Greatest Sale of All at Saturday May 16
The store announces the last day of its house furnishing sale with promises of major bargains. Extra salespeople will assist customers and several deep discounts are advertised for Saturday May 16.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1908
Page
10
The store announces the last day of its house furnishing sale with promises of major bargains. Extra salespeople will assist customers and several deep discounts are advertised for Saturday May 16.
Saturday we offer more than fifty handsome jackets in plain colors stripes plaids and mixtures. They were made for retail with usual prices from six to twenty dollars but now only 3.98. Also silk and panama jackets at popular prices.
Special sale of children's and ladies cotton umbrellas with natural handles and steel rods, usually 50c to 75c, Saturday only at 39c each. Ladies colored silk 26 inch umbrellas for retail trade marked 2.50 to 2.75, fancy Persian borders, Saturday only 1.68, a rare bargain.
Just placed on sale are 50 dozen late style corsets at low prices. Royal Worcester and American Lady corsets offered at 50c 75c and 1.00. Styles include long or short hip and high or low bust with girdles from 25c. Lace front corsets at 1.50. A large women’s corset priced at 3.00. Come and see them.
Hundreds of ready to wear skirts on display far below their cloth value. Over one hundred all wool skirts in various colors and patterns priced at 3.98 with hundreds more in the 5 to 20 dollar range. The Boston Store offers the largest line of ready to wear skirts in town.
Miss Etta France of Rock Island visited relatives here and returned home yesterday. Mrs. Mary Sylvester of Fairport, visiting Muscatine, returned home at noon. A local discount ad from Toben Malone and Co offers 20 percent off all ladies muslin underwear.
The Trinity Church club Easter banquet at the Y M C A featured four courses served by the Daughters of the King. Dr J C Sage of Dubuque spoke on The Making of a Man stressing character traits forming A Man of God. The event supported the club’s baseball fund and new officers will be elected soon for another year.
Residents from Columbus Junction and Morning Sun heard Gov. Cummins at his midday talk. Local figures including C. A. Carpenter E. B. Tucker R. J. Reaney and the Duncans attended, with Dr. Arthur Sprague introducing the governor at Ainsworth earlier. A box supper at R. J. Reaney’s lawn is planned for the evening inviting all ladies to bring boxes.
A Milwaukee freight derailed near Chillicothe Missouri early this morning destroying about six cars and causing heavy damage. The Muscatine trains passed through on time despite the incident. Bloomer Girls game listed for Saturday at 2 39.
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