various framed items including a brown and gold frame photograph reduced from $10 to $38 and a child portrait in a brown frame reduced from $6 to $8. Other items show reductions from higher prices to lower ones, with frames in black, brown, and sepia tones and several 10th street location references.
A cluttered OCR of a furniture department sale shows numerous items with prices, reductions, and descriptions. Items include oak and mahogany furniture pieces such as a hall rack, leather couch, bookcase, bed, tables, chairs, cabinets, and dining pieces. Many lines show reduced prices from high amounts to lower figures, with descriptions noting styles like Oriental, French, Queen Anne, and Colonial accents.
Infant garments including fleece lined pique pieces with hand embroidery and ruched neck sleeves reduced from 50c to 25c each. Also child dresses in India linen with guirapes trim and tucks lowered from 50c to 25c, and gingham dresses with Russian style belt and turnover collar reduced from 50c to 25c. Third Door Eleven street.
Vintage fashion page lists several women suits and dresses with sizes 34 to 45 including an Eton jacket with brown silk braid and a gored skirt, a tan taffeta shirtwaist suit, a waste lawn suit with trimmed ties, and a black taffeta jacket. Prices reduced from 200 to 100, 750, 1, and 87 respectively.
In the waist department 8 white china silk waists offered in assorted styles with embroidery tucked and lace trim in all sizes. Prices cut from 87 to 100 each. 19 white china silk waists of different styles feature Mexican drawn work buttonhole embroidery and lace trim, sizes varied. Reduced from 7 000 and 13 00 to 7 each. Third floor G street.
A long list of damaged and reduced priced items from the Housefurnishing Dept shows extensive markdowns on ware and hardware. Items include wooden Leena Bionds trays jars and baskets, straw work pieces, heaters, boilers, and polish products with prices slashed from high to low figures. The sale highlights shopworn and dented stock marked down to clear.
A historic note describes two new booklets for household efficiency. One for bedding and bed furnishings highlights hygiene campus products and decor from Brass and enamel beds to blankets and pillows. The other booklet lists kitchen utensils and wares with prices, plus ideas on china glass lamps and pure foods. Both can be picked up in store or mailed on request.
Mary land mayor Calvo to represent Nicaragua at wedding of Minister Corea. Debutante list grows as John A Garratt of Glen Echo marries Miss Nelly Asnes Crowley of Georgetown at Holy Trinity Church. Ceremony followed by nuptial mass. celebrations and diplomatic notes unfold amid Washington society.
Hag returns to town and reopens her apartment at The Marlborough as Mrs T F Seymour and Mrs N G Williams of Detroit attend the wedding of Misa Marion Wilson to Mr Charles Mason Martin next Wednesday. Various social visits noted include Mrs Joseph D Wright at The Melrose after December 1 and Mrs Charles Pinkett hosting at The Ontario May. Janet Richards resumes Current Topics Talks at Beatish River Hall with a focus on world events and the World’s Fair.
The Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Haltom Conference closed its annual convention at Foundry M RB Church with 200 delegates and visitors from Baltimore and outside Washington. Next year’s meeting will be in Mount Vernon Place MD Church in Baltimore in October 105. Highlights included treasurer reports showing total receipts of 31700 and Baltimore district contributing 37990, with talks by Mrs Virginia Daniels and Mrs Agnes Grace Jones.
A double funeral will be held at 3 this afternoon at St Johns Episcopal Church for Vice William Wackey Quidwell and his daughter May Caldwell. Major Caldwell, aged 83, once a paymaster and major in the Spanish war, is to be buried at Quir Hill Cemetery with the Military Order of the Loyal Legion in charge. May Caldwell died October 20 at Waverly and was living in Washington.
A conference on Potomac river pollution from pulp mills in Harpers Ferry West Virginia resulted in an agreement. Col John W Avkett, West Virginia game warden, and Thomas H Lavery represented the mills with May Silvester overseeing District interests. The original sixty day deadline to stop pollution was extended to ninety days.
Last night the Washington Saengerbund held its first dance and reception of the season at the society home in street Andrew Hadley acted as floor manager. The Ladies Club plans a reception and dance at the National Runes His on Monday evening in November. Will of John Buchanan Gillen filed. wife and furniture to Lebntine Louise Lakin, then son Leslie Gillen. estate residue to George Prince executor. Rabbi Simon to lecture tonight at the Temple on The Ethics of Hospitails. Rheumatic sufferers urged to seek Hoolls Sersa parila as a cure.
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