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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1907
Page
39
Woodward & Lothrop announces remnant day clearance with wearables and odds ends priced low across departments. The policy requires selling seasonal items in their seasons and stock is reduced to move outer and under garments for men women children, many usable into late fall. Store hours extend to late Friday and items span broken sizes short lengths and home use goods.
Friday bargain sale of children's coats in assorted colors including red tan and blue. features trench style belts double breast pockets and turn over collars with trim. priced at $3.00 to $4.00 each in a popular box side display.
Bargains listed for Friday sale items including gowns and lace trims. The fragmentary ad mentions New Flach Tat Shop and Park locations with various prices and styles, though many words are garbled. It reads as a local retailer promotional notice with uncertain item details.
Bargain items across boys clothing feature low prices and assorted sizes from 24 to 10 and up to 42.5. The ad highlights knickers, shirts, and tees with varied brands and discounts, noting a wide selection and sales terms.
Frday Bargain to Women's Patent Colt Shoes promotes special pricing on women's patent leather heels with new-styles and attractive heels for street or house wear. Various sizes listed with sale prices around 225 to 2794 per pair, marked down from 350 to 400 and higher.
Men’s clothing dept offers 12 pairs of summer weight trousers and 5 odd vests in cheviot wool blend and serge sizes 39 and 40. Prices cut from higher figures to low, reduced to sale rack on main floor, Fifth Street.
Readable fragments show a men s shop offering four in hand ties in navy blue and gray, neglige shirts with plain fronts and cuffs, and bath robes. Prices slashed from 10 to 5. a mix of soiled items and limited sizes noted, with counts and color notes blurred.
OCR text describes a department sale of boys hats caps blouses and jackets with reductions in prices and sizes. Mentions woolen golf caps Madras fabrics linen and wool items, various price reductions, and specific items like hat styles and coats. Includes scattered stray words and garbled phrases indicating a department-wide discount event at a store location referencing Moor-Tenth at withheld.
Bargains on umbrellas including 50 women’s colored taffeta models in several colors and sizes. Children’s umbrellas with paragon frame steel red and tassel case are offered. Umbrellas feature fancy handles and sturdy roll cases. Sale highlights a floor entrance price and discounted values.
An aging newspaper fragment details a large upholstery sale offering odd lace curtains, panels, and tapestries at reduced prices. It mentions Nottingham Renaissance and various curtain types with price cuts, remnants suitable for upholstering, and discounted yardage on rich fabrics and decorative borders. The listing also notes window screens half price and a box couch described as timber with steel fittings.
The listing outlines reductions on various imported and decorated dinnerware pieces. Teapot sets Celery trays tureens sauce ipereens meat dishes and cups and saucers from multiple origins including French Japanese Austrian English and English porcelain. Items show prices cut from high original amounts to substantially lower sale prices.
Furniture department sale features Weathered Oak armchairs and rockers with leatherette seats and strong steel springs. Items include quartered oak Morris chairs, mahogany betton pieces, leather seat rockers, and folding go carts with discounts up to 60 percent. Involves wedding announcements and society notices amid the sale.
A local department store advertises deep discounts on women’s wardrobes including all wool Eton suits, Black Chiffon Panama outfits, and a plaid white suit. Items are reduced from hundreds to single or double digits, with several gowns and dresses noted as on sale for limited time.
Numerous garments reduced in price including womens coats skirts and jackets in gray tan black tan and white with trims of silk embroidery and braid reductions from 2 to 15 each and from 40 to 20 for several pieces. Also wedding announcements and society news describe upcoming nuptials with several Washington connections and travels of notable families around October and autumn events.
In Westchester County the fourteenth annual horse show aligned with the county fair drew society crowds. Exhibits ranged from harness horses to ponies with blue ribbons won by Harriman and others, while fashion details featured Parisian styles, parasol accents, and ornate umbrella handles. Rumors swirled about Mra Batons and Mr Roche, plus wedding news for Roy Tamblyn and Marguerita Cannon, with familiar figures from New York finance and society in attendance.
Various women’s wear in pink and blue lawn with white beading, embroidered collars and cuffs, and full striped jumpers at deep discounts. Items include waist outfits, lawn princes dresses in sizes 34 to 44, and white dresses reduced from high prices to about 4.50 each. Sizes and stock limited.
Reduced prices on Misses and Girls lawn dresses with lace embroidery and Swiss trim. Items include white lawn dresses with sizes 6 to 12 and a Peter Thompson suite reduced from 17.50 to 9.00, plus a fourth item with embroidery trim and Swiss embroidery in sixes.
Lightly damaged and reduced priced items include medicine cabinets, silver plated knives and forks, aluminum chafing dish, enamel preserving kettle, bread box, copper bottom wash boiler, nickel towel paper holders, toothbrush holders, cigar holders, Velvean polish, glassware, and other small wares. Discounted from various higher prices, many items show minor dents or finish flaws.
Vague account describes Cookery harvest events with cups named Carrot, Cabbage, Cantaloupe, Ear Cup and Celery Cup. Larry Bartlett presents first prize Eagle trophy to Bartlett Co. Farms north of Lenox feature grand estate overlooking Laurel Lake. Plans mention a pancake and Tuncheane dinner September 21 and weekly gatherings through October.
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