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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1915
Page
22
A sale of fashionable suits and fur trimmed coats begins tomorrow Monday with prices ranging from 15.00 to 25.00. Styles include box coats with furs, braids and buttons, military inspired skirts with pleats yokes and flaring lines. Elevator to suit department on the 3rd floor.
200 stunning hats received Saturday to sell at 3 50, 5 00, 6 00 and 7 50. Hats include black turbans, polks, puritans and English walking styles. Derby designs and ostrich trim with gold and silver leaves mark exclusive millinery for women.
The store announces a major display of new coats highlighting Difference TM outerwear. The line emphasizes constant focus on customer needs and features a broad array of styles and materials in its historic best showing.
Beautiful black velour coats priced at 15.00 and 18.50 and up. Coats feature fur collars and bands of seal around the bottom. Ladies 45 inch coats in various materials. Regular 10.00 sport coats in plaids arrive by express and go on sale Monday at 6.50.
Athens retailer boasts 200 coats in varied colors and latest cuts. They feature two price points, $10.06 and $12.50, and claim more new coats than any other house in Athens.
100 new coats received in recent days in white for ladies and misses. Styles include belted designs and a range from 6.50 to 18.50 dollars. Light fabrics and neat summer tailoring highlighted for current season wardrobes.
Attractive girls dresses in fine all wool Serge with Soutache braid trim and tiny buttons. Several styles available. Also serge dresses for school girls in Russian Blouse and Peter Thompson trims with emblems and braids. Priced from $2.95 to $12.50.
A local store announces a large sweater sale featuring 1,000 new items in numerous styles. Children’s white cardinals and oxford wool sweaters are offered at $1.00, while ladies’ sweaters go for $2.00 tomorrow in reds, navys, oxfords and blacks. All wool ladies sweaters normally $4.00 are reduced to $3.00 in all colors.
London shifts under wartime demand as women drive vans and operate elevators while men serve in khaki. Harry Selfridge notes no loafers, reduced luxury buying, and a democratized social world. He praises rapid streets, women lift operators, and civic care for wounded soldiers.
Mrs Maria Francisco Locasti sues in New York Supreme Court to annul her marriage to Joseph Locasti claiming she was misled at a party when she lacked English skills and was told she would get a license for good luck. She says relatives hid his stutter, literacy issues, and alleged irresponsibility, and she learned of the marriage only afterward.
James Ruddy of Perth Amboy was removed from a Central railroad train at Tremley New Jersey for lack of ticket. While walking along the ties home he was struck by an express train and died. A morgue check showed the ticket slipped from his pocket and was caught in his coat lining.
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