Wanamaker Store News Carpet Bargains and Summer Goods
The Wanamaker store advertises heavy discounts on carpets including Savonnerie Axminster Velvet and Wilton Velvet patterns with storehouse pricing. From second floor Market Street belts ribbons and leather goods are advertised along with linen piques dresses and hats from the Chestnut Street and Green Salon sections. Men, women, and children receive low prices on stockings undershirts and underwear in basement sales.
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Market Street
Summer Bargains In Silk and Voile Fabrics
A retailer advertises imported Summer Black-Goods bargains at half price from an importer. Items include a $2 crepe at $1, 45 inch Voile at $1.45, silk and wool light fabrics, dull mourning finish, striped Voile at $1, silk-figured Voile at $2.50 for $1, camel hair ground fabric at $2.50, and plaid Etamines with five plaid styles at 42 inches.
Wanamaker's Big Shoe Sale Promises Bargains and Comfort
A gleaming pitch for men women and children to shop at Wanamaker's fourth floor shoe sale with dollar and dollar twenty-five to five dollar price ranges. The ad touts comfort durable leathers and back money guarantees with varied styles from black calf to patent leather and kidskin across men women and children sizes. It notes lunch hour windows and strong crowd appeal.
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Wanamaker’s
Russia
D Little Boys
House Furniture Reductions Dozens of Pieces Marked Down
Local sale ad lists numerous furniture items with steep markdowns including mahogany chiffoniers rockers bookcases and beds. Prices range from four to a hundred dollars across oak and mahogany pieces, with fans and buffets among the discounted stock.
Colored Petticoats in Fresh Light Shades
Half price at 50c. Plain colored percale skirts feature a deep pleated ruffle in contrasting colors. The hang and cut are the main appeal. about four hundred skirts available. Second floor, first gallery.
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Chestnut Street
Firat Gallery
Hats and summer wear draw crowds in city sale
A local advertisement touts affordable straw hats from $1 to $10 in various styles. It touts wash suits for boys from $1 to $6, seersucker, serge, and worsted sailors, plus Panama imitation options and Alpine square crowns. Also promotes home canning supplies and a range of cocoanut fruit creams and fresh coconuts.
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Knox
Panama
City Hall
Market Street
Fashionable muslin undergarments at low prices
Advertisement lists muslin and cambric undergarments including corset covers, drawers, and night gowns with multiple styles and trims. Prices range from 6c to 75c. Limited to three items per customer for several pieces, with notes on quality and confidence in selling. Location hinted at Second floor, first gallery.
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Mother Hubbard
Bargain Suits At Half Price In Philadelphia Store
A Boston man with too many suits visits a new clothing store and buys 465 all wool suits priced at 8.50. They range from 5 to 22 for various cuts and styles, with skeletontlining and mohair linings. Located on Market and City Hall Square.
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Arcade
Boston
Philadelphia
John Wanamaker
Market
City Hall Square
Shirts at Market Street Offer Fresh Summer Styles
Yesterday nearly fourteen hundred men's soft shirts sold as bargain hunters lined Main aisle Market Street. New stock includes Parise box pleats Panama cheviots and madras in varied patterns. Summer shirts also on display Chestnut Street with prices from 1.50 to 10 dollars.
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Market Street
Chestnut Street
Madras
Summer furniture bargains and pianos on sale at Chestnut Street store
The ad lists porch rockers from 75 cents and 1.75 for high and low backs, plus wicker and older furniture. It promotes Chickering Uprights at 325 to 400 and a Grand at 600, with Vose at 250 and Emerson at 100. Fourth-floor piano feature and a broad array of quadruple plated wedding gifts on Thirteenth and Chestnut.
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Emerson
Chickering
Chestnut Street
Aternea Bao
Summer Half Price Books and Camera Sale on Juniper
A listing of discounted books from How to Know the Wild Flowers to The Phantom Future plus Tales of Space and Time. The ad promotes a Cybo folding camera with 4x5 pictures and an achromatic lens. It promises customer satisfaction and invites returns if not pleased.
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Mra
Dana
Egypt
C. D. Gibson
George Gissing
Edmund Gosee
H. Holman
Ian Maclaren
United States of Europe
W. T. Stead
Napoleon I
Mary Lloyd
Victor Hugo
John W. Harding
Clement K. Shorter
Max Pemberton
New York
Edward W. Townsend
H. G. Wells
Walter Raymond
Claude A. Rees
Hallie E. Rives
Henry
Merriman
W. H. Mise
N. B. Winston
Cybo
Juniper Street
Lorraine Bicycles Sale Ad Promises Quick Sellout
An advertising notice touts Lorraine bicycles at 16 dollars while warning no more Lorraines will be available once stock runs out. It also promotes Continental bikes at 25 dollars, claiming limited supply as demand rises among New York shoppers.
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Axminster
Koch
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Paris
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Ian
Bree
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E. Messin
First Gallery
Lorraine Bicycles
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