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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1901
Page
5
A mixed column features 18th century style commentary on fashion and social life, including verses about marriage by season and weekday luck, plus a Philadelphia Telegraph anecdote lampooning a reform club and a working mother’s balance with domestic duties and a house girl.
A long scanned notice list from Indianapolis reports social events, club meetings, engagements, weddings, travelers, and charity activities. It lists gatherings at homes, church fairs, and auxiliary meetings, plus engagements and travel notices, with numerous names and addresses threaded through the era’s social calendar.
A condensed schedule lists Woman's Research Club sessions with Mrs John K Jones and speakers on topics from Sonnets and Humble Life to Emerson. Indianapolis Literary Club notes Ladies' night with Emerson. Various clubs host readings, French influences, Tolstoi, Twain, art, death, and social reform discussions across Monday to Friday with multiple moderators and locations.
Areas filled with moving battle ships life boats and lightning speed trains on tracks through tunnels and switches. Electric light plants water towers Ferris wheels and other electric wonders. Hundreds of toys from Austria and the Bavarian Alps wow youths with novelties in toy land including cameras billiard tables printing presses and moving picture machines.
The store boasts an immense variety of novelties and low prices. It promises dependable jewelry in up to date designs and aims for small profit margins while matching department stores in selection and value. The offer includes gold rings pins brooches sunbursts lace ornaments cuff buttons and many other novelties with and without precious stone settings.
A special silver section offers numerous odd and charming knick knacks for ladies dressing tables boudoirs and general home decor. The items span personal adornment library den and drawing room, promising a pleasurable linger for shoppers seeking unique pieces.
A large Indianapolis department store unveils an expansive handkerchief section featuring 100000 pieces and 1902 mufflers. Shoppers are urged to buy early with emphasis on best for the least, listing Swiss and Irish linen choices, embroidered, hemstitched, and initials, with prices from 25c to $1.00 and special Monday offers.
Astonishing how readily clever men drop prejudice against buying furnishings in a department store. Men’s wear is a separate store with the latest ties shirts pajamas and other masculine needs. Prices include all-white dress shirts at $1.00 and fancy striped flannelette pajamas at $1.50. New all-silk neckwear in imperial four in hands and ascots offered at 50 cents.
In Indianapolis shoppers prize a wide sale of fine linen, pillow tops, doilies and scarfs for holiday gifts. The store promises the best pillow tops, real hand-made Mexican doilies, and drawn-work scarfs at midrange prices, appealing to every housekeeper and buyer.
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