10 Dec 1905
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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1905
Page
1
The Basement Santa Claus Headquarters offers hundreds of toys and novelties for gifts. Toys for boys and girls include automobiles, steam engines, trains, magic lanterns, dolls, go cars, dolls houses, musical toys, and baby items with prices from a few cents to a few dollars. Shop Monday as the rush begins.
Largest assortment highlights sleeping dolls 22 to 24 inches with satin dresses and bonnets. Notable items include bisque jointed sleeping dolls and 18 inch sailor suit dolls with caps. Decorative terra cotta busts, vases, and Royal Toepitz pieces also offered with a variety of discounts and prices.
An old advertisement lists dozens of women and men handkerchiefs in linen and satin, including hemstitched, lace trimmed, and embroidered varieties. Prices range from 10 to 3.00, with boxed sets and special offers noted for Japanese silk and Irish lace trimmed options. Distinct items include ladies sheer linen handkerchiefs, initial handkerchiefs, and mens Jap silk hemstitched variants.
A long OCR fragment lists miscellaneous goods including clothing items like hats, gloves, hosiery, aprons, nightgowns, and underwear. accessories such as jewelry, brooches, pins, belts, and stockings. toys and housewares including dolls, doll furniture, tea sets, china, and silverware. fabrics and patterns. artware, hotelwares, and lamps. and a varied assortment of household goods, toys, and small wares. The items reflect a broad sale catalog style typical of a department or general store listing.
Sterling Silver whisk brooms priced at 75 cents to 2.00 and sewing cases, silk gauze fans, ladies lift belts, pin cushions, fancy garters, and sterling silver novelties offered in a range of 1 cent to 32 dollars. Exquisite spans and metallics highlight the display.
Four hundred sample umbrellas offered before Christmas from the country’s leading maker. Handles include carved ivory, smoked ivory, sterling and gold mountings, long pearl sticks, natural wood, and genuine buckhorn. Many styles, no two alike. One hundred fifty men and women’s fine umbrellas with natural wood, gold or silver trimmed handles, cord and tassel, silk covered. Prices noted with items ranging up to eight dollars and fifty cents.
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