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Newspaper
Logansport Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1911
Page
7
Gift buyers flock to the city’s Trade Palace as it proclaims the holiday season with a diversified display across all floors. Extra staff and delivery services promise comfort and speed, inviting families to explore gift ideas and shoppleasures in a festive setting.
The store advertises silks and dress fabrics including Marquysettes, Messaline, Pisto, Crepe Scarfings, Velvets, Corduroys, wool flannels, and broadcloths priced from 25c to $1.50 per yard. It highlights 600 yards of Pistos, 27 inch widths, and a range of colors and trims with special holiday values, inviting inspection.
The Holiday Store offers a varied umbrella collection including ladies and mens models with pearl and gold handles. Prices range from 1.00 to 12.50 with specialty suitcase umbrellas and detachable handles listed from 2.50 to 5.00. Some models feature guaranteed pure silk covers and durable constructions.
A holiday shopping guide lists apparel and gift items for men and women including house coats Pajamas robes sweaters neckwear scarves and accessories. It notes prices from 25 cents up to several dollars and highlights a broad selection of colors and sizes with emphasis on bath robes and boxed gift sets.
Books- The Ideal Gift offers over 1 660 titles with 36 different fiction volumes and 1 000 cloth bound editions priced from 25 to 50 cents. Latest copyrights include Pandora's Box 1.30 Following of the Stars 1.35 Harvest er 1.35 Mother Carey's Chickens 1.25 Rose of Old Harpeth 1.25 The Honey Moon 1.25 Christy Girl 1.25 Viking's Love 1.00 Tam O Shanter 0.81 A wide range of Bibles and poets also sold at low prices.
Puzzled buyers see an ad for Silver Roger's 12 piece private knives and forks in a French gray finish and aluminum spoons. The listing includes prices from $1.58 to $3.98 for various home goods including clocks candle lamps and jewel boxes.
Following Christmas we conduct our annual inventory and offer absolute clearance on coats suits dresses and furs. Seybold garments are praised for dependability and style and are now offered at reduced ready to wear prices to bring substantial money savings.
Holiday sale lists coats in plain black and blue fabrics at 12.50 to 10.00, plus groups rated at 30.00 to 65.00. Suits include 22.50 to 25.00 values reduced to 12.50 and 9.50 with kersey and broadcloth options noted.
A large stock of dresses is offered at remarkably reduced prices for a rapid clearance. The sale emphasizes phenomenal dress business this season and lists reduced prices to attract customers.
Bargain tables offer cut glass items including bowls bon bons olive dishes tumblers and water pitchers at discounts from 98 cents to 5 dollars. Decorated china dinner sets 100 pieces priced around 6 to 15 dollars. Tables feature tables of 10c 25c 50c and hundreds of gift items.
Readable fragments show a sale of ladies hosiery including silk hose in black and color, fleece lined pairs, with prices noted in cents and dollars. The ad mentions knit blends and bargains likely for women’s stockings and uniform wear.
Ladies' Fur Coats and Sets advertised with holiday prices on Marmot Near Seal Russian Pony and Coney furs. Items include Grey Jap Wolf, Fine Coney sets, natural furs like Possum and Wolf Fox, and Black Wolf or Black Fox sets priced from low to high ranges, across a wide assortment for children and adults.
A two week sale lowers skirt prices across all varieties with special value sets in veils panamas and serges. Prices highlight $10.00 $7.50 and $3.98 for groups made from these fabrics.
A domestic department notice lists 50 Indian blankets valued at 10 dollars now 6 dollars each and 500 pairs of wool blankets in white and blue priced at 3.50 dollars, with special iced terms noted.
The store promotes a gala display offering toys, games, mechanical toys, and accessories at unusually low prices. Highlights include microscopes 1.00 to 5.00, air rifles 0.50 to 1.50, savings banks 0.75 to 1.00, toy pianos 0.25 to 2.00, toy trains up to 3.98, and many items 10c to 5.00 with broad assortments and space for visitors.
A terse OCR fragment mentions items priced at 15 cents and a reference to a local market or stall. No clear date or full context is recoverable, but the text points to a small sale or listing with low prices. Entities are limited to general market terms.
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