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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1897
Page
2
Gimbel Brothers Philadelphia announces a Monday start to a semiannual clearance sale of carpets, mattings, and rugs lasting at least a week. Four fresh lots offered including silk taffeta and novelty ribbons with deep discounts, plus an 11 am special for limited quantities of all-silk moire antique taffeta ribbon in many colors.
Two big wheel deals headline a sale offering Ide wheels at 59 dollars, Waldorf and Morgan & Wright gear at 18.75, and 24 inch girls bikes at 18.75. Also offered are sundries, saddles, cyclometers, rims, oils, pumps, and baseball goods with notable low prices for a wide range of items.
All imported fabrics including worsteds cheviots cassimeres tweeds and homespuns up to 15 are cleared to 8.50 per suit. Specimens include brown broken check suits with three button sack coats and gray designs. Also English homespuns six button vests and silk piped seams with waistcoat style pants. Serge and crash suits offered with various options and prices. Shoes and light summer footwear promoted. Third floor location of store Co. claims exclusive city agency.
About 400 pairs of boys and girls school shoes offered at $1 to $2.50 a pair. Styles include Viel KM cowhide, Perfection Bicycle Boots, chrome tanned Vici Kid, and canvas top boots, with various sizes and missings noted. Sale emphasizes comfort, durability, and low prices.
A broad display of women and children apparel with Eton suits in white duck and crash, Galatea and pique skirts, and sailor hats in new small shapes. Prices range from 19c for Tom O Shante rs to 7.50 for fuller ensembles. Second floor features a large table of untrimmed hats and assorted fabrics in white, navy, red and black.
A vintage advertisement outlines women's warm weather attire including wrappers in cambric with belt fronts, empress shaped ties, and lawn garments. It lists negligee gowns in empire and high neck styles, two piece house wear suits, lawn skirts with bolero jackets, and negligee sacques in various colors with prices from 75 cents to 4 dollars.
A listing of corsets, parasols, taffetas, silk fabrics, and accessories offered at reduced prices. Includes corsets at 39c each with bone casings and steel clasps, odds and ends from $1.50 to $2.85, and various fabrics and handles in Dresden and wood finishes. First floor.
Black silk mitts and kid gloves described with embroidery and reinforced stitching. Mitts were 25 cents now 10. gloves 25 cents now 15. white slate tan brown and black options in self-color or two tones. First floor north aisle.
A sale of belts and related accessories offers plain jeweled and German silver buckles at 50c to 1.00, surcingle belts with extra strap, 25c to 75c items, white belts 25c and 50c, monkey skin belts 38c, bicycle belts 25c to 50c, chatelaines 50c, alligator chatelaines 50c, Britannia cups 25c, bicycle cups 50c, small pocket flasks 38c, and traveling cases 50c.
Folding chair or camp stool with canvas seat and wood frame offered at 23c. Lightweight yet strong, Japanese Straw Garden Seats also available. Basement floor Market and Ninth location notes savings on a $5 cold.
A series of daily self destruction attempts sweeps Baltimore with two or three reports this week. Henry Dopkin Jr. ingested laudanum on a front porch amid love troubles. Uriah Pollock, a wealthy merchant, leaped from a third story window. his daughter barely survived. John A. Gray killed himself to escape arrest after a beatings charge. William P Wise and Horace Laupeimer also attempted suicide with laudanum but faced a second chance. Emma Boyd died after poisoning in melancholia.
The American Library Association wrapped its Drexel Institute meeting with an elementary session a college and reference library section and a general society conference. Delegates plan post conference in Delaware Water Gap and some proceed to Brussels for an Intereset Librarians event.
Prominent city brewers hail Judge Sulzberger and Judge McMichael for upholding the Brooks law forbidding saloon keepers from owning brewery licenses. The decision aims to separate retail liquor business from brewery interests, preventing evasions and promoting legitimate trade.
A fifteen member committee is appointed by George EB Bartel to inquire and report on pulling the direct Savannah steamship service from the port. The panel includes leaders from the Bourse Board of Trade Trades League and various exchanges and associations.
A wave of editorials lauds Mark Hanna's control over the Ohio Republican convention. They claim he packed the gathering, dictated the platform, and stood as the party, its ticket, and its campaign. Observers compare his leadership to historic figures and predict his influence on the Senate race.
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers a special excursion to Chautauqua from Philadelphia on July 2. The train leaves Broad Street Station at 8 30 A M and connects with a Harrisburg train at 11 35 A M arriving at Chautauqua 10 30 A M. Round trip tickets good on regular trains except limited express trains sell for 10 dollars, July 12 to August 1.
The column surveys Philadelphia politics with talk of Byram getting a bath house, possible campaigns by ex-legislator John H. Fow for Congress, Allen B. Rorke as potential next mayor, and various bids for public offices including Register of Wills Master Warden and Collector of the Port. It notes nominal declarations, defections, and possible prosecutions amid ward and club politics.
A subcommittee of the law committee failed to progress in the dispute over Lucas G. Fourier's Select Council seat. Witness W H Luebberman could not be produced, delaying hearings amid threats of perjury and legal argument over the admissibility of testimony.
Judgment was yesterday entered in the Common Pleas Court on several notes including Estate of Morris Wilson vs Maria Wilson for 1150 dollars dated October 25 1896 at Talleyville Delaware payable on demand. Allen Walton vs Susan E Collins for 1328.91 dated June 23 1807 at one day. Annie . opts against Clarence J Rhodes for 1600 dollars dated April 10 1896 payable on demand. Robert Anderson against Jacob Rightly for 6300 dollars dated June 21 payable on demand.
Edward A. Daw sues Union Traction Company for damages claiming wrongful ejection from a Market street car at Fourth and Market streets on May 26. He offered a silver dollar for fare after boarding at Delaware avenue. the conductor could not make change, Daw refused to provide other money, and the conductor and motorman allegedly threw him from the vehicle, injuring him and damaging his clothes.
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