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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1909
Page
3
Fort Wayne merchants announce the annual cost clearing sale opening Thursday July 8. Surplus stock must move and spring and summer goods are priced to move with cuts across all departments. The promotion promises true values with items at or below cost and emphasizes bold price reductions.
The sale lists a wide range of fabrics from silks to satins and laces priced at cost. Includes silks, velvets, taffetas, crepes, voile, coverts, serges and more. Aimed as the greatest colored dress fabric sale yet.
A local sale advertises low prices on a wide range of goods including chenille textiles. The list covers silks, linens, bed coverings, domestics, towels, table linens, outerwear, curtains, and Gent's apparel and accessories. The notice emphasizes sale at cost price.
Our July Clearing Sale slashes prices regardless of cost or value with many ladies and children garments offered. Tailor-made suits, raincoats, waists, dresses, silk petticoats, and lingerie at significant reductions, including half price on children’s jackets and many white lawn waists and dresses.
Ribbons hosiery corsets hats fabrics belts belts buckles jewelry purses laces embroideries umbrellas neckwear notions white goods Swisses lawns dimities cushions and topps gent furnishings kid gloves infants wear sold at cost.
A listing of fashion accessories and sewing supplies including dress trimmings embroideries veiling fans cushion tops fancy braids corsets gloves children's hats umbrellas parasols aprons and fancy linens available from local merchants.
The store promotes a July clearing sale in the carpet department with rugs of all sizes and carpet varieties including Brussels tapestry velvets at actual cost price. Japanese and China mattings and cocoa mattings are also offered at cost as part of the big sweeping sale.
Our Big Curtain and Drapery Department offers an immense stock to the trade at cost price. Curtain goods draperies carpet sweepers door mats blankets comforts and pillows all priced at cost. This unusual offer ignores rising markets and promises a one time opportunity for buyers.
Ladies gloves offered at 75c, 98c, 1 25 to 2 25 with silk and lisle options. Second Floor features July Cost Sale with bold reductions in muslin underwear including gowns and petticoats. Standard corsets also priced on sale, urging shoppers to visit for the value and selection.
A local advertisement proclaims a July sale with 27 inch silks 50 pieces priced at 0.49 per yard. It touts all black goods and dress lengths at cost, including velvet and serge types, and imported robes in popular shades also sold at cost.
A brief notice announces a sale event at Ry Goods Co slated for next Thursday with a suggestion to arrive early. The item emphasizes cost savings and encourages shoppers to not miss the opportunity.
Fourth of July weekend brings record railway passenger volumes from Fort Wayne. The Wabash line carried 265 to Toledo and 45 to Detroit, with high demand on Grand Rapids and Indiana for Rome City trips. Extra coaches and two-section services were common across Pennsylvania and other lines as locals and resorts saw peak departures and arrivals.
Atlas Locomotive Ashpan Company placed 10000 dollars worth of stock with Fort Wayne capital Monday, likely deciding the factory location. A Saturday deal with Chicago Terminal and Chicago Junction to equip engines with ashpan pans was closed, supplying many engines. T. P. Whelan, company member, is in Detroit and will travel to St. Louis to seal railway deals.
John H Waldman will be out for a week after a pipe fell on his hand at Pennsylvania shops. The pipe’s sharp end penetrated the back of the hand causing an ugly wound. Fortunately no bones were broken and he is expected to recover.
Miss Baston of Wabash seeks a rich Catholic bachelor aged 35 to 40 who will relocate to Fort Wayne. He must be Catholic, respectable, not a trifler, with no prior marriages, and willing to move with his fortune. The Plain Dealer notes the Fort Wayne clause is to be dropped.
The Indiana State Letter Carriers association meeting in Evansville elected officers and announced the 1910 convention location. Leroy Crampton of Muncie was named president, W. Kirkpatrick of Princeton vice president, J. W. Hannell of Plainville secretary, and H. Fort Wayne treasurer.
Rival groups clash as United Mine Workers and Provincial Workingmen’s Association contend for control at Dominion Coal mines in Sydney. About six thousand workers did not report for duty while Provincial members remained at work.
Albert R. Parker, former Allen County representative to the state legislature, has undergone a surgical operation at Bloomington and is convalescing. He is visiting his fiancée Miss Ivan Steele in Decatur, and the couple are expected to marry soon. Parker recently graduated from Indiana University.
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