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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1901
Page
12
A bustling Wanamaker's sale notes fair weather and crowds buying underpriced goods. It highlights silk capes, light wraps, and cloaks with deep discounts, plus summer apparel for women and men and a new Seashore Catalogue. The piece mentions a cool basement soda fountain and a large 60 foot fan cooling the store.
A sale offers about three thousand pairs of suede lisle gloves at half price. Available in gray white and black, the gloves promise dust resistance hand fitting and a cool light feel. Demand this summer is higher than ever.
A stock clean-up offers three hundred cambric petticoats with dust ruffles and seven tucked clusters, priced near $5.00 to $8.00 values, plus a large selection of waist styles in colors and black. Also available are shirts, drawers, and corsets in balbriggan and lisle, with prices from 75 to 150 cents.
Mercer discovers a process making cotton resemble silk and add strength. Sailors of cotton foulards show silk-like glints and pretty designs. Sales soar as American-made fabrics like Irish dimities and wool grenadines are advertised at discounted prices. Many grenadines, all silk or silk blends, feature floral and striped patterns with strong value.
Laces from Paris arrive including black chantilly galons and Line items such as Point Venise Oriental and Arabian laces in white and ecru. Many prices quoted, with a note that Paris trends show laces worn as outfits and all-overs used to construct dresses. Fall wear expected to mirror current lace popularity.
Two hundred summer dresses on the second floor of Chestnut street reduced to five dollars. Styles vary widely with linen skirts, shirtwaist suits, pique eton outfits, chambray and holland linen models. Madras shirtswaist suits feature sailor collars and flounced skirts.
The ad traces bicycle price drops over years, noting a Continental model now $22.50 to $23.50, with a lower frame and improved gear. It also promotes the Viking at $15.50, highlighting limited remaining stock and temporary bargains as production ends.
Oxford style tennis shoes for men and boys with granite rubber soles that resist wear and slipping. Pebble finish bottoms, available in black brown or white canvas tops. Stock of 30 000 pairs offered in Waner’s vicinity.
Summer pricing slashes in second floor Thirteenth street upholstery and second floor baby store. Cotton and gobelin tapestries, silk tapestries, damask lambrequins, and table covers show sizable cuts with yardage and size variations. Baby garments and fabrics also marked down, with infants' long skirts and dresses offering discounts alongside bed linens and apparel.
A long listing details a summer sale of linen handkerchiefs at the main aisle and east arcade area. Prices range from 50c to $2 a dozen, with variations including hemstitched, embroidered corners, and infant carriage style displays. The advertisement notes reduced prices from $13 to $19 on select baby carriages and related goods.
The sale offers deep discounts on bric-a-brac and cut glass in Arcade and on the second floor. Hundreds of Nall and Theodore Haviland pieces, plus Chinese porcelain and Austrian china, are marked down to a third or half their former prices. Dinner sets, glassware, and decorative items include specific cuts such as chocolate pots, celery trays, cake trays, and berry bowls with notable savings.
A miscellaneous furniture lot features half price to third off on items across the cross aisle and third floor. Iron beds, parlor suites, hat racks, hall glasses and extension tables join reduced lists for women’s desks, buffets, chests, and chests. Store-wide markdowns apply to golden oak, mahogany, French walnut, and painted finishes with prices cut from original tags.
On third floor Thirteenth street an organization offers mixed hair mattresses and feather pillows at deep discounts to keep the group intact. Prices show $22 mattresses cut to $16, $9 mattresses to $6.75, and pillows 1.25 to 1.88 with ticking and 40 pound feather fills. Upholstered box springs for metal bed frames offered at reduced rates.
An advertisement outlines ice chest and refrigerator options with ice capacity in pounds and prices. Puritan chests and refrigerators, cold storage models, odorless units, and tile refrigerators are listed with various capacities from 25 to 208 pounds and prices ranging from about 9.40 to 33 dollars, some with water tanks.
Advertises wool crash fabrics priced from $1.50 to $15 for coats and trousers, with Norfolk suits in wool crash and serge. Features shirts $1.50, Angelus piano player at $225, silverware sets priced up to $41.50, and various odds and ends sale items in fashion and home goods.
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