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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1923
Page
3
A discount filled sale advertises Household cleaning items and home furnishings. It highlights prices on tea service sets, garden hose, lawn mowers, wash boilers, ironing boards, electric irons, dish sets, aluminum pans, water kettles, and assorted pans. Free gifts offered with purchases and a Fifth Floor note appear in the chaotic copy.
House Cleaning Sale features Munsing athletic Union Suits in sizes up to 48, two-dollar quality. knit Union Suits, long sleeves and ankle length at 1.75 to 2.00. men's shirts with neck band style. Half price neckwear up to 1.60. black sateen work shirts. silk and wool non-wrinkle neckwear. Sale emphasizes main floor location and assorted items while they last.
One lot Drapery Cretonies Nets Voiles Madras etc to close out One odd lot Lace Curtains one and two pair of a kind Lamps and Lamp Standards One lot Table Lamp Fringes Cretonne Edges and Laces to close out Curtain materials by the yard Cretonnes Repps Voiles Madras at a Special House Cleaning Discount Fourth Floor.
A local ad outlines a House Cleaning Sale featuring ribbons of various widths up to eight inches in many colors and patterns. It promotes yard amounts and special discounts with bargain prices, noting a semi annual sale beginning Tuesday morning as households prepare for summer.
A selection of boys two pant wool knicker suits sport coats and full lined trousers in light and dark patterns for ages 8 to 18 with values up to 11.50. Also woolen knicker sets for 3 to 8, top coats and suits with 20 percent to one fifth off. Play suits denim chambray and khaki, sweaters, blouses, and Kaynee blouse waists for ages 3 to 16.
House Cleaning Sale on second floor features all wool double plaid blankets at reduced fall prices from 9.60 to 11.00, large all wool tan blankets at 7.00 per pair, and 4.95 for other blankets. Also includes knitted dimity spreads, crochet spreads, and bed spreads at discounted prices with most items described as slightly imperfect or seconds.
Auction-style listing notes art needlework items including tea towels red and blue striped at 25c regular, one gross fudge aprons unbleached muslin, stamped pillow cases 42 and 45 inch at 4.49 value, 3 dozen stamped bed spreads muslin 62 cents, stamped house dresses up to 1.25 each, 6 dozen stamped lunch cloths white art cloth 44 inch 98 cents, 54 inch 1.20, and buffet sets 10c each.
Corsets for ladies advertised with prices from two to five dollars. House Cleaning Sale features Growing Girls' Ideal and front hook corsets in white coutil. Promotions claim warmer Bondeaux front and back closures, third floor items in a cluttered listing.
Two big lots of women's quality low footwear with satin suede patent and calf leather oxfords. Lot 1 and Lot 2 priced at $2.95 and 84.9 cents respectively. Includes Hallahan calf and patent oxford options. Sale emphasizes extensive stock and value for house cleaning purposes.
A busy house cleaning sale listing white goods and fabrics by the yard and bolt. Items include 36 inch long cloth, 22c values, 10 yard bolts, dotted Swisses, Nainsook and lingerie fabrics in Honey Dew Helio Pink Blue Maize and White. Several prices and quantities are noted across the assortment.
Local ad lists a main floor sale offering Naiad and Omo dress shields in regular sizes with white and colored cotton goods, ready-made dress linings, mercerized darning balls, dustless dusters, romper plastic, unbreakable bone hair pins, and trimming braids with ric rac. Prices include 45 cents, 10 cents, and 30 cents, with a focus on household textiles and sewing notions.
Readable lines describe a House Cleaning Sale offering undergarments and athletic suits from Munsing Knit. Items include ladies union suits with built up shoulder and loose knee, athletic suits in satin stripe crepe and dimity, marquisette suits at reduced prices, children’s waist suits with taped buttons, and infant rubber pants in white yellow or flesh, all priced as special offers.
Beads fancy back combs bracelets and more offered in one lot including tuck combs barrettes cuff pins brooches bar pins lingerie clasps soutoirs jet pearl and novelty pieces. House cleaning sale features pins and brooches with regular 25c to 1.25 pricing.
An old sale ad lists assorted sweets including Bunte's Almond Brittle and Pooley's Cocoanut Squares alongside Atlantic Mints and chocolate peppermint candies. The fragment hints at bulk prices like 12 for and a 6c size for one item, with repeated House Cleaning Sale headings.
Ad promises custom tailoring at home to spare annoyance of a dressmaker. Customers can choose material and have garments hand tailored in desired style. Prices listed include coats at 15 dollars and skirts at 4 dollars, with dresses and floor items implied.
Lidity stock of house clean room size rugs and odds and ends offered at half price. Entire stock rugs room size and ill-Whittall's not included at a special house cleaning discount.
An early listing shows a House Cleaning Sale with items such as soaps flakes Cocoanut Oil Shampoo talcum powder and face powder at reduced prices. Included are ready safety razors phylactic tooth brushes vanity items and hair brushes with assorted values and quantities noted, likely from a general merchandise flyer.
A fragmented ad page lists Monarch Pork and Beans, Exmoor preserves, White House Coffee, National Oat Flakes, and assorted household items under a House Cleaning Sale. It advertises quantities and prices such as 3 cans for 22.22 and 10 bars of laundry soap, with miscellaneous filler text and package notes.
Handkerchiefs in various styles and sizes offered at a House Cleaning Sale. Ladies plain linen hemstitched and embroidered corners, lawn and satin pieces, plus men's plain cotton hemstitched styles. Quantities listed include dozens with prices noted in old catalog style.
A cluttered list describes a house cleaning sale offering 72 inch and 64 inch all linen Damask pieces, 20 to 72 inch ranges, and matching napkins. Items include bleached satin Damask, brown crash, Huck Towels, Bird Napkins, Glass Toweling, and Turkish Towels with various low sale prices per yard or per piece.
One big lot of new mid summer millinery with Canton Crepes taffeta and transparent hats. Prices previously six to nine dollars, now cleared out at 95 cents each. Styles shapes colors all suitable from now through fall weather.
One lot ladies hand bags with flap fasteners, cord handles, matinee shapes and vanity cases priced up to 1.75 dollars. Another lot features leather bags in latest styles, two handled utility bags with suede cordovan seal designs up to 3.95 dollars. Final sale prices around 0.89 and 1.05 dollars per item.
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