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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
4
18 inch wide Laces Hamburg embroidery offered for skirt flounces or corset covers. Various patterns available. Regular price 50c per yard, now 28c per yard at Hill's.
Reads as a retail listing with prices like 50 cents and 1.00 dollar for assorted sizes. Mentions garment types and sizes in a brief, catalog style entry.
The shop advertises a large selection of bedroom papers and kitchen blocks at low prices. It highlights beds room effects suited to new draperies in madras cretone and fancy silks and promotes matching all decorations.
Advertises ladies flannelette gowns in pink blue stripes and plain white, extra large sizes, not duplicatable. Hill's price one dollar. Extra fine quality gowns offered at $1.50 in colors or stripes. Also all wool knit underskirts with colored borders at Foil's for $1.35.
Hill's advertisement lists men and boys apparel at deep discounts. Men's and young men's suits marked down from 12.00 to 10.00, overcoats, rain coats, and cravenettes. 200 pairs of men's odd pants. children's and boys' suits and knee pants. many shirts, sweaters, caps, and fleece items deeply reduced, with specific sale prices noted.
Weathered oak top measuring 24 inches wide and 34 inches long offered at a sale price. Original value stated as $5.00 with an apparent sale price of $3.00. Also mentions a $14.50 value item on offer.
Advertises assorted domestics at Hill's including standard prints in blacks blues and greys, eight to twelve yard flannel lengths, flannelettes with side bands, eiderdown fabrics, bleached cambric cloth, seamed sheets, sanitary towels, pure linen table cloths, and soft finished bleached muslin. Prices range from 5c to 69c per unit with yard and piece quantities.
Hill's department store features imitation leather and genuine leather suit cases with brass trim and heavy belts priced from 0.06 to 6.50. Included are heavy cowhide cases with nickel trim and multiple straps valued at 6.50, and assorted bags ranging from 1.08 to 8.50.
Bargains on cake pans bread pans jelly cake pans pie pans stove pipe collars and many more kitchen tools priced at two cents to five cents. Hundreds of other items offered at same sale prices.
A Hill's sale ad lists various small household goods priced at five cents each including oil, polish, cups, match safes, and jars. It promotes large and small kitchenware, containers, baskets, brushes, and lanterns with other odds and ends at deeply discounted prices.
An ad details various blankets and comforters with sizes and colors. It lists 10-4 cotton blankets in tan or grey at 48 cents, 11-4 blankets in grey with blue or pink border at 1.25, finest wool-finished 11-4 at 1.98, full-size silklined comforts at 1.00, and extra large fleecy cotton options with fancy borders at 2.25.
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