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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1918
Page
9
Advertises white linen cambric and linen suiting with prices from 29c to 1.00 plus a range of men's and boys pants caps and hats. Includes umbrellas and parasols with discounts up to about 50 percent off. Names product types and sale prices without specific store details.
Cotton and silk fabrics shown with assorted widths and prices. Items include 86 inch black taffeta at $1.25 value, 86 inch taffeta at $1.65 value, 36 inch all silk foulard at $1.39, 32 inch silk skirtings at 98 cents, and 40 inch silk and wool poplins at $1.75.
A list of fabrics and textiles shows yard wide Bleaching at fractions of a dollar, 36 inch unbleached domestic light weight, Pure White Embroidery Cloth, Unbleached Sheeting and Bleached Sheeting with values ranging from 29 to 63 cents per yard, plus Bird Eye Diaper and Lingerie cloth offered by the bolt at notable prices. The catalog notation includes lengths, widths, and bulk pieces like 2.50 Bird Eye Diaper and 10 yard bolts No. 300 Longcloth.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a 25c box of envelopes and writing tablets with garbled phrases and partial numbers. No coherent event or identifiable entities emerge beyond the generic noting of packaging items and a few unreadable figures.
A historical advertisement lists women and children hosiery prices including cotton hose 13 cents, gauze lisle 19 cents, mercerized hose 35 cents, black silk boot hose 39 cents, silk hose 59 cents, children's socks 10 to 19 cents, and fancy silk stockings 79 cents to 19 cents for various styles. Also notes 36 inch fancy white skirts at 45 cents from earlier values.
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