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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1916
Page
9
Michael's Coat Suits offer smartly tailored garments with high quality materials and rich colorings. Amer ican designers provide dresses and suits praised for elegance and trimmings, with short natty coats and full flare skirts in navy twilight blue green grey black white cex and rookie. Prices range from 15 to 75 dollars.
A local advert touts new dresses in street, afternoon, and evening styles. Materials include taffeta silk crepe de chine and messalines with lace chiffons trims. Colors listed are black navy old rose silver grey and copenhagen. Prices described as exceedingly low.
The new shirt waists for spring offer style and beauty for all ages. High necks with convertible collars suit fashion, while low necks with short sleeves cater to lighter tastes. Lace chiffon georgette crepe de Chine and radium silk are popular, Crepe de chine waists start at $2.48 with a special lot at $4.50.
New wash goods arrive daily offering a wide range of plaid voiles flowered and striped fabrics. Devonshire Cloth Romper Cloth and spring Ginghams come in bright fast colors and varied patterns suitable for spring sewing projects.
A dramatic clean out in the underwear department offers silk garments at steep discounts. Includes Kayser pieces such as vests gowns camisoles and slips. Many items marked as slightly soiled mussed or from broken lots with prices claimed as half price or less. Shop opens soon for this limited opportunity.
Athens displays a wide range of Jaunty Ready-to-Wear Hats in colors to match new garments. The campaign featured early assembling of new models with overtimes rewarded by strong demand, with hats priced at 2.00 3.00 4.50 5.00 6.50 and 7.50 including the Vanity line.
The store showcases a nearing complete line of new dress silks with striped and iridescent options for ladies. Buyers are invited to inspect early as manufacturers rush to fill orders and capitalize on record demand for silk fabrics this season.
The store promotes new white waists at 98 cents with weekly model additions. It claims high value for the money, with waists priced up to two dollars and branded as choice selections.
Martex unveils new Turkish towels with a solid center in pink blue and orange plus white border priced 65c. A striped Martex towel line comes in many colors and large size priced 38c. New wash cloths arrive in assorted colors at 10c each.
A week of transformation in the white goods section brings new arrivals including shirting madras at 20c and 35c, striped and plain voiles, seed voiles, marquisettes for dresses and waists, and new weave oxfords and wash gabardine for skirts and suits. Early buyers will find rewards while viewing the state goods.
A sale advertises new corsets in fresh stock with all sizes available now. Prices list values up to 3.50 reduced to 0.98 and 6.50 to 1.89, encouraging those who already planned a purchase to return.
Our corset department reports strong clearance of odd lots with new brassieres added this week. Choose value up to 1.50 at 29 cents and 49 cents as we aim to close out before new goods arrive.
Associated Press reports that control of Christian Holy Places in the Holy Land is shifting amid the war. Italian and French custodians are interned while Austrians and others step in, as Bethlehem and Jerusalem remain focal points for religious relics and military movements toward Beersheba and the desert.
An old advertisement warns against calomel a mercurial laxative claim it harms digestion and bones. It promotes Dodson’s Liver Tone a 100 percent vegetable substitute described as gentle safe and guaranteed to start the liver without causing salivation.
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