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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1902
Page
4
Boldly presented Christmas catalog promises a World Dictionary level range of gifts from lace shawls to toys, books, jewels, and home goods. It invites all ages to find sentiment, inspiration, and items to bring joy, with stories of craft, heritage, and lasting value.
Advertises affordable library editions of classic authors in 12 month bindings with gilt tops. Lists multiple authors and volumes with prices for cloth and half calf bindings, including Carlyle Dickens Dumas Eliot Guizot Hugo Irving Ruskin Scott Thackeray and others. Located at Book Store Ninth Street.
The Wanamaker store announces the largest service contract with New York Telephone Co and eight added trunk lines to handle heavy call volume. It reports frequent busy signals and invites customer feedback while noting the relocation of Mason & Hamlin stock from 135 Fifth Avenue to Broadway and Tenth Street along with praise for the company’s pianos and organs.
Modern smart suits in cheviots and mixed cloths, silk-lined, blouse and fly-front styles. Each $20. valued up to $80. Second floor, Broadway, Wanamaker's display of fashionable wardrobe.
A broad basement to second floor display tempts shoppers with an extensive international selection. Handkerchiefs come from Ireland Switzerland France and Japan with new holiday offerings and varied prices from 25c to $3 per item.
Superb collection of black silk and wool dress fabrics from a leading English manufacturer. Finest and richest loom products offered today at Sociesty prices of 3.50, 4.00, 4.50 and 5.00 per yard.
At 1.50 a yard, an American-ordered closeout offers about thirty designs of silk and wool fabrics. The stock includes Matelasse, silk-figured Voiles, Crepe Stripes, Paris Cords, Bedford Cords and more. Located at Tenth Street and Fourth Avenue.
The catalog highlights silk waists as stylish practical Christmas gifts priced from five to twenty five dollars. It showcases colors checks plaids and changeable effects with options in Chantilly Point Venise or chiffon and lists three popular price groups with details on fabrics trims and designs. Second floor Tenth street is named as the location.
Odd groups of camel hair cheviots zibeline and silk lined skirts offered at half price. Regular prices up to 40 dollars, now 20 dollars each. Broadway location on the second floor.
Read about girls jackets priced from 12.50 to 20 dollars now at 10 dollars. Styles include tight fitting double breast fly front in covert cheviot kersey fabrics in black and tan. Sizes 14 and 16 years available on second floor Ninth street.
A sale of gauze and lace fans with bone sticks and Dresden figures through Broadway showcases many designs. Prices range from 50 cents to 25 dollars for various fans, including white painted, spangled, and Duchesse edge styles in multiple sizes.
Ts offers a superb stock of men’s surtout overcoats praised for a custom-made look. The Black and Oxford mixtures are featured at 20 dollars each with chest sizes 32 to 38. Second floor Fourth avenue.
Fresh fabrics and new ideas in suits arrive at UST with large plaids broken checks and narrow stripes in brown and gray. Single or double breasted sack coats offered in the best ready made style. Prices are 15 18 and 20 dollars per suit.
A local retailer promotes a men’s shoe line priced at three dollars. The "Wanamaker-Wear-Well" shoes are black grain calfskin, Blacher cut, laced with double oak-tanned soles, welted and stitched, and treated to resist water, advertised as amphibious for rainy days. Main Shoe Store, Fourth Ave and Ninth St.
Silk web suspenders offered as a fortunate gift for Christmas remembrance. Ottoman silk webbing, two blue shades scarlet maroon purple old rose, leather ends, gilt buckles, glove-button cast-offs. Regular dollar quality at 50 cents. Men’s Wear Broadway and Ninth Street.
The catalog lists men’s underwear in multiple weights from light to extra heavy with prices from 1 to 4.00 and notes unshrinkable wool options. It also promotes boys’ winter suits including Norfolk jackets and three piece sets at reduced prices, and knee trousers in corduroy for older boys.
Largest and most varied dinner set selection with 100 to 117 pieces. Prices from 10 to 70 dollars with names like Theodore Haviland and Charles Field Haviland G D A. Many decorations, gilt handles, and border designs, plus a broad basement display.
An extensive display features dainty desk and boudoir clocks to tall stairpiece models. Prices range from $1.25 to $358 with varieties including 1-day and 8-piece French movement sets, gilt crystal regulators, travel clocks in leather cases, weathered oak, mantel chime, hall, and office clocks.
Water Colors By American Artists offers a curated collection with strong variety and lasting artistic value. Notable contributors include Hugo Fisher, W Livingston Anderson, T Herdt, George T Schultz, and Arthur Fendel with landscapes seascapes and marine scenes priced between 15 and 100 dollars. The Picture Store on the Fifth floor advertises this selection.
A book store on Ninth street promotes a Language Phone demonstration offering quick learning in French, German, or Spanish. The Rosenthals Common Sense Method of Practical Linguistry backs the program and a new speaking manual is included with every Language Phone sold before the display closes for holiday goods.
London shop Advertises a wide leather goods assortment including jewel boxes portfolios book covers trays stamp boxes in morocco calf levant and leather with colors and prices from 1.75 to 30 dollars noting best time to view before crowds. Items include photograph boxes in varied leathers and finishes clocks in leather cases and memorandum pads with watch attachments.
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