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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1898
Page
7
A catalog of fabric goods with discount price notes for prints muslin cambric percale gingham sheeting flannel and gauze. Items include indigo prints yard wide muslin unbleached and bleached sheeting dress gingham and black rock muslin with weekly prices and regular price references.
40 inch figured black goods all wool at sale price per yard. 45 inch black novelty dress stuffs with neat figures offered at reduced rate per yard. Black brilliantine high lustre previously 60 cents per yard now 45 cents per yard.
A local advertisement lists dramatic markdowns on colored dress goods and fancy novelty fabrics. It highlights reductions from 1 cent per yard to 9 cents and from 75 cents to 29 cents per yard, along with selections in silk and wool blends and 38 inch covert cloth.
A brief notice highlights a store promotion focused on attracting customers with low prices. It emphasizes value and shopping appeal in a local retail setting.
Our First Great Semi Annual Clearing Sale promises the most brilliant bargain event in Scranton. The store touts massive price cuts across all five floors, claiming items are slashed to half or less and promising to outprice every other store in the nation.
This sale offers go Inch Jaconetts and Imperial Organdies at half price, 12c and 15c goods reduced to 6c and 7c. Lace Grenadines, Scotch Lawns, India Nainsooks, Arcadia Novelty batiste, and French Organdies all discounted. Stocks limited, patterns varied, prices advertised as long as materials last.
Advertising copy lists lining fabrics and dress fabrics with sale prices. Items include Best Cambric, Silicia and Percalines at 124¢, Canvass Dress Facing at 12¢, and Imitation Hair Cloth at 81¢. Unclear text ends with garbled lines.
Short Nainsook dresses trimmed with embroidery priced at 1.98 while larger gowns with embroidery and tucks were 7.98. Silk yokes and other fabrics reduced from 10.50 to 6.50. A single lot of cambric play dresses and long coats appear in the sale with marked reductions.
A newspaper ad lists Turkey Red Damask and unbleached damask table linens at clearing sale prices. Items include 60 inch and 64 inch widths, assorted borders and patterns, with prices ranging from 19 cents to 39 cents per piece.
In this advert text, hosiery items are promoted with sale prices. It features children’s ribbed seamless black hose in all sizes, 5 cent bicycle hose with double knee, men’s mixed working socks at four pairs for 25 cents, and men’s seamless fast black hose with regular values around 8 to 12 cents. The copy emphasizes seamless construction, double knee, and bargain pricing.
A catalog style note lists prices for handkerchiefs and hems in various colors and sizes. Items include children's white and colored hems at 3 and 1 cent, women’s hems at 3, 5, and 7 cents, embroidered edges at 5 to 7 cents, men’s colored borders at 24 to 25 cents, and related colored borders.
Advertised items include corset covers trimmed and plain, high and V necks, drawers with fan tucks and embroidery, gowns with ornate trim marked down from 59c to 34c and other elaborately trimmed pieces. Also advertised are elaborately trimmed drawers and handsome skirts with embroidery and dust ruffles at reduced prices.
Women’s seamless hose offered at sale prices 9¢ with regular values around 13¢. Main Black and White-Foot hose priced for sale, 19¢ regular value. Men’s Spli-Foot hose in Black and Tan offered at 17¢ each, 3 pairs for 50¢. Main aisle Lackawanna Ave.
An unreadable OCR fragment references a crash and mentions names and unidentified details. The readable bits do not provide clear entities, dates, locations, or outcomes to determine a full news item.
Bargains on white back wallpaper rolls 5c to 12c and 15c to 25c. Blended Border yards priced at 3c. Ingrain or Felt papers 39 inches wide 25c double roll. Fitting Freize yard price and fabric trims noted. Gowns, chemises, corset covers and skirts advertised with sale prices on second floor and third floor elevator access.
Pears Unscented Soap cake 9 cents Three piece Celluloid Baby Set comb brush and teething ring 75 cent set now 50 cents sale notice in main aisle near staircase with discount pricing highlights for shoppers
Shop features discounts on Agate cookware china plates and tea sets were steeply cut from several dollars to low prices. Items include frying pans bread raisers jelly glasses lamp globes and bread and milk sets with many pieces offered at one half to a few dollars off.
A readable price list shows groceries including Finest Grade Teas Oolong English Breakfast and Japan equal at 2.20 per case 40c Aurora Blended Coffee 3¢ Best Elgin Creamery Butter Peas Jelly and other items with modest prices. Canned sardines Brook Trout Soused Mackerel sugar and staples priced for shoppers with notes on package sizes and sale conditions.
An old advertisement lists sizes of medallions 7x9 and 9x12 inches with prices around 24 to 39 cents. It mentions 5 foot easels and picture frames to order and references floor-use elevators in a terse, fragmented display.
An old sale list for drapery and upholstery fabrics including Imperial Latin Damask silk for $3.25 down to $1.75, 50-inch tapestries 45¢ per yard, cretonnes and denims 18¢, curtain Swiss 15–18¢, Point D Esprit Net 30¢, Irish Point sash net 19–45¢, window shades, shelf oil cloth, brass red 3¢, cotton curtain loops 4¢, chenille table covers, tapestry table covers $2.00 now $1.29.
A sale of lace curtains features Nottingham and cottage styles three yards long with poles and fixtures, plus Scotch Guipure, Saxony, Brussels, and Real Renaissance drapes. Prices range from under one dollar to about twenty dollars a pair, with many pieces reduced from higher tags to list values.
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