Michael's Summer Dresses Offer High Value
Tuesday at Michael's presents dresses in voiles and light fabrics with price points from 6.48 to 42.50. shoppers can choose among sets including 13.50 15.00 17.50 and other selections like 12.98 and 27.50.
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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1916
Page
6
Michael's Sale Offers 12 Voile and Organdie Dresses
Fifteen silk dresses join the sale with crepe de chine and taffeta options. The shop emphasizes attractive dresses, favorable prices, and a wide window for wear through late summer into October, urging customers to attend and choose from stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worth
Bargain Fashion and Household Goods Sale Across Departments
A newspaper notice advertises deep discounts on baby caps and bonnets, boys hats, silk vests and camisoles by Kaysers, silk bloomers, percale and zephyr house dresses, madras and zephyr dresses, muslin kimonas, ladies pajamas, corsets, table felt, bath rugs, pillow cases, talcum powder, and hair brushes with prices ranging from 15c to 5.00. Sale emphasizes half price items and low promotional prices across departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percale
Zephyr
Madras
Ten Days Sale Offers Deep Discounts on Apparel and Household Items
Various departments list cuts across categories including trunks, bags, suit cases, and umbrellas with one fourth to half price discounts. Apparel such as dresses, dand outfits, and middy blouses go on sale alongside household goods like glassware and towels. Partial pricing shown for brassieres, hydrogen peroxide, and other daily items.
Michaels Ten Day Sale of Wash Goods No Father Reductions
Michael offers a ten day sale on wash goods with several tables of fabrics discounted to 19c to 29c yard. Deal includes voiles prints, crepes, silks, organdies and percales with many pieces originally selling higher now at 19c to 29c. School dresses can be made from Devonshire and Madras fabrics at 12 1/2 to 20c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael
Madras
Ten Days Linen Sale Announcement
A promotional notice for a ten day sale on table linens napkins towels linen sheets and pillow cases offers 10 percent reductions and claims savings over 40 percent at the new prices. Shoppers are urged to buy now for fall needs.
Ten Day Sale of Bed Spreads
A ten day sale offers white bed spreads in marseilles or cimity weaves at $1.50 and up. Prices have not advanced and shoppers are promised a discount of 10 percent on counterpanes during the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marseilles
Cimity
Ten Day Sale on Long Cloth at 98 Cents Per Piece
Local store advertises a long cloth sale offering one full piece per customer. Regularly $1.50, previously $1.25 in antebellum days, now priced at 98 cents. Limited stock noted as a single case available.
Sale of White Goods at 12c Urges Quick Purchases
We offer a table of white goods including madras muslins batistes stripes and fancies all white and good. No yard under 20c most goods 25s take your pick at 12c. Limited time only less than ten days remain.
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Madras
Ten Day Sale of Trimmed Hats at One Dollar
A local sale advertises a ten day event featuring trimmed hats priced at one dollar. The assortment includes hats previously selling for 3.98, 4.50, 5.00, and 7.50, offering many choices for buyers at a single dollar.
Death of a Popular Young Jefferson Lady
Mrs. Zula Waggoner Alexander, 24, wife of J C Alexander a prominent Jefferson citizen, died recently. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Waggoner of Colbert and had been married about four years. Friends mourn her untimely demise as Jefferson grieves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson County
Zula Waggoner Alexander
J. C. Alexander
Jefferson
Unusual Hat Sale at Michael's Store
An advertisement touts a clearance campaign offering any hat in Michael's shop for 2.98 after a suggested one dollar lot. Shoppers may try on hats priced from 10 to 25 dollars, with the claim one item may be worth far more than the purchase price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael
Needlework Linen Sale Delivers Low Prices Tomorrow
A newspaper ad touts Linen Crash items with low prices. Scarfs centerpieces pillows and matched sets offered at 29 cents from 60 to 50 cent ranges as buyers are urged to visit the table tomorrow for picks before stock runs out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porter
Scarfs and Centerpieces Sale Prices Listed
A set of textile notices promotes scarfs and centerpieces with 132 lace trimmed options. Prices include 75 cents year round, 58 cents in a white goods sale, and 48 cents to 79 cents in a Ten Day Sale for various crochet doilies sizes 6 to 24 inches.
New York Cotton Opens Firm on Drought Fears and Liverpool Demand
The cotton market in New York opens active and excited, led by strength in Liverpool and drought worries in the southwest. Near months hold firm as limited local supply tightens, with October hitting a new high and December and January advancing. Spot markets show mixed steady to firm quotes across cities, while Liverpool futures rise late morning before easing. A Kansas-Oklahoma oil price cut and Prairie Oil and Gas actions affect the market sentiment as stocks trade firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Liverpool
Continent
Texas
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Kansas- Oklahoma
Local events and business in Gwinnett Barrow counties
The Woman's Baptist Missionary Union of Lawrenceville plans a Buford meeting on the 24th. A Confederate veterans reunion will be held in Lawrenceville on the 24th. Congressman Bell spoke to a large crowd in Winder last Saturday and is favored to carry Barrow and Jackson counties. W. M. Fite and partners have let a contract for a modern warehouse at Statham to be ready for fall cotton trade. Winder Compress Company officers have been elected. The Farmers Union of Barrow county bought the Farmers Warehouse in Winder to operate next season with anticipated enlargement and sprinkler system. stock to be offered to farmers only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Woman's Baptist Missionary Union of Lawrenceville Association
Buford
Gwinnett County
Lawrenceville
Bell
Winder
Barrow
Jackson
Russell
W. M. Fite
D. T. Hammond
R. C. Willingham
Statham
Winder Compress Company
A. A. Camp
John Williams
A. S. Morgan
J. M. Williams
C. G. Sorrells
H. N. Goss
J. R. Nunnally
R. L. Rogers
W. C. Horton
Farmers Union of
Barrow County
Broad Street
Gainesville Midland Railway
The Proof of the Pudding Is in the Eating
For forty years women with female ills have relied on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and have been getting well. The tonic’s success fuels continued sales as a trusted remedy, regardless of the physician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dreams self arrested and surrenders to U S
Charles Kunico aged twenty surrendered to local federal authorities in Charleston West Virginia claiming he robbed the Slab Fork post office near Coburn in 1914 and that he wished to pay the penalty after deciding to turn himself in. He said he walked over 100 miles through the mountains to reach Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Slab Fork
Coburn
West Virginia
Charles Kunico
Money to Lend on Farm Lands and City Property
Shackelford & Meadow advertise financing options on farm lands or improved city property with local or foreign money. They promise prompt service and list Shackelford Building as their office. The notice appears amid market quotes noting small investor stock movements and Services Preferred stock around 85-86 with implied potential 7 percent return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shackelford & Meadow
Shackelford Building
Christian Index Bids Farewell to Dr. H. R. Bernard of Athens
The Christian Index eulogizes Dr. H. R. Bernard, Athens pastor and multiple service leader. It highlights his systematic church work, railroad and education roles, and key influence on Georgia Baptists through the Schedule and Appeal plan, cooperation efforts, and auditing innovations. His character is praised as honorable and tender, with lasting impact beyond his life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Bernard
Christian Index
The
Baptists of
Georgia
Clarke County
Athens
Clarke Countil
Northeastern
Lula
Appalachee
Baptists of Georgia
Georgia Baptist Convention
Geor‘gia
Bernard
Mission Board
Georgia Baptists
Index Printing Company
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted as Internal Remedy
An 19th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a systemic treatment that reaches the blood and mucous surfaces. It claims a physician’s prescription, non quack status, and a combination of tonics and blood purifiers. The notice notes testimonials and 75 cent price, with sales through druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
Drugerats
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Christian
H.R. Bernard
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