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Newspaper
Atchison Weekly Globe
Location
Atchison, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1929
Page
8
The ad promotes wide discounts on silk crepe fabrics and related notions, featuring low prices on plain and printed crepes, georgettes, chiffons, satins, and crepe de chine. It highlights sale items across women and children wear, lingerie fabrics, sewing notions, and novelty jewelry with price points from fractions of a dollar to several dollars, plus new summer fabrics and ensembles in silk and wool blends.
An extensive catalog notes handmade Porto Rican and Philippine gowns, silk outfits, rayon and cotton pajamas, slips, chemises, bando sets, and undergarments. Prices range from 67c to 1.85 with items such as Van Raalte pire silk vests and Sunbeam rayon underwear highlighted for their fabrics and styles.
White and colored bath towels offered in sizes 20x40 with embroidery. Soft Spun heavy towels priced 23c each or 2.65 per dozen. Bedspreads in white crochet satin weave and colored rayon fabrics also on sale with radical reductions.
Entire stocks offered in grades from 40¢ to 1.50 per yard with heavy crash effects as low as 2¢ per yard. Drapery satines, damask draperies, lace nets, Irish points, marquisettes and voiles advertised with substantial reductions. Also notes samples soiled from display and patterns with limited quantities.
A list of cotton dresses in various sleeve lengths priced 83c to 2.65, sizes 1 to 14. Spring coats deeply reduced next season, plus last season winter coats at very low prices. Hats, Sunbeam robes, rayon vests, Union suits, handmade pajamas, and boys tub suits featured at low to mid prices.
A dated notice promotes undergarments for women and men at discounts up to 2 percent below standard prices. Selections include Nainsook underwear for girls, Sealpax Union Suits, and brassieres with standard fittings.
Seamless heavy thread sheeting sold as durable and starch free. Torn and hemmed stock offered at a low price, with pricing stated as 31 and 15 cents per yard, one to a customer.
A catalog of items including shawls dresses bonnets hoods and garments plus rubber pants sun-bath suits toys and record books. Scarfs priced at 1.45 to 1.75 with a few higher prices.
House and neighborhood dresses offered at 85c to 2.6 yards, with new prints and large sizes. Uniforms priced around 1.65, waitress and sea aprons featured, bathing suits for children and misses. Misses pure worsted suits available as low as 2.35 with ladies’ pure worsted options at reduced prices.
The store aims to cater to patrons seeking proper style and good quality. It now offers Removal Sale Prices on merchandise. Some items may have heavy discounts due to slow selling or overstock. By the end of the removal sale, the merchandise investment is reduced to the minimum.
A garbled listing describes dress linen items in black and white pepper and salt, tan suiting, printed dress linens, and various price mentions such as 62 cents.
A commercial notice lists sheer and cambric weights of handkerchief linens and towels including bleached and unbleached toweling and plain weave port linen fabrics. Prices indicate cents per yard or yardage terms, with references to various weave types and weights.
A store advertises luncheon sets or crash and damask weave fabrics with cloths up to 80 inches long and 83 inches square. It lists 45 inch pure linen cloths from 65 cents and highlights decorative linens including Madeira lace trimmed Chinese Porto Rican Italian Belgian varieties.
Stock list notes Wearwell Sheets and Vases 81x99 and 42x36 priced per pair and by size with heavy taped edges for strength. Bridal sheets hemstitched add 30 cents, cases hemstitched cost more. Also scalloped edges in 16 and 42x38. Feather bed pillows from 83 cents. Blankets in cotton wool and all wool, plus comforters, marked down for next winter.
The ad touts extensive stock with numerous items and substantial savings. Patrons are urged to take time to browse the wide array, as there are many noteworthy deals not explicitly listed in the advertisement.
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