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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1902
Page
7
Advertises linen robes at 16.75 and chiffon robes at 11.78 with silk tissue robes regularly priced 22.50 to 25.00 now 16.75. Includes embroidered black applique herringbone trimmed floral designs accordion plaited flounce 14 inch front 27 inch back double plaited flounce finished with black lace. White wash chiffon robes 11.75 sale. Skirt and waist match with embroidered flounce.
2500 yards of colored Batiste with stripes figures and florals offered at 5e yard. 25 pieces of new style Dress Ginghams in checks and stripes many sizes and colors priced at 60 yard. Madras Shirting with many striped designs all colors at 10¢ yard.
A sale offers Children's Shoes at 1.00 per pair with regular 1.25 and 1.50 options, including strap sandals and right hand turned oxfords in various sizes. About 75 pairs available, 8 to 2. Stylish women’s Oxfords also discounted with potential savings of 50 cents on many inexpensive styles.
A silk sale offers 5c silks at 25 cents and 50 cent silks at 1.25 dollars. The display features plain twisted foulards, Liberty satin foulards, fancy Persian taffetas, and yardage of plain and colored taffetas with waist and skirt lengths. A second table showcases top quality foulards, regular 1.25 kinds, at 50 cents per yard with new blue brown green roseda shades.
A sale offers 100 pieces of all silk ribbon in 34 inch width at 6 cents per yard and a remarkable moire ribbon selection in pink gray red and lavender plus fine striped ribbons five inches wide at 50 cents, reduced to 19 cents per yard on a special sale table.
Fashionable belt sale offers white patent leather belts with gilt buckles and shirt holding attachment at 1.25. Heavy white kid belts halve to 0.25. Satin belts originally 1.50 are 0.98. New shapes shown in the collection.
A sales note listing Cambric and Swiss embroideries, laces, edgings and insertings from 2 to 5 inches wide at 10c per yard, and 15c per yard for similar pieces. Imitation Torchon laces and insertings up to 24 inches wide priced at 3c per yard.
Lace open work hosiery for women in black, Ise pair, top to toe. Infants’ half hose in white, black and red offered at 10¢ per pair, a special purchase better than the ordinary 15c kind. Center table Japanese fans priced 9c each, some worth almost twice as much.
Splendid line of Pique Stocks for Women at 25c. white stripes and checks in full lengths. The Kaiser Collarette for women, embroidered in novel designs, offers a 25c price versus 50c quality.
An assortment of baby caps priced 25c to 50c and baby shoes at 35c to 36c. The ad notes lace embroidery beading and ribbon trim on lawn styles, with soft sole shoes and strap sandals in white and black. Prices emphasize low sale costs.
A sale item offers $25.00 novelty pattern suits now priced at $11.75. Limited stock features Mousseline Grenadine, Silk and Wool Voile, Eta mine in green navy and brown with white silk embroidery effects. Best quality all wool French Charlies at a special price per yard. Persian scroll designs on light grounds.
Lace curtain sale lists plain center and cable Net varieties with sizes 34 yards and 54 inches by 3 yards. Prices range from 98 cents per pair to 3 dollars per yard, with assorted patterns including plain center open-work borders and dotted Swiss with ruffles and colored borders.
Muslin drawers for women feature repairs and deep hems with duster tucks and yoke bands. Corset covers with deep square yokes and pearl buttons priced at 15 cents each. Petticoats with Cambric flounces 39 cents, chemises lace trimmed 25 cents, night dresses 50 cents, with 75 cent varieties available.
A local sale offers shirt waists originally at 7.00 and 8.50 now priced at 3.50 each. The assortment includes lawns, linens, silks, and embroideries in white and colors, open back and front styles, with many sizes, and deep reductions on black leather and other fabrics.
The Gibson Shirt Waist Sets include 4 oblong turquoise pins and a 15c set with regular price 25c. Blouse Waist Sets show a large sash pin and 3 smaller waist pins, hand painted, new, 98c value at Raacat. The Princess Bracelet offers sterling silver with a small purse attachment, 50c each.
Hettrick's advertises ready made and custom built awnings. Two adjustable sizes are listed: 2.6 to 4 feet priced at 3 dollars and 4 to 6.6 feet priced at 4.50 dollars. The firm notes it can make awnings of any size for any use and offers to send a representative to discuss options.
Sale offers machine cotton 200 yard spools white 8 to 40 black priced by quantity. Wire celluloid and Featherbone stock foundations come in all sizes. Kleinert featherweight Norubber and stockinet dress shields size 2 sold at 15c per pair.
Catalog notes popular undervests for women priced at 19 cents, just over half the usual 25 cent rate. Features include ribbed silk taped finishes, crochet edging, low necklines, sleeveless design, and full size range with options in lisle thread or cotton.
Mercerized Petticoats priced regularly 3.50 to 5.05 now at 1.50. Splendid quality mercerized in several styles with a pretty graduated accordion pleated flounce finished with double rubhes in pink blue lavender and green. Striped Gingham Petticoats umbrella style tucked flounce and double hematiteh ed ruffles priced at 1.39 to 1.00 each.
Pal mer's and Lion's Mills present complete hammock ranges in bright colors and new weaves. Sizes from small to large include full sets with spreader, head rest and valances priced at 1.25, 1.75, and 2.00 dollars. Children's hammocks priced from 50 cents to 1 dollar.
Noble Brown, 17, son of a Carlisle county Kentucky planter BE Brown, tried to board an Illinois Central freight at Arlington near Mayfield. He was killed when struck by a train. his trunk lay 12 feet away. The father reportedly sought death after the tragedy and the mother is described as prostrated with grief.
The fragment cites Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with stray words about covers and a publisher line. It mentions Mider Co and a 39 Matiera note, but details are unclear. The readable core references Tolstoy’s novel and a publishing house marker.
Washington May 6 Special Representative Thompson Alabama announced a northern Republican party tour to Alabama to study the negro on his native heath. The group will leave May 19 visiting Tuskegee Birmingham and Mobile with Secretary Shaw Census head Merriam Rural Free Delivery Machen and many congressmen among guests. Some members will be joined by wives and daughters.
Ed Burnett celebrated his sixteenth birthday in Macon Georgia with a remarkable fall from a second story window. He lost balance leaned headfirst out the window and landed on the awning then on the sidewalk. He sprang to his feet uninjured as witnesses feared a serious head injury.
In Beaumont Texas on May 6 reports claim Spin dletop wells in Central America ceased gushing due to earthquakes. About 245 wells span 300 acres with some acres housing 30 to 50 wells. Pressure wanes as new wells come online and caps are forced by air. New schedules show Atlanta to Carrollton train times.
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