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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1914
Page
3
An advertisement proclaims ten days of the greatest savings in Monroe with prices cut across twenty six departments. It promises reductions regardless of original cost or profits and urges shoppers to spend as much as possible to witness the store’s phenomenal merchandising feat.
Large department discounts 25 percent or more on all dresses suits and coats. Hosiery skirts and hats deeply reduced with many items marked in plain figures. Silk hose markdowns 43 to 89 cents. skirts moire black taffeta values cut. millinery trimmed hats halved. Store-wide reductions promise surprising savings.
A well known Corset seller advertises a broken lot of Kabo Corsets with limited sizes and prices cut to half their original value during the sale. Sale items include several values from 50 cents to 1 dollar and 73 cents, urging customers to secure their size for a great bargain.
A local sale offers Pepperell hemmed sheets 81 by 90 and 90 by 90 at reduced prices, pillow cases and crochet towels, Turkish bath towels, and assorted linens. Silk gloves, umbrellas, parasols, purses, and leather items are discounted with values listed and sale prices. Limited quantities and some items quoted with values and sale prices.
Large assortment of house dresses and kimonos in ginghams linens and crepes priced from 59c to 2.00. Includes 89c 1.49 dollar sale items and lawn summer kimonos from 1.00 to 1.25. Also muslin gowns and waist specials on the second floor with reductions across the collection.
Great reduction on table damask napkins and linen, including 58 inch and 72 inch damask, mercerized napkins, and satin border patterns. A wide assortment of fans described, with 25 percent off all fans. Personal linen items such as ladies initial handkerchiefs also featured at sale prices.
Text promotes 45 inch embroidered crepes and voiles in white or colored designs in multiple qualities and styles. Prices claim dramatic discounts with yard sale prices such as 69c to $1.29 and notes all better grades reduced.
English long cloth and dimity fabrics offered at reduced sale prices. A mix of linens and cottons from 28 to 96 inches wide with values ranging from 10 to 85 cents per unit, and sale prices per yard or piece. Item list appears fragmentary with several garbled remnants.
Readable remnants list 27 to 70 inch fabrics with yard sale prices. Items include 28 inch Persian Lawn 115¢ per yard, 12.5 yard Lonadale Cambric 12¢, 27 inch Antiseptic Bird Eye 90¢ for 10 yard piece, 70 inch Organdy 35¢, 28 inch Dress Ginghams 10¢, 6 inch White Drapery Sw. 15¢, and an odd lot of 27 inch voiles in tan plaid or striped usually 25c and 35c per yard cut to yard amounts.
Ten day sale offers drastic cuts across ladies and children's shoes. Patent leather satin and dull leathers in pumps colonial and Spanish styles drop from four dollars to three thirty five with other styles from five dollars to two twenty two. A top bargain line features patent leathers satins and oil leathers at two ninety five. House slippers remain discounted from one twenty five with varied colors and heel height.
The department highlights extensive markdowns on dress fabrics including Ratines Crepes and Rice Cloths 88 inches wide at 37c per yard and other discounts on Chiffon Crepe Silk Marquisette and Tub Silk. We list several sale prices to illustrate the savings and broad selection available over the ten day period.
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