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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1916
Page
3
Handsome silk dresses highlighted in favored shades include new silk poplin pieces at 4.80 and 7.50 dollars in black navy Belgian wisteria green sand and gray. Organdie collars lace cuffs vests match. Also new taffeta and georgette draped styles priced 12.50 to 30.00.
At these prices a selection of evening dresses in chiffon taffeta silk nets over satin is offered in shades of yellow blue green and pink.
For the little ones we offer a large assortment of ginghams percales and linens in pretty plaids stripes and combinations and solid white with prices from 85c to 2.50.
Electric Brand dresses offered from $1.00 to $2.50 in a variety of fast color fabrics and sizes.
An exceptional showing features linen dresses priced from 7.50 to 15.00 in white rose blue wisteria and natural tones. Shoppers are invited to view the collection and select flattering styles.
Silk sellers urge immediate purchase amid unsettled market and potential shortage. Immense lot of silks on hand including georgette crepes, crepe de chine in striped patterns, taffetas, thistledown silks, and new shades. Stores claim stock is bigger than ever before.
New shirt waists displayed with georgette crepe waists at 4.00, crepe de chine and georgette crepe 4.00 to 5.95, wash silk waists in all colors and stripes, crepe de chine waists in all colors 2.50. Specials include a lot of pretty waists at 50c and others at 98c each from a 1.25 to 1.50 value.
The article notes corset lines must meet the new mode’s demand to reproduce the look in dress. It recommends La Victoire as the best model for figure and mentions corsets in the current corset section. Also advertises best grade shirting prints at 5c per yard.
The department showcases a larger and more varied wash goods selection for spring with novelty seed voile 40 inches wide at 39c per yard and embroidered bar voiles 40 inches wide at 1.00 per yard. Hundreds of new wash goods are offered to please patrons.
A new Luxor toilet line arrives with high grade face powder cream rouge tablets and vanity items. Luxor Melba Mme. Ise belles Babcocks and Colgates lines include Colgates toothpaste 20c Urice cold cream 20c Ponds extract cold cream 20c regular 25c toothbrushes 10c.
Our Athens store offers the most complete house furnishings department with rugs curtains nets scrims window shades hall mowers carpeting mats fixtures cretons carpet sweepers floor and furniture polish mops step ladders ironing boards glassware chinaware aluminum ware and more.
A Georgia lecture recounts Reconstruction history from 1863 to 1877, detailing Georgia losses, Freedmen's Bureau actions, carpet baggers, and the impact on white citizens. Emphasizes the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, the bureau's role, and the 7 year span of Reconstruction in the South.
The article portrays scalawags as carpetbaggers allied with freedmen to impose black rule on the South. It condemns Thaddeus Stevens as a northern zealot who opposed Lincoln and pushed Reconstruction, demanding full civil rights before Southern states could be readmitted to Congress.
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets as a 10 cent laxative for liver and bowels. It promises relief from headaches biliousness indigestion and constipation and urges use tonight to cleanse bile gases and waste. Ends with a note that druggists sell Cascarets and suggests children also need gentle cleansing.
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