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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1902
Page
8
All stocks must be cut down to make room for shipments. Items are offered at half price with many fur capes jackets and gowns discounted. Silk, wool, and cloth skirts and coats feature substantial markdowns from high original prices during this sale.
Four or five exceptions aside, most suits were bought for Fall 1901 and a Spring 1902 arrival is promised. Some suits drop from 10 to 12.50 to 5.00, yet not cheap as they are not new. Highlights include $10, $15 and $18.50 suits, notably an 18.50 with silk drop skirt described as handsome and stylish.
Silk waists priced at 84.00 and 5.00 cut to 2.50 with sizes available. Black silk waists at 5.00 offered. Silk waists at 10.00 reduced to 8.50. Wool waists discounted, some half opening price. Eiderdown dressing lacques mossed, pinks and blues, half price. Elder and Turkish bath robes 2.25 and 2.50 reduced to 1.50.
Local advertisement declares closing stock on silks with plain and fancy varieties. Regular 1.00 per yard items offered at 59 cents, while 1.25 and 1.50 values reduced to 75 cents per yard. Limited quantities and sale timing not specified.
A thrift textile notice describes a dress goods sale with multiple reduced prices. Items originally 50c to 2.00 are marked to as low as 18c and up to 1.00 in six lots. No short lengths will be cut and all dress goods are offered in Lot 1 through Lot 6.
A local retailer promotes silk Petticoats in several price bands from 6.75 to 12.50, highlighting best styles and qualities. The sale lists 5.50 to 7.50 ranges and emphasizes a line of handsome skirts.
Readable lines list notions including velvet dress binding per bolt, best black twist per spool, hat pins on card, cabinets wire hair pins, assorted hat pins with stones, mercerized corset strings, fancy cotton elastic per yard, round and pompadour combs, round garters silk web per pair, with several price points noted such as 5c to 50c and 25c.
Our Boys and Girls hosiery priced at 10 to 20 cents with double heels and toes and odd sizes. Extra heavy black cotton fleeced hose sizes 6 to 8. Children’s ribbed Union suits open front with extension back and drop seat grey only. Extra heavy fleece lined vests pants and drawers, 25 to 35 cents. $1 to $1.50 children’s jersey leggings and pantalettes at 50 and 75 cents a pair. Fleeced gloves and mittens for 35 and 50 cents.
Special reductions announced for ladies street shoes with large bulk offers. Enamel box and velour calf lines priced from 4.00 down to 2.00 per pair, with quantities listed for 100 to 150 pairs at various prices. End prices reflect enamel, box and velour calf combinations.
Readable catalog of women’s hosiery and undergarments with discounted prices. Items include cotton fleeced hose, wool ribbed hose, fleeced cotton hose, full fashioned worsted hose, union suits, fleece-lined vests, Australian wool garments, and black tights with reduced prices. Many lines emphasize high spliced heels and toes, ribbed textures, and special trade discounts.
Our Men's 25c all wool black Mit fanafon and Our Men's Half Hose in brown and blue gray are on sale. Night robes high quality at a special price. Wool shirts and drawers odd sizes reduced. Sanitary wool and cotton fleeced shirts and drawers now 35 cents per garment. Fleeced back shirts and drawers on sale for a dollar per suit.
Local shop advertises discounted women and children's flannelette gowns robes and skirts with prices ranging from 35 to 3 dollars. Fur top mittens and stitched gloves offered in greys, promoting late 19th or early 20th century retail sale.
Handkerchiefs offered in linen and hemstitched styles. Includes Swiss and linen embroidered handkerchiefs priced at two dollars and twenty five cents. Local store promotes variety and value for shopper needs.
Frayed and faded ad lists various textile items with prices. Denim table covers, pillow tops in different finishes, drapery silk per yard, tapestry pillow tops, remnants of velvet and silk and cotton cords, with prices ranging from 25 cents to $2.00. Some entries are partially legible or mussed.
Yard wide 5c Paseenes Muslin and 4c Bleached Muslin. Lonsdale and Fruit of the Loom Bleached Muslin 7c. 81x90 Bleached Hemmed Sheets 45c. Honey-Comb Towels 25c. 62 in all linen Cream Table Damask 60c. 66 in Cream all linen Damask 69c. 5c Apron Ginghams brown. 124c Percales 9c.
Regional shopper brief lists discounted curtain types and fabrics with percent and dollar mark downs, including ruffled Swiss, Nottinghams, Bobbinet, Renaissance, Irish Point, Brussels Net, and tapestry options. Mentions plain white Swiss and dotted Swiss by yard, silkolines, denims, velours, and a three fold oak screen sale as a screen special.
Various rugs offered at reduced prices including Brussels Wilton Smyrna and Japanese pieces in multiple sizes. Some items marked down from high original prices to low sale figures, including 9x12 Smyrna and 9x12 Japanese rugs. Also many odd and half rolls, with option to store purchases until ready for installation.
Topeka city council debates 2000 feet of steel wire rope at Vinewood Park as Councilman Griley demands immediate removal. Street Commissioner Snyder explains delays due to river ice, a house mover quote, and salvage value. Council votes to authorize action and consider using the wreck for park fencing.
Delegates to the Etste convention will be chosen February 15 by the Swawnee county Populiste at their Saturday gathering to elect representatives for the state convention the following Friday. The group aims to decide whether the Populist party should align with the Democrats or run independently amid internal party sentiment.
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