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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1901
Page
10
A list of handkerchiefs and fabrics offered as Christmas gifts. Items include children's school toys in white and colored hare flora, ladies borders with lace trim and embroidery, scalloped edges, and silk initial handkerchiefs. Prices range from 2 cents to 10 dollars, with assorted borders, materials, and decorative details.
Advertises a range of leather items including pocketbooks chatelaines and novelties at prices from 75¢ to $5, featuring alligator seal mink skin options and shopping bags Boston bags 50¢ to $5, plus suit cases and traveling bags from $1 to $28 with steel frames and fittings.
The ad lists price points for gloves and mitts in various colors. It promotes undressed kid gloves and mitts for men women and children with prices from 50 cents to 1.50 per pair. It highlights tan and black gloves described as heavy and suitable for winter wear.
A newspaper ad touts an extensive selection of umbrellas and gloves. It highlights ladies and children’s items with varied covers and handles in materials like natural wood and horn. Prices range from 50 cents to several dollars, with Xmas specials and silk covered designs.
A garbled text urges quick buying during market turmoil, promising easy profits and urging action before Christmastide. It mentions timelines, a crashed condition, and stock momentum while insisting there is nothing to gain from waiting.
Notable low prices for holiday shoppers on all rugs and curtain materials. Moq uette Wilton Smyrna and lace curtain options listed with various sizes and discounts. Prices include 9x12 rugs for about $25 and Smyrna and Wilton options ranging from $2.50 to $38.
A garbled advertisement proclaims a holiday millinery sale with broad choices and special prices on hats, plumes, trimmings, birds, and related items. It touts customer choice and seasonal offerings, though the text is difficult to decipher.
A bustling third floor toy bazaar offers a fairyland of appealing items for children and adults. The display includes Swiss dresses, satin undergarments, bonnets and faces, with a wide range of toys from automatic to steam engines, trains, cars, dolls, writing desks, pianos, and cradles.
A lively list of attractions and entertainments including sports, wars, animals, and rides draws crowds. The catalog mentions over 1 160 items such as The Philippine War Fighting the Boers Fish Pond Golf Cuban War Pan American and a merry go round with many other games. Prices range from 5 to 38 cents and more.
Vintage ad lists Christmas novelty items including Ebonoid and Fox Wood sets Manicure sets and brushes priced variously Military brushes two for 190 and 250 Hand mirrors shavers and manicure sets priced up to 8 5 Waterling silver and related novelties as paper knives nail files notepads button hooks and powder jars with tooth brushes and hundreds of sticks priced 25 and 50 cents each
Our China department offers the most complete selection with low prices. Decorated 112 piece sets priced at 7.90, 37, 13.90 and 75.0. Ten piece toilet sets decorated at 5.10 per set. Cans and saucers plain or decorated assorted in linen at 12, 15, 25.1. Flatware sizes in decorative or plain at 1, 12, 1246. She, Haviland china plain white and decorated at lowest prices.
A local ad lists a line of cut glass praised for beauty and quality, offered at about half the price of competitors. Celery dishes priced $5.60, fruit or berry dishes $5.90, water bottles $4.05, wine decanters $1.50, tumblers 1% and 25e each, salt cellars and vinegar cruets also available.
Our Cloak department offers box coats of fine kersey at 5.40 to 7.40 with lined options in tan and castor. Satin trimmed box coats, three quarter length capes, and assorted capes in cloth and fur. Misses coats and suits in assorted colors and fabrics priced from 7.10 to 30 dollars.
Immense stock of seals, minks, martens and related items priced from 0.98 to 25 dollars. Scarves, boas, collars and children's sets offered in a wide range with many low and mid range values.
Dressing Lacques, etc. complete new line now on sale. gifts suitable for all. Includes Lem in Hat color and atelpect at feets with season’s choices. Prices vary. gowns in shirred tops available, shirt waists and baby ribbon inserts also offered.
Fragmentary ad copy describes Smoking Jackets and refined attire at a shop, listing several prices such as 3.90, 6.50, 7.50, and 8.90. The text mentions fashion details and a sense of luxury, with references to fineness and style, though many phrases are garbled. The readable items emphasize affordable elegance and a focus on gentlemanly dress.
A fragmented ad lists silk muflers from one dollar to three, men and boys' gloves and night shirts. It mentions collars and fancy shirts, with pricing around 19 cents to a dollar. The fragment implies a general clothing and accessories sale at a Gent’s Furnishings establishment.
Christmas Jewelry promotes genuine ess pieces with stamped quality, advertising one half the price of jewelers for the best items. The display includes rings with plain gold bands or set stones, brooches, hat-pins, cuff buttons, necklaces, watch guards, fobs, stud sets, thimbles and more, plus steel bags and purses from 40 cents to 5 dollars and shopping tags in shapes from 25 cents to 1 dollar.
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