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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1913
Page
6
CHALLENGE PRICES promote a new ready to wear department with extensive suit options. The store claims its second floor is packed with garments and offers all wool novelty and Amoskeag serge suits at 8.48 to 12.50 25.00 range, selling higher priced mail order and city store equivalents at 35.00.
A local retailer offers a new line of misses and small women suits priced at $9.98 and $12.50, emphasizing affordable fashion. The range highlights budget options alongside mid range styles for wardrobe updates.
Bargain coats listed with prices from 3.98 to 19.98. Items include ladies black coats with plush collars, striped pony coats, chenille novelty coats, astrakan coats in multiple colors, Salts Sealette Plush coats with satin lining, and black Ural Lamb coats.
Advertises children’s coats in multiple colors and fabrics with sizes from 2 to 14 years. Prices shown include 1.58 for bear skin coats size 2 to 6, 33.49 for Black Velvet coats, 34.98 for Black Astralian or Plush coats, and 2.98 for Black Pony coats as a low promotional price.
A local shop advertises a large hats display on the second floor with wholesale buys promising value over fancy brands. Prices range from 8 cents to 7.59 dollars for adults and 25 cents to 1.49 dollars for children's hats.
A sale offers all wool Amoskeag Serge dresses in latest fashion for 4.98, regular 6.50. Junior Navy Blue Sersé dresses priced at 83.98. Names Navy Brown Alice Black Taufe appear as color or style references.
Dresses skirts offered in navy tan brown and black colors. All Wool Serge skirts priced at 2.98 and All Wool Whip Cord skirts priced at 3.98 for 5.09 quality in the same color range.
Advertises ladies cloth rain coats priced at 2.98 and ber lined. Children's rain coats at 1.98 and rain capes at 1.49 and 1.98.
A local retailer advertises a complete junior coat line priced from 4.98 to 15.00 that fits small women as well. The promotion emphasizes affordable outerwear suitable for a range of petite customers.
A catalog-style notice promotes utility kimonas and house dresses designed to close in the front and fit like a dress. The items promise comfortable coverage and all-day wear, appealing to shoppers seeking practical yet stylish house attire.
Advertisement lists fall ginghams at 9 cents for 12 percent ginghams 124 cents per yard for 15 cent ginghams 5 cents per yard for fast color apron gingham and 7Yoc per yard for genuine 10 cent Amoskeag apron ginghams.
The article lists price highlights for dress fabrics including crepe dress goods at 79 cents per yard, Silkwool Crepe 40 inches, Amoskeag serges at 50 cents, Heavy cloaking cloth at $1.98, Silk Poplins 49 cents, Brocaded Charmeuses 49 cents, 40 inch Crepe Meteors and Charmeuses both at $1.98, 36 inch Silk Nezzalines at 98 cents, Brocaded Velvets at $1.49, corduroys at 49 cents, and Moaivre Silks at 98 cents.
An advertisement lists fabric yardages and prices for outing flannels at 10 cents per yard, flannelettes at 1214 cents, and Eaton cloths at 41 cents per yard. It mentions uses for gowns skirts pajamas and kimona pieces.
A big flyer lists bleached muslin offered in 7 to 10 yard lengths priced at six and a half cents per yard. The item is advertised for bulk buyers seeking fabric by the yard.
Catalog note lists White Galatea cloth 18 offered at 10 cents per yard with available cuts from one to ten yards.
A local ad touts low prices on wool and cotton blankets. It highlights $5.00 wool blankets, $1.98 10-4 woolknap blankets, 98c 10-4 cotton blankets, 49c infants cib blankets, $2.25 heavy bathroom blankets with cord, and $2.48 10-4 half wool plaid blankets.
Advertises good warm winter undergarments for men at 39c to 98c. Items include thick fleece shirts or drawers, double breasted shirts, black and white mixes, ribbed fleeced shirts, and heavy flat fleece or union suits.
Advertisement notes 39c items for ladies bleached fleeced ribbed vests or pants with 50c value 49c for ladies heavy fleeced ribbed union suits indicating a discounted apparel sale.
Readable text lists prices for ladies bleached ribbed fleeced union suits at 98 cents for vests or pants, 25 cents for children ribbed fleeced union suits, 49 cents for boys heavy fleece union suits, and 28 cents for boys fleece shirts or drawers, with some items up to a dollar value.
In 1 to 10 yard lengths of 25 cent White Veils are on sale at 7.5 cents per yard. The material can be used to make fine curtains as well as waists.
Special at 75c each for flyers in Crepe and Flannel ette Kimonas.
W R Bradshaw of the New York Anti Vivisection Society denounces vivisection as torturous and indignant humanity, arguing it corrupts scientists and endangers humans and animals alike. He cites Harvard’s Eliot and Bechamp, laments laws and international practices, and condemns the open door to laboratories.
Mrs H H Launis has returned home after visiting her sister at French Lick.
Mrs M L Morland of Ellens ville is visiting her brother Tay lor Johnson and family on West 18th Street.
Miss Connie Owens daughter of Luther Owens of North M street has been in a serious condition from a complication of diseases and is much improved.
President Wilson signs the tariff bill as noted by notables present. The measure takes effect immediately with exceptions for wool and sugar. Speakers Clark and Marshall sign, and a two pen signing ritual honors Woodrow Wilson and Senator Simmons. Calls for an international campaign against cotton futures gambling accompany the event.
Democratic leaders claim the tariff law cuts an average of about half on foodstuffs and farm products. Raw wool goes free, woolen clothing tariffs fall sharply, cotton clothing tariffs drop about one third, sugar tariffs reduced and phased out in 1916, earthenware and glassware tariffs cut, and all tariffs on meats fish dairy flour potatoes coal iron ore timber and many farm and office machinery reduced. General reductions apply to widely used goods.
President Wilson, surrounded by representatives, senators, and cabinet members, signed the administration tariff bill after nine last night. The law takes effect at midnight and "except wool and sugar" schedules, becomes operative today. The House approved the conference report with Speaker Clark overruing all points of order raised by members.
Wendell Byrn of New Albany perished after falling sixty one feet from a scaffold over Maple Street on the Big Four bridge in Jeffersonville. Grover Stephens also escaped death by clinging to a crosspiece as painter’s rigging collapsed. both had been working for a painting gang when a milk wagon driver ignored posted warnings and dragged the scaffold. Byrn, 21, died en route to St Edward's Hospital, with burial plans in Corydon Junction.
Washington reports that thirty dollars in popped corn sold as 5-cent packages costs only about 1 to 1.5 dollars for raw material. A forty by twenty feet plot can grow enough to make thirty dollars worth of packages. Experts note popcorn's value as a food and its preparation can surpass many breakfast options. Farmers plant a few rows for home use often engaging children in planting. If grown as a field crop, excess can be sold to local merchants or directly to consumers.
William Rochenour, located southwest of the city, has been severely ill but is now somewhat better today.
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