12 Jun 1907
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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1907
Page
1
Galveston community items report shop ads, church notes, and social visits. Mentions include Ko komo visitors, Kokomo residents, and VFW like decorations. local merchants advertise coffee flour coal and signs. Socials, lectures, and a Funeral? not specified.
Hundreds of women called to examine The Ladies' Home Journal Patterns praising the guide chart that accompanies each pattern. The chart answers 107 questions women want to know before buying, showing the shape of every piece at a glance. Another piece of good news is mentioned.
The Summer Quarter any 10¢ Home Journal pattern is free with the Quarterly Style Book. It is a 152 page fashion guide with color cover and 1,500 illustrations of patterns for women, misses, and children. Also 30 pages show new embroidery transfers.
A shopper news brief lists reductions on Misses skirts from 4.00 and 3.00 to 2.75 and unspecified to 1.00, novelty plaid quality item at 4.00 value down to 2.19, and ladies rain coats valued at 12.50 10.00 and 9.50 now selling for 6.75. The notice also notes a Black Brilliantine item originally 2.50 priced at 2.19.
A local store advertises a June sale on ladies blue and gray chambray shirt waist suits from 2.95 to 4.50, white shirt waists from 1.25 to 2.00, and a range of dresses and skirts in lace, embroidery, and linen. Children's and misses garments accompany jackets and coats at low prices.
A discounted catalog lists rub dry bath towels at 47 cents per large piece and 25 cents for four Huck towels, plus various linen and swiss textiles. It features waists, collars, belts, back combs, and Anthony bags with prices ranging from a few cents to about a dollar.
Readable listing shows carpets including ingrain, Brussels, Axminster, Smyrna, and Wilton velvet in multiple sizes and prices from 27 cents to 35 dollars. Linoleums 12 ft wide, ruffled net curtains in several pair prices, and madras fabrics by yard.
A long catalog of textiles and fabrics with prices per yard and per unit. Items include foulard silk, pongee, various silks and chiffons, wool suiting, muslin, dress gingham, cretons, cotton challies, sateens, pillow cases, seamless sheets and pillows listed with prices such as 21 inch foulard silk at 35 to 75 cents and 36 inch black taffeta at 1.50.
A listing of kitchenware and home items with prices includes several granite kettles in various sizes, a pudding pan, pans, a double cooker, a wash pan, and a kettle. Also offered are a Croquet set, a tin wash boiler, an egg beater, dish pan, salt box, ammonia bottle, porcelain plates and cups, blue ware, starch products, a clothes line, dinner plates, a kitchen lamp, and clothes pins with assorted prices.
City sale highlights lace embroidery and hemstitched garments with many priced items. Women gowns skirts and pants feature ruffles, tucks, and embroidery from under a dollar to a few dollars, while children's pants and gowns are offered at low prices.
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