Dress Ginghams Special at 5 Cents a Yard
A vintage notice touts 5,000 yards of gingham fabric offered in good style. The ad emphasizes value, marking the price at five cents per yard as a limited time bargain.
14 May 1893
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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1893
Page
1
A vintage notice touts 5,000 yards of gingham fabric offered in good style. The ad emphasizes value, marking the price at five cents per yard as a limited time bargain.
Listing shows White India Linen short lengths priced at five cents a yard for a Monday sale. Pineapple Tissues priced at ten cents a yard, available tomorrow. Includes note of limited pieces and old value references.
A short listing notes 109 pieces of fine White Dotted Swiss fabric offered at double the price, with a prompt to inquire tomorrow for purchase or details. The fragment emphasizes value and urgency in a textile advertisement context.
Across a sprawling Atlanta ad, High's announces Monday and Tuesday “Children's Days” with wholesale-like cuts on Lace Silks, China Silks, Dress Goods, and numerous fabrics. It promotes hats, ribbons, infanta outfits, and big discounts on carpets, draperies, and shipyard garments, touting hundreds of items and “actual cost” sales over two days.
A sale of Genoa Crepe Suitings and Wash Fabrics described as very wide and profitable is advertised with a note that stock is abundant, offering 123 cents for the morrow and urging quick purchase to clear inventory.
An old newspaper item describes fabric sales including 8 quarter lengths, Bleached Domestics, Fruit of the Loom, China Silks, and American Charlies. A 5,000 yards China Silks offer and 3,000 yards American Charlies are advertised for Monday morning from 8 to 9 o'clock at 5c per yard.
Special sale note lists a dozen men's laundered shirts with some soil and large sizes offered tomorrow at 33 cents each. The item implies a clearance or sale event in a newspaper brief.
Lot of bleached doylies priced from 75c to 1.25 per dozen available tomorrow at reduced rates. Eng Percales and other fabrics offered, with yard-wide silkaline draperies and short lengths of Charlies fabric. Men’s French Balbriggan shirts and drawers, ladies hosiery and gloves, all discounted for tomorrow only at specified one-time prices.
A midwestern bargain notice advertises 200 dozen ladies lisle thread vests in white and colors at reduced prices and 5000 yards white satin plaid lawns offered for sale at 63 4 cents per yard, with dates set for Monday and Tuesday.
J M HIGH and CO offer 1000 pairs of ladies patent leather up to oxfords at 1 dollar per pair and fine face curtains with tape border valued at 1 dollar per pair, on the third floor tomorrow at an equally low price, with limited quantities available.
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