June 14 1901 Weather Forecast
Prila Pelpra reports the weather for Thursday June 14 1901, predicting probable showers across the area with unsettled skies and a likelihood of rainfall.
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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1901
Page
12
Fashion notes from London and Henley runways
Dress trends from London clubs to Henley include white and mauve outfits, black evening coats, and half mourning shades. Turquoise and Parma colors brighten gowns while elaborate tassels, ruffles, and coiled hair top the season. Accessories feature numerous charms, colored striped silks, and bargains on silks and gloves at the Arcade.
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London
Parma
Brainerd and Armstrong Exhibit Silk Worms
The Brainerd and Armstrong display shows silkworms from hatching to cocooning attracting hundreds. A native cocoon yielded a butterfly named Bombyx Platy-Samia Cecropia, displayed in a bird cage on the Cross aisle for all to see.
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Brainerd & Armstrong
Our First Summer Sale of Laces
New lace arrivals brighten counters with over a hundred patterns priced at a third to half regular. Venise insertions and galons 15c to 1.50, net-top Venise lace 50c to 1.75, silk applique Persian effects 90c to 1.50, batiste bands 35c and 50c.
Neatest little serge suit offered with drop silk skirt
Advertisement describes a blue black serge suit with silk drop skirt and tafteta lined jacket offered at low price. The maker sacrificed profit during rough northeast winds to keep tailors together. Also notes a white lawn option with colored border on second floor at 50c, as an easy hot day style.
Reduced Cottons Lot Prices Cut on All Odd Lots
The store lowers prices across all remaining odds from cheap cottons to fine imported fabrics. Popular items include printed cottons, lawns, muslin, dimities, madras, piques, and ginghams with discounts from 5c to 65c for assorted textiles. Local shopping area noted as northeast and northwest of center.
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Madras
Center
Millinery Reductions andTrimmed Hats Sale
Reduced hats and millinery pieces offered at low prices. Golden salon presents $5 and $6 hats for $2, with untrimmed hats, large Gainsboroughs, and other styles at 50c. Imported and domestic flowers for trimming priced 15c to 25c. Girls hats trimmed simply in all colors 15c to 25c.
Shirtwaists Sell At Bargain Prices In Sample Line
A big maker offers white shirtwaist samples priced at $1 and $1.50. The line features dainty crisp materials, embroidery and lace trim, hemstitching and pleating. Most styles show only two or three of a kind and readers know the summer demand for white shirtwaists remains high.
Shoes on sale wholesale pricing across many styles
A vintage listing details deep discounts on women's and children's shoes including Russet, dark tan kidskin, Russia calfskin, and patent leather options. It lists sizes from children to adults, various widths, and notes values vs. higher original prices. Promotions mention sample shoes and regular stock with floor location cues.
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Tan
Russia
Oxford
Southern Industrial Convention Delegates Visit Philadelphia
The city hosts Southern delegates to the Southern Industrial Convention as Philadelphia showcases its mills, shipyards, and stores. Wanamaker's offers open rooms and amenities for Southern guests to feel at home, with the Commercial Museum and Textile Branch highlighted as examples of northern industry. The piece emphasizes friendship between North and South and promises support for Southern development.
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Europe
Cramps’ Shipyard
Baldwins
Commercial Museum
School of Industrial Art
Philadelphia
Boys Suits Searve Prices at City Hall Market Street
City Hall Square and Market Street offer boys suits in navy blue serge from 5 to 7.50 dollars with two piece jackets and breeches for ages eight to sixteen. Sized eight to sixteen, serge suits with vests run 7 to 12 dollars and wash suits in white duck or tan linen range 3.50 to 4 dollars. Norfolk jacket suits 1.50 to 4.50 with yokes and knickerlockers. Fewer than expected stock.
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City Hall Square
Market Street
Norfolk
Madras Shirts and Accessories Sale Aisle Prices
A Market Street display offers good madras shirts at 50 cents with separate cuffs and nearly a dollar for other models. Silk string ties run two for 25 cents, all cut from half-dollar silks. An endless variety of patterns includes madras suspenders at 25 cents with elastic cord ends.
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Madras
Women’s Bathing Suits and Lingerie Sale Prices
A sale listing offers Mohair, Serge and Flannel bathing suits with prices from $2.50 to $12.75 plus accessories. Corsets, nightgowns, petticoats and wrappers are advertised with reduced, reduced-to-half, or bargain prices. Several floors and fabrics highlighted with polka dot centers and cambric details.
Basement sale offers Wiss shears with minor flaws
Readable listing notes genuine Wiss shears in sizes from six percent to ten inches. Prices range from $1 to $1.50 with slight imperfections described as not affecting use. Items branded and sold as bargain tools.
Flags for Flag Day Offerings and Bunting
Advertises Flag Day on June 14 and Betsy Ross tribute. Details a wide range of flags and bunting in various sizes and materials priced from a few cents to multiple dollars, plus hardwood flagpoles and brackets in stock.
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Philadelphia
Arch Street
Betsy Ross
Handkerchief Styles and Linen Goods in City Shop
Cosmetic listing of women and men handkerchiefs in various sizes and hemstitched borders with initials. Includes linen widths from 14 inch to 180 inch, prices from 12 ½ to 25 cents, plus carpet and furniture linen advice and free measurement service.
Noted undergarments and home goods sale listing
The ad markets women’s lace trimmed undergarments ribbed corset covers drawers and lisle items with prices from 25c to $2.50. It also promotes Vassar box window seats and assorted home furnishings, cushions, and summer notions with discounts on sheets, stockings, shirts and ribbons.
Japanese Imports Deep Discount Sale on Second Floor
Oriental fine art items reduce to make space for new stock. Lacquered screen inlaid with bone and pearl drops from 125 to 85, a 100 item now 65. Chinese pots and pedestals fall to 17.50 from 25, some 15 to 10. Banko carving rats 12.50 from 25, Kyoto bronze vase 60 from 100, ivories 3 to 60, Turkish lanterns 25 from 65, bronze vases heavily discounted. Hundreds of other items also cut.
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Oriental Fine Art
Kyoto
Hat styles and prices at Wanamaker's Market Street store
Hats of all kinds fill market street and City Hall corner aisles with prices from 1 to 5 dollars. Seniits, splits and rough straw shapes are popular while Panama hats are less common. The telescope hat gains traction among middle aged patrons as Wanamaker's advertises record sales.
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Market Street
City Hall Corner
Panama
Wanamaker
Record-Breaking Suit Sale Clears Most at $8.50
Still available are six hundred seventy five suits priced at $8.50, including cheviots oxford cheviots worsteds and cassimeres in summer weights. Stocks from the early sale days remain with former prices $12 to $18. Serge options range from $7.50 to $25.
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Oxford
Monard Watches Noted by French Journal for Genevese Quality
The Monard shop at Chestnut and Thirteenth streets gains praise from L Encyclopedie Contemporaine for its Genevese watchmaking. It highlights Monard history from 1796 to 1833 and notes awards in Geneva 1896 and Paris. Prices for men’s and women’s Monard watches are listed along with enamel and diamond pieces and bronze gifts on display.
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Jules Monard
M. Francois Monard-Girod
MM. Monard Brothers
Paris
Jules Menard
United States of America
Geneva
New York
Reception Lamps and Gas-Range Sale Pitch
An ad lists remaining lamps on the second and third gallery with discounted prices from 3 to 16 dollars, plus a variety of table tumblers. It promotes gas ranges as cheaper to operate than coal, highlights single and double ovens, and notes cooking schools with demonstrations at 10:30 AM and 2:30 PM.
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Mr. Man
Manufacturer's Clear-Up of Furniture Sale Ad
A historical furniture clearance offers half price items across styles and woods. Revolving chairs start at $7 or $8 from higher prices, arm chairs from $3.50, Morris chair frames in oak or imitation mahogany, and cushions at half price with remaining stock.
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Morris
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Ascot
Duchess of Devonshire
Arcade
Chestnut Street
Kimona
Novelty
White Shirtwaist
Kidskin and Tan Russia
Wanamaker’s
Kentucky
L. R
Lilian
Wiss
Thirteenth Street
Vassar College
Vassar
West Tefet
Ee Rider
Monard
L’ Encyclopedie Contemporaine
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