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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1899
Page
7
Mr Cannon spent four months in the east with manufacturers buying for the season and now offers a grand assortment of up-to-date dry goods arriving daily at money saving prices. A mighty rush of business is expected as crowds fill the streets and shoppers are urged to join them.
A large sale of manufacturer samples from Gera Germany offers wool and silk dress fabrics at 15 cents per sample. The lot includes black and colored weaves in wool mohair Australian wool and silk blends with widths and multiple samples per kind. Items suitable for shirt waists dresses skirts and suits.
In Ladies Muslin Underwear, a spot cash purchase of the manufacturer’s sample line at half price and less makes a fair week opportunity. Each garment is warranted to be of best materials and to fit, with minor mussiness from handling but otherwise first class.
A city sale features Irish German Austrian linen damasks napkins and table linens at low prices. Includes 58 60 inch damasks 39c to 69c yd plus baby towels and gowns. Ladies colored shirt waists washable skirts and summer corsets offered at deep discounts. Fabrics, laces, ribbons and remnants priced to move in multiple bargain lots.
Men and youths work shirts from a manufacturer’s sample line including cheviots drills sateens fleeced back cheviots and worsted serges. Save up to half with sizes available. Four lots priced from 25 to 48 cents, Lot 1 25c Lot 2 34c Lot 3 39c Lot 4 48c.
Fashion appeals to Central Missouri shoppers with silk waists and separate skirts. The department emphasizes wide variety and correct styles, notes direct-from-maker pricing with small profits, and invites distant customers to use the Mail Order Dept with samples available on request.
Public notice extols three medallion styles offered in a photo reproduction promotion. It promises flawless quality, shows window samples, and guarantees return of the photograph with the finished medallion. Purchases of ten cents or more earn coupons toward a medallion order for coupons totaling ten dollars.
Hosiery offers every pair from 25 cents with a positive guarantee. If not completely satisfied with wear, money back is offered.
A short notice highlights Ladies Hermsdorf dye fleece lined hose and plain foot styles priced at 35 cents per pair and 25 cents per pair. The ad targets both ladies and men shoppers seeking warm hosiery options.
Goods now in transit will be put on sale as they arrive. Ladies and children garments priced at 25 to 15 cents. Boys' school hose 25 cents per pair. Ladies ribbed vests and union suits offered in various styles up to $2.
Advertises a wide range of silk fabrics from Bridgeport Connecticut including Taffetas Satin Bar Plaids and Brocade silks with prices from 69 cents to $1.95 per yard. Highlights 27 inch to 36 inch widths and guaranteed durability at the Greatest Store in Central Missouri.
Fashion decrees plaids homespuns and rough effects. With direct buying from two continents, Ely Walker Dry Goods Co claims top Central Missouri stock. Featured are 35 inch worsteds 29¢, 35 inch all wool suitings 25c yd, serges and covert mixes 39–75c, broad selections up to $2.98 yd, and wide black goods from 38c to $2.39 yd. Dress trimmings and edgings offered as well.
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