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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1901
Page
12
Welcome to our distinguished friends from the Southland attending the Southern Industrial Convention. Visitors are assured of a hospitable reception with three rooms on the fourth floor offering writing materials, newspapers, and a cool resting place. A Mid-Summer Day's Dream scene features a waterfall, an old mill, and an Angelus chime.
A feature on staple dark fabrics and silk wool blends favored this season. It lists etamine, mohair, challis, nun's veiling, clairette, lansdowne, and other names with price ranges from fractions of a dollar to several dollars per yard. The piece notes remnant sales and highlights popular items likely to remain in demand next year.
Retail advertisement lists summer undergarments including corset covers cambric and nainsook garments with lace ribbons and embroidery. Items feature petticoats drawers nightgowns and chemises in assorted trims and prices from 0.50 to 3.25 dollars, highlighting plain Paris-inspired styles.
A catalog of sewing notions and notions for summer dressmaking including pearl buttons in multiple sizes, corset supports, lace, sewing machine parts, knitting cotton, tapes, hooks and eyes, linen thread, dress shields, hair pins, and other small sewing items priced from 2c to 25c, advertised as a ready supply for makers.
We offer colored cloths resembling tapestry from Germany, deemed best in the country, now on sale due to surplus. Maroon blue and green options measure .66 inches square with knotted fringe all around. Southwest of center location noted.
Several women visited to purchase lace quantities to stash for future use. Dressmakers and thrifty shoppers are urged to buy now as the selection, while not complete, offers exquisite pieces at good value. Applique and Escorial laces are noted as exceptionally fine for the price.
Yesterday set a buying record as couches sold fast at bargain prices. The maker plans continued production through June with orders customizable from many tapestry velour and Verona fabrics and sixteen frame styles. Reductions include 10 dollars off 15 dollar items, 14 off 21, and 15.50 off 23. Verona couches feature solid springs while cheaper lines use traditional fillings and knotted springs for stability.
Advertisement notes Campbell pianos arrived two weeks ago and sold out the same day. More stock followed but sold out almost immediately. Today the shop finally has enough(purchase) to offer available pianos again.
An 1900 Wanamaker advertisement from New York promotes the Campbell piano line, offering a $185 seven octave model with mahogany walnut or oak cases and ivory keys. It details payment plans, five year warranty, and asserts no piano clubs to inflate costs, while praising the Chickering and other makers as benchmarks.
Second floor Market street offers deep price cuts as manufacturers skip patterns for next fall. Wilton velvets drop to 1 per yard from 1.40, standard velvets to 75 cents from a dollar. Body Brussels to 96 cents from 1.25, tapestry Brussels 50 cents from 66, wool extra supers 55 cents from 65. Also cowhide, morocco, ooze and patent leather lined and stitched. Factory addition kept running to meet demand as belts sell at 50 cents.
An advertisement notes imported avanee shirts from the foremost maker of wash ties in the country. Men and boys shirts priced 50c with madras fabric available for $1, featuring separate cuffs and sizes from 12 to 17 3/4. Best $1, $1.50 and $2 summer shirts advertised on Chestnut Street markets.
A varied stock of Limoges china, cut glass, and bric-a-brac offered in the Arcade with many items discounted. French china on the second floor half price, numerous dinner and dishware pieces priced per dozen or by piece, plus porcelain sets and cut glass at substantial savings.
Sterling Silver wedding gifts showcase wide patterns and growing variety at a Chestnut and Thirteenth Street shop. Spoons and forks priced from a few dollars to over twenty dollars, table pieces and sets listed with multiple price points, and a cooking school session noted for today with veal loaf and strawberry shortcake on the agenda.
A catalog of leather shoe bargains lists wide price cuts on women’s and men’s patent leather shoes and oxfords, kidskin and calfskin varieties, and sample stocks. Numerous sizes and shapes priced from $1 to $2.85, with many items marked well below domestic retail, including children’s and women's options.
On the second floor of Chestnut street a display advertises $25 women’s serge suits at $15. The note explains price differences between $15 and $25 tailor-made suits, citing quality of work, with $20-plus suits made by top tailors and under $20 by learners. It mentions features like a flared skirt with a drop skirt of taffeta and an Eton jacket lined with silk.
Reduced on second floor at Paris Underclothes and Little French room. Eton jackets in broadcloth cheviot covert and diagonal cloth drop from 8 50 10 15 20 and 25 to 5 and 10 with colors black and various cloths. Nightgowns corset covers chemises mark down to set prices.
The Wanamaker's clothing department advertises men’s suits priced at 8.50 and 10 dollars with values up to 12 to 20 dollars. Cassimeres deviots and worsteds are highlighted as good enough for the best dressed man. They claim to sell $20 suits for $10 and promise equal value to payment. The note notes customers from other stores and a record sales day, marking forty years of business.
Summer bedding sale on Third floor Thirteenth Street offers white bed spreads in multiple sizes with discounts on dimity, pique, crochet, and Marseilles patterns. Prices include single beds from $1, doubles $1.25, extra large $2, plus reductions on light-weight honeycomb and silkoline comfortables and blankets.
See Wanamaker adjustable screens in sizes from 22 to 38 inches wide and 20 inches high with imitation walnut frame. Leader screens add metal center strips for rigidity. Fly escape screens on hardwood frames let flies out, not in. Frames for DIY kits, imitation walnut or light frames, screens to order with sample styles available.
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