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Newspaper

Bridgeport Evening Farmer

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Dec 14, 1915

Page

13

Jewelry Exhibition Opens With Wide Jewelry Stock

On Saturday December 18 and through Christmas a stock of 14 unique jewelry designs will be opened. Leading U.S. manufacturers will send a representative with a superb showing of fine jewelry and stay through the week. Patrons may see the highest grade pieces, choose confidently, and purchase from a broad range including bar pins brooches pendants scarfs etc with diamonds pearls or platinum. Prices are expected to be very moderate.

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New Games and Activities Parade in Toytown Items

A list of games and hobbies features numerous inventions and favorites for the year including Card and Board Games, Toytown Railroads, Post Office and Telegraph lines, Domestic Science Games, Baseball and Auto Races, war games with fighters and forts, Authors Pit and Bock, Kindergarten outfits, embroidery, bead stringing, paper weaving, and stenciling, all priced from 10 cents.

Pit Bock

Che D M Read Co Christmas Shopping Hours

The Store Service extends 8 30 A M to 6 P M daily until December eighteenth. Beginning Saturday December eighteenth the store opens evenings until Christmas. Customers are urged to leave wraps at the Transfer Desk main floor and to use the Reading Room and Tea Room for rest and lunch. Music Wednesday Afternoon.

Furs for Gifts Special Offers at Hudson Seal Coats

A local ad promotes fur gifts on the second floor featuring Hudson Seal Coats in multiple lengths and trims with prices from 95 to 195 dollars and other furs including Russian Ponks and Sable Fox. Also listed are Muffs in varied furs and White Fox Sets with prices up to 150 dollars, along with floor and table lamps in mahogany or metal with silk shades starting at 14 dollars.

Christmas Sale Catalog Items Include Tea Wagons And Robes

Readable catalog fragment lists 45 cent tea wagons and 1.75 dollar smoking stands in copper nickel or brass, plus two Christmas specials with movable trays and mahogany trays. Describes Corduroy robes, Japanese embroidery robes, silk Negligees, crepe de Chine, and fur trim. Includes heavy china plates, mugs, oatmeal bowls, jugs and saucers. Basement White Goods offers shirt waist patterns, dimity stripes, voiles and yardage.

Variety Handkerchiefs and Doll House Furnishings Ad

Handkerchiefs in variety priced at 9.75 with plate glass tray 11.75. Fourth floor Furniture For Doll Houses includes beds chiffoniers tables chairs bureaus and dressing tables 50 cents up. Complete furniture sets in oak mahogany walnut and white enamel finish for rooms Christmas aprons exquisite embroidered lace trimmed styles in plain or dotted lawn. Housemaids Parlor Maids and Waitress aprons 39 cents up.

Fancy Corsets and Lingerie for Women and Men

Corset section showcases fancy brassieres and lingerie sachets with variety of foot wear and slippers. Hemstitched linens for men and children boxes with handkerchiefs, plus handmade slippers and warm winter items. Main floor north aisle offers countless fabrics, slippers, and decorative pieces for guests and home use.

Italian Silk Underwear indainty white and pink blosom

Italian Silk Underwear offers dainty undergarments in white and delicate pink for pink wash. Vests priced from 1.00 to 6.00 dollars camisoles 1.00 to 3.00 dollars union suits 3.50 and up knickers 1.50 to 6.00 black tights merino and wool suited for severe weather walking.

Knitted Wool Things and Hosiery Essentials for Holidays

The display lists knit wear including sweaters capes jackets shawls and warm vests. It features women hosiery black silks lisles and fancy silk stockings with assorted prices and colors plus skating sets desk and leather goods suitable for gift purchases this holiday season.

Clock sales offer mantel and chime varieties

Showcasing desk clocks with calendars from $3.00 and mantel clocks in mahogany and brass from $6.50 to $30.00. Chime clocks with musical bells and low-toned gongs range from $27.00 to $100.60. Main St. entrance, left.

Jewelry and Leather Goods Selection Highlights

Jewelry and Leather Goods Section offers versatile Sterling Silver pieces. Flexible bracelets with rhinestones priced around 3.50 to 5.00. Pearl solitaire and jet options, hoop earrings, Saree sets, and various 19 karat gold filled items. Vanity items include exclusive novelties and a broad price range from 1.00 to 20.00.

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Men’s Hosiery In Colorful Silk and Fancy Half Hose

Satisfactory grades in black silk hosiery priced at 50 cents 1.00 and 1.50 Fancy silk half hose 50 cents Versatile colors include black white navy blue tan gray and sand Silks with silk appearance Hoseproof brand six months guarantee Interwoven hose sold per box three or four pairs Main Floor.

Vwwomen

Rug Offers For Christmas Specials In Carpet Gallery

A Carpet Gallery advertises Oriental Rugs in varied sizes and colors. Rugs 3.6 by 6 feet priced at 1850, 25.00 and 35.00 Wilton patterns. Rugs 36 by 63 inches at 6.00, Axminsters 27 by 60 inches at 2.50. Hassocks priced 50c, 1.00 and 1.35.

Wilton

Carriage Robes for Baby Lambs Priced Low in Sale

Vintage baby carriage robes called Go Carts and Carriages with quilted satin linings priced from four to seven dollars, now offered at one dollar. Some items noted as slightly soiled.

Mechanical toy sets for boys with mechanical minds

Structural Steel Toys Meccano and Erector offer endless building possibilities from locomotives to windmills with models priced from $1.00. Some sets include electric motors powered by dry batteries for easy operation.

Interesting Toys and Soldier Sets Advertised in Niche Sale

An old advertisement lists toy categories with varied prices including soldiers in sets from 25 cents, air rifles from 50 cents, guns and swords, uniforms for Firemen Police and Cavalry, foot balls at 50 cents, drawing slates, rubber balls, banks, trumpets and humming tops, doll hammocks, tin kitchens and stoves, pianos upright and baby grands, all offered in multiple price tiers up to $1.00 and beyond.

Man’s Accessories on Sale in Boxes and Sticks

A Lincoln store advertises suspender sets in boxes at 50c and 75c, leather belts in tan and gray from 50c to 1.00, combination sets with tie hose and silk handkerchief at 1.50, plus scarves of silk poplin, cravats from 65c to 2.00, and walking sticks from 50c to 5.00. Men’s attire section on the main floor.

Men's Slippers Models for the Fastidious Taste

Slipper styles listed include Cavaliers Opera Amocos and Everetts in black tan or chocolate kid suede. Tan Alligator and black and tan Sealskin options also offered by Boot Shop on the second floor.

Cavaliers Opera Amocos Everetts

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