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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1919
Page
14
A sale listing from MacDougall-Southwick detailing infant dresses in white nainsook lawn and cream albatross with French eyelet embroidery, girls shirts and outfits, a woman’s combination, and various infant rompers. Bedding includes comforters and blankets. Also notes prices and floor location.
MacDougall-Southwick offers a large assortment of dresses and boudoir items on the second floor. Georgette, satin, crepe de Chine, and gingham dresses in multiple colors and sizes mostly priced at 25 dollars, with older stock of lighter gowns at 5 to 15 dollars. Ivory boxes, hair receivers, manicure sets, and other vanity pieces priced between 50 cents and 16 dollars.
A catalog of menswear items including handkerchiefs pajamas shirts and suits with embroidered initials various sizes and prices. Featured goods include wool cotton union suits silk shirts and full dress shirts from MacDougall Southwick First Floor listing.
A scanned classified fragment shows multiple garments with sizes and prices. Items include 47 maids dresses in black sateen with varied necklines, 26 blue percale bungalow aprons, 26 wash skirts, 24 gymnasium bloomers, 32 two piece gingham and percale dresses in multiple colors, 4 apron style gingham dresses, 17 belted percale dresses, 75 elastic waisted percale bungalow aprons, and 20 voile and gingham belted dresses with trimming. Ends with MacDougall-Southwick, Third Fleet.
Fancy trimming buttons 2 to 6 on card 8 cards for 25c Warren s Negligee girdles white sizes 26 and 30 50c Celluloid eye shades green 3 for 2c Crochet cotton spools Barbour s linen thread ecru sizes 35 40 50 4 for 25c Shoe laces dark gray 45 inches long 5 for 25c Cotton belting white 3 inches wide 4 yards 25c Bias tape bolts widths 4 5 9 10 12 12-yard bolts 2 for 25c MecDougall Southwick First Floor
MacDougall Southwick advertises curtain sets on the Fourth Floor with 6 pairs net and marquisette in white at $2.00 per pair and 6 pairs voile and marquisette in cream and ecru at $3.50 per pair. No phone calls or returns on remnant day specials.
A 1917 German retreat described as a masterclass in defensive strategy yet costly in human and territorial toll. Ludendorff shortens lines, abandons Roye and secures a center while shaping a wide escarpment to deny the Allied advance. The piece credits the tactic with saving Germany’s army for future battles but notes the moral and material costs.
Excerpted wartime reflections describe strategic decisions in 1917 including move to the Siegfried line Alberich plan, retreat logistics, deception of enemies, and conduct of demolition and evacuation along the western front.
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