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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1906
Page
7
Woodward & Lothrop announces a Special Remnant Day with progressive merchandising. Evict all goods including wearables at very low remnant prices for quick selling, covering men women boys girls and children. Many departments offer remnants, odds and ends, broken sizes for personal and home use.
A sale offers new Black Taffeta Silk Petticoats with accordion flounce and circular ruffle at 3.95 each, regular 5.00. Remnants include Black and White Striped Petticoat at 8.50 from 1800, a Fink Taffeta Petticoat at 3.95 from 500, and two Nainsook Gowns with Valenciennes lace trimmed, reduced from 3500 to 259 each. Third Hour Eleventh St.
A manufacturer's sample line of women’s hose, about 40 dozen pairs in cotton and risle thread with black and fancy effects, offered at 2s for a pair. Values listed as 33 and 300, Malin flose Fat.
Knit Corset Covers offered at a special 50 cent price. 30 dozen women’s jersey ribbed corset covers with high necks and long or short sleeves, designed for wear under shirt waists. Main Mior-P at special price.
Bargain sale on enameled French gilt opera glasses offered at half price. Inventory includes 3 to 6 pair lots with prices ranging from $2.50 to $4.25, all noted as originally higher. Additional denomination notes mention a currency adjustment and a misprint on a main floor display line.
China Department offers imported decorated bread and butter plates reduced to 10 cents and mayonnaise sets cut from 37.50 to 17 each. Several teapots, meat dishes, comb trays, soup tureens, and other German, French, Japanese pieces marked down. vase sells for 8.00 from 100, chocolate set trimmed to 3.25. Fifth floor, Galley.
An archival ad lists numerous art items with price cuts in a dance frame display. Hand-colored portraits and landscapes, including Mrs Shordan by Gainsborough, are marked down. large gilt frames and shadow bars noted. Prices drop from eights to trifles and from hundreds to new lower sums.
Main floor sale offers men's items with marked reductions. Union suits white drawers garters suspenders and collars priced down from high figures to small amounts across sizes 34 through 48, with several lines trimmed to two for a nickel and other bulk discounts.
Local store advertises discounts in the men’s hat department with multiple items halved or reduced. Listings include various sizes and colors of stiff hats and soft hats for men, with reductions from two dollars or thirty dollars to as low as one dollar each.
A Wichita department store lists deep discounts on boys and young men's clothing. Sailor suits, blouses, and coats in sizes from children to young men are cut from high prices to bargain levels. Highlights include all-wool blue serge suits, double-breasted coats, and madras Russian blouses with substantial reductions. Third four-Tenth st.
Bargain shoe listing shows wide assortment of women's, misses, and children's styles with varied sizes and reductions. Prices drop from original amounts to sale figures, offerings include patent leather, dongola, and kidskin options with spring heels and Goodyear web soles across sizes listed. Third floor Tengh Street location noted.
The store advertises widespread discounts across sporting goods and outdoor gear. Items include riding leggings, bicycle and golf shoes, bowing shoes, hunting boots, cleaning implements, and brass gun cleaners, with marked reductions from original prices to new lower figures. </S>
A shop advertisement lists heavily reduced items at Fifth Score Eleventh St. From large palm clothes hampers to small child garments, sale prices drop from hundreds to a few dollars. Items include shopworn baskets, fancy scrap baskets, Willow Wood and Willow Dog or Rat baskets, a damaged straw muzzle, and infant hampers and bassinets with steep discounts noted.
A sale of waist department items featuring elegant hand made French waists in multiple sizes with lace medallions, Cluny yoke, and embroidery, all discounted from high prices to $12.50–$15. Also a selection of white waists, silk, and assorted tailored suits with velvet, braids, and plaid skirts, marked down from $32 to $25 and higher. Includes remnants and specific size options.
Catalog note lists reduced prices across cloaks and skirts. Items include black pony jacket size 38, two black silk jackets sizes 36 and 8, tan covert cloth shore jackets in sizes 4 36 30, three gray plaited skirts, a white linen skirt, two black Panama cloth skirts, a mode voile linen piece, all marked down from various higher prices to sharply lower sale figures.
A department sale lists numerous Misses Afl-linen Peter Thompson suits in white with embroidered emblems in sizes 14 to 20 and reduced prices from 135 to 875. Also girls suits and dresses in mixed fabrics, lawn, and Panama cloth, with reductions from 2100 to 10, 3500 to 12, and other discounts across items.
Catalog notes deeply reduced prices on infants and children coats and dresses. White pique and linen coats feature collar and cuffs with insertion, lace, and embroidery. Discounts range from marked down amounts and even to ten dollars on select lace trimmed pieces.
A list of discounted house furnishing items including wire door mats nickel plated towel bars comb and brush trays paper holders and jelly molds. Prices drop from fractions to cents and dollars with shopworn or dented items noted. Offer includes ready mixed paint and polishes with reduced rates.
Social and personal items detail a New York wedding of Mrs Iselin and Dr LeRoy Satterlee officiated by Gen Henry Satterlee. Washington residents arrive home from vacations for receptions, musicales, and society events.
A pair of sorrel horses procured for the President’s carriage arrived at Waite House stables. The 1.40 pound each animals are heavy for carriage use, and Roosevelt has yet to view them. Bays drawing the carriage for 16 years show wear and poor condition, raising questions about stable care. damp stables and dampness are blamed for illness among the thoroughbreds, despite recent modernization.
Col Cornelius G Bradshaw, a Grand Army circles figure formerly of Shelbyville Kentucky, died at Providence Hospital after an illness. He served in the Seventy-ninth Indiana Volunteers, rose to colonel, notable for bravery at Stone River, wounded twenty-two times, carried two bullets in his head for decades. He practiced law in the city, lectured publicly, and supported Sailors and Soldiers' Home. He leaves no near relatives. Funeral services by Lafayette Post No 20 will be held Saturday at 5 o'clock from Lee's undertaking, 42 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.
Rosh Hashanah was celebrated in local Jewish churches with services in Hebrew, sermons by Rabbi Abram Simon and Rev. Louis Stern, and a shofar blast. The Eighth Street Temple held a 16 o clock service with choir, while many businesses closed for the holiday and general rejoicing. Separately, Trex. Smith and James Smith, on trial for peonage, were acquitted by Judge Pollock of conspiring to deprive about sixty negroes of their rights.
Aga Hazleton, longtime Washington resident and former Treasury official under Grant, dies at home at 99. Born in Putney Vermont, he worked with Samuel J. Tilden, surveyed land in Michigan and Wisconsin, served in the Virginia legislature, and later ran a boot and shoe business with George K. Wilson. Funeral at his Ninth Street NW home. burial in Rock Creek Cemetery. His son, C. Hazleton of Salt Lake City, to attend.
Washington area school children will visit Luna Park tomorrow as the finalSaturday outing of the season. Special trains will bring children from Washington, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon areas. free grounds admission and amusements are offered. Over 500 District children have attended since the program began.
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