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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1903
Page
8
The textile section touts strong demand and broad stock with long term purchase foresight. Featured items include wide ranges of winter goods, waistings, and black fabrics priced from 50 cents to 1.59, noting a January sale with discounted materials like basket cloth and mohair figured cloth.
This sale offers an unusually wide display of silk fabrics including fancy silks and broken lots. Every yard in stock is offered at low prices with many odd bits gathered for shoppers seeking value in a year’s best selection.
Sale notes bargains on aprons blue and pink, unbleached and plaid fabrics, flannels and percales with color ranges. Lace appliques half price, cot ton bands, regulars up to 2.25 a yard. Cheviot shirting, bleached sheets, hemstitched linens, and closeout sets offered with various discounts and decorative braids and buttons.
Stationery clearance lists 16¢ skeins of yarn and 88a circular shawls with colored borders. Includes 50c Jersey leggings for children, half price boxed stationery, and 3c to 5c assorted envelopes and tablet assortments. Also notes 15c quire Whiting's paper and 25c French纲 gandy papers.
A price clearing notice offers 25 and 35 as special rates for a miscellaneous set of stock. Well bound fiction general literature and religious works priced up to 50c in the first tier. A 35 sale sweeps out a selection of standard fiction and poetical works at regular 75c.
Jewelry and other specials advertise items at low prices including silver thimbles for 25c per piece, fancy hat pins at 10c, sterling silver manicure articles at 2c for 50c, solid gold lockets at 50c, solid gold items at 15 and 25c, celluloid soap boxes at 50c for 75c, chatelaines with real seal and alligator, guaranteed fountain pens with 14k gold points.
Yard goods sale brief featuring dotted curtain Swiss and ruffled trim options. Describes curtain-8s patterns, fabrics, and colorings with emphasis on salon and home decor. Includes mentions of fringe, rugs, and decorative fabrics in a vintage shop tone.
A sales listing shows Nottingham Lace described as very special in a pair format. Curtains priced by the pair range from 39 cents to 3.75 dollars with multiple bundles such as 6ac and 1.15 and 1.75 and 2.73 and 3.75 noted in sequence.
Old time store ad lists assorted goods with pricing in cents. Items include safety pins, finished thread, rubber, chamois skins, lemon sugar, machine oil, elastics, dress stays, soap, rose water, petroleum jelly, imitation French soap, knit bags, hair brushes, scissors, almond meal and related quantities.
The report by TH. Gerow director of the bureau, with Governor Stan fey, notes 19 months of operation. It lists job categories from hook agents to farmhands and mill workers, counts applicants, and discusses harvest hands for 1902. It compares wheat harvest labor to 1901 and reflects fluctuating demand and supply across states.
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