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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1915
Page
2
Local store advertises heavy discounts across white goods silks voiles lace and parasols plus half price on coats dresses and waists. Embroidery clearance sale offers inclusive pricing and a door to door sweep of ribbons belts bags and novelties. Many items reduced 5c to 50 percent with show windows and limited time offers.
Polar Club markets an affordable electric fan claiming high efficiency and low running cost of two cents per day. Each unit carries a full guarantee and appeals as a practical cooling solution for hot days and nights.
Special school promotion features 42 inch Crepe de Chine in new colors at $1.25. Bargains include 10c and 15c fans at low prices. A new shipment of striped voiles 36 to 40 inches wide sells at 25c per yard. Materials bought Monday can be shrunk and sponged free of charge using an improved shrinking machine.
A local store advertises Monday deals on 32 inch Madras shirts at 12 1 2c per yard with 18c and 20c values. It also notes half price on all summer parasols and a special lot priced from 1.00, originally 3.00 to 4.00.
Durable 500 yard bolts of palm beach cotton offered at ten cents per yard. Sold in solid and striped patterns suitable for skirts and boys' pants.
Advertising copy promotes Armstrongs linoleum for kitchen floors, stressing sanitation and style. It highlights patterns priced 50c to 1.25 dollars per square yard, with free installation and no charge for laying.
Advertising brief lists low priced items including safety pins 5c, pearl buttons 5c a dozen, high grade nickeled pins 5c, floor mops 10c, dusters from 10c to 25c, English pins 4c and 5c, lingerie tape 10c for 10 yards, bodkin 10c, whisk broom 25c, hook and eyes 5c and 3c per card, with paper quantities noted.
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