Loom Sale Opens Saturday February 16
Loom sale opens Saturday February 16 and runs through March 2 with wide selections and special discounts announced by the merchant to attract customers and clear stock.
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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1907
Page
13
Loom sale opens Saturday February 16 and runs through March 2 with wide selections and special discounts announced by the merchant to attract customers and clear stock.
Every Lady in Fort Wayne and Vicinity promotes a fourth Loom End Sale with vast daily crowds. Buyers report enormous purchases of mill ends and an abundance of every advertised item, promising record-breaking savings for patrons.
Merchants tout a loom end sale with thousands of yards of ribbon lace and handkerchiefs at deep discounts. Offers include cottons, muslins, ginghams, osnaburgs, and crepe sheeting with names like Perealine Linings and French Flannels cut to bargain prices. Hosiery and underwear add further savings as quantity marks define the sale.
Loom ends are short pieces from looms, from % yard to 10 yards, collected through the weaving season. They are bundled by weight and sold for less than the raw material cost, allowing buyers to acquire varied pieces from mills through a steady purchase approach.
One lot of dollar corsets in odd sizes priced at 69 cents each. The best corset for the tone at 45 cents, valued at 76 cents.
A bold advertisement proclaims a sale with vast mill remnant bargains designed to eclipse former offers. It promises quick sales driven by unheard of buying chances and urges satisfied customers to fuel ongoing bargain activity.
Featured loom end sale offers ladies garments including silk petticoats at 3.69, outing petticoats 19 cents each, calico house sacques at 41 cents, teasledown dressing sacques at 69 cents marked down from 1.00, and teasledown dressing sacques at 39 cents, down from 50 cents.
A dense listing of fabrics and linens with sale prices per yard or per piece. Items include Pean de Soi silk at 69c, various silks and taffetas, Crepe de Metier, Silk Velvets, Chiffon Taffeta, Silk Voile, All Wool Crepe Cloth, Turkey Red Table Damask, bleached Damask Napkins, and linen table linens sold at discounted rates from fractions to 69c a yard to 33c a yard. Contains many color variants and quantities.
Loom ends and loom scraps flood the white goods counter with Indian linens and Nainsook. Offers include 18c to 20c yard loom ends, 2 to 10 yards chunks, and over 10,000 yards of plain, checked, and striped fabrics. Delicate Dimities and embroideries sell at 4c to 5c a yard, with some pieces as low as 1c to 2c per yard.
In this price list an assortment of floor coverings is offered. Extra heavy ingrain carpets at 22 cents per yard. 250 all wool Syrian rugs 30 by 60 inches at 1 dollar 43 cents each. 200 Axminster rugs 36 by 72 inches at 2 dollars 98 cents each. 500 carpet samples 134 yards long at 93 cents each. heavy linoleums two yards wide at 1 dollar 79 cents per yard.
Nottingham Curtains offers loom end deals with cuts on lace curtains silkeline denim and window shades. bargains include 79c 93c per pair for curtains 6c per yard silkeline 8 000 yards denim 5 000 window shades and 8 000 yards loom end denim plus dozens of discounted textiles rugs mats and accessories with 10 percent to 16 percent savings on various items none of which exceed 10 measures.
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