Great Orient racing at Woodside Park and summer sales
Cloudy today with a busy schedule at Woodside Park featuring the Orient motor bicycle and pacing machines as Nelson and Moran prepare for middle distance racing. Shop updates highlight large summer stock of dresses, ribbons, suits, and a major shoe sale with deep discounts across men women and children.
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Great
Orient Motor Bicycle
Woodside Park
Orient
Nelson
Moran
Five Hundred Girls Dresses Second Floor Chestnut Street
Sales ad from a Chestnut Street shop promotes summer girls dresses in percale madras lawn and swiss fabrics. It highlights discounted prices from $0.85 to $7.75, cadet suits $4 and $5, and sailor suits with nautical chevrons, urging customers to see for themselves and noting limited stock.
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Chestnut Street
Pinks and blues marked down as stock clears
The seller notes limited supply from the mill at 18 cents and offers shirtwaist fabrics at 25 cents and Madras at 6 percent 4 cents. Lavender stock remains and is marked down to 6 percent 4 cents to clear inventory.
Summer Millinery at Golden Salon Seashore Hats Sale
Seashore travelers seek hats that hold shape in salt air. Sahd Hat made of duck with black velvet trim and quills priced at 2.75. Other hats for travel and stay at homes reduced. Children trimmed hats down to 1. Simple PPG for little folks. Women’s trimmed hats at 5 in black white colors with plumes scarves chiffons and flowers. Pretty hats pair with white dresses.
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Golden Salon
Walking Hats and Baby Goods At Half Price Sale
Sale notes broad discounts across the second floor with walking hats half or one third off and French hats down to 5 dollars. Baby caps and handmade French bon nets priced at 1 to 2 dollars, coats and reefers reduced up to one half. Bedf ord cord fabrics, infant wear, gloves and mitts offered at deep cuts in a busy, base ment and mint corner setting.
Baby Carriages Reduced in Basement Sale
Basement clearance offers baby carriages at $15 from original $17 to $25. Stock from our own factory with reed bodies and corduroy upholstery, oil rubber tires, and wire wheels. Most styles will not be continued next year.
Hanging Lamps and Globes Price List Catalog
Second floor third gallery items include hanging lamps at 3.75 dollars, with burner's center draft for steady flame and soft light. Lamp globes priced 0.75 to 2 dollars, sizes 9 to 12 inches, with wholesale values listed as 1.25 to 5 dollars.
Real Bargains on Men’s Suits at Market Street Corner
A sale advertises over 600 suits with two thirds of $15 items and the rest split between $12 and $16.50, all marked at $7.50. The ad claims strict quality rules and warns shoppers to beware of inferior maker garments while promising genuine value and reliable tailoring.
Hats and Cameras at City Hall Corner and Juniper Street
A sale ads describe straw hats from $1 to $5 and panamas to $8 with rough straw Alpine shapes and telescope hats. Cameras and Kodaks for vacation use priced from 80c to $20 plus the Cycle Pack discounted to $12.50. Razors and shears including Wanamaker razors 50c and Keen Kutter Wiss shears 35c offered in the basement.
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City Hall Corner
Panamas
Juniper Street
Wanamaker
J. R. Torrey & Co
Keen Kutter Wiss
Boys' Summer Clothing Sale on Market Street
Gaps appeared yesterday in jackets sailor Russian blouse vests and bicycle suits now filling with new stock. Prices drop on many items including Russian blouse suits $7.75 to $5 6.50 cheviot serge double-breasted jackets and light weight linen sailor suits at $3.75. Main aisle features Russian blouse suits $1.50 to $2.50 and galatea style sailor suits $4. Pressing needed on some items.
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Oa Mobate
Serge
Market Street
Shirts and Collars Bargains At Arcade And Market Streets
At the Arcade across from Chestnut street a counter holds nearly five hundred white pleated shirts priced at 1 each with fronts of fine pleats. Linen collars are 55 cents a half dozen, fresh and clean with high-band turndowns. At Market street Pleated percale shirts 50 cents and Madras shirts 50 cents with separate cuffs. A big manufacturer believed the price would reach 1.50.
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Chestnut Street
Market Street
Men’s Socks and Underwear at Popular Import Prices
A catalog snippet advertises men’s socks in cotton lisle merino and cashmere from 25c to 85c, plus golf stockings, heavy wool socks, and underwear with prices from 75c to $3.50. It notes direct import savings and features diverse styles and colors. A separate notice promotes two cooking school sessions at 10:30 AM and 2:30 PM with a cherry seeder demonstration and other kitchen tools.
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Lisle
Soc
England
Summer Furniture Sale Prices Cut Across the Floor
Furniture ad lists porch rockers and canvas chairs with steep markdowns from varied original prices. Items include folding canvas armchairs, camp chairs, lawn benches, dining chairs, Morris chairs, piano benches, and oak or mahogany pieces with discounts noted.
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Philadelphia Times
Wanamaker Daily Store
Philadelphia
Fahey
Wiana Taffeta
Catia Ae
Invalid
Cologne
Thirteenth and Market
Thirteenth
Theew York Herald
London
Regal Shoe
Percale
Madras
Challis
Arcade
Sea Island
Housekeeping
Silk
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