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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1907
Page
8
A large sale offering 7,500 yards of Shadow Silks and French Silk Mulls at 19c a yard, with matching dress linings, pongee, cambrick, and white goods. Includes Dotted Swiss and White Mercerized Lingerie Batiste at almost half price, highlighting high quality silk wares and summer fabrics for dresses and waists.
Tomorrow we hold a sale of beautiful White Lingerie Waists boasting historic values. waists feature Swiss embroidery mull lawn and German lace with many styles including Dutch necks and pin tucks. All sizes up to 44, originally worth 200 dollars to 3 dollars and 98 cents sale price 98 cents.
A remarkable sale of Untrimmed Hats is in progress with a wide choice and big bargains. Milan straw to fancy braids offer fashionable shapes from mushrooms to turbans in colors including burnt, brown, navy, natural, white and black. The cheapest hat is regularly $1.48 with many values up to $50, and tomorrow offers unreserved choice for buyers.
Regular laces and novelty embroidery offered in wide ranges with many patterns including eyelet and Venice designs. Special prices on laces per yard and in long pieces, with comparisons to higher prices elsewhere and notes on Valenciennes and Chantilly varieties for dress uses.
A dense OCR fragment lists various cosmetic and dress items with prices: cotton on spools, hair pins, stockings and hair nets in several colors, real hair wigs or wigs components, Warren’s silk covered collar supporters, bone and featherbone items, Angora braid, and De Long snap fasteners. The ad style mirrors period retail copy and uses varied spellings and abbreviations.
Readable sale notes offer Boys' School Suits in two styles for ages 7 to 17 at 1.59 tomorrow. Extra items include 500 pairs of Straight Knee Pants in sizes 4 to 7 years at low prices, plus mer cerized poplin hats in tan gray and cardinal and navy Serge Pants for ages 4 to 17. Wash Suits in various colors, Percale and Madras Blouses, all advertised at deep discounts.
Fragmented ad style text describes summer house furnishings with notices of underpriced items and stock phrases. It mentions garden tools, bread boards, ventilating devices, stone jars, and miscellaneous inventory values and promotions. The readable content suggests a sales listing or classified ad fragment from a period catalog.
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