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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1922
Page
8
The store announces the February White Sale with larger assortments finer qualities and greater money saving opportunities for customers seeking value in home textiles and linens this season.
A list of fabric sale prices is provided including Longeloth at 1.39 per piece and pieces priced at 31.39 each. Additional sale pricing covers 25 to 75 cent ranges for Sherrette Nainsook Dimity Voile Pique Gabardine and White fabrics with various sale prices.
Advertises curtain materials sold by the yard at white sale prices. Lists 12 4c yard wide Col figured at sale price, 25c yard wide Col figured at sale price, 15c 20c Scrim white or cream at sale price, 12 4e 45c Scrim white only at sale price, 29 50c Scrim Drawn Work Border at sale price 39c, and 65c Scrim Drawn Work Border at sale price 45.
A sale promotes white linens including crashes napkins and towels at Jowest during 1922. The event highlights staple white textiles as part of a Matto promotion.
Readable catalog of textile and linens featuring Damask in multiple values and widths. Includes Napkins in varying sale prices, all Linen Tea Sets, Cloth sizes, and border fabrics in cotton and linen. Also lists Crash and Toweling textiles with border styles and Cluny lace edges.
A historic newspaper ad notes a February sale on laces and embroideries with wide designs and varied widths. It lists prices for embroidery edges, insertions, corset covers, and allover embroidery, plus Kayser silk tops, union suits, wool garments, and lingerie waists at significantly reduced rates. The ad highlights low prices and massed white waists with substantial discounts for washing.
The ad touts women’s underwear including corset covers and nightgowns in white and pink nainsook, with sale prices from $1.39 to $3.69. Lace trimmed covers, outing gowns, and pink batiste gowns are featured, plus lace back corsets from $1.75 to $6.25 and various sale prices, highlighting reduced costs across high grade models.
A catalog touts white bed spreads sheets pillow cases and sheetings as extraordinary with splendid quality and low prices. The dealer urges inspection to agree the goods deserve the term.
A local ad lists white bed spreads in full size with scalloped edges and hemmed finishes. Prices progress from two dollars twenty five cents up to eight dollars fifty cents, including sale prices of three, four, five, six, and seven fifty.
A local store highlights Wearwell brand sheets and pillow cases in their white sale. 42x36 inch pillow cases priced at 42 cents, 45x36 inch cases at 45 cents, 72x90 inch sheets at 1.50, and 81x90 inch sheets at 1.75.
Readable list shows Wearwell pillow casings in 42 and 45 inch sizes and pillow tubing in 42 and 45 inch lengths. Mentions small price marks 40c 45 45c and 50c, indicating unit pricing or catalog notation.
Hundreds of handkerchiefs flutter during the February White Sale featuring bleached and unbleached sheetings with prices from 5c to 75e, domet and flannel fabrics, silk embroidered wool flannel sets, and assorted writing papers. Includes 36 inch and 27 inch widths, plus white lawn and embroidery items.
A notice states that Longcloths and other fabrics such as Batiste Dimity Sherrette Nainsook and India Linens are priced at the lowest cotton price of 1921, implying today’s wholesale cost is similar. It frames current purchases as close to historical wholesale values for these staples.
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