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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1905
Page
29
Woodward and Lothrop offers a special remnant day with low prices on outer and under garments for all ages and a wide array of odds and ends. Linen Mesh Underwear reforms aimed at stronger wear. Remnants include shirts, drawers, socks, shirts, ties, bath robes, curtains, lace, and upholstery fabrics offered at deep discounts for quick selling.
Local rug department offers heavy reductions on Kashmir rugs, Scotch body Brussels rugs, blue fisher and Wilton hall rugs with slight soiling noted. Prices drop from high hundreds to under $15. Evening dresses and mohair suits on Fourth floor discounted as well, including Panama and Cheviot tailored suits. Numerous sizes and colors listed with reduced amounts from $68 to $3, etc.
A sale priced set of women’s outing flannel dressing sacques in plain pink and blue with round collars and buttonhole edge on sleeves and sacque edge. Value, $1.00. Third floor, Eleventh Street.
Misses school shoes advertised with gunmetal calfskin lace styles and mat kidskin tops, offered at 32.50 per pair with various sizes and lasts. Womens button styles, web sole, and military heels shown at reduced prices, with other Calfskin lace and nail heel options on sale.
Friday bargain offers a line of Trish Damask Pattern Cloths and Napkins matching a dropped design from a top Indian manufacturer. Listings show cloths and napkins with prices ranging from 2x2 yards at $3.20 to 24 inch napkins with various values, plus several misread figures and a location noted as second floor Eleventh Street.
Bargain sale notice for complexion sponges in irregular shapes with limited stock and low pricing. Includes mention of rubber complexion sponges and a floor display at 6 feet, highlighting value and selection.
The third floor sale on Tenth Street lists boys double breasted and wash suits in sizes 8 to 16 with heavy discounts from $7.00 to $3.75 and $5.40. Russian blouse suits, sailor outfits, bloomers, and bloomers pants reduced to $1.25 or less. hats in sailor and straight styles trimmed from $1.00 to 10 cents.
Fifth floor offers reduced prices on a 400 piece French china dinner set with one plate missing, a toilet set, salad bowls, soup tureen, sauce tureen, covered dishes, porcelain sauce boats, tea pot sugar and cream set, comb and brush tray and celery tray with cuts from the original prices to low sale figures.
Interior sale lists numerous items with steep price cuts. Box couches writing desks mahogany chairs arm chairs tables Davenport settees and rockers are offered with reductions from high original prices to much lower sale figures. Some pieces highlight fine detailing and exotic finishes with reduced prices noted. Sixth floor items include heavy oak and marble toned pieces.
Listing shows reductions on white enamel beds in various sizes and styles, including gilt trimmed and mission style designs, with prices slashed from hundreds to dollars. Also advertised are woven wire springs and an extra heavy wooden cot, all described as shop worn or slightly damaged with significant price cuts.
Wrapper Department offers 5 white trimmed lawn wrappers in sizes 86 and 38 with black stripes, reduced from 2.25 to 1.50 each. 10 percale wrappers in assorted patterns all sizes reduced from 1.90 to 1.50 each. One taffeta silk bathing suit size 36 reduced from 25.00 to 7.50. Third floor G at.
A sale of Girls and Misses jackets and garments with reductions on various items. Styles include lightweight tourist jackets in sizes 6 to 12, silk coats, Peter Thompson white suits, white lawn dresses, airlinen Peter Thompson suits, and cambric Russian dresses. Prices cut from 1.60 to 5.00, 12.50 to 7.50, 12.50 to 3.95, 10.00 to 5.0, 8.75 to 1.50, and more, with multiple sizes listed.
Infants items include handmade long lips shirts trimmed with lace reduced from 250 to 2.00 each. Children's white lawn kimonas trimmed with beading reduced from 50c to 25c each. Child's white pique hat with ribbon bow reduced from 2.50 to 2. Calid's white pique coat trimmed with insertion reduced from 3.20 to 0.50. Infant's bedford cord long cloak reduced to 3.75. Located on third floor Eleventh Street.
A shop ad lists numerous items with frames and color or sepia pictures. Reductions include a Winter Woodland colored picture from 5.00 to 2.50 a Landscape scene from 500 to 2.50 a Sheep sepia photo from 6.00 to 2.60 a Bull feature hand colored from 10.00 to 4.50 an Ast Head sepia from 7.00 to 3.50 a Old Violin Player sepia from 7.00 to 2.50 Fancy Figures and Heads colored pictures from 200 to 0.50 each twenty five more colored pictures in gilt frames and a heavy mantel framed upright mirror from 30.00 to 15.00. Fourth Year Tenth St.
A Fifth floor Eleventh Street sale lists discounts on washing machines ladders cake closets oak commodes mirrors and more. Items include a galvanized iron washing machine reduced to six dollars and a nickel tea pot cut to one dollar plus bargains on bread makers knives and varnishes.
Announcements of engagements and weddings fill a Washington society note. Susan W Quay’s engagement to Watson Hubbard Butler from Sandusky Ohio is reported, with autumn nuptials planned in Beaver Pennsylvania. Other notices include Miss Flora Cameron’s Richmond debut and the forthcoming weddings of Helen A Bell to Julian A Ripley and Bessie Winona Orchard to Harry Clyde Douglas, all reflecting prominent families and city happenings.
An exemplified copy of the will of Joseph J. Snellenberg, late of Philadelphia, was filed yesterday. He leaves everything to his widow, Clara Snellenberg, after paying each surviving child $10,000. His widow and brother Nathan Sneijienberg are named as joint executors. There was no schedule of property attached in the District.
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