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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1900
Page
7
A fragment lists prices for items including 1s5c a pair for 7, 8, and 9 inch ball bearing shears, 6c for a 10¢ bottle of Maine oil, 4c for Vaseline, and 35c a pair for Ladies Garters in glass top boxes with silk elastic webbing sold at 50c.
Curtains marked down to 50c per dollar, 1.00 for 1.50 frilled muslin and 7.50 for silk tapes try curtains. Silk tapestry curtains 5.00 for 7.50. Odds of laces and portieres in reduced prices. Rope portieres priced at 2.50 for 4.50 or 3.00 for 5.00 and 4.50. 4 for 35 rope portieres. 5 for 7 rope portieres.
Readable ad item listing discount prices for eiderdown robes and wrap items. Notes include $12.50 robes now $9.00 and 7.50 robes now $6.00, 3.50 robes now $2.75, 5.00 robes now $4.25, wrappers at $1.75 and $1.25, and all wool flannel wraps reduced from $3.50 to $2.75.
Retail notices advertise silk skirts discounted to 13.75 with emphasis on affordability and store promotions. Limited quantities and seasonally styled pieces highlighted to attract shoppers.
Wool skirts marked down to 3.75 5.00 6.00 6.00 8.00. Tailor made suits reduced to 7.50 11.00 12.20 15.00 17.50 10.00 15.00 20.00 22.50 25.00. Suits sale prices shown.
Local listing offers 25 dozen all linen hemstitched handkerchiefs at 7 cents each and 25 dozen at 15 cents each. Mussed and soiled stock discounted further with additional percentage off.
Ginghams priced at 65¢ for 10 yard patterns of Toile des Nord, Flor patterns worth $1.00. Flannelettes at 15¢ for 20c imported German, 17¢ for 25c kind. 5c yard for Percale single and double folds, about 40 pieces. Umbrellas discounted to $5.00 from $7.50 and $6.50.
In a sale of linens, Turkish bath towels are offered at 12? cents each or 50 dozen at 10 cents, with listed values of the dozen. Twenty two by forty five inch Turkish towels priced per piece and per dozen. Absorbent crash towels and fringed cotton towels available by the dozen at 50 cents and 10 cents respectively, plus Union Huck towels with colored borders in various sizes.
The store announces reductions on a wide range of dress fabrics and patterns. Includes suit patterns priced from 7.00 to 15.00, yardage deals on silks and wools, basket cloth and cheviots, plus various plaid and herringbone fabrics with substantial per yard savings.
Local sale advertises broad price cuts on footwear with every shoe category reduced. $5.00 shoes drop to $4.50, $4.00 to $3.60, $3.50 to $3.15, $3.00 to $2.70, and $2.50 shoes priced accordingly.
Fabric sale item list: Dress Flannels marked down 25c for 350 yard, 36 inches wide in navy grey red brown blue black. Golf suitings $1.50 for $2. Colors blue purple green. Union suits 29c for 40c. 89c for 50c vests and pants ribbed for children. 50c for $1.00 union suits small sizes only half wool.
Advertises heavy rib bed cotton hose for boys at 12 cents a pair, valued at 18 cents. Ladies fleece lined hose for 10 cents. Misses fleece hose also offered at 10 cents from a 15 cent price, highlighting bargain prices.
The ad promotes men’s underwear with fleece lined shirts and drawers at 39 cents for 50 cents, 75 cents for 89 cents, 8 cents for 1 dollar, and wool Derby ribbed sets. Includes 10 pairs of socks at 12 3/4 cents for 15 cent all wool and fleece lined options.
A vintage ad promotes pocket books at 11 cents each from a 25 cent range. It offers ladies and gents coin purses at 10 cents, and cha telaine bags for sale at 25 cents chosen from 50 or 40 cent options.
Cloth bound books offered Monday at 12¢ per volume with titles listed including Scarlet Letter Micah Clarke Middlemarch Gulliver's Travels Vanity Fair Romance of Two Worlds Idyls of the King Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow Memoirs of a Physician Mosses From an Old Manse Linen Binding Best paper and print special 25¢ volume.
Pillow tops offered as high as 75c in the lot marked choice for 25c. The cupid, the crap game and the L. A. W. featured in this lot. T5¢c and $1 pillow tops marked choice for 50c. Silk and gold embroidered pillow tops sold as high as $2.50, marked choice for 88c.
Laces marked down to five cents per yard include machine torchon laces up to two inches wide and fine patterns up to three inches wide. Net top laces and plat val laces priced at twenty to twenty five cents per yard with heavy inserting offered at fifteen cents per yard.
Dollar kid gloves go on sale tomorrow in tans reds and greens with sizes 5 and 6 only priced at 1.50 and 1.75. Kid gloves four button colors include tans modes and greens in sizes 5 6 64 and 63 at 1 a pair.
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