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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1905
Page
8
Two 5 room houses available for rent with barn. No. 1127 Hershey avenue asks $4.00 per month and No. 213 Philip street in South Muscatine below Kaiser's MIN also asks $4.00 monthly. For details contact H M Bartlett Attorney at Law office over the Postoffice.
The notice lists a globe restaurant coffee tribute, wholesale ice cream pricing at Jowest, and a graniteware sale at Bata's Fair tomorrow at 9. Chas Lemkau is homebound with a sprained ankle. Miss Olive Henderson and Miss Leava Kelley are noted visitors. Also mentions a Bryan lecture on Wednesday Aug 30 with 50 cent admission and a For Sale item for a west hill lot.
Saturday sale offers discounts on white duck skirts, wash skirts, and wool skirts with prices from 50 cents to several dollars. Includes percale wrappers, mercerized pelts coats, and wash suits in multiple sizes, all advertised as cut from larger price points.
A Saturday only sale offers forty assorted wool skirts in guille panama cloth and other fabrics. Skirts, once priced from $6.00 to $10.00, are now $2.98, enabling shoppers to buy for less than half cost. High quality noted as finest made with several fabric types highlighted.
Auction-style notice announces 20 dozen children’s dark colored school dresses offered Saturday August 26 at reduced 20 cents per item. Limited quantities, quality implied. buyers urged to arrive early for best selection.
One dozen new late styles in handsome ready made silk shirt waists in brown green blue and other colors. Prices and sizes not listed.
The ad lists women’s items including Genuine Pulse Warmers ribbed drawers with lace and buttons priced at 25c, 25¢ sun bonnets slightly soiled, ribbed vests in good quality, lace hose with lists of thread, sets from 25c. Also children’s cotton gloves, all sizes, good bargains, and ladies’ hand bags offered at 5c to 75c each.
Retail notice highlights a sale offering corsets at 39 cents and 50 cents each with new stylish designs. The brief promotes hundreds of pretty new corsets described as affordable and in varied colors and sizes for immediate purchase.
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