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Newspaper
Bridgeport Standard Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1919
Page
3
Sam Peck's and other good makes offer limited quantity boys suits in medium shades. Regular prices from 16 to 20 dollars drop to 3 15. Forty-four suits from 22.50 to 30 dollars now 19.50. Sizes 10 to 17 years. Basement front.
Good fabrics form the base of fine clothing. Kuppenheimer Clothes offers superior tailoring and style with summer and between season suits in blue or black serges, flannels, and unfinished Worsteds. Dress up suits range from $30 to $48, available on the main floor rear.
An old advertisement notes Neponset lightweight flooring for bath and kitchen with a 69¢ per square yard price. It also promotes lingerie items from the second floor with boudoir caps, fancy caps, and lace trimmed silk dressing sacsques ranging from 5.50 to 10.00, highlighting locations on each floor.
The notice states store hours with daily closing at five and Saturday closing at nine. It also notes opening time at 8 30 a.m. The schedule emphasizes early hours for weekday operations and extended Saturday start.
Readable items include a range of coats in 30 inch length with collars in taupe, seal, marmot, opossum, and other furs. Prices span from $12.50 to $390, with belted, shawl, and ripple back designs, plus numerous fur scarfs in fox, mink, and raccoon. Second floor mention included.
August display drew many buyers noting quality and beauty of coats scarves and muffs while some wished for lower prices. To ease purchase, the store will reserve furs upon a quarter deposit as a good faith guarantee and store them until November.
A new Betsy Ross model dress arrives featuring green, cobalt or rose colorways, tan crepe trim at the round neck and cuffs, plus embroidery and shirring to draw the eye. Sizes 14, 16, and 18 offered at $4.50.
Rare rich color combinations and rib bons shown for the coming season. Women buy them daily and fashion bags from them. Also offered are desirable correct ways to make them up with prices per yard from 2 to 6.50.
Price leads the sale of women’s wash dresses in this final clearance. Assortments cover all sizes with ginghams and voiles featuring organdie or crepe de chine collars, lace edges, and dainty ruffles. Prices range from four to thirteen dollars, with many items reduced to under ten dollars.
A special sale of Barker collars, widely used daily, praised for serviceability and laundering. Styles include soft or stiff models in large variety, prices cut from 25c to 2.40 per dozen and 1.20 per half dozen, soft finish 35c to 3.60 per dozen and 1.80 per half dozen.
A range of summer footwear including white linen oxfords with medium to narrow toes and military heels, round toe pumps, and opera pumps with rubber soles. Prices start at $4.45, offering broad toe and narrow toe options in white.
Bargain shoppers learn croquet is a healthy recreation with savings. The ad lists multiple set quantities with bold price cuts from early figures to discounted amounts, including 4 to 9 sets and a single 1 set option, ending with one strange unpriced 1 set now 6.80.
A short notice notes Victrolas have been in high demand but a few units exist. The model 14 in mahogany includes automatic stop, tiling records books, and an enclosed roomy cabinet priced at $175. Available on the fourth floor, front.
A read-through price list of cosmetics and toiletries appears, with items such as Dr Lyons tooth powder, Kolynos toothpaste, Pebeco toothpaste, Pepsodent, D and R Cream in various forms, Frostilla, Hind’s Cream, La Blache Face Powder, Mennen’s Talcum Powder, Cuticura Soap, Packer’s Tar Soap, Woodbury’s Soap, Cocoanut Oil, Cutex, Listerine in multiple sizes, and Mavis Talcum and Face Powder among others, with assorted cents prices attached for each.
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