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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1902
Page
4
A display promotes wrist bags described as compact and neater than Boston bags, offering more capacity and greater security than purses or chatelaine. Available in many colors and clasps including serpentine with prices from 1.00 to 8.00, plus beadwork options in white or light blue at 1.00 each.
New Pins highlights novelty hatpins and belt pins with prices to 2.9 including gun metal rhinestone settings. Sterling silver gray finish pins offered, along with Cupid belt pins in oxidized and French gray finishes.
Advertises buttons in China Dresden and Persian enamel with rich colors and gold finishes in various shapes and sizes. Prices range up to 1.50 per dozen, noting liberal use across garments.
The La Grecque corset maker presents the prettiest and most affordable stay for girls aged 14 to adulthood. Designs mirror the women’s lattice corset with straight front and aluminum boning. Prices range from 1.00 to 5.00, plus Redfern models KK and D for different builds, and Madras shirting fabrics at 3 cents a yard.
A department store showcases ready-made skirts in delicate net lace grenadine silk etamine voile worsted and cloth with prices from under ten dollars to 50 and 75 dollars. Featured items include peau de soie flounced skirts ta ffta skirts thibet cloth and Shantung silks along with belts handkerchiefs and a strong display of street and outing hats.
A catalog offers snug fitting golf vests in red green brown and white Boucle and a score of French Challis at 39c a yard. Light and dark colorings suit waists kilts and dresses and new drape veils range from one to three yards, hand decorated in lace or applique with white and black or black and ecru dominant. Jasper and Magpie nets and dots veils priced from 2c to 2.25 each.
The Florence 2 clasp dress gloves in black white and supplemental colors sell for 1.00 per pair plus other brands like Foster William Chester Dent French and Warrick range from 1.00 to 2.50. New raglan coats moire peau de soie and taffeta wraps priced 18.75 to 75 with Eton jackets and long shoulder styles highlighted.
Attractive shirt waists in white linen from Fish Clark and Flagg, and from Opera makers, with side pockets and stitched cuffs priced at 5.00. Also white etamine, striped belting cloth, maire and moire styles priced 4.98 to 8.74, plus Gibson peau de cygne moire waists at 12.50.
The fourth floor display features dainty baby socks in lace patterns, drop stitch, embroidery, and stripes in white cream and delicate colors. Several hundred visitors have viewed the novelty silks and dress goods. The exhibit continues Monday and Tuesday.
The department highlights latest neckwear narrow four in hands and fashionable bows plus Monarch Shirts in Madras at $1.00. Sic Shirts in white pique and Madras, new collars and cuffs, Dent & Fowne’s gloves, and low underwear prices. A premium lure with first two hundred new subscriptions or renewals.
Easter buyers are offered a range of pictures with enduring sentiments. Reproductions of religious subjects from masters are framed at 50c to $2.00 and upward. Large artotypes 22 by 23 inches in popular moldings, ready for hanging, available from $1.00 each with many subjects.
Our anniversary opening of spring styles Saturday drew admiration for Queen Quality Shoes and Oxfords and Slippers. The feature shows the brand’s purchasing power with three dollars. shoes fit every foot. Also offered are colored heads and figures in gilt moldings and framed pictures.
Plain Gingham offers a range of colors with many fabrics in stock. 32 inch Silk Gingham, 23 inch mercerized yarn-dyed canvas, 82 inch mercerized Gingham at 29 cents, 5 inch Scotch Ginghams at 25 cents, 52 inch mercerized Oxford at We, Plain Oxfords in same width at 5 cents, zephyr Gingham in 52 inch width at 1 shilling for Toile du Nord Ginghams, popular Toile du Nord Ginghams at 1 cent.
Fashion notes highlight a vogue for white and black in parasols gloves hosiery and knitwear with a preference for dainty lighter handles and restrained ornamentation. Sun umbrellas offer broader color plus borders while silk gloves and lace mitts range from 1.00 to 1.50 with kid options Vallier water proof gloves priced higher.
A detailed tour explains stamp production from plates to drying, gumming, perforation, and packaging. Workers handle 60,000 stamps daily, with strict loss accountability and safety nets for waste. It notes new sizes, potential freaks, and market interest from philatelists, plus occasional pricing anecdotes.
The readable fragments reference duties and fate around an act or incident. No clear names, places, dates, or events emerge to establish a concrete report or outcome.
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