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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1897
Page
2
Gimbel Brothers Philadelphia June 3 1897 presents a ribbon sale with a vast on day supply. Baby ribbons at 5 cents and colored gros-grain and taffeta ribbons in numerous widths and shades. Also Japanese silks wash silks pongee and printed silks on first floor east store.
The page advertises suit and vest sets with handwork patches and buttonholes, Ballyowen homespun coats, golf cuff pants, and frequent discounts from $15 to $8.60. Also featuring Lenox toe shoes, Tampico goat skin options, and a two floor sale of summer suits and low shoes with marked prices and sizes.
The ad highlights twenty five lace patterns at 25 cents per dozen yards and four inch wide laces at 25 cents per yard. Decorated Chamber Sets in blue dove or brown run 1.50 per set. Imported Jardinieres in four lots priced 25 cents to 5 dollars. Imported beer steins are 25 cents and up, on the fourth floor.
Readable lot offers nearly 5000 yards of imported Javanaise wool silk fabrics priced at 29c a yard. Eleven color groups and 28 designs with numerous patterns suitable for tea gowns and summer waists. Spring suits cleared to three price points 5, 7.50, and 8.50 dollars featuring the Harvard design brown and white three button sack coat.
Largely attended morning and afternoon sessions were held at the Drexel Institute with a public meeting at Horticultural Hall. Delegates, many women, heard calls for libraries to educate the masses and sustain civic growth, while officials reviewed progress and state aid figures.
A long historical account recalls the Charley Ross kidnapping of 1874, the subsequent Westervelt trial for conspiring to abduct, and the legal innovation that allowed charging a conspiracy to abduct. The piece traces Mosher Douglass and Westervelt, their roles, and the Bay Ridge deaths that closed the case.
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