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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1908
Page
9
Advertises new spring women s shoes in patent tan and leather styles including Oxfords Ribbon Ties Colonials Pumps and Slippers. Prices range from 1 50 to 4 00 with bold claims you will find the handsomest and best spring footwear here.
Miss Susie Belle Moore of Spring Hill visits Nashville friends while many Columbia residents appear in town for social and religious events. The column lists numerous names, visits, engagements, church activities, and preparations for the U D C convention in Chattanooga with social events and travel plans.
Miss Hughes of New York, in the Woman's Department column, quotes views on women who lead. She warns that bossiness weakens charm and invites pity, urging gentleness as the strongest household weapon. She will lecture tonight at 7:30 in the First Church of God.
A Maury Dry Goods Co sale lists a counter of 50c and 60 pound check and stripe dress goods and solid color suitings at 2 1 2 cents per yard. Also featured are pongee silks and taffeta silks in stripes and checks from 37 inch to 96 inch widths with prices ranging from 50c to 1.00 per yard. Yard wide black taffeta sill and rough silks offered at discounted rates with former prices noted.
Easter sale highlights a wide range of white fabrics at low yard prices. Includes 40 inch India linen at 12 cents, 40 inch Persian lawn at 15 cents, organide and batistes from 25 to 50 cents, 560 yard French organdie, Persian and Paris muslins, Madras cloth, and yard wide union linen. Many items marketed as high quality, with substantial discounts on regular prices.
A large counter displays printed lawns batistes and figured aeolians offered at prices from 124¢ to 20e, with yard sales advertised at 10 cents per yard.
Long silk gloves in kid or silk offered in black white and colors at 1.00 1.25 and 1.50 per pair. Long kid gloves in multiple shades. Short silk gloves 50c to 1. Tic per pair. Remnants include gingham apron check pieces and yardages of unbleached domestic at 5c to 10c per yard.
Easter footwear for men women and children features Queen Quality Oxfords Theo ties pumps sailor ties in tan patent and black with feathers priced 2.50 3.00 and 3.50 per pair Ladies black and tan leathers oxford sandals 1.50 and 2.00 Misses oxfords sandals and pumps 1.00 1.50 and 2.00 Men black and tan oxfords in Crossette and Hannan wakes 3.50 4.00 and 5.00 per pair Other fine makes at 2 2.50 and 3.00 per pair.
Mrs Clyde Smith of Riverside is confined at home with mumps. Albert Conley underwent an appendectomy at St Thomas Hospital in Nashville on Wednesday. The growth measured nearly five inches in length after removal. Operation successful for Conley.
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