08 Nov 1896
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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1896
Page
1
Customers urged to inspect the new dress goods and suits displayed in Whitehall Street show window. Miss Haig is catching up with work and will take orders starting Monday. The department promotes courteous service, court comparisons, and claims the best prices in the South for dresses and furnishing materials.
Hundreds of new dress fabrics in woolen varieties arrived from forced sales and are offered at deep discounts. Items include Tartans, Cheviots, Homespun, Cheviot suitings, bouclé, covert and kersey cloths, with many pieces priced per yard well below market value. Limited quantities, Monday specials.
Rich in color and style silks displayed with fair pricing. 2% novelty taffeta brocades offered at sale prices. Black Satin Brocade large design at 7 cents per yard. Black Gres Grain Brocade sale pieces. Evening shades Latin Brocade at 58 cents per yard.
Our regular line plus new fall styles offered tomorrow includes Ladies 4 button Novelty Kid Gloves in black with embroidered backs worth 3 dollars, pairs of Kid Gloves at 1.35, Dagskin Gloves Adler make at 1 dollar per pair, and Citlire Sdk Mittens in all colors and sizes.
A sale listing notes 9 dozen Gents' Tapa bordered cambric handkerchiefs at 10 cents each. Eight dozen Gents' all linen colored bordered handkerchiefs reduced from 8 cents to 5 cents each. A lot of Indies' pure Unen unlaundered handkerchiefs with embroidered corners valued at 2 dollars fifty cents, offered Monday at 10 cents.
Readable inventory lists Hermsdorf Black Hose ladies and men’s hosiery at deep discounts. Includes 125 dozen ladies' hose with double soles and heels, 30 dozen men’s English Merino Halt Hose, fleece-lined tights, and numerous legwear items. Also offers fur collars boas muffs sets from 1.75 to 50 with Monday specials.
Art Department offers stamped center pieces at 2c, Japanese tinsel drapery at 15c, Japanees mantel lambrequins at 2¢ each, and one embroidery stick skein.
Advertises gents heavy medium and light weight underwear with dramatic price cuts. Full fashioned wool garments drop from four dollars per suit to 1.19, undyed natural wool shirts and drawers fall to seven cents, 95 percent wool heavy shirts and drawers at three per suit, hygienic pure all fleece wool sets now one dollar, medicated scarlet wool sets two dollars per suit.
The ad markets Ladies and Children's Winter Underwear in multiple styles. Swiss ribbed fleeced-lined vests and pants, close-fitting combinations, and medicated scarlet sets are promoted at low prices. High quality heavy winter garments emphasized with bulk discounts and limited sale pricing.
The best dressed lady in Atlanta asks where her outfits come from and replies that Miss Barschkies has produced some of the most elegant street, evening, and reception wear seen in the south.
Housekeepers can supply linen needs at small cost. The sale lists 10 white counterpanes and 10 cloths, bleached damask and tab lecloths, with prices ranging from a few cents to a dollar yard. A large stock of towels and damask pieces are offered tomorrow at discounted rates.
Write to us for deliveries beyond the city as faithfully as in person. Our mail order department is superb with samples mailed nationwide. Capes, jackets, coats from fashion centers worldwide. Ready made suits from top tailors. Largest best lighted cloak parlors in Atlanta.
An early 20th century shoplisting touts a cloak department with new ness, style, cut and finish. It advertises two hundred ladies capes fur trimmed at 7, Cheviot jackets, beaver and Melton capes, plush capes, and various suits jackets and coats with marked prices and discounts for the coming week. Includes specific items and sale prices for capes, jackets, coats, and shirts for ladies and misses.
Local sale offers dramatic price cuts on 35 rolls Axminster Carpets at 1.10 yard, 42 rolls Brussels Carpets at 0.69 yard, 27 rolls extra heavy wool Carpets at 0.63 yard, and 60 rolls matting from 0.29 to 0.50. Also Smyrna Rugs at 3.00, 38 Ingram Art Squares at 5.00, 50 pairs Portieres at 6.50, 72 pairs Nottingham Lace Curtains at 1.00, and 1,000 Window Shades at 0.50. One per customer. limited stock.
Lot of white and gray Ladies Enst Cotton Shirts and a 4 lot of Ladies all Wool Knit Skirts in dark colors offered. Wool Long Flannel Skirts in navy black and gray priced.
A local shoe shop advertises affordable footwear with genuine value. Children Dongola Kid Shoes with spring heel are priced lower than $125, Misses Dongola Kid Shoes at $195, Ladies Button Boots at 1125, and Ladies Bright Dongola Boots at 50 cents. Boys School Shoes $1, Men’s Hand-sewn Congress and Bar Shoes $3.
Some of the best makes are in large sizes and slightly soled. Originally priced at 1 and 31.50, they are now reduced to 50 cents.
Advertisement notes sterling silver thimbles for 1 cent each and sterling silver rings for 1 cent, plus children’s solid gold rings with pretty settings offered at a very low price. The brief ad emphasizes affordable jewelry pieces for sale.
Real bristle hair brushes and solid steel scissors. Best cotton batting in 12 yard rolls. Rubber hair pins by the dozen. Aluminium hair pins ten cents a dozen. Pearl buttons sold by the dozen. Fancy colored elastic sold by the yard.
An itemized ad lists pure Irish linen paper at 2 pounds for 5 quires and a sale price of 1 pound per 1e, along with fainted paper and envelopes worth 5 cents per box.
A local shop promotes its diverse book stock and invites customers to request a catalogue to tailor their purchases. The message emphasizes broad genre coverage and assistance in selecting titles to fit readers' interests.
Seventy five pieces of dark gingham cloth offered in a Monday sale. Choice patterns and dress gingham options featured, with pricing and availability announced by Monday Schard.
Fifty pieces of light outing cloths in small pin stripes, valued at Ike, go on sale Monday at six yard.
Twenty pieces of bleached sheeting, extra heavy, valued at 22 4¢ per yard, advertised across town for Monday sale.
Dressmaking department offers estimates for your sut and promises finest workmanship with best facilities and guaranteed complete satisfaction.
Twenty pieces 42 inch pillow casing meant for se yard sale at a modest price.
Heavy California Mills Blankets, one hundred and fence pieces, were $750, now $198. Two hundred pieces white and gray all cotton blankets, usually $125, offered as a special tomorrow repair sale.
The text touts superiority of two Dressmaking Parlors over all competitors in the south. It promises first class work at a moderate cost and asserts a guaranteed perfect satisfaction, claiming the store holds the edge in quality, pricing, and service.
A special sale offers fancy brocade silks at 75 cents a yard, with express delivery by Saturday and choice selections. The sale continues Monday with similarly priced fabrics, highlighting value and timely availability for shoppers.
A sales note highlights iDown Quilts and Revents-one Liderdown Quilts with satin covering. The item is listed as special priced at 353 dollars, indicating a promotional offer on premium bedding products.
A sale offers ladies' muslin night gowns, well made and tastily trimmed, valued at 85 cents, with doors opening tomorrow. Local shoppers can anticipate affordable sleepwear as the event proceeds.
Forrest D. High announces Our Basement offering the latest crockery and house furnishings. Holiday goods are ready for inspection with a new fine silverware department. Prices are advertised as lower than jewelers.
The Basement advertises the largest outlet with deeply discounted china. Decorated porcelain breakfast plates and blue decorated cups and saucers are offered at a fraction of their listed values, plus hundreds of assorted pieces including vases creamer pots and salt shakers, all marked down for Monday.
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