Suits and Wraps Opening Souvenirs Sale
Ten per cent discount on all Suits priced 28 to 75, Coats 20 to 60, Skirts 12 to 20, Waists 10 to 33. Read as a local sale ad promising reduced prices across clothing items.
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Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1904
Page
7
Umbrellas Opening Souvenir Offer at Franklin Trade
Advertises umbrellas with initials engraved free of charge and prices from 7.50 to 20. Includes references to hats and children's umbrellas and discounts on tuncoats. Notice emphasizes various umbrella types and engraving offer for a souvenir purchase.
Millinery Dept Opens With Paris Hats and Discounts
The Millinery Department offers a ten percent discount on all trimmed hats priced from $15 to $35, featuring the latest Paris hats. Stock includes 3150 hats, children’s styles, untrimmed hats, ostrich plumes, and pompons in assorted colors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Opening Souvenire Underwear Depi Sale Ad
Ten percent discount on Bri dal Trousseaux and all hand made French lingerie. Silk skirts priced from seven fifty to fifteen dollars. Sale appears to feature Bri dal Trousseaux and Souvenire branded items with period styling.
Opening Souvenirs and 10 Percent Discount on Elite Stationery
The notice promotes stationery items including Whiting Crane Hurd Marcus Ward and Eaton Hurbut brands with a ten percent discount. It mentions stationers boxes leatherette cabinets and related stock with references to prices and suppliers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whiting, Crane, Hurd
Marcus Ward
Eaton Hurbut
Jewelry Dept Opening Sale Highlights Real Gold and Art Nouveau
Jewelry department opens with souvenirs across categories including real gold from $2.50 to $25 and Art Nouveau pieces from $2 to $20. Sterling silver toilet articles priced $3.50 to $20, $1 jewelry and belt specials, and assorted accessories listed at various low prices.
Leather Goods On Imported Bags And Pocketbooks Sale
Leather goods sale lists imported bags and pocketbooks priced from 3 to 25 dollars. Handbags in all styles at 1.98, BL 25c, pocketbooks and others at 50c to 23c. Includes various styles and sizes across the assortment.
Handkerchiefs Sale Across Linen and Lace Styles
Denotes ten percent off all French Linen and Real Lace Handkerchiefs priced from two to twenty dollars. Includes one dollar handkerchiefs and varying styles at sixty cents. Also offers two and twelve to two cent quantities in all styles.
Kid Gloves Prices at Palais Royal and More
Opening souvenirs and gloves offered at Palais Royal with fittings at customer risk. Prices listed include 1.50 for Palais Royal gloves and 1.00 to 1.35 for men’s kid gloves from Fownes or similar brands. Additional items mention 21.50 and 131.29 figures with described goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palais Royal
Fownes
Bley
Opening of Children’s Dept Souvenirs Sale
A $50,000 collection of new dresses coats hats bonnets and undergarments offered with a ten percent discount on all garments priced from 7.50 to 25 dollars. The sale features 98 garments and various styles, with multiple price points including eight and ten cents for selected items.
Hanover Floral Patterns Silverware Offerings
Wm A Rogers announces 1904 05 Hanover Floral Patterns quadruple plated ware. Includes 1 4 teaspoons six for 2 50 tablespoons six for 50 table forks six for 2 00 oyster forks six for ac cream ladies each ac gravy ladies each 2 60 soup ladies each 3 silver plated pieces 1 60 silver plated pieces 1 00 silver plated pieces
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. A. Rogers
Hanover
Underwear Dept Sale Announces Opening Souvenirs
Underwear department offers ten percent off marked prices on silk vests pants tights and union suits. Highlights include $1 undergarments, all styles 12c vests and pants 76c union suits 49c union suits for 2c vests and pants 49c corset covers and tights.
Corset Department Opening Souvenirs and Prices
Corset Department offers ten percent allowance on Fasso and La Premiere corsets. Palais Royal specialties priced at 1.50, other styles at 1.08 to 1.00. Girdles in silk and satin marketed at 1.00. D2 Brench Corsets priced at 1.73.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palais Royal
Hosiery Dept Opens With Silk Stockings Sale
The Hosiery Department announces opening specials on silk stockings priced from 1 to 5 dollars per pair. Includes black hose and various styles including Paris styles and children’s hosiery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Neckwear and Veilings Opening Souvenirs
Advertisement lists neckpieces priced from $2 to $20 and veiling from $1 upward. Highlights include $1.50 novelty neckpieces, 31 lace collars at 50 cents, and multiple neckwear and veilings priced at 50 cents or less.
Toilet Articles Opening Souvenix Discount Sale
Opening Souvenix offers ten percent off on expensive imported toilet sets brushes perfumes and related articles. Roger and Gallet goods are excluded. Includes all kinds of toilet articles in stock with varied prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Roger and Gallet
Book Dept Opening Souvenirs at Half Price Sample Lineup
Book department offers souvenirs and sample lines from Nelson of London at half price. Includes Webster Dictionary school editions, $1.50 copyright books, Handy Volumes, Shakespeare editions, Roe's, Alger Books for boys, and assorted dictionaries and Bible prayer books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Nelson
London
Ibe
E. P. Roe’s
Alger Booka
Doll Department Opens with Imported Dolls on Sale
Washington souvenir dots and doll department advertise imported dolls priced from 3.98 to 10.98 dollars. Items include 2 inch dolls at 1.25 dollars and 2 dollar styles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Opening at Palais Royal 1904 1905 Store Growing Busy
The Palais Royal launches its Autumn Winter Opening for 1904 1905 with a focus on new Paris London Berlin and New York styles. It showcases tailor made garments dress materials corsets undergarments and a vast home needs department including Japanese chinaware lace curtains and upholstery goods. An art needlework section offers pyrography with expert instruction. The store emphasizes economy amid high living costs and notes all five floors are packed with goods and increased stock to meet demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palais Royal
Paris
London
Berlin
New York
Souvenirs of the Opening Bring Low Opening Prices
The article notes the Opening season features borrowed garments and inflated impressions, but Palais Royal style marks all items at the lowest cash price. It highlights a temporary discount with costumes like new 15.00 suits reduced to 13.50 and promises further Souvenirs details below.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palais Royal
Palais Royal Dresses: Quietly Building Vast Dress Goods
In a discreet upgrade the Palais Royal on the second floor has expanded silk dress goods linings and trimmings far beyond the downstairs area. The strategy keeps the departments away from main crowds while boosting their size and importance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palais Royal
Opening Souvenirs With Ten Percent Discount On New Silks
A Southern newspaper notes an opening season sale offering ten percent off all new black silks and wool dress goods. Fashion trends predict a feminine, delicate shift with Directoire and Louis styles gaining popularity, plus outer garments of fur velvet or cloth and broadtail velvet emerging as prime choices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Directoire
Louis
Colored Fabrics and Suitings Listings
Opening Souvenirs and colored fabrics including broadcloths at 1.60, tailor suitings in all styles, shower proof jobs, wool listings, 50c wool albatross.
Colored Silks Discount and Silk Arrivals
Ten percent discount on Evening Silks offered with electric light dark room for selections. The Fancy Taffeta and Plain Taffeta, Peau de Cygne and Crepe de Chine silks priced at one dollar. Pompadour Silks, Broadtall Velvets and Chiffon Velvets listed with prices up to $1.50.
Dress Linings Opening Souvenirs For Boxbay Silk
Fashion item note lists dress linings and fabrics for the season. Mentions Never-tear Silk Boxbay and Moreen linings, with mercerized sateen and percaline linings. Text reads as a catalog snippet of fabrics and lining options.
Ribbons and Opening Souvenirs Advertised
A brief advertisement lists novelty ribbons for girdles and millinery. It promotes ribbons six inches wide at 25 cents, four inches wide at 18 cents, and half inch wide options, inviting readers to view the selection.
Dress Trimmings and Opening Souvenirs ad
Dress trimmings offered at two to ten dollars per yard and buttons from one fifty to ten dollars per dozen. Leather trimmings priced at two dollars fifty per yard. Spangled berths and spgnate trims listed with a yard or dozen pricing. Various entries repeat unclear items and prices.
Opening Souvenirs Laces and Nets Sale Preview
Retailer advertises opening sale items including Laces and Nets priced from 1 to 10 dollars per yard and Lace Robes ranging 20 to 37.50 dollars. Liberty Silk 44 inch width featured among varied lace offerings.
Dress Findings Opening Souvenira and Accessories
Parade of sewing notions and dress supplies featuring washable dress shields in sizes 1 to 4, assorted Kendall items, featherbone girdle forms, rich trims, tapes, fasteners, hooks and eyes, silver thimbles, blanket binding, snap fasteners, safety caps and stock collars. Prices range from a few cents to under a quarter each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Palais Royal Opening Souvenirs Offer Ad Makes A Splash
A Palais Royal advertisement hypes a grand opening sale with hundreds of thousands of dollars in new season goods to be offered tomorrow. The piece promises complimentary prices as Opening Souvenirs and is vouched for by a large audience of patrons and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palais Royal
Rubber Goods Opening Souvenirs War Rented Prices
Rubber goods on offer include Dr Wilhoff's world famous Ladies' Syringe priced at 1.69 instead of 2.50. Also featured are Merve Whirling Syringes Family Syringes 3.50, 1 Hot Water Bottles 9c, Face Bags 60c, Excelsior Atomizers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilhoff
Scanventre Art Chinaware Opens Directly Imported From Japan
Opening directly imported from Japan Scanventre offers 25 pieces of art chinaware in various styles including brush and comb trays dress ing table sets and novelty pieces at complimentary prices. Prices listed include $1 £5 .89 and 2.25 per piece across all styles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Furniture opening souvenirs and sale items
A catalog-like listing promotes Brass-trimmed White Enamel beds with mattress and feather pillow for $6.98, dressing tables and chairs, $5 rockers in all styles, and various seating options including India seats, reflecting an advertising page of a hardware or furniture dealer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Art Needlework and Opening Souvenirs Sale Items
Finished pieces and pillows priced from 15 to 30 cents. pyrographic plaques and boxes at 25 cents. laundry bags, centerpieces, bureau scarfs and pillow lips stamped and ready. Includes 19c and 60c items, offering a compact display of decorative needlework for visitors.
Bedwear Dept. Opening Souvenirs
California Blankets priced from 10 dollars and up and all Down Comforts from 9 dollars and up as part of the Bedwear Department opening souvenirs in the store.
Jardinieres and Umbrella Stands Sale Ad
Jardinieres and umbrella jars offered with several sizes and pedestal pairs. Prices range from one to four dollars, with art effect designs and several stands including japanned options. Quantity listed as two hundred in art effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jardinieres
Jardiniere
Opening Souveni Upholstery Goods Ad Listing Curtain Prices
Upholstery shop announces lace curtains priced from six to twenty dollars per pair and art portieres from seven fifty to twenty five dollars per pair. Also madras and Irish point curtains, ruffled bobbinet, tapestry portieres, and chenille table covers in various low prices. Poles with attachments listed, rope portieres offered as double.
Picture Dept Opening Souvenirs Sale Atlas Frames
Picture Department advertises a wide range of framed art items with prices from 49 cents to 38.98. Highlights include pastels, paintings and etchings in oak frames, dining room pictures, water color effects, and oval framed pictures among others.
Table Linen and Pure Linen Sheets and Pillow Cases
Table Linen offerings include 72 inch and 70 inch sets and 60 inch linen, a dozen napkins priced at 4.98, 2 1/2 cent Huck Towels at 40 inch, 250 towels with well stitched hems, and crash towelling sold by the yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Opening Souvenirs for Cutlery and Utensils
A fragmented prices list shows a variety of cutlery items including razors, dinner and carving sets, Teseta knives, teaspoons plated, tablespoons plated, bread knives steel, carving knife and fork, knife sharpeners, paring knives steel, and steak knives six inches. The text reflects a late 19th or early 20th century catalog style with unit prices in cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ps Duc
Plums and Pears Plums in Market Prices at B Street
One thousand dozen fruit awaiting distribution, packed in wooden boxes. Market prices show plums at 40c peck, pears at 1 per crate, damsons at 400 per peck, peaches at 1.25 per crate, grapes at 1 per box. Palais Royal and commission merchants prepare for opening day sales with fruit jars and utensils in view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission
B Street
Palais Royal
Opening Souvenirs in Rug Department 1904 05 Patterns
The Rug Department unveils new 1904 05 patterns with art designs and colorings. Furnishings on the fourth floor include Smyrna Rugs in several sizes and prices, from 39 cents to 3.2 dollars, plus tapestry Brussels rugs and be matting options.
Chinaware and Brica brac Sale Opens at Local Shop
Opening souvenirs offer toilet sets priced from 5 to 15 dollars and bric-a-brac ranging from 1 to 20 dollars. The sale highlights Chinaware items and assorted houseware as the store stages its opening event.
Cut Glass Opening Souvenirs Price Tags
Advertising item lists various cut glass pieces with reduced prices. Includes salt and pepper shakers, knife rests, water glasses, celery trays, sugar shakers, syrup jugs, water pitchers and bottles, oil or vinegar cruets, ice tubs, spoon trays, and related sets priced from 2c to 9.50 dollars, highlighting lower-than-usual marks.
Clocks and Lamps Opening Souvenirs Sale
Announcement offers ten percent off all clocks priced seven to fifteen dollars and lamps from six to eighteen dollars. Includes five dollar marbleized iron clocks, Ansonia alarm clocks at one ninety-five, and various parlor sewing and incandescent lamps with low prices and mantles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iee
Ansonia
Opening decorations offered for sale at nominal prices
The Ostrich Plume Ferns and other plants used as Opening decorations will be sold at nominal prices. Items include the Ostrich Plume Ferns and similar plants formerly employed as opening decor.
Also Mentioned on This Page
du All Lyle
Ed Sout
Ull
Tuncoats
Chidren
S. Bee
Childen’s
Millinery Dept
Underwear Depi
Children’s Dept
A. Lisner
Underwear Dept
Doll Dept
Dress Goods Depts
Liberty
Hick
Art Chinaware
Scanventre
Bedwear Dept
Jardinieres, &c
Mason’s
Nism
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