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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1908
Page
12
Advertises the January clearance sale with low prices on blankets flannel and gingham. Highlights include grey wool blankets 3.98 set, heavy blankets 1.59, pink or blue borders, and assorted fabrics with reduced sale prices. Emphasizes savings for the economcal housewife.
The annual January clearance opens Saturday at 8 30 with deep discounts to reduce stock before February 1 and clear winter merchandise. Readily available are dress goods silks cotto ns blankets and linens with many items sold at a fraction of value including towels sheets muslin and flannelette patterns.
New Castle ladies are urged to shop early for deep discounts on dress goods and silks. The sale features plaid suitings, waistings, and wool fabrics with substantial marks downs including 10c yard plaid waists and 39c to 49c dress fabrics. Silk bargains include 36 inch black taffeta and silk foulards at reduced January prices.
The second floor offers Dress Skirts Suits and Coats at substantial reductions from one fourth to one half off. Misses' skirts reduced to 1.98. Panama and chiffon Panama skirts down to 5.98. black silk taffeta and voile skirts offered at 7.98. chiffon Panama and trimmed voiles priced at 9.98 with former tags of 14 to 15 dollars.
Great clearance sale invites buyers to purchase new coats for children and ladies at reduced prices. Prices range from about $2.25 to $4.98 with selections in bearskin, velvet trim, kersey, and mixed fabrics.
Local shop promotes clearance on ladies cloaks and long coats with satin linings and various fits. Sale prices drop from ten to sixteen dollars on kersey and broadcloth items, with jackets and suit sets offered at fractions of original prices.
A sale on notions includes black and nickeled hooks and eyes 214c, Vantine pins 1c, belt pins 4c per book, hair pin cabinets 5c, cotton tape 214c per roll, 100 yard spools silk 5c, stockinet dress shields 7c. Bargains cover common sewing items in January sale.
January sale offers at McCulloch & Co feature bleached table linen yard goods from 29c to 39c, lace curtains 69c to 98c, napkins and towels at reduced prices, bed spreads and wash cloths at deep cuts, plus assorted hosiery and underwear items marked down for the sale.
Rev E E Higley of the First Methodist church will preach a special Sunday evening sermon on home missions. He recently attended a Portland conference on home missions to study the Italian mission work in the district and is expected to deliver an interesting address.
Dr. Zimmerman of Mt. Jackson, hospitalized earlier for treatment, was again moved to his home Thursday afternoon indicating improvement or discharge from further hospital care.
Miss Adah Stamm of North Sewickley visits Ellwood City while Jerry Snair of Hazel Dell remains poorly. Mr. VanGorder of Wurtemburg is very ill with cancer and pneumonia. Fortunetta the Italian minister spoke on duty toward the foreign element. Trouble at the Moore Cottage prompts a witty report from a trusted Adirondack Cottage sanitarium watchman named John.
Local butcher Rhodes and Sons advertise ham at ten cents per pound with a storefront on Pittsburg Street. The note references B C Rhodes and Sons and lists the address 125 127 Pittsburg Street.
The article notes Nebraska farmer Dan V. Stephens converting 420 swamp acres near Fremont into valuable land at about $20 per acre as drainage boosts farm output nationwide. It cites the Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina shrinking through drainage, Minnesota drainage raising land value, and Florida as future garden land, with Missouri river drainage spreading. A Cleveland girl asks why sister plays louder to make father notice, while a separate column relays water superstition tales about soup, doorstep water, and spilling to predict fortunes.
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