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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1908
Page
3
Merchants reveal a late timing insight into prosperity while stressing a massive clearance. The ad touts a 10 day sale starting Saturday and ending November 10, offering seasonable and desirable merchandise at unusually low prices to move heavy stock.
A local sale lists heavy cottons and fabrics priced to unload. Items include dress plaids, outing flannel, silkolines, seersucker gingham, bath robe fabric, cretonnes, calicos, wool mill finish, blankets, long fibre laminated cotton, and various upholstery materials with dramatic reductions. Counts and sizes noted.
A sale text lists heavy discounts on wool and cotton blankets full size and extra large, with values from $1.15 to $5.00 and unload prices around 0.98 to 3.69 dollars. One-piece Wilton and Brussels rugs 9x12 offered at reduced prices, plus curtain stretchers and movable pins as sale items.
About 25 two pair lots of lace curtains and couch covers offered at deep discounts. Items include printed colored Madras fabrics, Swiss curtains, sash curtain fabrics, and striped couch covers with prices ranging from a few dozen cents to under two dollars per set.
Line item list shows heavy bleached muslin linen, crash cloths, cheat sheets unclear. Purchases include heavy table linens, pillow cases, Huck towels, spools of yarn, and framed prints with stated values and unloading to reduce overstock.
A crowded rack sale offers suits, coats, waist, and petticoats at deep cuts. Items include 50 suits up to 27.50, 63 coats up to 35, 75 children's coats, 40 ladies shirts, 38 suits, 100 children's coats, 125 silk petticoats, and 50 odds waists mostly in silk, satin, taffeta. Prices slashed to unload stock.
Unloading offers include heavy wool and fleece rib underwear in sizes 32 to 50, with prices from 25c to 75c and various value garments. Sweater coats for men and boys listed at 25c to 98c, with wool options up to 2.48. Also featured are 10c handkerchiefs, wool gloves, coat hangers, safety razors, wool hose, dress shirts, and Munsing Union suits in multiple price tiers.
Local retailer offers a surplus of silks and dress fabrics for immediate unloading. Specials include twenty pieces 40 inch Panamas in new shades at 50c value, assorted silks in colors two tones stripes and checks up to 69c per yard, plus fifty pieces of Panamas Cashmeres Serges Novelties and Checks at 48c per yard. Also broadcloths chevrons serges and Parisian trimmings matching the new lines at unloading prices.
Unloading sale offers one thousand pairs of ladies and children hosiery in black and white fleece lined varieties. Includes wool hose in several weights and guaranteed boys and girls ribbed hose. Boxes of four for school wear priced at four dollars. assorted sizes available.
Local department stock offers deep unloading prices on ladies and children's undergarments including rib fleece pants and vests sizes 1 to 34, boys Merino shirts and drawers, outing robes, and MUNSING two piece suits. Also available are heavy outing gowns for ladies and men with marked sale prices.
Unloading inventory items including belts combs puffs curls sewing tissue hair rolls mercerized silk yarn and other notions. Prices range from 8¢ to 98¢ with discounts on belts tinder and perfume and various small domestic goods.
Unload of hats and ostrich plumes with varied prices from 1.98 to 9.98. Hats from Gage values up to 12.00, wholesale cost reductions after Gage Bros New York office closure. January pricing forged by bulk purchase and warm weather demand.
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