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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1912
Page
7
A sales listing offers underwear gloves and hosiery with ribbed Union suits fleece lined vests and pants half wool options for children and women. Prices range from 25c to 1.69 with many items at reduced sale values in extra sizes and various colors.
Local notice promotes a large clearance event at Asbury Park featuring unprecedented stock and major reductions. It urges shoppers to visit now for unparalleled values before stock runs out.
Men walk into the bargain shop on Thursday with the buyer delaying. Winter suits priced to attract buyers include $10 and $12 wool suits at $7.98, $12.50 black and blue worsted, $9.25 to $15 hand tailored cassimere, worsted and tweed, and up to $14.50 for finest tailoring.
A sale listing 36 to 54 inch fabrics including Black Serge, English Worsted, Broadcloth, Corduroy and Wash Silks. Prices cut from 65c to $4.50 with many half price or reduced rates. Remnants of silk and wool goods offered at half price to clear stock.
Advertises dress serges in light and dark colors at 9 146. regular 20 cents. Dress ginghams at 10 10. regular 15 cents. Flannel waistings at 12440. regular 18 cents. White dotted Swiss and Kimona flannels at 140 a yard and 18 cents. Outing flannels at 40 a yard. White Comet flannels at 6 60 a yard. regular 6 0 cents. Bleached muslin, full four yards wide, 10 yards for 65 cents. regular 10 cents a yard.
Local retailer promotes Oil Heaters under the banner Oil Heating Stoves at a 16 percent discount to welcome the first real snow storm of the season. The pitch emphasizes the Perfec tion Oil Heaters as the best option during this sale.
Prices are cut on a wide range of suits and coats including serges novelty mixtures whipcords chinchilla and boucle. Reductions span from $8 to $24.60 with items from $8 to $50 originally, featuring made to order fittings and Paris style details.
Fabrics and dresses including Serge mixtures French serge corduroy broadcloth are cut from 6.75 8.75 to 3.95. Messaline and serges in brown navy taupe black to 3.95. Charmeuse French serge taffeta foulards with Robespierre collar long sleeves fall to 10.75. Party and Evening Dresses in chiffon charmeuse net taffeta crepe de chine drop to 10 15 20. Broadcloth charmeuse satin in pink pale blue white black reduced to 12.50.
In a Children's section feature the store promotes steep price cuts on girls dresses and coats this week. Gingham dresses for ages 6 to 14 drop from 1.50 to 0.90 while White Lingerie Dresses fall from 6.75 to 3.50. Serge dresses and tailored pique styles also reduced with multiple fabrics from 4.98 to 3.50 and 9.75 to 6.75 respectively. Velvet, corduroy and chinchilla coats trimmed with braid also see large discounts.
The advertisement lists boys clothing including double breasted and Norfolk suits from 2.50 to 7.50, coats with convertible collars and belt backs, and wool coats discounted to 2.96 to 5.50. Sizes range from 7 to 17 for boys.
Table No. 1 lists boys tan waterproof leather shoes from Steinbach Co made by Excelsior Shoe Co Portsmouth Ohio with regular prices 2.50 and 3.00 and black calf shoes at 1.88. Table No. 2 offers children and misses shoes from John Cramer & Son and Ielefeld & Spahn at greatly reduced prices.
Bargain footwear item offering black calf and tan calf button shoes on walking lasts. Designed for women and growing girls with medium heels and full rounded toes. Pre inventory sale price set at 1.98 dollars.
A damaged ad fragment notes tan calf walking shoes in a beautiful shade with rounded toe and medium height heel. It mentions a $4.00 value and quality asphere but slight toe narrowing.
Tan calfskin shoes with an oil grained finish. Soles soaked in viscose for a year to ensure waterproofing. Special purchase from a major shoe house. Price not named though advertised at 2.98 with a value of 4.00.
The ad lists discounted clothing across ages from 2 to 16 years including coats, outing flannel, knitted skirts, corduroy caps, and women's flannelette kimonas and outing gowns. Prices drop from regulars like 5.50 to 4.50 and 2.00 to 1.28 with limited sizes and color options. Eiderdown jackets in red and grey are reduced to 0.88 and 1.28 respectively.
Advertising list for home goods including parlor sweeping broom stock 250. Cut glass water tumblers four star cut low n tumblers 1.19 each. Snow shovels special price wood shovel 250 all steel long handle 35c large galvanized D handle 80c. No dust ash sifter 2.69. Galvanized water pail 190. Cleaning products and tools price notes follow.
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