19 Nov 1893
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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1893
Page
1
The store advertises heavy weekly discounts on carpets, rugs, linoleums, and drapery fabrics. It highlights Ames ter Carpets at 1.75 regular, Brussels 0.90, and many wool and silk options with steep mark downs. Shoes, laces, and ready items are also promoted with low prices and show-window proof of value.
Ladies and gentlemen can save on imported storm serge and cloaking fabrics. Dresses, gloves, embroideries, veils, and underwear are discounted with prices like 1.50 per pair gloves and 1.50 per shirt. Men’s shirts, drawers, and silk suspenders offered at low prices, few items show genuine value.
Ladies Merino underwear and fine Jersey vests are offered at deep discounts. Lambs Wool and Natural Color Vests, normally 50, now 7 cents, 75 cents each for Lambs Wool and Natural vests. Medicated Scarlet Wool Vests and Pants once 1.50 now 68 cents each. One thousand Gloria and Helvetia Silk Umbrellas, 26 inches, plain and fancy handles, offered tomorrow at 1.00 each.
A fragment describes a grand sale of novelty dress silks and crinkle silks in various weaves with pricing hints. It notes SLU value and wall price, suggesting bargain rates for vanil Slack Dress Sitka and evening wear fabrics, though the text is partially garbled.
Tomorrow's sale offers 500 Ladies Ruffled Calf Scotch collars, 25¢ hosiery for men women and children, 115 dozen Ladies Blick Lose plain or ribbed at 12 1e per pair, 105 dozen Gents Shaw Knit Mottled White Half Hose at 10 each, and 64 dozen Misses Blick Hose at 1e each, all lower than elsewhere.
Art Department offers Monday sale on 6 foot Oak Screen Frames at ST.50 and Hatt Racks at 5.98, with genuine Marseilles Counterpanes priced down from 3 and 4 to 1.98. Marseilles Pattern Counterpanels, the 90c kind, on sale at 59c each.
A local ad promotes table linens including 20 pieces Cream German Damask at 89¢, 12 pieces 72-inch Half Bleaches German Damask at 9? per yard, 9 pieces Turkey Hed Table Damask at ? per yard, 100 double Chenille Table Covers heavy fringe 4-4 size at Toe each, 3,000 Latin Damask Doylies in snow white and bordered colors, 12 dozen Check Linen Doylies at 25¢ per dozen.
In the Ladies Department a Monday sale offers 10,000 yards of Unbleached Canton at 10¢ per yard, 5,000 yards Dress Calicoes at 4¢, 5,400 yards Outing Flannels at 1¢, 5,000 yards Dress Suiting French designs at 12?3¢, 10,000 yards Dress Ginghams at 6 1-2¢, 50 gray wool blankets at 2.75 per pair, 150 all wool blankets at 3.59, 4 bed Comforts at 59¢, and Satine-covered bed comforts at 1.89.
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