Store Hours Adjustment With Weekday Evenings
The store will close at five oclock during the heated term and five oclock on weekdays except Saturday when it closes at one oclock.
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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1901
Page
12
Wanamaker's Presents The Coolest Store In Town
The article extols Wanamaker's as the coolest store in town with four blade fans turning 360 times per minute along the main aisle and additional units throughout. A basement fan draws air from above the roof and distributes cooling air through a pipe system, making Wanamaker's notably chilled.
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Chestnut
Wanamaker’s
Silk remnants and corsets offered at marked down prices
Silk short ends priced at 25c a yard with remaining lengths 2 to 12 yards. Silks include satin and twill with various remnants under five yards. All silk remnants are half price. Batiste fabrics from 1 to 2 dollars. L. A. and Lillian styles priced up to 4.50. Corsets under a dollar deemed short lived. better to spend more for longevity.
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Batiste
L. A
Bargain Cotton Dress Goods At Salons With Glove Highlights
Yesterday brought peak activity as cotton dress goods faced steep reductions 12 percent on dimities and 15 to 25 cent lines. Ireland’s Irish dimities praised for quality and price while American dimities offer solid designs. Glove options feature Kaiser silk gloves from 50 cents to 1 25 and suede lissee gloves at 25 to 50 cents, with long silk gloves for summer dresses.
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Salon
Ireland
Kaiser
Summer Hosiery and Underwear Sale on Market Street
Bargain frenzy with women’s stockings 25c and 38c now 15c and men’s fancy socks cut to 15c. Inventory lists ribbed black lisle and cotton options, white lisle vests, and gauze cotton shirts at deep discounts. Purchases highlight arcade and basement locations with remaining stock around a thousand pairs per category.
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Market Street
Lisle
Hurrah for the Glorious Fourth candy shop display
A local shop proclaims a joyous Fourth of July sale with extremely realistic firecracker candy packs and torpedo shaped chocolate, plus toy knapsacks and drums for visitors. The note highlights lifelike packaging, urging cautious display in a festive mood.
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Sidhes
Flags for sale from bunting to silk patterns
War ended and flags are promoted with cross aisle bunting in sizes 4x6 to 8x15 feet priced from 1.50 to 3.00. Good army navy quality double warp colors on hardwood staffs. Also printed cotton buntings and flag poles of various sizes offered.
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Army
Navy
United States
1000 Colored Shirtwaists Sale Feature
A local sale offers 1000 colored shirtwaists at 1 to 2 dollars less than earlier prices. Styles include silk madras cotton madras polka dotted sateen with long waists. Silk petticoats priced 11 to 32.50, other items 2.25 to 5, embroidered or lace trimmed. Little French room second floor. Paris quality noted.
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Paris
Reduced White Etamine and Mohair Suits on Sale
Etamine suits are beautifully made and fashionable. They previously sold for 28 to 40 dollars and are now reduced to 18 and 25 dollars. White mohair suits, formerly 18.75 dollars, are now 12 dollars. Fresh, clean, with only a few styles and all sizes remaining as the season is far on.
Summer Clothes Sale for Girls and Travel Bags
Bargains on girls clothing on the second floor at Chestnut street with prices cut nearly in half for sizes 12 to 18 years. Includes shirtwaist suits in linen chambray and madras, hats from 25c, and various dress and linen items. basement offers lawn dresses and trimmed hats. Travel cases and bags highlighted for Sunday travel with a range of prices and styles.
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Chestnut Street
Everything for the Horse Harness Store Ad
Weather favors driving and riding as the harness shop advertises a full range of horse gear including fly nets ear tips harness saddles and a new English straw hat for horses. The note mentions new Swiss breast collars for runabout or Germantown wagon harness and promotes Newtons Cough and Indigestion Cure for 1 dollar with claims of quick effects. The ad invites buyers to visit and consult the horseman.
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New York
Summer Furniture Sale Cuts Prices Across Indoor Set
Reduced stock on third floor clearout includes Rush, Rockers, Sofas, Armchairs and haircloth items. Prices slash roughly one third with several items deeper cuts. sale highlights include green oak and Flemish oak pieces, double rattan seating, porch sets and wicker sofas, all offered from a limited selection.
Half price boys suits and home linen sale at Market Street
Basement bargains include two hundred sailor and Russian blouse suits sizes 3 to 12 years at half price plus wash suits from 1 25 to 2 50. Also linen table linen napkins damask tray cloths and crash cloths below value with low prices on charming engagement books for summer socializing.
Cameras for sale on Juniper Street
Sale of cameras on Juniper Street featuring slightly scratched or shop worn units all in good working order. Some models include a 1900s shutter mechanism and are labeled as such.
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Juniper Street
Framed pictures and briar pipes offered at special prices
A sales note highlights framed prints including Rosa Bonheur Horse Fair and Pharaohs Horses with horse head ends priced from 35c to 50c, plus larger prints from $2. It also promotes briar, French briar, and sterling mounted pipes with prices from 1.25 to 3.75, and tobacco pouches and cigar piercers as part of a vacation ready assortment.
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Rosa Bonheur
Great Shoe Sale Adds Hundreds of Pairs for All Ages
The Fourth Floor sale lists eight hundred fifty pairs of patent leather kidskin and box calf shoes to advance fall and winter styles, with prices from $1 to $2 above cost and hundreds more men and women styles at deep discounts. Also six hundred pairs of russet men’s shoes, various sizes and widths, plus thousands more shoes across all categories for men women and children at half price or less.
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Russia
Bargain Men’s Wear Markdowns at Market Street Store
Very clothes advertised at Market Street and C offer wool crash fabric coats and trousers from 6.50 to 15 dollars with double and single breasted styles. Flannel, serge, and cotton to silk options priced 3 to 15 dollars, plus crash suits and white duck or linen trousers. Odd coats and vests priced around 3.50 with basement access. most suits claim half price and deep discounts on remaining stock. Garments from 12 to 15 dollars noted as lost items but still a good value as claim persists.
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Devic
Men's Furnishings on Market Street Offer Bargain Ties
Neckties suspenders and shirts sold in main aisle described as cool store highlight. Batswing ties offered at 25 cents, 50 cents worth. English foulards with rich colors and patterns, light-weight two for 25 cents. Fancy madras shirts and cuffs noted as well made at low prices.
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Market Street
Screens and Doors Basement Special Purchase
Fly proofing sale offers screens and doors of 81 to 37 inches with hardwood frames. Netting is best quality wire. Screen doors priced from 75 cents to 135 dollars in this special purchase.
Bedding Reduced on Third Floor Thirteenth Street
Mixed hair mattresses now 6.75 from 9, 9.75 from 13. Horse hair mattresses 13.75 from 18 and 16.50 from a Forty pounds weight. Marseilles spreads, once imported, now made in America. Marseilles price 2 reduced from eatin nish, 1.75 each.
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Thirteenth Street
England
Marseilles
America
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