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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1900
Page
8
The Boston Store advertises a major sale on Saturday March 24 with new bargain goods on display for customers. It touts bigger bargains than ever and urges shoppers to attend for savings all day.
The Boston Store offers a large selection of new shirt waists in all colors and sizes. Prices range from 50 cents to 2 dollars, with styles featuring tucks, ruching, and plaits. No waists for fit like the Boston Store.
Immense sale of ladies silk waists offered in taffeta silk or satin with tucked fronts. Prices start at 5.00 for sizes 32 to 44 in black and colors. Hemstitched silk waists priced at 6.50 and 8.50.
A retailer advertises a large line of ladies tailor made dresses in the new Eton style in all colors including black with prices from 8 to 25 dollars. Also featuring misses suits in sizes 8 to 16 years with colors available from 3 to 15 dollars.
The ad advertises over a hundred ladies and miss es jackets in new shapes and colors with prices from 3.50 to 12 dollars. Jersey jackets in all sizes are shown at 3.50 4.50 5 and 6 dollars, promising customer satisfaction.
Embroidery sale advertised for Saturday March 24 promises items at half price. Wide embroideries marked 9c per yard, Irish point 12c, fine embroideries 15c, and Irish point embroideries 19c per yard, all with actual values higher.
Readable ad notes a Saturday sale featuring all wool and silk garments at set and slashed prices. Includes Brussels carpet, sheeting, muslin, cambric, seamless sheets, bleached sheets, pillow slips, hemstitched slips, towels, cotton crash, and table linen priced by the yard or bundle.
The New Process Laundry touts superior linen finishing and color on shirts collars and cuffs in Muscatine. They offer a gold fish with every dollar of work and a free bath with twenty five cents of laundry, using filtered water and no chemicals, with telephones 66 and 266.
Knox All! Knox All! Smoke George's Charm and Torreno. The latest ideas in fancy neckwear at B. E. Lilly's. W. O. Gray of Hopewell Indiana is in the city on business. Miss Winn traveled for Davy enport this morning. B. Kirchner of Nichols was a visitor today. John Eliason arrived from Letts this morning. Charles Braunworth arrived on the North & South today. Mr. Grojean of Seventy-Six town ship visited the county seat. Miss Nellie L. Flint of Hartford Conn. visits Miss Sarah Brown. A marriage license issued to Conrad Stelzner and Clara Philips. The river still falling to 7 feet 2 inches above low water. The Journal visited by Grace Richie and Linnie Pettis of Lone Tree. The river is open and spring is here with house-cleaning time. Mattresses renovated and parlor furniture overhauled by H. G. Ficken Reindle & Reindle. New Architects, experienced with up-to-date methods, here to stay. See them over F. W. Swan's.
An advertisement for Mackey's Model Clothing House promotes apparel that caters to every man’s wearing preference. The copy emphasizes broad selection and appeal with a concise sales pitch.
The Journal notes shells price at about 80 cents per hundredweight with indications of cheaper shells ahead as markets show overstocking. Spring and open river promise greater shell availability and increased competition for buyers.
The German Evangelical church invites all to a communal event on Wednesday March 28 with a noon to 1 pm dinner and an evening supper from 5 to 8. Fancy goods will be on sale and everyone is welcome.
Wall paper production this year showed the most varied range of patterns and colors in many years while Halstead’s stock contained the best offerings.
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