Read's Manufacturers Offer Spring Opening Specials
Read's Manufacturers provide price concessions on large quantities of new spring merchandise to aid our new store launch with opening specials across every department.
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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1926
Page
15
Read's Manufacturers provide price concessions on large quantities of new spring merchandise to aid our new store launch with opening specials across every department.
Mark Cross offers chamois pull on gloves at 2.50 with Cross quality and style guarantees, noting usual prices around 53.50. This promotion highlights genuine chamois and the brand’s reputation for finish and fit.
A local listing offers Kiddies smocks sized 2 to 6 in solid cretonne colors and trimmed designs. Described as the gayest styles with patterns most becoming to little tots.
Fast color linens in every spring shade offered in daytime dresses for summer wear. Dark and light colors and white with short sleeves and white collars and cuffs. Sizes 10 to 46 available in the third binor.
This notice promotes 54 in All Wool Jersey at 3 dollars per yard. Describes the fabric as in demand for daytime and sports frocks for early spring with exceptional quality and desirable light shaded color options.
The report highlights French kid gloves with novelty cuffs and back embroidery from famous abroad makers. Narrow cuffs and decorative stitching are noted as particularly effective, reflecting a refined Easter accessory trend.
Handcrafted Philippine nightgowns priced at 1.39 with scalloped V and neck styles. Sleeveless and kimono sleeve options in sizes 15, 40, 17 and 18, embroidered with choice floral designs.
English prints and plain and figured percales become dresses for girls in sizes 6 to 10. High quality materials are used with collars cuffs and hand finishings for a complete spring and summer look.
Glove silk chemises offered in pastel shades with embroidered and lace trim. Satin ribbon straps. Sizes range from 36 to 42 across many states, priced at $3.95.
Bright spring dresses for girls aged two to six priced at $2.25 feature English prints in tiny dashes and solid colors with pique and organdie collars and cuffs.
Rayon vests and knickers shaped to fit come in pink peach and orchid. Sizes 36 to 44. Vests priced at 1 dollar and knickers at 1 dollar 49 cents. Whint iloor.
Delicate spring shades highlight envelope chemises in shimmering crepe de chine priced at 3.50 each. Frilly lace trim and tailored styles offer refined undergarment options in light feminine tones.
Merode Union Suits 79 cts. Brocaded Redfern Corselettes newest models in hand some fresh brocade with elastic gorings. Sizes 34 to 44.
Bridgeport’s most prominent social figures gather for Puris mi Masque on April 8 and 60, a fundraiser for Bridgeport Hospital Occupational Therapy. The New York vaudeville company performs with circus stunts, acrobats, and a gala program at the home of Mrs Giv Krehnme in Dixev Street, with extensive local committee support and a benefit for the hospital.
Miss Anne Sophie Grunan, former Bridgeport High School faculty, named senate chairman for the men’s industry committee of the Connecticut League of Women, now teaches economics at Hartford and has directed industrial groups in multiple states. She recently left home due to illness. Mr and Mrs Joseph Senll announce the newborn birth at Davidson of Rowen McCullough, doorman at police HQ.
The Seaside Choral Club hosted a dinner dance at Seven Gayles Inn on St Patrick's night with Miss Theresa O Brien arranging the event. Members and friends enjoyed lilies noisemakers and a program featuring operetta selections by Bridgeport’s soloists led by Lienor Luigh Mainiero and Charles E. Geren piano.
A deserted newborn found on a Boston bound express near Nashua died at a local hospital hours after discovery. A second infant, a boy, was found perishing in the Nashua station and was later taken to a hospital. Doctors determined the two infants were not mother and child, and the cases prompt officials to investigate.
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