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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1908
Page
10
Great sale suits arriving now in many shades and sizes for women and girls. Silk lined suits priced from 10 to 50 dollars, plus fashionable skirts coats kimonos and waists. Visit Saturday Oct 24 for handsome, affordable styles and wide selection.
Large display of yard wide oil cloth in new patterns 39 and 59 cent prices. Linoleum square yard specials 50 cents to 1.25. Curtain stretchers with reinforced steel clamps. Bissell carpet sweepers and various wood finishes in stock. Woolen grain carpets and bed comforts including silkalone covers and cotton blankets in multiple colors.
A one day sale Saturday October 24 offers a wide range of coats in colors including black brown blue red and green plus opera coats in sizes 34 to 44. Prices span five to forty dollars with many popular options for ladies misses and children aiming to save buyers dollars.
Charles McMains of Fulton II visits Muscatine relatives. Rosetta Wagner heads to Columbus Junction for a music event tonight. Mrs. Elmer Donnell of St. Louis visits sister Mrs. D. V. Jackson. Crews promote Braunworth shoes and local sales. A. B. Ladies sale at McColm’s Saturday Oct 24. Various travels and visits by residents. Bread Maker demonstrations attract housekeepers at McQuesten & Sawyer Co.
The Quality Store advertises a Saturday sale on ready made veils. Large stock offered at half price with $3 veils for 1.59, $2 veils for 1.00, and $1 veils for 50c. Come early as quantities are limited.
A city sale advertises Union suits in sizes 5 through 9 for women of all sizes. Prices listed as $1.00 and $1.25 quality with a Saturday sale offering choice and savings on underwear.
The advertisement promotes half price and deep discounts on ladies and misses skirts including Panama silk fold skirts with prices from $6.50 to $18.00. It highlights silk trims voile skirts in black and various colors, with former values up to $18.00 for the finest French voile skirts.
An old advertisement touts Dr. King's New Life Pills to banish bowel trouble. It claims fear of appendicitis drives people to try the remedy and guarantees relief for 25 cents at Havercamp's Prescription Drug.
Great sale Saturday offering two hundred bear skin coats for babies in sizes 1 to 6 years from 1.98 each. Also coats for children misses and young ladies at 2.98 to 12.50, plus baby caps hoods and bonnets from 0.50 to 3.98. See display in window at the Boston Store, the only place to buy baby coats.
A local shop announces a special sale on October 24 featuring about fifty pieces of all wool dress goods 36 to 50 inches wide in all colors. Former prices 50c 60c 65c and 75c per yard drop to 25c yard with deeper cuts on finer and wider wool fabrics at 50c 60c 75c and 1 per yard.
Z W Hutchinson of this city was elected president of the Iowa State Baptist Association at the annual convention in Iowa Falls. Rev W E Wilcox of Des Moines named secretary and state missionary, E F Sperry of Des Moines treasurer. Delegates exceed four hundred fifty. convention closes this evening.
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