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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1907
Page
8
Saturday events offer corset covers from 50c to 75c and skirts at 1.00 each. Hundreds of corsets in sizes from children to adult, with discounts across many prices, plus various lace and embroidery designs. Shoppers urged to visit the Boston Store for the advertised deals and see the corset department.
Fifty dozen ladies silk lisle hosiery in all sizes offered at 50 cents a pair for one day only. Mens and childrens hosiery also discounted with prices from 1c to 50c and up to 1 dollar for select items. Saturday May 25 will be a big hosiery day at the Boston Store.
A catalog-style list shows discounted gowns drawers corset covers muslin chimese skirts and muslin skirts for ladies and children with prices ranging from a few cents to several dollars. Deals include plain and embroidered options in multiple sizes and styles.
A local clearance advertises spring jackets at five dollars each, with silk, cloth, covert, plaid and stripe styles previously priced from seven to twelve dollars. Short and long jackets for women and girls are listed from 1.25 to 3.00, with all items marketed as less than cloth cost.
The Boston Store announces a Saturday May 25 event featuring ready made skirts in many styles and colors at prices from 2.50 to 20.00 plus silk voille skirts and children’s sizes, claiming fit and ease over custom dressmaking. A special counter offers 100 pieces of all wool dress goods 36 to 50 inches wide in panama serge and other fabrics at 5 cents per yard, down from 65 cents to 1.25.
A new line of graduation and confirmation dresses in pure white fabrics such as wet French lawns Persian lawns India linen and mull. Dresses priced from 3.98 to 25.00 with lace embroidery trim and lingerie styles also available by the yard French lawns and mulls with embroidery flouncing insertions offered for viewing.
Local items cover visits by W. A. Allman and Miss Florence Dungan plus Rev Stoddard's trip to Konxville. Miss Hazel Wagner attended Columbus Junction graduation while Anna Sprague and Kate McGuckin travel to Wilton and Davenport. Roach Musser Hose Co plans a Davenport excursion on June 2.
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