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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1916
Page
10
The listing details a large sale of glassware such as tumblers and tea glasses, numerous flower sets and bowls, salad items, and miscellaneous kitchenware with bulk prices. Vacuum cleaners, Nesco cookers, and gas ranges are offered as marked-down floor samples, with prices ranging from a few dollars to around a hundred dollars.
A listing touts gas lamps equipped with art glass shades, highlighting a very attractive group offered at half original prices. Includes all electric and gas portables advertised at special sale prices.
A sale ad lists guest towels at discounted rates across multiple lines with regular prices ranging from 13c to $3.00 and sale prices from 18c to $1.35. Details include plain, damask, bath sheets, and accessories with assorted colors and quantities.
A catalog of fabric remnants offered in assorted colors and widths. Multiple fabrics including Foulards, Messaline, Tub Silks, Taffetas, Crepe de Chine, Georgette Crepe, Charmeuse and Velveteen priced between 25 and 95 cents, with several items marked down from higher figures. Stock details show yardages ranging from 90 to 900 yards and widths from 19 to 40 inches.
A padded antique ads page lists various priced goods including fitted traveling cases priced from ten to seventeen dollars and silk bags for sale. The text also mentions collar boxes coat hangers and sample items from high grade manufacturers with prices ranging from fifty cents to thirteen fifty.
A noted sale lists men's half hose in silk and lisle colors at 25¢ and 19c for cottons and lisle, with 3 pair for 50c. Women's lisle and silk items at 50c, gloves from 85c to $1.15, and assorted handkerchiefs discounted from 13-15c to 50c per group.
Catalog of embroideries trimmings laces and fabric goods with sale prices. Cambrie and Swiss edges Camisole Embroidery Organdie flouncings Radium all over net tops and veils Linen centers serim pincushions fancy cushions linen scarves coat hangers laundry bags and various vanity items offered at reduced prices. Included are neckwear vests high collars jabots and mourning crepe de chine veils with discounts.
A local ad promotes men’s wear with stiff cuff shirts at reduced prices. Negligee shirts in silk madras and neat stripes are discounted from 2.00 to 1.50 and 1.50 to 1.00. Percale and madras stiff cuffs, flannelette pajamas and night shirts also offered at lower prices.
A catalog note describes discontinued lines of button shoes in patent leathers and various calf and kid leathers with contrasting tops and novelty slippers. All items priced at 4.90, 6.00, 7.00 or 8.00 dollars per pair.
Upholstery and curtains discounted for spring re-furnishing. Novelty net curtains, scrim curtains, tapestry portieres, upholstery fabrics, silk velour and leather mats offered at reduced prices. Dinnerware sets include Austrian, French, English and American china with substantial mark downs. Wash goods and flannels also discounted by the yard. Third floor sale notes.
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