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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1911
Page
3
A local store announces a Wednesday start for a distinctive White Sale featuring a limited range of high quality muslin undergarments and linens. The campaign touts careful stitching, graceful cuts, and spring styles at unusually low prices, with ample quantities per lot and appealing items for both wear and home use.
The advertisement lists hemmed bedspreads at 1.39, square spreads also 1.39, full size spreads at 2, bleached pillow-casing 45 inches wide at 1 1 2 yards, pillow tubing 45 inch at 15 cents per yard, fine bleached sheets 81 by 99 at 70 cents, brown sheets 81 by 90 at 55 cents, and stout pillow-cases at 1 1/Te. The copy ends with Mair floor noted at the rear.
The advertisement lists slip-over and V neck gowns in soft cambric and muslin, trimmed with lace, embroidery, and insertions. It details numerous styles including nainsook and cambric combinations, corset covers with skirts or drawers, and bibs, all priced from 35c to 1.75, highlighting new season models and fine trimming such as Swiss embroidery and Val lace.
Describes a range of skirts in cambric and lawn fabrics with variations in flounces, lace, embroidery, beadings, and ribbons. Prices range from 45 cents to $2.75, highlighting eyelet embroidery, Swiss embroidery, dotted Swiss, narrow slashed effects, and exclusive model options. Bold emphasis on finishing touches and period styling.
Graceful and pretty chemises of soft fine cambric new in style, trimmed with lace and embroidery. Soft cambric chemises with lace yokes and inserting. Beautiful models trimmed with ribbon beading and fine detailing. Prices 69 and 89 cents.
White Sale offers long cloth and cambric a yard wide, bleached sheeting, Fruit of the Loom muslin, and pattern tablecloths. Damask, mercerised damask, and linen napkins are advertised with varied widths and prices. Main floor rear.
White Sale offers crisp fresh embroideries in patterns priced by size. Edgings and inserts on firm close woven cloth showcase careful work with ranges from 1.5 to 15 inches and beads and flouncing in Swiss fabrics priced from 5 to 40 cents.
Cambric 18 inches wide priced at 9c, corset-cover embroidery with waist-line designs at 19c, Swiss nainsock embroidery at 45c. Wide Swiss flouncing 27 inches with scalloped edges at 69c, allover embroideries in large and small patterns, fancy waist fronts of batiste at 50c. Dress flouncing 45 inch width priced around 1.00. Center aisle front.
Special display of white cottons and fine fabrics for children’s dresses and undergarments. Nainsook, dimity, and swisses offered in 40 inch widths with prices from 12 1/2 to 39 cents per yard. Featured items include dotted and figured swisses, madras waisting, checked dimities, bordered swisses, and embroidered crepe. Left aisle rear.
Vintage fashion listing describes corset covers and related garments from 19th century examples. It highlights strong muslin French styles trimmed with lace or embroidery, soft cambric options in close fits, varied finishes with eyelet and beading, and nainsook covers with Swiss embroideries and Val Cluny laces, priced from 19 to 65 cents.
A collection of death notices and funeral details from December 1911. Includes Mrs. Delia Doher ty at St. Peter's. Sarah Breen Taylor of New York to St. Patrick's. William W Ingham of East Main street. Frederic R Wheeler of Easton. Mary Catherine Sherwood Bradley of Hull's Farms. Anna Elizabeth Malota of Colorado avenue. Each entry lists residence, age where given, funeral or burial arrangements, and interment locations.
Monessen police investigate a possible dynamiting plot after arresting a man who called himself Gee Bridges. He refused to give an address and had a suitcase containing 72 sticks of dynamite, posing a threat to mills employing thousands of non union workers near the borough.
A high powered touring car roared through a dealer yard at King street and Passaic avenue Valley in Newark, crashed into a large advertising sign, and buried itself in an embankment before bursting into flames. Occupants and fate remain unknown as police investigate theft clues surrounding plate 1-696-Mass.
Patrolman Willian O'Dea sues George P. Gabriel of Beach Street in Waterbury alleging injuries from a pursuit incident on October 10. O'Dea claims disability from being run down after Gabriel refused to stop when signaled and cites a broken left toe and other injuries. City Sheriff Brown served the papers today.
Christmas was celebrated in churches and homes with Catholic masses and Episcopal services. The day saw crowded theatres and strong trade. Santa Clara and Bridgeport hospitals gave patients gifts and held meals. The Arion Society Salvation Army City Mission and others observed the holiday. Former Alderman Patrick Lyons lies critically ill at his Park Avenue home.
Edward C. Hanley, a biotechnical engineer and holder of a civil degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, plans a visit to his parents on Tranistan Avenue. He is currently with Western Construction Co. of Louis and Chicago. Fur sets described with sable and small items are noted in local fashion items.
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