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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1903
Page
5
Keely's has long been credited with the largest business in Southern territory for dainty embroidery, galoons, and art needlework goods. The store seeks first and farthest these beautiful appointments for women's wear, offering the advance styles in art linen, embroidered linen and China silk.
Antique description of embroidered mercerized linens and bands including lace sets and needlework novelties in white and color tints such as pink, green, blue, and ecru. Ranges from one to twenty seven inches wide with 42 inch all-over embroidery. Heavy-edge handwork noted.
Months of activity and strict surveillance frame a notable display of waists and undermuslins on the second floor. The advertisement highlights white shirts, drawers, and gowns priced at nine and nineteen cents, inviting shoppers to see the quality and judge for themselves.
Night 220s gowns described in mustia and cambric with square and high necks, vent v necklines trimmed in embroidery and cambric ruffles. Petticoats include muslin with deep ruffles and dust ruffles, and multiple styles with lace, embroidery, and tuck trims. Exquisite gowns priced from 1.50 to 10.00 with sheer embroidery faces and ribbon trims.
Catalog notes offer muslin drawers with cambric tucks and ruffles priced from 19c, and higher grade cambric and lawn embroidery drawers from 1.00 to 1.50. Nightgowns feature muslin, cambric and nainsook fabrics in fifteen styles with various necklines and embroidery trims.
Broad-shouldered fleet stiff cuffs and collars with some soft stocks. Pearl or link buttons. Fabrics include art linen butchers linen linen damask basket cloth linen lawn madras and batiste. China silk and wash silk. Embroidered linen waists feature grape and flower designs. White Pique and Madras Waists priced at 1.00 and 1.50.
A fragment describes women’s double breasted Monte Carlo coats with vented pleats and costs around $10.06, offered before sale. The text references castor or equivalent features and notes price comparisons for coats priced near ten dollars.
Monte Carlo coats of the finest melton cloth with satin lining velvet collar and French sleeves are offered at ten dollars before Xmas. Colors include black tan and castor. Comparable styles could not be bought for fifteen dollars elsewhere.
A reflective piece on marriage from a long-married observer recounting engagements, licenses, and vows. The narrator worries for the bride, notes the legal steps and costs, and stresses compatibility, moral principle, and shared temperament as the core of lasting partnership. He recalls a wedding at Sam Jones' house and muses on how lifelong bonds shape life.
A reflective column by Bill Arp on marriage habits, codfish breakfasts, and the balance of freedoms within a partnership. He recalls family habits, moral order, and a long view of January traditions while weaving in humorous anecdotes and religious reflections. The piece ends urging love for the Maker and mutual virtue.
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