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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1902
Page
17
The Paxon J Stokes C Store announces a Monday sale offering one quarter off every waist priced from 50 cents to 10 dollars. Largest assortment in Atlanta with linen lawns, silks, Madras, ginghams, and sheer lawns. Waist sizes marked, with emphasis on fit and styles, including new shirt waist suits and kimonos at deep discounts.
Complete line of new Walking Skirts priced for Monday’s selling at 3.00 each. Homespun and Cloths in blue black gray tan with tailor stitching and trim. Skirt styles include Kersey Cloth, duck polka dot, and white pique options with flares and braids in blue black and white. Special prices range from 1.00 to 6.00 with various trims and full flares.
A catalog style notice lists unlined etamine skirts and dress shirts with values up to 12.50, featuring Etamine basket weaves, granite cloths, Nuns Veiling, and trims like Taffeta bands and silk braid. Skirts priced from 7.00 to 12.00 with various trims, linings, flounces, and color options including tan blue black.
Announcement of fine Mohair and Wool Etamines offered below value in the Dress Goods Department. The 40 inch etamine sells by the yard at 89 cents with a listed value of 1.00, 44 inch at 98 cents valued at 1.35, and a finer 44 inch at 89 cents with substantial savings.
The notice advertises low priced colored wash goods with various fabrics offered at deep discounts. Dimities with minor imperfections sell for 5 cents yard, satin striped fabrics and checks from 6 cents to 84 cents, Madras cloth 15 cents yard, colored batiste on sale, and fine dress Swisses in select patterns, all presented as strong values.
A local retailer touts low prices on white goods for graduates and shoppers. 47 inch batiste and chiffon fabrics priced from 25 to 50 cents a yard, organies and linens discounted, plus discounted bobbinet curtains and Brussels net curtains in several price ranges for Monday sales.
A listed sale of fabrics and garments with varied prices per yard or item. Includes 3000 yards of checked nainsook at 34 cents per yard, damask napkins, duck fabrics, collar canvas, muslin drawers, petticoats, corset covers, night dresses, cambric items, and ribbons with multiple colors and widths. Also notes soap, talcum powder, oil, and stationery offers.
Special sale offering full pieces of well known silks from leading mills at about one-fourth off. Prices include 1g-inch guaranteed Taffeta at 65¢ yard, 19-inch Taffeta at 75¢ yard, 23, inches wide at gke yard, 1g-inch Peau de Soie at 75¢ yard, Melrose 19-inch at 7ge yard, and Pure Silk Liberty Latin 19 inches wide at 69¢ yard.
Special sales of undermuslins daily with French style chemises priced at 7 cents each Monday 7c. Other items include lace trimmed petticoats at 1.75 and cambric drawers at 78 cents per pair.
Special sale offers 10 000 yards of laces at five cents per yard and 3 000 yards of embroideries at ten cents per yard. Laces include imitation Torchons valued up to one cent, edging and insertions up to four inches. embroideries are Cambric and Swiss mainly twenty cent quality with edges three to five inches and insertings three to nine inches. Trimming laces include Galen bands in white cream Arabian and black at ten cents per yard.
Regular dresses priced 2.00 to 3.00 offered Monday at 1.00 each for children from 6 months to 4 years. Infants dresses 1.00 to 1.50 in soft nainsock with yokes and lace. Colored gingham outfits for 1 to 4 years with tucked yoke and epaulettes, lace trim and braids.
On Monday between 9 and 11 a.m. and 2 and 4 p.m. customers receive 4 Green Stamps with every purchase. The ad lists ladies skirts and waists in multiple fabrics priced from $1 to $12, including wool, satin, and lace styles, with many items reduced to under $5.
An OCR fragment lists numerous women and children’s garments and accessories at sale prices. Items include summer corsets in all sizes, ladies’ gloves, lace collars, chiffon neck ruffs, velvet ribbons, leather belts, pleated belts, linen collars, lace turnovers, vests, Madras dresses, silk mitts, parasols, and boys’ straw hats with various prices.
Ris presents a sale of baby layette including 600 lawn and embroidered caps and 98 cent percale dresses for children ages 5 to 14 years. Also featured are gingham dresses and trimmed outfits for boys and girls with various sizes and seasonal styles.
Kamper's in the heart of the shopping district is now convenient to all Atlanta. To former customers who moved away and to new shoppers, an invitation to visit Kamper Store is extended. The piece recounts a Democratic Roaster anecdote from the Washington Post about roosters as a symbol of victory and a Chapman crowing tale.
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