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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEB PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, .JULY 29, 1918
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WANAMAKER'S
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Store Opens at 8.30
Store Closes at 5
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With a Rousing Start, the Wanamaker August Furniture
Sale Holds Second InspectionDay Tomorrow
Philadelphia's Old-Time
Dry Goods Stores
The first and most prominent store seventy
years ago was that of Townsend Sharpless, a
fine old Quaker, located on Second Street above
"Chestnut. His worthy son
Charles L. Sharpless
succeeded him and with his sons "carried on" splen-
didly at the Northwest Corner of Eighth and Chestnut
for a number of years.
' The Sharpless stores rarely advertised.
The well-known character of the Sharpless family,
father and sons, Harry, Charles and Townsend, and
their manner of storekeeping were sufficient to fill
their stores at all times with flocks of people. ,
The Best Speech of This Store Is
the Store Itself
Its vast outside is a silent witness of solidity,
safety and straightforwardness.
' Its inside, built purposely for the convenience and
comfort of its patrons, speaks for itself.
Its ever-changing displays of the more than a hun
dred classes of trustworthy merchandise is
A Panorama of Pleasure
to all beholders, telling the facts of the Store life far
better than words. '
Let the Store take its rank and place not alone
from its fireproof building and safeties of ingress and
egress, but from the uses we make of it.
For example, make a visit to the unequaled
and unsurpassable Furniture Department and
judge the entire store by its layout there of how
the storekeepers here think and act for the
benefit of our patrons.
Advertising words can be easily mislead-
s ing, but the woods and workmanship of good
Furniture are the real things.
The Trees of the Forests are known to have
hearts and the woodworkers are known as
White-Smiths (in contradistinction from work
' ers in iron, designated as Black-Smiths). The
White-Smiths are artists in shaping and putting
together skillfully Mahogany, Oak, Cherry,
Poplar, Maple and Pine woods into chairs,
tables, bedsteads and the like, for heirlooms,
plain, practical and uncostly, or for the higher
decorations of the home, as may be desired.
There Is an Everyday Dividend
from the home things surrounding you if care-
fully thought out and wisely selected. It will
be almost impossible, in the next twelve months,
to collect another stock to equal what we have
now on hand.
, -It is our kind of furniture.
I ' Let it sneak to you of the excellencies of
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tne store inrougnoui.
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lool Envelope Chemises
Fortunate indeed is the woman today who can wear a
me-piece undergarment. They are so easily laundered, so
sasily packed when, traveling and so easily selected from
imong this fresh array.
There are dozens ana dozens oi styies.
The materials are nainsook, satin and crepe de chine.
The trimmings are hemstitching, ribbons and laces.
Silk from $3.75 to $17.50.-
Cotton from $1.25 to $5.
(Third Floor, Central)
Here Are the First Autumn
Top Coats for Young Women
X rOUNG women going
Yto
- In,
rOUNG women going away
to the mountains or travel-
r- ing North find a heavier coai
accessary, ana tney may ge in
terested in these new arrivals
U new Fall fashions.
J The coats are of soft wool ye
lears'. in two new styles, one with
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gathered skirt j both with belts
and pockets.
' They are lined throughout with
soft rich silks and are in pretty
brown and taupe shades.
$39.75, $42.50 and $50 and
16 to 20 year sizes. ,
J 'Young Women's Bathing
wi- Suits Change Prices
Wool jerseys and glistening mohair suits now $3.75 and
& The mohairs are in blue or black, while the jerseys are
llyaHous colors and attractive combinations.
r izLto zm year sizes.
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- "Seconds" at 20c
'"pair of mercerized and lisle socks with pretty
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THIS August Furniture Sale has
back bf it all the essentials neces
sary to make it the best sale for every
body to come to for good furniture. It
certainly has back of it what we think
are the three main essentials
the largest stock of high-grade
furniture to be found in any retail
store in the world;
the lowest prices, qualities
considered;
the best service.
These are not matters of argument,
but matters of fact, not to speak of
figures.
They are facts that we can prove to
the satisfaction of anybody.
Of scarcely any standard article of
furniture do we show less than two
hundred different kinds.
The advantage to you is clear and
reasonable. Such a wonderful variety
means that this is the stock in which
you are surest of finding the furniture
you want. This is the stock in which
you cannot fail to find the furniture you
want, provided you want good furni
ture. Regarding the quality of the fur
niture, it can be said that it is as reliable
as the varieties are great.
We are surely entitled to talk about
quality in furniture, for we have worked
hard to have quality put into furniture,
and we have succeeded.
It is good to know thrft this is the
greatest sale in quality as surely as it
is the greatest in magnitude and
variety.
It is also the greatest sale in econ
omy because it provides the most de
pendable grades at price advantages
which only magnitude can make pos
sible. All of these facts go to make it the
greatest' sale in real opportunity for
you, for anvbodv lookinsr for furniture
of any worthy grade at a price-saving
legitimate and aboveboard.
THE sale takes in all the furniture in our pos
session; that is, our entire regular stocks in
(Fifth. SWth A SeTenth Floor.)
addition to wonderful new purchases totaling'
roughly one million dollars.
Everything in the sale is marked 10 to 50 per
cent less than our regular prices, the average
saving being 33 1-3 per cent.
Tomorrow, Second Inspection Day, customers
may select such pieces as they desire, all sales to t
go into effect from August 1.
We're Clearing Out
Hundreds of
Women's Wash Dresses
$5 to $15 each
Many are perfectly fresh others will need a hot
iron to make them quite dainty and fresh again.
It is a miscellaneous collection of many Summer
dresses, all in good, new styles, and every one much
under the price it began the season with.
There are little frocks for porch and morning
wear on the beach or in the country ; there are pretty
afternoon dresses; there are fluffier frocks suitable
for informal evening wear.
And what with cotton rep, linen, striped and flow
ered voile, cotton nets, sheer dimities and dotted
Swisses, calicoes, ginghams and organdies, it is plain
to be seen there is certainly no lack of variety.
$5, $7.50, $10, $12.75 and $15 is the present range
of prices, and any woman who needs some more Sum
mer dresses should not fail to see these.
(Flrnt Floor, Central)
ON THE AISLE
TOMORROW
300 Fresh and Pretty Shirtwaists
at $1.65 Special
Most all are in white, but some few have a touch of color.
They are of voile and batiste, in tailored and semi-tailored styles,
and every one of the three hundred is fresh and dainty.
You save almost a dollar on each waist.
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Men's Clothing Reduction
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Suits at $13.50
L. It. Summer Corsets
Which Lace in Front
THE foundation of good dress
ing i; a good corset, and for
many women the right foun
dation is an L. R. laced-in-front
corset.
Here are some of the new mod
els for this summer:
At 3 a topless style of flesh
colored batiste, ventilated back,
elastic band over hips in back.
At $6,50 a model of strong
coutiiyheavily boned and with
medium bust. The hips have
elastic gores, and there are three
pairs of hose supporters.
(Third Floor, Chestnut)
At $4 another of coutil, with
low bust, elastic insert and
heavy hip boning.
At $5.50 a model with low
bust, broad elastic insert in back
and elastic gore in front. Made
of coutil.
At $6 Dink'broche. with me
dium bust, lone over hips and
abdomen, and heavily boned.
Also a model of pink batiste,
topless, with elastic insert, and
elastic gore in back.
At $8.50 a pink broche model,
low bust, elastic hip gores.
At $10.75 a beautiful pink
broche, with low top and silk
lacers.
She Bought $195
Worth of
Beaded Bags for
Christmas
FOUR handsome beaded
handbags, all from Paris,
were purchased by a cus
tomer the other day to put
away for Christmas gifts.
She said she was taking no
chances on not being able to
obtain such exquisite things
later.
We have a truly remarkable
showing of these bags. Th
selection between $25 and $60
is excellent, and between $75
and $100 are some that resem
ble antiques.
(Main Floor, rhr.tnut)
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Nainsook Special
at '$1.85 a Piece
There are 100 pieces, of 10 yards each, to be sold at
this low price.
Nainsook is such satisfactory material for women's
underwear, and is cool and dainty for children's dresses.
This is all in white and is 36 inches wide., '
(Flrt Floor. Chutnot)
More Womente
Handkerchiefs
$2 a Dozen
'E'VE had them before
-and are glad to get
more because they are just
the kind a woman likes to
see a snowy pile of when she
opens her handkerchief
boxes.
Good Irish linen, sheer
and snowy ; plain hem
stitched; sold by the dozen
or the half dozen.
And one needs plenty of
handkerchiefs these days!
(Wtftt Aii.lt
Sunburn Lotions
Answer the SOS
of Unprotected
Complexions
THERE are .always times
during the summer, no
matter what precautions we
take, when Old Sol gets the
best of our complexions.
But there is little cause for
worry with such an excellent
collection of lotions to fall
back on.
Hpwey and Almond Cream,
35cvyar.
Cucumber Cream, 50c a
jar.
Youth and Beauty Cream,
50c a jar.
Witch Hazel Cream, 25c
a jar.
Glycerine and Honey Jellv,
20c a tube.
(.Main Floor, rhrotnut)
These are featherweight worsted and
mohair suits, two.-piece style, thoroughly
well tailored and wonderfully comfortable'in
hot weather.
Good patterns and every way desirable.
Every one should go very quickly, for
there are certainly lots of men who need just 'gM
such cool suits.
(Third Floor. Msrkt)
Final Shipment of the Men's
Low-Priced Outing Shoes
White canvas oxfords with composition soles and rub-'
ber heels, half price at $1.90 a pair.
High white canvas shoes trimmed with tan leather and
with red rubber soles and spring heels are $1.60 a pair, and
oxfords of the same style, with either tan or white leather
trimming and red or white rubber soles and heels are $1.40.
These are a third less.
(Alnln rinor. MarUft)
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Famous Puritan Refrigerators
at a Quarter Less
Puritan refrigerators are notable throughout the country for
their excellence, and they sell readily at regular prices as fast
as the factory can get them out.
But w$ got a few hundred at a special price for. the first
time infive years and, while they last, they will be parked 25
. Mif Una than-regular.
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These Fine 9 x 12 Ft.
Rugs Are All
Specially Priced
You will find something
here for every room in the
house and for the porch as
well.
Finest Wiltons made,
$82.50
Standard Wiltons, $48.50
Wilton Velvets, $41.50
Axminsters, $34.50
Tapestry Brussels, $22.50
Fine Rush Rugs, $26.50
WoolFibw RUM.-S9 ' .,.
Picked Up on the Fly
A SOLDIER'S drinking cup,
which is extra large, is of
khaki and rubber and is so soft
that it can easily be jammed
into any little nook in the kit.
At 25c.
(Mnln Floor, flirfctnut)
A SMALL BOY vvould be
thrilled with a toy machine
gun that shoots wooden car
tridges which are quite safe.
At $3.25.
(Hrtrntli Floor, Markrt)
SOME ingenious person has in
vented a "hair-tonic comb."
There is a bulb attached to the
comb-7-for the tonic then there
are little holes in the teeth of
the comb. At 50c. ,
(Main Floor, tlitnut)
A NOVEL hand-painted candy
box has a glass top, that you
may the niore easily see the
good things in store for you. At
11.85.
(Second For. Centra!)
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A N aluminum box that com
" pactly holds buttons, cotton,
tape and pins and needles would
bt fine for the man in the Serv
ice, because it is light, water
proof and so small that it could
go any place a cigarette case
could. At 50c.
(Main Floor, Ontrnl)
WOMEN'S unusual umbrellas
"' have miniature dogs' heads
'for handles, or if you prefer a
rabbit, there are rabbits, too!
Various prices,
(.Main Floor, .Markrt)
rnHE little girl that loves to
"dress up" would be delight
ed with a war nurse's outfit. It
includes a complete costume and
a number of "first aids." At
$1.95.
(Set rnth Floor Markrt)
HERE i3 n tooth brush that
folds b'aek into a little
coyer. It's such-a sanitary wy ,,
of carrying one, and it's only 3
inches long. At 50c.
(Main Floor, Chestnut)
pAN you imagine anything
more practical than a set -of
doilies made of oilcloth f ',
Thej can just be wiped off and
used again and again. A white -set,
with blue flowers, comes at
$1.75.
(Srronil Floor, Central)
A LITTLE book for telephone
numbers for those of a
nautical turn of mind has a little '
sailor on the back. At 50c.
(Rrrond Floor, Central)
"WHO hasn't a lot of odds and
'" ends of lace? Did you
know that beautiful pillows and
mats of all kinds can be made..
with them? Come sea thosa in
the Art and Needlework StmI
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