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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1898
Page
5
The Boston Store announces heavy fall and winter bargains with low prices and plain figures. It pledges to keep prices down, offer honest value, and attract customers through a one price policy and mass discounts to clear stock.
Dress Goods Department offers 25 pieces of mostly wool and silk blends 34 to 40 inches wide at a starter 25 cents per yard. 965 pieces of black brocades and fine weaves priced 39 and 49 cents. Fancy Plaid Dress Goods assortment offered at 9 cents per yard.
Jet braids priced per yard at 5, 7, and 9 cents. Pasementary dress braids in new cuts and shades at 8, 9, and 12 cents. Silk braids 7, 8, 10, and 15 cents. Cumbric at 34 cents. Canvas stiffening 9 cents. Waist lining double fold 7 cents. Velvet dress binding 3 cents. Hooks and eyes two dozen on card for 2 cents.
An advertisement lists women garment specials including ribbons in new shades blue green pink red and black satin at low prices, a corset at 39 cents, higher value corsets discounted, real kid gloves and Mocha gloves at steep sale prices, and men’s working and dress gloves at reduced costs.
Shoe Department opens full stock with aggressive pricing. Henderson & Co promotes C. M. Henderson and their Little Red School House shoes with claims of factory savings and broad size ranges. They warrant satisfaction or money back and list deep discounts on men women and children's footwear including box calf leather options and Kangaroo grain dress shoes.
A catalog style listing various sewing and paper shop items with prices and product names including needles thimbles elastic web stockinet dress shields ink and pins. The fragment mentions shoe strings spools of thread garters hair pins safety pins curlers and pencils.
Advertises ladies macintosh coats with capes in all wool serge or trico at bargain prices. Full length coats priced at $1.48 for the fancy back and $3.50 for caped versions. extra quality velvet trimmed options at $3.75 down from $4.98. silk stitching noted. highlights durability and size availability.
A cluttered advertisement notes ladies fall vests long sleeve wool fleece lined ribbed vests at low prices. Also mentions children's underwear, boys and girls ribbed fleece lined sizes up to 34, extra heavy fleece lined drawers, and men's full weight natural gray drawers sold in matching sets. Prices around 7c to 25c.
Bleached table linen sixty inches wide offered for 23 cents a yard. Turkey red table linen nineteen cents. Scotch twill brown and bleached toweling per yard priced at three cents. Sixteen inch wide all linen crash available for six cents.
Ready made dress skirts of superior quality with good lining and tailoring. Prices start from 8 cents up to 8 dollars, enticing shoppers to inspect the selection.
Gloaks and Gapes advertises surprising prices on ladies capes jackets and cloaks. Heavy capes braid fur trimmed Boucle capes wool jackets and child cloaks are discounted with prices from 48 cents to 3.98, plus low cost outings flannels muslin yarns and knitting supplies in a limited opening sale.
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