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Newspaper
Lowell Daily Courier
Location
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1902
Page
2
A compact listing of assorted merchandise with prices including combination books from 49 cents to 2.98 dollars, card cases 25 cents to 1.25 dollars, playing card cases, jewel cases, blotters 25 cents, match safes, cigar cases, photo frames, Indian dolls priced around 25 cents to 98 cents and up to 1.50 dollars.
Charming aprons freshly offered by makers entice shoppers to linger near the display. Prices range from 25 to 50 cents, with better grades available. Many pieces feature tuck and ruffle work, lace insertion, hamburg edging, or bib effects. Generous sizes and fine workmanship.
The list catalogs varied grooming items with prices from 10 to 98 cents, including hand mirrors wood and celluloid, triplicate mirrors, toilet waters, fancy box perfumes, face powders, handkerchief and glove boxes, manicure articles, soap, toilet sets, hair brushes, puff boxes, manicure sets, tooth powders and brushes, and talcum powder, noting finishes like ebony rosewood and fancy decorations.
The message invites readers to visit and compare Christmas displays. It asserts that some places offer better bargains and promises courteous service. The tone is confident, urging families to bring children and try the store, assuring satisfaction or no harm if not pleased.
A vivid ad describes a gift handkerchief collection with white “Queens” of dainty linens. It promotes women's and men's linen handkerchiefs with lace, hemstitching, initials, and embroidered borders, prices from 5c to 69c and up to 298 for larger sets, plus children’s handkerchiefs in boxed sets.
Thousands of volumes fill counters and shelves offering fiction travel history boys and girls titles with cloth bindings and decorative leather sets. Notable prices range from 25c to 49c for devotional and girls titles, with larger sets including Dickens Shakespeare Scott and Doyle priced from near 3 to 9 dollars. The Cornell Library and various authors appear among a wide array of bindings and sizes appealing to students and book lovers alike.
The list shows Fiberdown coats with silk and fur trimmings priced from 1.49 to 4.49, Fancy White Dresses from 0.49 to 5.98, Drawer Leggings in black and white from 0.49 to 1.25, and Worsted Leggings at 0.25, indicating a mid century department store sale.
An advertisement lists stocking caps at 25¢ and 49¢, bonnets in silk and velvet with fur and silk trimmings, knit jackets from 25¢ to 2.98, knit bootees 19¢ to 49¢, infants’ bibs 5¢ to 49¢, woolen tams 49¢ and 89¢, highlighting a selection of children’s wear with varied prices.
Series of fashion accessories listings including neckwear four-in-hands and tecks with neckwear styles described as tecks folded scarfs and puffs. Also offers fancy boxed tecks gloves suspenders and leather options in mocha and dogskin with street and driving uses priced from 75 cents to 1.98 dollars.
Announcement lists crocheted shawls priced to 4.9 dollars, muslin robes, corset covers, drawers, flannelettes, muslin skirts, and related garments with various price points, highlighting a broad selection for women at sale.
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