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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1906
Page
10
Traveling Days offers cases with steel frames and feathered coverings priced from $1.25 to $3.50. Suits cases range up to $5, with heralds coverings and durable cloth tires. Wa Tuseather cub shape satchels priced at $2.43. Christmas bazaar crowds note moderate prices and wide selection for gifts at the store.
Readable text notes trimmed embroidery and hem details with prices from $1.00 to 25 cents for emstitchéd garments. Housekeepers aprons described as extra wide and full with lawns and broad hem offered at 50 cents and 25 cents, located on the second floor.
A bustling sale advertises a vast stock of men women and children handkerchiefs with embroidered designs and festive patterns. Prices start around 10 cents and rise with quality, offering a range from simple tassels to fancy sets. The notice touts late arriving stock and promises further details in nearby stores.
The ad lists a wide range of furniture and household items with prices from 25c to 2800. It highlights Morris chairs, tables, desks, bookcases, chests, chairs, rockers, couches, and kitchen cabinets in oak, mahogany, or upholstered finishes. Featured items include Sectional Bookcases, Couches, and Velvet or leather upholstered pieces with midcentury style cues and varied price points for holiday shoppers.
A fragment lists sable and Isabella scarves as desirable gifts with price notes, plus new neckpieces, long boas, ties, and a few fur coats. It mentions electric sea fur coats and various fashion items in a holiday context, reflecting a verbose, terse catalog style.
The Préatest China and Cut Glass Department showcases dinner sets tea sets pitchers sugars and creamers plates and bowls from Germany France Japan England Austria and America with prices ranging from moderate to expensive. Buyers are choosing and purchasing at the height of the season.
GENSIBLE presents snowy white masks by the yard and napkins 20 to 26 inches in silver bleached Irish and Scotch linens. Damask towels H.S. Huck embroidered in all sizes and prices. Scarfs doylies centerpieces tray cloths and linens in pure linen Mexican and Japanese drawn work from cheap to elaborate pieces.
An abbreviated ad boasts this candy shop as the greatest of three cities with annual sales in thousands of dollars. It features pure cream mixed candies for holidays at 10c per pound and chocolate creams from 20c to 50c per pound with fresh lots just received for Christmas trade.
An advertisement touts 14K gold jewelry compliant with a new stamping law effective January 1 1907. It showcases men’s cuff pins scarfs pins signet designs and dog head Egyptian and Arab heads priced from 4.50 to 50 dollars, watch fobs locket fobs and monograms, and a wide range of silver mounted mirrors brushes and manicure sets with prices across the spectrum.
Advertising copy touts solid silver knives and forks sets with holiday prices. All pieces offered in assorted patterns, including sugar shells, butter knives, pickles and forks, with engraved free souvenir spoons and over 100 designs in sold silver. High quality engraving promoted and early orders encouraged.
An old advertisement offers signet rings and stone set rings in various styles. Prices range from $2 to $250 with special holiday offers including 18 karat diamond rings with 14 karat mountings at $15 and 14 karat white diamond rings at $35.00.
An old advertisement promotes Hampden Elgin Waltham watches with solid gold gold filled and silver cases. It touts reliable movements 7 jewel American mechanisms and two year hand engraved gold filled cases with discounts and holiday pricing signals.
Leather goods and ladies handbags offered in seal gray leather, black vnd er, walrus and steel grain leathers. Envelopes, frames, mirrors and assorted purse items priced from 25 to 193 dollars. Includes collars, cuffs boxes, and child and miss furs in mink, chinchilla, krimmer and red fox.
Crowded department store offers wide prices from 9c doll trunks to steam engines 3100 up and mechanical train sets 25c. Juvenile autos with rubber tires priced around 500. Pianos priced 19c 25c 50c 75c and up to 8.00.
A bustling bookseller touts a wide array of $1.50 novels now selling at $1.08 plus gift editions and Christmas sets. Highlights include Christy illustrated volumes, Hiawatha color editions, Prince of the House of David, Cameo editions, and affordable juvenile titles from Buster Brown to Teddy Bears, with accessories like toilet sets and perfume sets also featured.
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