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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1909
Page
10
The store announces the first week of its annual June clearing sale starting tomorrow. Hundreds of items in sheer wash goods ginghams and embroideries will be offered at extraordinarily low prices. The event targets Muscatine and surrounding area with emphasis on quality and value.
Styles this Summer Demand Plain Materials for Mash Suits and Skirts. Endless variety of color and weave from gingham to silks. Khaki goods popular at 25e and 30e per yard. Excellent quality wear. Other wash goods in pink tan navy blue light blue green from 10c to 25e per yard.
In order to reduce stock of over four hundred pieces of wool materials plain and fancy weaves a clean cut 25 percent discount. A piece formerly sold for 1 now sells for 75 cents with cheaper materials at proportionally low prices.
Ten pieces of fancy linen suiting offered at 55e per yard. The famous Vassar perfect fitting undergarments. Special prices on long coats for summer wear. Children’s dresses in white and color at lowest prices. Boys’ blouse waists 35e and 50e. Two piece house dresses 98e. Wash petticoats in stripes and plain colors at 50e.
A. J. Fuller left for Letts this morning on business. Mrs. Mary Crouch went to Davenport at noon to visit friends. Miss Dora Stuart of Rock Island returned home Tuesday afternoon after visiting Miss Lydia Stuart.
Notices of multiple individuals leaving for homes and visits around Fairport Davenport Lyons Iowa City Cedar Rapids and Muscatine plus local business ads and event reminders. Highlights include Nellie McAuley heading to Lyons and Thomas Osborn with Helen Osborn traveling to Fairfield and Mt. Pleasant for college commencements and Dr. Hackett visiting Letts.
Large sale on bugs carpets mattings and all four coverings with rock bottom prices. Rugs up to 10 by 15 feet and smaller mats offered at substantial reductions. Lowell quality carpets regular 75 cents this week 65 cents. Japanese mattings 10 to 15 cents per yard off standard pricing. Axminster Wilton velvet ingrain and tapestry rugs deeply discounted for June clearing in Muscatine.
A sale offers curtain Swisses and curtain materials at unusually low prices. The ad promises hundreds of designs and complete lace curtain stock with matching poles and fixtures, urging early attendance to grab the best patterns before prices rise.
Advertises 50 percent off sale items including hand bags purses all wool and cotton remnants toilet articles perfumes soaps talcum powder face cream and other accessories. Also offers 25 cent collars and neckwear 10 cents each.
Enormous clearance offers muslins sheetings and domestics of every description cut to the quick. Large stock of sheetings muslins and textiles in all widths. Ready made sheets and pillow cases included. Visit the department for bargains and share of the stock.
A clearance sale offers about fifty pieces of fancy foulard and messaline silk 27 inches wide at 75 cents per yard, down from 1.00. A line of foulard silk is priced at 59 cents per yard. New spring merchandise offered at these sale prices.
Great lot of linens offered tomorrow and all week. 25 cent plain Huck linen towels, 18e. 50 cent linen towels at 39¢. Stevens' crash toweling priced at 8e 10e 12 15e 18e and 20e per yard. Some values worth 25e. Lay in a supply and save money.
This department offers towels lunch-cloths and dresser covers with 25 to 60 percent off. Readily available are Mexican drawn work and hand embroidery patterns in appealing designs. Shop the stock to save a quarter or more on every piece.
Hundreds of pieces of plain and fancy waistings offered for summer gowns and waists. Save 19 to 25 percent on all white goods. About four hundred styles shown in fancy checks figures and stripe effects.
The Onyx brand hosiery and underwear are praised as America’s best for fit finish and comfort. Both lines go on sale during June clearances at reduced prices. Also still offering Blue Ribbon 25e hose at 15e per pair in black and tan.
Our stock of laces embroideries edgings will be sold at lower prices than ever offered in Muscatine. The lace department features hundreds of patterns both heavy and dainty at about one fourth regular prices. Embroidery will be cut and slashed with beads inserting corset covers and other trims offered for quick sale.
The Weed Park Club will meet Thursday afternoon at 3 o clock in the club house. Important matters will be discussed and a large attendance is desired, per the order of the president.
William McCloskey pleaded guilty before Judge H. S. Howe to illegally selling whiskey after police raided his cabin last night, confiscating forty quarts of beer and eight pints of whiskey. He was fined 100 dollars plus costs, and, the fine unpaid, will spend 30 days in the county jail.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure for headache, stomach, liver and bowel troubles arising from chronic constipation. It lists Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store as the source and notes the product price of 265c.
An important Sons of Veterans meeting is set for Monday evening at the G A R hall. All members are urged to attend and several new members will be initiated.
Real estate transfer notice transcribed by G. M. Titus notes Anna Willmina Scholten, widow, in Muscatine Iowa. The listing reflects property dealings and the involved party in the transfer records.
Deeds record several property transfers. Rollie Scholten-Land in section 33 township 77 range 2 west for $300. William E Gallagher to Karl Berg Northeast quarter of northeast quarter section 9 township 77 range 3 west for $1,575. Frank Butsler and others to Lulu M Rogers Lot 16 Cypress addition to Muscatine for $1,025.
A bargain is offered on a pony harness and phaeton with light carriage. The ad directs readers to see Frank Bowman at once for the purchase or details.
A local ad notes home baked breads cakes pies cookies and other sweets plus fine ice cream and candy available at Slaughter's Candy Store promising a wide assortment for dessert lovers.
Local note invites patrons to the Candy Kitchen for a delicious ice cream soda and house made candy during a car switch event. The casual briefing highlights a quick treat break amid the gathering.
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