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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1911
Page
9
A list of infant apparel and related items is offered at attractive prices. Embroidery flannel jackets trimmed dresses hoods shirts and bands in silk wool and cotton mixtures baby baskets bibs rattles hot water bottles pin books record books ribbon holders and more are advertised with emphasis on value.
All the girls boys little folks and babies are invited to visit the store Friday with older folks welcome. Dolls books and playthings will be on display along with a window “live models” show of dresses rompers and more. A reception committee of girls will guide kids through the shop.
Waterloo shoppers are invited to a special sale of advance shipment books for the holiday season. The assortment includes standard works and gift books, plus a line of children's and Bible stories. Prices range from 1c to 25c. See them to appreciate the offer.
An advertisement for H Irving Hancock's Motor Boat Club novels notes popular installments set at Nantucket Long Island Florida and more. It touts manliness and moral tone with clothbound editions illustrated, regular price one dollar but offered at twenty five cents.
The advertisement promotes Laura Dent Crane’s The Automobile Girls series including Newport Berkshires Hudson. It touts the books as the most interesting stories for girls with lively summaries and claims a discounted price of 25 cents each from a regular value of 1.00.
The Submarine Boys series by Victor G. Durham offers multiple titles including The Submarine Boys On Duty The Submarine Boys Trial Trip The Submarine Boys and the Middies and The Submarine Boys and the Spies Each volume is priced at 25 cents and praised as stirring exciting and wholesome juvenile literature for young readers of all ages.
The Long running High School Boys series includes The Freshmen Pitcher and Left End titles with Dick and Co. adventures on sports fields and grids. Real Americanism and manliness are featured as themes, offered at 25 cents each.
An excerpt promoting a four volume Dick Prescott West Point series showing two average cadets through their four years at the academy. The copy emphasizes wholesome, strenuous cadet life and aspiring to commissions in the U S Army, noting regular 60c values now priced at 25c each.
The Battleship Boys collection by Mr Patchin promises vivid sea lure in three tales. The Battleship Boys At Sea Or Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy follows young sailors as they gain experience. The Battleship Boys First Step Upward Or Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers continues their training. The Battleship Boys In Foreign Service Or Barning New Ratings in European Seas rounds out the set. All offered at 25c each, originally 60c.
A brief description of Frank Gee Patchin's Pony Rider Boys books, noting The Rockies Texas and New Mexico titles. Praises the series as vivid frontier adventures for boys and compares Patchin to Cooper in portraying the outdoor West of the twentieth century.
Miss Josephine Gingrich and Alva J. McClain of Sunnyside Washington were married June 7 at North Yakima. They planned a wedding trip to Seattle and Tacoma and will live in Sunnyside. The bride, La Porte City native, is a high school and business college graduate. The groom runs a nursery business with his father.
A Pasadena dated advertisement from March 9 1911 praises Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as an efficient non narcotic cough remedy suitable for children. It includes a testimonial from C H Ward Drug Co and C L Parsons, secretary treasurer, urging the yellow packaged product available through J K Joder & Son.
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