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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1911
Page
9
A souvenir white goods sale offers customers a commercial rose shaped ball of natural cotton. It carries an interesting history of how the cotton is grown and celebrates the beauty of a snow white cotton field.
Our store announces its annual sale of muslin underwear beginning Tuesday May 16 at 9 A.M. A larger assortment of fresh undermuslins, ten thousand pieces, are offered at lower prices than ever before. White goods across all departments also discounted. sale lasts ten days.
In a statement the producers highlight careful cheerful workers clean sanitary factories and best materials expert workmanship skillful design and healthy surroundings. They note long-standing relationships with trusted makers and rely on known value.
See What 25c Will Buy advertises night dresses in good muslin with V neck yoke and sixteen hemstitched tucks, hemstitched ruffle neck and sleeves, limited to two per customer. also lists high neck yoke dresses, short skirts, chemises with torchen lace, drawers with six inch ruffles, corset covers with lace embroidery and ribbon details.
Mothers will delight in our preparations in underwear for little folks. Children's drawers in sizes starting at 10c up to 25c with embroidery and lace trim. Night gowns tucked and embroidered 50c to 85c. Infants' dresses, skirts, and baby wear offered at special white sale prices.
Readable items describe numerous night dresses in muslin and nainsook with high necks square yokes embroidery beading and silk ribbon. Also long skirts in cambric and muslin with flounces tucks and embroidery. Prices mainly $1.00 to $4.00. Stock mentions Sterns make underwear sale.
White dresses for women and misses in cotton and lawn fabrics offered at low prices. Includes white lawn dressing sacques, princess slips, duck skirts, children's white dresses, middy blouses, tailored white wals, and lingerie waists with embroidery and lace trims priced mostly at $1.00 to $5.00.
White crochet quilts full size priced at 1.65 to 2.25 dollars. Cotton huck towels 18x36 and 19x40 inches offered, prices shown 11 to 124 cents per yard and 10 to 1.98 dollars per item. Mixed line items indicate a White Sale promotional display with multiple fabric goods.
Recent arrivals offer 18-inch Chattenburg lace center pieces with drawn work, 20 to 30 inch battenberg lace squares featuring drawn and embroidered centers. Prices range from 50 cents to 1.50 dollars, with many items marked at one dollar each.
A catalog of dress fabrics including fine white nainsook sold in 10 yard pieces and Himalaya cloth offered at various prices. Prices shown include 1.29 per piece, 180 a yard, 29c a yard, 39c a yard, 50c a yard, and 390 each. The listing reflects season’s new fabrics and retail rates.
A sale listing describes night dresses, skirts, chemises, drawers, corset covers, and domestic items in good muslin, cambric, and nainsook fabrics. It notes trims like embroidery, lace edging, torchen lace, silk ribbon beading, and hemstitching. Prices highlight savings on muslin and sheeting, with various sheet and pillowcase offerings.
Interurban Knights of the Maccabees held an elaborate banquet at the Anthony hotel with about seventy five members and guests from Fort Wayne Kendallville Garrett Butler Auburn and Waterloo. Notables D E Dexheimer Marion grand record keeper M A Clapper Hartford City great commander W Replogle Goshen present commander Indianapolis district deputy meeting attendees listed include George H Krohnmiller Alfred Barbier Herman Gollar and many others with Attorney J McBeth Smith on the program for an address.
Ad copy claims liver kidneys and bowels can “strike” and refuse to work. Pills provide gentle action and improve health. advertised price listed as 26 cents at all drug stores.
A Sunday night incident near Robison Park saw two cars seized from siding at the park attempted to run into the city. Impromptu operators used a coupling pin to switch on current, blew fuses, and abandoned both vehicles. one reached Centlivre Park, the other lingered near the Bleke farm with long pedestrians to city limits.
A stolen team owned by WwW. O. Shambaugh, taken from Albion Indiana, has been found near Brucker Ohio. Local resident Albert Cutthon, who worked nearby, aided in tracing the team and wagon after the theft. The thief fled toward the vicinity, with no immediate arrest reported.
Fort Wayne delegates returned from the Travelers' Protective association state convention at Terre Haute where Charles M. Downing of Lafayette was elected president and Maurice Niezer of this city was chosen first vice president. Other officers named include Charles M. Gregg of Crawfordsville second vice president and Orie White of Elkhart third. W. D. Chambers of Terre Haute re elected secretary treasurer after F. D. Heimbaugh of Muncie withdrew. State board members include Yesman and H. A. Bronenberg. The committee chairs cover railroad press legislative hotel employment membership. The next convention location to be decided by the board of directors.
Foley Kidney Pills promise relief from backache dull headaches nervousness impaired eyesight and other unpleasant effects from kidney and bladder issues. The ad emphasizes healing antiseptic and strengthening properties and urges readers to take Foley Kidney Pills from Drefer & Bros.
Miss Bernadette Herber remains hospitalized after an accident. Friends and family in Brida gather at the bedside to offer support as doctors monitor her condition and plan next steps.
Miss Bernadette Herber and Howard F. Metcalfe wed at Trinity English Lutheran as Herber recovers from a recent car crash with an ankle fracture. Metcalfe rushed to secure a license and wed while she lay in hospital, with her father blessing as he arrived too late. The couple plans to move to 1320 Francis Street once discharged.
Paper shows Hartford City light companies from Muncie Eaton Dunkirk and Redkey merging into one firm to be known as the Muncie Electric Light Company with capital stock of 1 000 000.
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