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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1903
Page
7
Wise shoppers will be on hand early Monday morning to reap the benefit of reductions. The sale attracts wide attention despite hot weather, with price concessions aimed at clearing summer stocks and moving fall styles into the enlarged building. A fresh lot of good values awaits early arrivals.
Catalog of clothing items on sale including lace curtains, women’s white Jersey-tile Lisle vests with low neck and no sleeves, Vega Silk vests in white pink or blue with low neck and no sleeves, and St Vests with full tallow neck and no sleeves, each priced per item.
Classified ad notes Tien's Wear in the east aisle selling men's Nainsook night shirts with surplice necks extra wide and long at $1 value. Drawers with elastic seam and various sizes offered, quality 50c, and Jersey ribbed Mercerized Lisle underwear in assorted sizes previously priced at $1.19.
Hosiery deals feature white Lace Lisle Hose seam free 25c a pair in bulk 215 pairs 250 per pair. Fast black Cotton Hose ribbed tops 1s quality 10 SADE. Lace Lisle Hose silk embroidered fronts 25c per pair. Regular made Hosiery 50c value offered in sale at 35c per pair.
A small lot of 2 to 6 year sizes is reduced half to close the entire stock. Prices listed include $5.50, $8.50, $6.75, $9.50, $7.50, $10.50, $8.00, and $13.00 coats with corresponding sale prices. Early purchase recommended.
A Monday sale lists odd prices for Haviland plates cups saucers bouillon cups and dishes with decorative patterns. Prices reduced from regular rates by four percent to one third. Also promotes medium size decorated glazed earthenware cuspidores.
An advertisement invites readers to visit the Corset Department to compare the American Beauty Corset by Kalamazoo Corset Company and to enroll in a contest offering a $450 Mason & Hamlin piano furnished by Joiner and Fuller at 40 Monument Place. The prize is stated as free of cost.
Emma Carleton of New Albany recounts an August dawn along the Ohio River. Interurban cars, ferry traffic, markets, and a lively riverfront scene unfold with vivid detail from Jeffersonville to Louisville, weaving memory, history, and local life into a poetic urban landscape.
A bustling sale advertises 40 inch Victoria lawn in aide quality, Mercerized Damask priced 9c to 25c per yard, and remnants of Cambrics and Flannelettes at half price. Readily available are Blooming sheets and cream Comeings high quality at discounted rates, with ready-made sheets and blankets offered to close.
A humorous judge asks a boy about vaccinations inoculations and protective devices for travel and health. The boy answers yes to many items including certificates for croup measles and chicken pox, Dr Koch antiseptic lunch pail, sanitary cup, camphor bag, life belt, insulated rubber heels, and a life policy. The judge approves and tells him to proceed to learn in ordinary lines.
A fragment recounts a journey under a red heart of the west with pasture and shore glimpsed. Ida Whipple Beachum is mentioned beside a poetic line from Youth's Companion, evoking a long road to the sun and friendly stars.
June visits with W D Stern reveal a fifty acre tract along the Wabash with five hundred catalpa trees six to one hundred inches in girth and eighty to one hundred feet tall. Trees thrive as fence rails and windbreaks, with rare rot and persistent sprouting from stumps over decades highlighting catalpa as vastly valuable and misunderstood.
In Brooklyn Eagle lore, ex Senator Billy Maron once visited a barber with his five year old son. On returning home the boy told his sister how “Papa sat in a big chair up high” while a barber seemingly breathed on shoes and rubbed the breath in turning them black and shiny.
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