April Sale at The Leader Promotes Spring Goods
The Leader announces an April sale to reduce stock after heavy spring purchases. All items are new Spring and Summer merchandise at low prices, with no shoddy old goods offered.
15 Apr 1902
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Newspaper
North Platte Semi Weekly Tribune
Location
North Platte, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1902
Page
1
The Leader announces an April sale to reduce stock after heavy spring purchases. All items are new Spring and Summer merchandise at low prices, with no shoddy old goods offered.
Unbleached and Bleached Sheeting offered at reduced prices per yard with varied regular costs. Fast color Percales and Standard Prints discounted to fractions of a cent. Wash Goods India Linens and Imported Plain Lawns listed with multiple price points. Silks include various widths and styles with sale prices noted.
Hosiery and underwear department offers ladies summer underwear from 5c, fast black seamless hose at 12c half price, children's ribbed hose 12c, sizes 5% to 9½. Exclusive agents for Thomson Glove Fitting Corsets with styles from 50c up.
A Chicago trimmer offers ladies trimmed hats at 1.09 dollars and up, claiming prices are 50 percent lower than any other house on this side of Omaha. Large stock on hand ready for sale.
Velvet ribbons silk and satin ribbons will be sold at a large discount at this sale. Washable ribbons also offered with reduced prices as part of the event.
The notice advertises late novelties for suits skirts and waists with a promotion during the sale. Linings are offered free with dresses and fabrics priced from twenty five cents per yard and up.
Dress skirts in black brocaded worsted priced from $1.50 to $3.00 and $2.00 to $3.50. Golf skirts $3.48. Ladies tailor made suits from 4.75. Shirt waists from 50c. Silk waists in assorted colors $3.58. Ladies wrappers kimonas 50c up. Children's wash dresses 35c up. Ladies muslin underwear sun bonnets. Large assortment at the lowest prices.
A large Western Nebraska store advertises carpets linoleums lace curtains and bed room curtains at low prices with 20 cents per yard carpets 10 cents mats lace curtains from 75 cents per pair and more. Shoes brands Queen Quality Hamilton Brown and University come with warranties and a free pair of hose with each shoe purchase. Men's suits children suits drapery and furnishing items are heavily discounted. A $40 drop head sewing machine will be given away on the 17th with coupons earned on 25 cent purchases.
The treasury reports customs receipts for the first nine months total 190 182 000, up 10 000 900 from last year and 40 000 000 from 1898 9. Expenditures for the army in the Philippines and Cuba have been reduced, though war tax repeal won t fully close the surplus.
The Ogallala News marks eighteenth year as Anna Gray Clark continues publishing a readable paper. Weather and farming notes abound with mentions of glow worms, wheat and alfalfa trials, hotel moves, canal work, and local commerce across Hershey Gering and Nichols areas.
A runaway incident near Franklin Grove led to a severe leg ulcer for J. B. Orner. The ad claims Bugkleo's Arica Salve cured him and advertises it as a remedy for boils cuts bruises corns stale skin eruptions and piles priced at 26 cents at A Streitz's Ari store.
North Platte residents have sent nearly a hundred people to Father Kroeger at Epiphany for treatment. Many travel to Omaha for transport while some seek relief from chronic ailments or minor stomach issues. Stories of dubious diagnoses circulate, but Tremont promotes travel as beneficial even if Kroeger cannot help.
Advert claims Electric Bit ura destroys chalaris germs and cures malaria and related pains. Testimonial from John Chariesten of Hyestville Ohio endorses its effectiveness against fever stomach and liver troubles. Sale by FF. Stroitz throughout the region.
Paine and Moore offer 20 head of thoroughbred bulls at private sale in North Platte Nebraska across two days. The consignment includes 10 registered Short-Horns and 1 registered Hereford with unrecorded Herefords, ages 17 to 20 months. Bulls are bred for quality and steers, no culls, inquiry encouraged.
A catalog style notice lists Corticelli silk spools 50 and 100 yards, tape, needles, writing paper, pencils, skirt bindings, combs, fountain syringes, thimbles, curlers, pins, wads, crochet hooks, knitting needles, Vaseline bottles, and Shetland yarns with prices. The store advertises evening hours until eight o'clock.
A discussion of tailoring style notes that a fine Prince Albert coat cut away at the coat and adjusted trousers create a perfect hang. It emphasizes that proper fitting by an artistic tailor guarantees swell appearance, with cleaning and repairs as specialties.
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