Bargain Saturday Fabrics and Parasols Offered
The ad promotes 10 pieces of Figured Muslins and Organdies at 9c per yard, previously selling around 12 1/2 and 16d yard. Parasols priced from 1.25 to 4.00 with children’s goods listed at 20c to 1.50.
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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1908
Page
5
The ad promotes 10 pieces of Figured Muslins and Organdies at 9c per yard, previously selling around 12 1/2 and 16d yard. Parasols priced from 1.25 to 4.00 with children’s goods listed at 20c to 1.50.
A jumble of notes covers shops and services at The Vaughan Store and Miscati’s with references to delivery and a food offer at the New Central Market. Mentions Kenyon & Co.’s Bargain Store and a Seguin four cylinder automobile. Edwant Webb is noted in connection with a drowning incident on the Connecticut River, with family references and local visits sprinkled throughout.
The column lists items and events around Vaughan's theater and Perry's shop with prices and goods. It mentions homemade foods at Vaughan's, textiles at Perry's, longley’s roast coffee, New England fruit shipments, and fruit delivery in the city. Also notes entertainment at Higmanan theater with cheap admission and a moving program.
Local Montpelier high school sports and cultural items mix with a review of a Comique film Calabria. Laird pitched well for Montpelier in a baseball win over Burlington Spaulding. A poem by Marr pleases Mrs Howe, while film Calabria draws crowds and a Mori game entertains at the theater.
Groups outline plans to take part in Sunday excursions with options to supply lunch baskets. The notice invites participants to bring purses and emphasizes weekly availability of trips and meal provisions.
Vermont merchants report cheaper dry goods and explain current money stringencies. Abbott & Co. presents a list of values as seen on stables counters and racks, highlighting price reductions and market conditions for shoppers.
A fragment advertises discounted fabrics including 26-inch Apron Checked Gingham 3¢ per yard, Mercerized Ginghams 18¢, Crepe Chiffon 34¢, Silk Muslin and Half Silk yardage, and various patterns. It mentions auctions from Arnold goods to New York and notes widths and colors, with prices across several fabrics.
Vermont retailer advertises heavy discounts on ladies tailored suits including sample and clearance stock. Prices span 3.98 to 99.98 with wool and all wool fabrics, plus vacation wash suits from 5.50 to 12.00 and cream mohair skirts from 5.50 to 5.75. Graduation outfits highlighted with small sizes and 12 button silk gloves at 75 cents per pair.
The notice touts West Silk goods in navy garnet black and white with prices for nylon like silks at 59 cents per yard. It highlights 4 inch tack taffeta with green edge at 1.00 and other taffetas at 0.79 to 1.00 per yard. Mention of plate and Armstrong Black Taffeta at 1.374 and limited stock warnings.
A. P. Abbott & Co. announce an auction tonight at City Auction Room. Mrs. George Adame travels to Potadam N Y due to her aunt’s death. Old Isaacs the Pawn broker plays at Theatorium to crowds. Local arrivals include H J Stevens and others. The twelve year old Miss Mary Corti dies after two weeks illness. The Corti family recently returned from Italy. Funeral at 2 pm tomorrow from the Corti home with Catholic cemetery burials. Old Isaacs draws crowds. Advertisements offer 5 percent cash discounts at Crown North Main Street. Missing of Witdour arrives. Abbott’s offers half price massage services. Omnes H. Cave Jr visits Waterbury. W J M Beattie preacher to hold sermon at Graniteville Presbyterian church on Sunday.
Sunday services and sermon subjects at several churches. Universalist Church hosts Rev. C. E. Bay at 10 30 with remarks on education and Micronesia. St Monica’s offers 9 am children’s mass and 10 30 sermon. Methodist Episcopal details children’s sermon and evening topic Minds Brace Up for Life’s Battles. Congregational Church to hold morning Education and the Life of God and evening Gospel in Micronesia illustrated with 60 colored whites. Church of the Good Shepherd Holy Communion and 7 pm sermon. First Church morning worship 10 30 with Christ’s Mission and Ours and a 12 pm wedding. Lectionary and social study class noted. Central Vermont Hospital association meetings at Montpelier later this week.
A garbled fragment mentions a pair of bread, nine docks, and for wives. It references A. Y. Alles and a surtied cust, with unclear connections to Routh and an amet. The legible pieces hint at a local notice about boats and duties but are too incomplete for specifics.
A woman's shopping is deliberate while a man often shops by habit yet men grow wiser each season. They learn value lies in unseen parts of the suit beyond price labels. We urge comparison to see what the money buys. We Clean Prem and Repair Clothing.
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