This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 20 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1897
Page
2
Gimbe Brothers offers a vast muslin underwear display with nightgowns from 58c to 81 each and ten styles at higher prices up to 35, plus colored petticoats, silk lacques, dressing sacques, and summer corsets. The sale highlights long waist corsets and extended net and steel-boned designs.
A Dated notice announces a big reduction sale on spring millinery with Paris model hats. Hats priced from $6 to $16 feature trims like plumes, ribbons, and flowers. Second floor displays table linens, damask, napkins, towels with deep discounts, including German damask and Irish damask at marked prices. First floor east aisle.
Gimbel Brothers advertise 15c grounds now 12c with rosebud and sunburst prints. Bicycling Suitings and durable covert cloths shown in blue brown olive black navy at 124c per yard. Finest cotton covert near wool covert quality at 18c per yard. First floor east aisle.
The shop promotes sheer waists in grass cloth, lace, and ginghams with varied trimmings at 75c to $3, plus $1.50 to $2.50 offerings. It touts $15 suits, imported worsteds, and tailored finishes with a money back guarantee, plus new Black Lace Drapery Nets and Valenciennes laces on the first floor.
The laundress offers a wide range of summer dresses and accessories in over one hundred patterns. Lappet mulls and dainty goods show lively weave and style in pinks blues and lavenders, emphasizing crispness and renewed freshness.
Catalog notes offer White Lawn yokes with embroidery 1 each and 1.55 for all over yoke styles. Esprit nets with lace trim 1 each. Dotted net and gingham options from 0.95 to 2.25. Awnings and slipcovers advertised with 2 dollar prices, material 12 1 2 cents per yard. Portieres, screens, curtains, nettings, and dress trimmings listed with multiple prices and colors.
A local seller offers Chicago Electric hose remnants at 8c a foot, urging buyers beware of imitations and noting the product is guaranteed. The sale features varied textiles like mohair and silk gimps and jet gimp trims with strong discounts. The deal emphasizes the remnant purchase from a major stock and cites company president William Weightman.
An old advertisement notes yard-wide bleached muslin of standard make sold at 6 cents a yard, with a quality description of good body and a price of 9 cents for a single lot while it lasts.
The President sent nominations to the Senate naming William Haywood for Secretary of the Legation and Consul General at Honolulu Hawaii William L Penfield for Solicitor of the State Department John K Thompson for Marshal of the district of West Virginia John J de Haven for United States District Judge Northern California and Washington Berrygrove for assistant surgeon in the navy Penfield aging about 45 and a former Indiana judge de Haven longtime San Francisco attorney and former two term congressman both noted with background details.
A plenary session of the Universal Postal Congress adopted the parcels post report with minor changes. The United States and others hold special arrangements with individual countries and Bulgaria and Roumania joined the general signers with a small rate cut. The death of Hastings of the Hawaiian Legation was commemorated with a draped desk.
Representative King of Utah introduced a resolution directing the Speaker to appoint the committee on foreign affairs due to grave questions in foreign policy. The measure cites the Senate recognizing Cuban insurgent belligerency and Hawaii complications affecting U S interests in the islands.
Webster Davis of Kansas City Missouri assumed the post as Assistant Secretary of the Interior, succeeding Judge John M Reynolds of Bedford Pennsylvania. The transfer included a silver testimonial from office employees and both men gave addresses. Reynolds departed for home in Bedford that night.
Special Telegram reports a ten percent daily wage reduction effective immediately for workers at the Sharon Iron Works Archman Steel Casting Buh Steel Mill and other plants. About one thousand men are affected by the action.
The British bark Ardmore from Bangkok to Brazil ashore near Gaspar Strait in the Malay Archipelago is a hopeless wreck and an auction sale of her has been recommended.
Washington June 1 Senate progress on the tariff bill continued as the metal schedule neared completion. Minority proposals by West and Jones were defeated 8 to 14 while onyx and marble rate changes triggered sharp exchanges among West Aldrich and Jones. A question of personal privilege by Senator Smith of New Jersey over sugar stock allegations briefly interrupted debate before adjournment.
Senate debates the tariff bill with McLaurin sworn in, party-line votes on china and glass rates, amendments to reduce duties debated and defeated, West pushing favorable terms for bottles and spectacles, and ongoing discussion of duties on porcelain and other goods. The roll includes Aldrich leading, Jones opposing rates, and Sewell citing job losses in potteries. The session advances paragraph by paragraph with amendments withdrawn or agreed as the bill progresses.
An inner overview narrates a respected businessman’s collapse under bankruptcy and ill health. The piece promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as the remedy to restore digestion, liver function, appetite, bowels, blood, and nerves, with a testimonial from Thos. J. Torbert senior. It also touts Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, offered free with stamps, and advertises binding options from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo.
The House faces procedural gridlock as the Speaker’s control of committees draws fire. Minority members press for records on Cuba. debate covers transportation to India and relief bills for soldiers and flood victims. Adjournment set for Thursday after a day of rhetoric on rules and governance.
Traveling Bags highlight carefully chosen skins and meticulous details. Practical shapes offer extreme serviceability with a comprehensive set of silver-mounted toilet requisites including brush, comb, soap box, razor, toothbrush, and scissors. Luxurious and convenient traveling companions.
An unknown man jumped from Prospect Point at Niagara Falls this morning. He wore a brown overcoat and hat and appeared about 30 years old.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.