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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1908
Page
5
Special umbrellas offered at 48 cents each with steel rods and quality wooden and metal handles. Selections include 24 and 26 inch sizes, marketed as durable for children’s school use. Limited to Saturday sale, umbrellas touted as value buys.
Exposition overstock prompts a home furnishings sale. The ad claims many workers have bank accounts and urges buyers to save by purchasing now. It touts a broad stock of home comfort items below ten year prices and notes they are agents for Hooiser Kitchen Cabinets with floor samples on display.
Talk of the Town notes auction listings and ads for Vaughan's and Lyon's, while Forry's hosts Witches Secret at the Pavilion every night. A sugar social at Unity Temple Saturday seeks 15 cent admission with 26 cents for dancing. Granite City Creamery advertised.
A jumble of local notices and ads lists upcoming sales and visits. Shoppers learn of Friday sale at Vengubn and a Saturday crockery sale, with plans for dances, theatre pieces, and hotel appearances by visitors.
A. P. Abbott & Co promotes new arrivals in ladies lace, waists, silken suits and automobile coats. They claim to offer exceptional style and value, with careful selection and express delivery to prove their statements.
Local shop announces new ladies automobile coats in several fabrics and colors. A $10.00 rubberized wool fabric coat features a full sweep skirt and auto collar. A $12.00 fiberized cloth coat offers shoulder straps and circular trim, with additional silk rubberized options teased in.
Net waist fashions described include a $3.98 lace waist with Gibson shoulder details and cluny inserts, a $3.96 white lace option with fret yoke and Valences lace edging, and a $4.50 net waist with extensive lace net and insertion details. Describes sleeves, yokes, and lace patterns across multiple styles and prices.
A reader described a ladies' blue silk princess jumper suit with a back yoke and front tainted with buttons. The design features side plaits over a short sleeve and a front plate detail with a large front finish.
In a brief shop notice a seller promotes silk waists described as stylish and affordable. The ad highlights multiple color options and a price around 3.98, aiming to attract shoppers seeking refined undergarments.
A scattered local snippet lists Charles Stapley and Minard McWhorter visiting, Neil O Ralph returning home, and Br Purvee moving homes. BF Begel & Co announces a sale of about ten dozen men’s under garments to clear space for new arrivals, with several named observers and places in Burlington and nearby towns.
Advertises Ideal Suits for young men with smooth lapels, form fitting coats, cuffed sleeves, low cut vests, and cuff or non cuff trousers. Describes new fabrics and tailoring with moderate prices from 5.00 to 20.00 and services to clean press and repair clothing including fur coats for rent.
Robbers blew open a bank safe at Bank of Mounds in Mounds Oklahoma about six miles west of Muskogee yesterday, obtaining 5400 in currency. Five posses pursued the thieves or participated in the chase, with authorities reporting the escape of the robbers.
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