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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1909
Page
21
Remnants of furniture bedding and clothing offered at very low prices for clearance this Friday. The store promotes excess stock marked for sale including outerwear undergarments and items for men women and children with odds and ends and broken sizes. Most pieces suitable for wear into late fall.
Stock clearout offers 23 Hart Schaffner Marx all wool summer suits in two and three piece styles. Blues and striped tans grays greens, sizes 39 to 44, priced at 10.75 each, with values up to 25.00. Main floor Tenth st.
Large sale offers Boys' Medium-weight Suits with knickerbocker trousers in sizes T to 17 for 5.00 each, down from 38.50 to 11.00. Also Little Boys' Russian Blouse Wash Suits in sizes 2 to 4 at 1.00 each, with regular values from 1.05 to 2.50. Located on Third Acr-Tenth Street.
A newspaper sale notice lists discounted items across boys wear and mens apparel. Boys wash blouses, negligees, pajama sets, hats, and sailor caps marked down from various prices to about 1.00 to 2.00 each. Mens silk ties, negligees, lisle suits, and two piece bathing and sock outfits also reduced, with sizes and figures noted.
Women's suit department offers several coat suits in French linen and satin stripes with white collars, pearl buttons, and dotted net yokes in sizes 34 to 38, reduced from 2.10 to 9.75, 12.50 to 1.00, and 35.00 to 18.0, plus white striped mahali coats and serge options. Glove sets include clasp glace kid gloves in multiple sizes, reduced from 1.00 to 0.80.
Friday bargains spotlight imported portieres satin finish in rich reds and dark blues at five dollars per pair. Small selection of silk velours and imperial velours offered in multiple colors and lengths suitable for upholstering. Velours priced from two dollars and fifty cents a yard, with higher value options at four dollars. Fourth floor G storewide sale promotion.
A large sale offers net waists at one third to half off, white and cream shades with Irish lace trim and round collars. Also White India Silk waists with Valenciennes lace, low collars, and long sleeves, all sizes, priced at 3.95 each, down from 6.00 to 8.50. Additional remnants include Rose Pongée and other silk waists, hand embroidered shirts, and Madras shirt waists, with substantial reductions noted on each item. Third floor G at.
Classified sale listing shows a stock of 14 dozen pillow cases 45 by 36 inches in hemstitched muslin priced at 1.50 per dozen, with value 2.00, plus substantial reductions in second floor Women’s Costume Dept and Third Floor Corset and Infants Departments. Items include Linene Dresses in white pink and lavender, Lingerie Dresses, Princess Dresses, infant dresses, coats, corsets, and decorated chinaware in the China Department with markdowns from several dollars to low figures. Includes multiple reductions on dresses, gowns, and accessories in various departments.
Miss Perie Anderson, daughter of Justice Thomas H. Anderson, married Frederick Puny Lilley, son of the late Connecticut governor, at the Anderson home in Washington. Bishop Moore and Rev Dr Shannon officiated. Reception followed with relatives from several states and a planned wedding tour to China and Japan. Lilley resigns from navy and will run his father's Waterbury business.
The Kann collection, valued at about 2.5 million dollars, was bought by J. Duveen after negotiations with Morgan Huntington and others. The collection will tour America before being exhibited at Duveen’s rooms on Thirty-first Street and Fifth Avenue. The horse painting The Horsemen, 4 by 6 feet, signed and featuring Bevon Miguros among cattle, was shown at the Royal Academy.
A scrambled excerpt lists travels to Atlantic City and New York, mentions Dr. Randolph Carmichael returning to the city, and cites academic figures Adelaide Brith and Miss Smith in mathematics chairs abroad. It also references political activism, and a supposed plan linked to Christalet huskt amid mention of Holloway and a league.
A jumbled historical passage discusses the ameba as a blood cell analog and links digestive function to thought, noting the body’s organs and functions with unclear attribution and missing coherence. The text hints at relationships between digestion and cognition but remains muddled and unclear in meaning.
The article argues China can build and operate major rail lines without foreign funds, citing the Ningpo railway as a Chinese-led project. It notes British loans funded the earlier line, while Chinese engineers claim parity with American roads in design and safety. Chinese efforts, including the Kalgan Pass line, aim to modernize transport, boost defense, and unite distant provinces under a stronger state.
Seattle Sept 2 Japanese commercial commissioners touring the United States organized to study American commerce. The visit is linked to possible absorption of the Shibaura engineering works into General Electric. GE has sold in Japan for fifteen years and holds 51 percent of Tokyo Banki stock, with others owning the Shibaura works stake.
In Chicago the National Association of Retail Milliners unveiled the aeroplane as the new winter hat style at Fine Arts Building, banning the peach-basket and Louis XVI three-cornered bonnets. The airborne design resembles an airship with two long feathers, a curved rim, and measures 2 by 8 inches, weighing less than a pound.
Special to The Washington Port from Warner New York September 2 Matt Harriman shows steady improvement. It will be only a short time before he resumes an active role in his extensive business enterprises. He takes a brief daily walk at Arden House.
In Teheran a formal protocol fixes the exiled Shah of Persia's annual pension at two hundred thousand dollars. A meeting at the Russian legation with government and British and Russian representatives arranged the payment and specified that he depart the country three days after signing the protocol.
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