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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1909
Page
2
Advertises Seinsheimer & Co. clothing with Perfection suits for boys and children, priced from $2.50 to $9 for children and $7 for boys. Includes ready to wear department, Monarch and Geo Ide shirts from $1 to $2, Furgerson McKinna shirts, and a range of half hose neckwear suspenders gloves and underwear.
Dress goods in new weaves and colorings including taffetas panamas chevrons melrose and batiste fancies offered for selection in the assortment.
The notice lists wash goods with prices across departments. Percales 36 inches at 8 10 1234 and 15 cents. Dress ginghams at 8 19 124 and 15 cents. French ginghams 20 25 3732 and 50 cents. Batiste and lawns 5 to 15 cents. Linen suitings 15 20 25 35 and 50 cents. Mercerized fabrics offered in all new effects and prices from 12 to 50 cents.
A retail shoe list advertises Florsheim mens shoes and oxfords at 34 and 5 dollars, W L Douglas mens shoes 2.50 to 4 dollars, Klippendorf Dittman womens and oxford wear, and Sinbark Misses and children styles in patent gun metal tan oxblood colors.
A local advertisement highlights belts collars beltings and belt buckles with full stock of fabric kid gloves shirt waists muslin underwear neckwear and ruchings appealing to dressers and buyers.
The ad lists carpets wall paper lace curtains in various grades including Axminsters velvets ingrains and granites with prices from 30 to 75 cents. Geese price 126 cents and lace curtains 50 cents to 6 dollars. It notes 10 000 rolls of wallpaper from 4 to 25 cents and claims the department is stronger than rivals in town.
Lieutenant Commander Cleland Davis, a Louisville native and Annapolis graduate, unveils a light yet powerful underwater torpedo using vanadium alloy. The device fires a two charge system and may render traditional underwater armor obsolete, signaling a potential revolution in naval warfare.
The Chicago Tribune favors simple home care for colds with laxatives hot foot baths induced sweating and avoidance of cold wet exposure. It notes the regimen requires indoors time for one or two days and warns pneumonia can follow a fresh cold. It suggests Chamberlains Cough Remedy as a proven alternative available from The Leonydon Drug Co.
Kentucky fairs set dates for 1909 with events in Stanford Henderson Georgetown Madisonville Winchester Lexington Taylorsville Uniontown Harrodsburg Leitchfield Barboursville. Each fair runs several days starting in late July through mid August with varying lengths.
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