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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1915
Page
15
A newspaper ad promotes a Monday morning sale of modish suits with prices 15.00 to 25.00 and fur trimmed coats. It touts new box coats, military style skirts with pleats yokes and braids, urging shoppers to visit Collins on the third floor elevator for the best assortment.
200 hats received Saturday offered at 3.50 5.00 6.00 and 7.50 with exclusive shapes chic millinery Turbans Polks Puritans English Walking Hats black hats derby styles trimmed in gold or silver ostrich and unique designs all offered to women as a bargain in fashion.
The store touts a distinctive difference in outerwear with its largest and best showing of new coats to meet customer needs.
Beautiful black velour coats priced at 15.00 and 18.50 and up feature fur collars and bands of seal around the hem. Ladies coats in 45 inch lengths with various styles arrive. regular 10.00 sport coats in plaids are on sale at 6.50 via express.
In Athens the shop features 200 coats in varied colors and latest cuts priced at 10.00 and 12.50. The display claims more new coats than any other house in town, emphasizing value and fashion.
Seventy coats arrived in recent days featuring a wide range of styles. The collection highlights belted cuts and tailored lines suited for varied tastes and occasions.
Fine quality girls dresses trimmed with soutache braids and tiny buttons offered in several styles. Also Russian Blouse and Peter Thompson trimmed serge dresses for school girls priced from 4.50 to 12.50.
The notice announces 1000 new sweaters in various styles including children all wool in white cardinals oxford coat styles at 1.00. Women’s all wool sweaters go on sale tomorrow at 2.00 with reds navy oxford and blacks. Ladies all wool sweaters in many colors regular 4.00 now 3.00 tomorrow.
London undergoes rapid pace shift as women drive vans and operate elevators while men in khaki fill streets. Selfridge notes no unemployment, no loafers, and social life redirected to aiding wounded soldiers. He cites organized efficiency, women in lift work, and a missing American presence shaping urban tempo.
Mrs Maria Francisco Locasti in New York Supreme Court claims she was duped into a marriage after attending a party where relatives misrepresented Joseph Locasti as intelligent and industrious. She asserts she learned of his stutter only after marriage and that she was coerced to marry under a “good luck” license scheme. She also describes him illiterate and shiftless and seeks nullification. The article also reports a separate death after a lost ticket incident.
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