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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1902
Page
8
Crosby Bros announces a great May sale featuring fine white figured goods in plain and stylish white India Lineneet with lace tucks and embroidery. Also offered is white Persian lawn with hemstitched hem and delicate silk stitching at four dollars.
A stylish black wool skirt is highlighted as essential for the wardrobe. Black Etamine and Granite fabrics are shown in flounced and serpentine cuts with slight sweep, styled to suit preferences. Prices start at 10.00 to 20.00 and rise to 18.75 and up in various trims.
A sale of a rare collection of fabric lengths from one to two yards each in assorted colors including pinks yellows greens lavenders white cream and black. Offered at ten cents per yard in a single line sale with limited stock and first appearance tomorrow.
Advertises linen and domestic textiles with price cuts on napkins damask tablecloths and bleached linen sets. Highlights 12 m wide muslin prints cream unions and bleached napkins with discounts and bulk quantities for the sale.
Fragments describe skirts with covert colors and seance style bands. Items include a grey skirt with plain bands, a black skirt with white and blue dots, and a graduated double flare, plus a crash skinrt geod quality fashion note and a linen skirt with wide double flare.
A fragment describes pale and blue garments, detailing petticoats and skirts in white with a bhin effect and Madras fabric. It notes a deep full silhouette with ruffled bounce and various colors, reflecting period fashion notes.
Wrapper specials describe eight patterns with full skirts deep flounces double ruffs wrap and yokes fringe trimmings and embroidery in black and white blue and white light and dark red and white. Neat stylist patterns feature plain or embroidered edges and ruffled bertha details.
Undermuslin line features unequal ded putties and carucent gowns with side openings, square necks, and lace edging. Skirt specials priced at 75e showcase full embroidered muslin designs with stitched details and varied styles, including rainproof options.
Readable ad copy notes corset specials including bone supports lace trimmed models in short and medium lengths. Mentions 850 price level and linen crash fabric while highlighting bone attachment and quality details with period selling tone.
The May Sale features include Nottingham Curtains and Brussels Net Curtains with several style and price reductions. Notable quotes promise pale Toe style and pale ib style options with paired figures, and discounts from $1.25 to 0.83-98 while higher end pieces drop from $6.00 to 4.95 and $7.00 to 6.23, with a $10.00 item at BBST.
Bargains on Irish Point and Battenberg Lace Curtains with several price points from five to thirteen dollars. Arabian and tapestry options also offered with steep discounts, arithmetic misprints aside, selling many items at reduced rates.
A crowded old catalog page advertises Brussels carpet pieces and various home furniture. It lists dining chairs, rockers, tables, sideboards, buffets, chests, chests, dressers, vanities, wardrobes, and iron beds with prices, finishes, and styles in a dense, sale-focused tone. Notable items include dining chairs in golden maple and white maple, several rockers in oak, and a crimson plush couch, plus oak and mahogany chests and chests with French patterns.
A catalog of fabric prices features 50c 5c and 75c Wash Silks and 75¢ Alpaca Pongees and Domestic Pongees. Additional items include Colored Satins, Plain Colored Taffetas, $1.00 Colored and Black Faille Francaise, Colored Flannel Silk, Fancy Striped Taffetas, Persian Silks, $1.25 Fancy Plaided Silks and $1.50 Handsome Colored Poplins.
An article fragment showcases a Gibson waist in white with crocheted detail and pearl buttons, described as stylish and pretty. It highlights a black granite cloth gown with a serpentine front, sweeping train, gathered fullness at the belt, and decorative rings, priced up to $20.00.
The ad highlights a $200 line featuring one skirt in grey or castor cloth with scalloped flounce and tassel-stitching. It also promotes other greys in varying styles and colors with prices ranging from $500 to $750.
A fragmented price list shows assorted soap brands Violet de Granda Toilet Soap and Pure Extract Witch Hazel among notions. Also listed are pins, paper, spools, corset fasteners, and decorative items with brief prices and descriptions.
Cloth bound volume with reinforced back and gilt title but readable text only. Mentions Dickens Scott Cooper Bronte George Eliot Kipling and other major names. Additional authors listed include Edna Lyall Corbetti Bernie Oulda Braeme Doyte and The Duchesse.
Whiting announces a May sale on stationery items including Whiting's best envelopes in white and blue gray, bicycle playing cards, and paper products. The ad emphasizes bargain prices and bulk packages, featuring envelopes and bond paper for daily correspondence at reduced May sale prices.
A brief notice of new dress items features a line of Japanese kimonas in plain and figured silks drawing attention. Long robes in pink, green, blue, and red, short kimonas, and plain satara versions are offered. Accessories include sacques in late patterns at 5 to 7 dollars, silk wrappers priced around 8 dollars, and laced ruffles with dainty color options.
Catalog snippet shows Gause Vests with various trims, bleached and unbleached options, Swiss ribbed vests with silk neck tapes, and Hib Gauge Vests. Also items include bleached French hand pants, black cotton dropstitch hose, seamless hose in drop stitch, and lisle lace hose with double heel and toe. Prices range from 10 to 40 cents per item.
Misses fine bleached Jersey Rib Vests and children's bleached Jersey Ribbed tops with neck and sleeves. Includes 260 panty lace trimmed at a very special price of 15 cents.
Misses and Children's Hosiery offers include Children's 124 and black cotton Rib Hose with double knee spliced heel and toe sizes 5 54 6 and 4 garage bargains. Misses black hose elastic rib late Gola full spranneas with extra high spliced heel. Boys heavy Black Cutter Rib Hose with extra double knee heel and worn sizes 6 12. Misses Ze Lace Lisle Hose full seamless with extra spliced heel and toe.
Advertises a range of menswear and undergarments including shirts drawers and under drawers. Mentions French fabrics Egyptian underwear fine weight soft finished and white linen duplicates. Notes summer wear negligee eye collars detachable collars and price references of 1.00 to 1.50 in a mid summer sale.
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