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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1902
Page
7
A narrative urging shoppers to decide on holiday gifts for many friends. It notes prior selections for close relatives and offers store suggestions to help solve the problem of choosing dozens of gifts before Christmas.
The store highlights an improved men’s department with a stronger stock for Christmas. Featured items include cuff buttons, watch fobs, neckwear, mufflers, suspenders, shirts, gloves, handkerchiefs, and boys’ apparel with prices and assorted styles to attract holiday buyers.
Busy Linen and Art Department showcases a wide range of Christmas gifts including White Oxford Waists boxed, pillow tops, linen centerpieces, doilies, pin cushions, sideboard and dresser covers, lace bed sets, embroidered linen art, Mexican drawn work, Tenriffe and Battenburg pieces, silk cushions, Japanese silk covers, and coordinated table linen sets.
ads offer Sterling Silver Wrist Bags German Silver Bags novelty chatelaine watches belts and boxes at bargain costs claiming better goods than exclusive stores. items include rings thimbles belts brooches hat pins and bracelets with prices from 10 cents to 7 dollars and up, highlighting value for gift purchases.
A display setup shows a range of umbrellas from 24 inch fancy handle school models at 50 cents to upscale Gold or Silver handles priced at 8 and 10 dollars.
You can buy baby gifts from booties 10 cents to 1.26 dollars mittens 11 cents to 1.25 dollars veils wool and silk 10 cents to dear, ladies slippers wool 1.25 dollars.
A display on two middle counters on the ground floor features Fancy Boxed Writing Paper in varied forms and prices including 1e, 19, 25¢, 56¢, 6e, 7c, 98¢, and $1.50. The paper is marketed as suitable for use as jewelry boxes and accessories.
Christmas items fill the K department with gifts for mother wife or sisters. Handkerchiefs gloves neckwear laces ribbons and more are offered with extensive stock and helpful staff. Featured items include lace collars stockings kid gloves and silk turn-overs with prices from a few cents to several dollars.
A dense price list of china types and decorative items with many prices. Includes French and Austrian sets, chocolate pots, salad dishes, vases, jars, trays, cracker jars, cake plates, ash trays, and bakers items. Features edge details and various price points from cents to several dollars.
Store offers an extensive German doll assortment with Kid dolls from 16c to $2.48 and bisque varieties up to $10. The shop touts a large picture collection with pastels, hand work, watercolors, and frames priced from 10c to $20, highlighting gift appeal and home decor uses.
A sale pitch from a department store advertises children coats bought in New York trips. It touts big discounts and bulk quantities, highlighting $2.98 coats, military shoulder styles, and sample coats valued up to 20 dollars, with bulk quantities offered at low prices to clear stock.
Furs are advertised as popular gifts this Christmas with low prices and a large assortment. The ad notes fur pieces from electric seal garments and various neckpieces in mink and fox, stressing quality over shoddy and mentioning specific prices and scarf options.
A refined selection of boxed waist items for festive gifts arrives. Highlights include cashmere pieces in light evening shades Rose Pink blue pale green white with pale lace trim priced at 4 dollars 50 cents and box pleat round lace yoke styles with baggy sleeves Monte Carlo effect tucks and frills. More styles are available but too long to print.
Store announces a pre clearance sale before the holidays with a promise not to haggle over prices. Customers are invited to shop early for discounts and selection.
Popular copyrights seen here with the greatest assortment of new books this year. Titles include Forty Modern Fables by Geo Ade and Mr. Dooley's Philosophy by F P Dunne. Prices start at 48c to 48 stamp.
Bible department reports best selling period as prices drop. Leather bound New Testament editions priced at 25 to 29 cents capture Sunday school buyers and Christmas shoppers amid strong Bible demand.
A catalog note lists popular and classic books including The Crucifix of Philip Strong by Shel don, Cyrano de Bergerac by Rostand, Daybreak, a Bible dictionary, Dodo by Benson, Polly Dialogues by Anthony Hope, and We by Mary J. Holmes, offered at ten cents each.
A brief catalogue note lists 25e Devotional Series Books for Sunday School classes titled Children's Board Books. It mentions iS and iChildren's Board Books with variations of the series name and potential branding notes.
A fragmented 19th century catalog of girls books includes titles such as Betty a Schoolgirl and The Children of Wilton. It references Aunt Hannah and Deb and the Duchess among assorted works aimed at young female readers.
A catalog entry lists Henry books including A Tale of the Conquest of the Punjab and A Jacobite Exile Seing the Ad ventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles XII Sweden 480.
A garbled catalog fragment lists works by Cooper Mrs. Elizabeth Prentiss Henry R. Crockett and others. It mentions Spy Stepping Heavenward A Tale of Creecy and Poitiers and various author attributions with misread letters and broken names.
A catalog-style list presents multiple old story titles including accounts of the American War of Independence the Franco-Prussian War the Peninsular War and the Bombardment of Alexandria. Also includes tales about youths such as Young Buglers Young Carthaginian and Young Midshipman.
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