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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1908
Page
4
Beginning Saturday January 2 1909 and lasting ten days the Fairfield store slashes prices on entire stock to clear winter merchandise. The sale promises greatest inducements in quality and price and aims to be the largest in town.
Advertisement lists discounted prices on cotton blankets in greys tans and fancies and wool blankets in plaids. It shows original values and sale prices ranging from 46c to 2.98 for cotton and from 3.75 to 10.00 for wool, highlighting substantial savings.
A sale offer presents blankets for bath robes priced originally at two dollars now reduced to one fifty. Limited quantities available. Shop hours and store location not listed in the fragment.
Six pieces of cloaking material offered without lining. Worth 1.50 to 2.00 dollars per piece, now available at 98 cents for the choice selections.
A local yard sale offers a lot of Windsor and string ties and a veilings set valued at 25 to 35 cents. Limited quantities available.
Curtain swisses offered with good assortment and new fabrics. Worth 12c to 25c, sale prices 19c and 9c. Madras fabrics with rich designs valued 25c to 5c, sale prices. Nets for curtains in colors green red tan cream white from 18c to 6c. Sewing machines guaranteed with special sale prices.
Readable catalog style listing curtains tapestries lace bed spreads and Cravenette raincoats with special sale prices. Includes 54 inch materials originally 1.25 to 1.50 now 98c and ribbon lots 8c to 29c. Limited quantities and implied urgency to buy while supplies last.
The retailer announces deep cuts on 1908 style cloaks and suits with prices halved and four bundle lots. Dress goods also heavily discounted with four price points and graded quality tiers. Limited quantities and first come, first served.
Large linen pieces on sale from 1.75 to 4.00 with original prices and discounts. Battenburg pieces offered at 2.00 and 1.15. Linen doilies from 4 cents and underwear items including wool shirts and drawers, fleeced shirts and drawers discounted to 39 to 79 cents.
A sale advertises 1 lot of children's fleeced items including vests and drawers in all sizes, priced at 18 cents. Ladies' all wool pants and vests marked down from $1.00 to 79 cents. Ladies' fleeced union suits offered at 30 cents.
An extensive sale advertises fur neckpieces and dress fabrics at deep discounts. Black Panama and Voiles reduced to fractions of their worth, silks, satins, and laces with numerous tag prices. linens, ginghams, flannels, and carpets also discounted. Includes hosiery and underskirts with broad selection and many brands referenced.
Heavy Brown Muslin 36 inch five cents. Big Stick 36 inch six cents. Wachusetts 36 inch seven and one half cents. Pepp R 36 inch seven cents. Pepp E 38 inch eight cents. Bleached Muslins 36 inches six cents. Hope 20 yard limit seven and a half cents. Lonsdale 20 yard limit eight cents. Fruit of Loom 20 yard limit eight and one fourth cents.
An old newspaper item advertises a sale on ladies garments including gowns skirts drawers and corset covers. Wrappers are offered in fleeced back and percale fabrics at 88 cents, valued up to 1.50.
Amoskeag and Lancaster materials offered as long as they last. Choose from 5c to 6c prints in black, blue, grey, red shirting and fancies. Available while supplies hold.
An advertisement touts air float talcum powder as the finest made and nicely perfumed, priced at 15 cents.
Matched sets in napkins and table cloths with towels in Huck Damask and Turkish fabrics offered at enticing prices to encourage purchases.
A detailed sale advertisement lists various carpets linoleums and velvets with widths and sale prices. Includes Ingram Carpets and Ingram Art Squares offerings along with remnants and special prices on velvet and velvet Brussels. Also features corsets and linen items with reduced prices.
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