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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1908
Page
8
Local shoppers see demonstrations and sales events featuring wireless umbrellas amid a busy storefront display. The notice highlights live demos, pricing, and product availability for the upcoming weekend.
The McColm Dry Goods Company reports a splendid showing in every department with prices kept low without sacrificing quality or style. The note credits enlarged resources and clever planning for better performance this year than last.
A local store touts a wide lace curtain line covering much quality and price. The advert claims attractive designs, up to date styles, and unusually low values to attract customers.
Local retailer touts discounts of 25 to 33 1 3 percent on ladies handkerchiefs versus competitors. They claim record success, promising even lower prices and a larger range of patterns this season, including pure linen Swiss embroidered and Japanese silk handkerchiefs with initials and centers for craft work.
McColm's sells Munsing underwear for women men and children highlighting fit washability and durability. Prices range from 50 cents to $3.00 across wool fleece cotton and two piece styles with emphasis on comfortable form fitting garments.
A local department store promotes a wide assortment of linens to undersell competitors. It highlights the Lidell brand and offers table linen sets, napkins, art linens, butcher linens, handkerchief linens, towels, huck, and Russia crash items.
Our carpet and rug department grows this season with direct-from-mill stock. Rugs in Velvet, Axminster, Brussels, Tapestry, and Fibre. Carpets in all wool and cotton blends. Linoleums in multiple sizes and patterns. Oil Cloths for stoves. plus straw and fibre matings.
The ad promotes winter suits coats skirts and furs on the second floor claiming best quality value and economy. It urges shoppers to compare garments in city stores and promises savings while stressing quality over price with production cost plus a small profit.
A retailer touts skirts with exceptional construction and workmanship. The pitch highlights style variety and up-to-dateness, claiming standards unequal to competitors and superior fit across offerings.
Advertises ladies gloves in kid and fabric, direct from leading makers. Promises best quality stock, highest styles, and lowest prices as a result of direct buying.
Our store offers great blanket values this season due to large purchases. Prices start at 65 cents per pair for cotton blankets, up to 16 dollars per pair for large all wool blankets, with a wide range in between.
We offer a modern method sponging and shrinking process that smooths and presses all classes of fabrics. Our service yields a rich cloth finish with even dyeing and weaving, specializing in wash goods and linens at 5 cents per yard and 25 cent short lengths.
This season we unveil comforters with cotton and all wool filling offering unmatched value. Prices cover a full range from the cheapest to the finest options and promise unique quality not found elsewhere.
The display features fetchingly crafted waists for evening wear and parties. Tailored waists in silk, wool, and linen show off perfection in fit, style, and finish with a wide range of prices and choices for the shopper.
The store highlights attractive silks for dresses, waists, trimmings, and linings. It stresses constant search for new ideas in patterns and weaves and claims their assortments are strictly new and up to date.
The season’s stock of petticoats is highlighted by a remarkable collection of values. Fine finish in workmanship and fall colorings are offered at various prices. Styles include close fitting tops with flaring bottoms and cling ing models of soft materials. Now on sale on second floor.
We offer thousands of yards of dress goods with direct ties to major weaving mills. This enables us to supply fabrics at prices wholesalers pay, saving customers a middle man’s profit. Latest weaves and colors for fall and winter are on display for inspection.
The store promotes umbrellas with neat stylish handles reliable cloths and best workmanship. They claim the products look better wear longer and cost less than competitors.
A broad selection showcases every weave and mesh in vogue with designs up to the minute in style. The department highlights the newest patterns meeting popular fashion ideas and offers immense variety for shoppers seeking current trends.
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