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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1905
Page
5
The Sedalia store promotes a midsummer sale claiming stock growth requires deep cuts before new purchases. It touts half price discounts on hundreds of items while maintaining regular business, aiming to meet every customer need at the fifty thousand stock level.
Store advertises Hail's linens with substantial markdowns for next season. Items include 72-inch half bleached table damask now 59e, 22-inch bleachedNapkins now 1.50, and all linen Huck towels reduced from 11c to 11c or 12½c, bath towels 25c.
Following our annual practice we close out at Ready-to-Wear Garments before a new season. The semi annual sale is house cleaning time with large reductions on ladies suits jackets and waists. Sedalia shoppers are urged to visit and see the goods with sacrifices below material value.
A retail notice promotes large savings on Muslin Underwear including nightgowns from 45c to 1.00, trimmed drawers from 95c, and corset covers from 25c to 1.50. It emphasizes value and quality with many pieces priced well below typical retail.
Dainty Persian lawns and plain lyres listed at 20c a yard, 45 inch lawn and 18c to 18c yard for India linen and French lawn. Swiss and Nainsook edgings offered in multiple widths from 7 to 15 inches at 7 to 18c a yard with values up to 35c. White Pin-Dot Embroidered Swims to wash without loosening dots.
Hats in fresh, recent making offered at half price. Millinery sale features trimmed hats from $2.00 to $8.50, with prices reduced to $1.00 to $4.25 on select styles. Limited time for fashionable headwear bargains.
Plain white and blue hats and white red white hats brown white hats with silk ribbon bands and streamers offered at 10 cents from 50 cents. Limited stock noted in this sale listing featuring Joc brand.
The advertisement touts Kado Corsets modeled after French lines by De Bignere. Prices range from 1 to 2 dollars with models for short and long waists and girdles for young girls. Includes various bust and hip configurations.
New stock presents voices, panamas, serges, cheviots, broadcloths and fancy tailor suitings. Prices for existing styles ranged from seven fifty to ten forty, with tailored skirts at five dollars.
Ladies waists offered in washable or silk fabrics with white French lawns India linens and Persian lawns in trimmed styles. Features include combination tucks Wal lace insertions and embroidered details. Silk waist with Val lace and Swiss embroidery and clusters of single tucks offered at substantial reductions.
Wash skirts priced at 1 to 2.25 dollars. White Duck fabrics in plain colors and dark grounds with dots and figures sold from 1.50 to 5.50 dollars, plaited and full width.
Kimona bargains feature kimonas in Japanese drape and plain colors with a wide Persian band trim. Prices include 125 in the listing context.
New season silk coats in short and long redingote styles trimmed with Persian braids and bands. Full sleeves and flowing cuffs described as stylish and modern. Sale offers greatly reduced prices on these fashionable coats yesterday and today in store.
Fractions of silk prices listed for multiple widths and finishes. 22-inch White washable Jap Silk now 25¢. 36-inch White Washable Jap Silk dollar sort 59c. 20-inch Fancy Taffeta Silk for suits and waists 59c. 21-inch Grace Taffeta changeable combinations 59c. Silk bistrous crepe de chine shades just arrived and offered as a bargain.
Today's hosiery and summer knit underwear offerings include samples from importers and stock remnants. Women’s Swiss domestic union suits and lisle garments priced from 0c to 2, with men’s lisle and cotton hose and infants wear offered at low sale values.
Readable catalog style listing a sale on calico dress ginghams and Percales with prices down to 5 to 12 1 2 cents. Includes Fancy Flannelette and Crochet Quilts as well as feather ticking and Silk options with reduced prices.
A catalog style notice lists several petticoat styles with black taffeta silk and sateen options. Items include plaited flounced designs, tucked foot ruffles, shirred and hemstitched finishes, and Nearsilk foundations. Prices range from 1.00 to 6.75 with marked values up to 8.00.
Customers name Hails as the city’s top cotton wash goods shop for fresh stock and reliable re orders. Bargains include 12 1 2c to 80c fabrics, voiles, batiste, organdie, French organdies, half silk bolusnne, and white goods with many pieces reduced one third to one half.
The item notes a 48c value Kc Striped Gingham Petticoats made full with wide ruf.
Women's neckwear assortment featuring embroidery lace trimmed stocks at 25c and 15c imports, white chemisieres and pique tops, Venise lace medallions, Valenciennes inserts, and assorted embroidery stocks for quick clearance. Numerous pieces offered at 10c to 18c with regular values noted.
Five inch all silk taffeta ribbon offered in white cream pink blue cardinal green heliotrope and black. Worth 35 cents a yard. The greatest ribbon bargain we have ever shown.
Stamped and tinted cushion tops on linen and art denim offered at 39 cents, previously 65 cents. Also 10 cent tops worth 25 cents and a hundred tops in tinted patterns just received at reduced price.
A catalog of 26 inch umbrellas offering black and colored designs with borders. Imported onion taffeta silk and linen blend for colorfast service. Prices range from $1.39 to $2.75 with assorted handle materials including natural wood, silver caps, gum metal, horn, and French wood options.
An August sale offers a wide range of handkerchiefs at low prices. Women’s linen and Swiss options include embroidered initials and hemstitched finishes, priced from 18c to 25c. Men’s linen handkerchiefs feature hem details and sell for 10c each.
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