Bargain Clothing Sale Offers Dresses and Undergarments
A vintage ad promotes discounted gowns at 50 cents and drawers at 25 cents, highlighting economical apparel for shoppers.
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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1908
Page
2
A vintage ad promotes discounted gowns at 50 cents and drawers at 25 cents, highlighting economical apparel for shoppers.
Porch shades start at 1.00 with several textiles and accessories on sale. India Linens, Nainsook items, corset cover embroideries, and silk malls feature notable discounts from 5 to 25 cents, with several pieces doubling in value. Skirts reduced from 50 to 33 cents and belts to 20 to 50 cents.
A local notice promotes a July special offering customers free handsome souvenirs as part of a promotional event. The brief outlines a limited time giveaway with no purchase required and highlights the event timing and eligibility.
Mattings in linen thread patterns with 17 yard mittings and fifty remnarts. Mattings of all lengths from 6 to 24 yards offered at less than cost.
Thousands of rolls of wall paper offered at six to ten percent of value, reduced to a fraction per piece in a local mass sale.
A list of special low rate excursions to multiple Atlantic coast and inland cities with dates in July August and September. Includes destinations such as Atlantic City Cape May Sea Isle City and Ocean City plus conventions in Boston Chicago Cleveland Columbus Louisville St Paul Toledo and Denver. Ends with instruction to contact ticket agents for rates routes and train times.
A dismissal advertisement invites readers with rheumatism sciatica lumbago and related pains to write for a free home treatment. The offer claims to banish uric acid from blood loosen stiff joints purify blood and restore elasticity and tone, with proof provided by Mrs. M Summers Box R Notre Dame Ind.
City ordinance requires police to list licensed dogs and owners by April and each month thereafter. Fees: 75 cents for male dogs, 2 dollars for females. licenses expire May 1. Unlicensed dogs may be killed after impoundment. fines apply for possession without tags. penalties for bitches in heat and unlawful killings. Passed March 1908 in Winchester Common Council.
Notes from Trone Virginia dated July 3 describe the wheat harvest nearing completion and welcome recent showers helping corn. Local residents Davis Johnson and F J Triplette visited. several from the area plan an all day church meeting and baptism at the Christian Church Sunday. Mrs J W and J E Chapman visited Mrs M J Lockhart. Be Be Giffin and family planned a Keyser West Virginia trip for a week with their son.
A fragment notes rain and temperature change for Virginia on Saturday. Mentions rainfall amounts and a trend toward cooler or warmer conditions, with no specific figures or timing provided.
The timetable lists train departures and arrivals for Harrisonburg Staunton Lexington Harpers Ferry Hagerstown Frederick Washington Baltimore and other connections with times such as 4.49 11.55 a m 7.00 p m and 12 06 a m and 9 28 a m, including services to Chicago Columbus Wheeling Pittsburg Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and New York.
Local grain dealers posted buying prices for cereals including wheat and oats per bushel and baled hay per ton. Quotes show wheat and oats around 28 to 50 per bushel and hay around 10 to 13 per ton, reflecting market rates.
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