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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1902
Page
2
Prices shown for silk skirts and handkerchiefs with several discount notes. The content lists varied silk skirt prices from 12.00 to 537.00 and mentions handkerchiefs alongside a catalog-like display from Chas. Adams & Co. including multiple lower price items.
The advertisement lists ruffs priced at 7.00 to 15.00 with multiple items including lace collars chiffon stocks and ties turn over collars collar and cuff sets and linen collars. It notes half price on top collars a sale on veils and generally deep discounts across ladies fashion items from Chas Adams & Co.
A distressed old sale notice lists ladies stockings in multiple styles with fabric prices and discounts. Items include seamless hose, fleeced and wool blends, black and white foot variants, ribbed stockings, misses and boys sizes, plus cotton and wool blends. Also featured are sewing and garment notions such as pins, combs, embroidery, towels, napkins, and table spreads with reduced prices.
An assortment of knitted underwear items including ribbed vests and pants in cotton and wool with prices from 50 cents to 1.50. Notes mention light median Hervy Vent and Mercerized Veete fabrics, black wool tights, and Union suits from mills such as Buck Tights and Forest Mills, with colors and sizes implied.
Raglan Rox or Monte Carlo styles listed with prices from $2.60 to $25.00. A stock of 200 coats priced at $15 to $53 ranges and totals $21.00 to $53.00 per coat. Store offers Misses and Children's coats alongside ladies styles in varied fabrics and sizes.
A fragmentary text lists various priced items such as 1.00 and 5.00 goods, with references to quantities like 717 and 1225 and mentions of chemise style items priced at 2.50 and 5.00 in a scattered catalog excerpt.
Fragmented OCR text lists prices and quantities for various fascinators and accessories. References include amounts such as 1.00, 21.98, 2.75, 1B, and $1.25 to $2.00. Mentions items like ghos and Abe’s. No clear individuals or organizations present.
Store offers Adams ladies wrappers with several price points. One dollar wrappers sell for 1.25, 50 for 31.00, 1.25 ones for 1.0, and 41.75 ones for 74.00 wool varieties.
A vintage newspaper ad promotes a Thanksgiving Silk sale listing Black Motte Velour and antique silks priced from $0.75 to $1.50 per yard, including 22 inch Duchesse and Latin Duchesse rare greens and purples. It notes large lots and special sale on all over, appliques, trims, and plain colored velvets with prices reduced from regular levels.
An old newspaper fragment lists Chas. Adams offerings including Eiderdown Dressing Lacques and Silk Kimono stock. It notes item costs such as 71.25 and 150 with $1.95 items and mentions children’s Eiderdown Bol Jackets at $1.50.
The Domestic Department lists bleached muslin by the yard in 4-4 quality from three brands, sale price 8 cents per yard. Pillow tubing comes in 38 42 and 45 inch widths with sale prices shown. Pillow casing bleached available in 42 45 and 48 inch widths with sale prices listed per yard.
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