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Trinity Chime at Nnn
WANAMAKER'S
Store Opens at 10
WANAMAKER'S
Store Closes at 4.30
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For All Who Need Furniture the Choice Is Clear
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The Mariner's Compass
in Its Little House . s
at the bow on the upper deck is the most important spot
on the vessel, though sometimes it is known that some
people regard the kitchen as their favorite place.
"Be sure to make friends with the Purser and the
Cook" has often been spliced in with the last good-by of
outgoing steamer passengers. At times even little boats
ply freely in shallow waters when there is a bright full
moon and the stars to guide, but the little box with the
compass under an electric light from the engine room is
also necessary.
. Would it interest you to know that a 15-year-old
robust schoolboy would be capable to handle a good
sized ship if he mastered navigation as taught by the
mariner's compass.
How little most of us know and how much more
we could know if we were to put our time in at the
right place! We are all learners at this Store and
making records of idleness, and wasted time, or favor
able progress.
Signed
August 26, 191S
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"War Verse"
Edited by Frank Foxcroft
A notable collection of poems inspired
by the great war, many of them not
having appeared before in book form.
They are all very interesting and some
possess immortal beauty.
Price, bound in cloth, $1.25, in red
leather, boxed, $2. ,
(Main Floor, Thirteenth)
New Pin Cubes
From England
1 It used to be that pins from England
came so frequently it was scarcely nec
essary to mention them now ship
ments are not so frequent and conse
quently doubly welcome.
Pin cubes of Jet pins, 144 pins, 50c;
200 pins, 60c, assorted sizes.
(Main Floor, Central)
Women's Lace-Edged
Handkerchiefs
$2 Dozen
All the handkerchief is in snowy
white, of course, and of sturdy Irish
linen of good quality, Just the edge is
in color blue or pink or violet or
green lace.
Six for $1, or $2 a dozen, whichever
way you wish to buy them.
(Went Alile)
Two New Dresses for
Very Little Girls
Of the very serviceable Japanese cot
tpn crepe, that wears long and washes
beautifully, in lovely shades of rose,
green and blue.
i One model has collar and - cuffs of
white lawn, a broad band of smocking
in the front, arid is finished with a gen
erous sash of the lawn.
The other has a little fichu effect of
the white lawn and a bit of hand em
broidery on the front, the fichu end
ing in a large bow in tne nacK. -?
sizes 4, o ana t years; prices, y an
and
15.50.
(Third Floor, Chestnut)
Envelope Chemises
of Silk
Literally dozens of styles some
trimmed with lace and ribbons; others
plain with a little hemstitching and embroidery.
Crepe de cmne, ?a.(o to $it.ou.
Wash satin. S5 and S5.50.
'.Nearly always the silk is flesh
colored.
(Third Floor. Central)
The Deep-Bordered
Veils Are the Vogue
They are so becoming, too! These
new ones have very deep borders of
chiffon or Gcoigettb crepe. Of hexagon
i"e.sh with elaborate scroll designs.
They come in black, taupe, brown and
the most popular shade of all, which is
navy blue.
$2.50 and $3.
(Main Floor, Central)
Autumn Fashions in
New Dresses
for Young Women
All these dresses are of the pop
ular wool Jersey cloth, and both
he style.and the colors are new.
They are most attractive little
dresses for street now and quite
practical to wear all winter under
warm coats.
Lines are straight and youthful,
there are sashes and girdles of
many kinds, buttons, Jersey cov-
ered, trim many; wool fringes
decorate others, and quite a few
are richly braided or embroidered.
Brown and tan shades, dark and
lighter blues and taupes are some
of the colors.
Prices start at $27.50, go up to
$49.50, and sizes are from 14 to 20
years.
(Second Floor. Chestnut)
Four Days to Buy Good Mattresses
and Bedding at August Sale Prices
So the motto for everybody who would like to own good, clean,
hygienic bedding at prices notto be quoted again in a good while is "the
sooner .th'e better."
This sale is as good now as it was at the beginning. It will be
exactly as good a sale on the last day as it was on the first day.
It will coinprise the same variety of merchandise at the same
reduced prices.
7 While it lasts, we will make up hair mattresses in any style desiredT
covering them in the customer's choice of ticking at special August
prices.
At the same time you c&n choose .any felted cotton mattress in
our stock at a reduced price, or any one of a group of bed springs.
We will also make clean feather pillows and bolsters during the Sale at
August reductions, but not afterward. The sale ends next Friday; after that date
prices on all our bedding will go higher. If you do not want to pay more later,
you will1 need to buy immediately.'
(Sixth Floor. Chastnut)
3.KJ ruy pi iveuuceu jrnces inuring inese iast rour JLiays 01 tne oreat;:
August Sale or Wait and Pay a Great Deal More Later On
To buy, or not to buy surely it should be easy to decide in the face of
the extraordinary opportunities which this Sale presents; in the face, too, of
the extraordinary and unprecedented situation in the furniture market.
The output of the furniture factories is being diminished.
The tendency of furniture costs and furniture prices is upward. There is
no telling when the prices obtained in this sale will be again quoted on the
same fine selection of goods.
It may be years before the opportunities presented in this Sale will again
present themselves. This would be true, even if we had no furniture at all to
sell. The truth of it means all the more, considering the fine selection of fur
niture you will see here at reduced prices.
From the viewpoint of the average home, of every home in which econ
omy is a consideration, the buying of furniture now is wise. Let us empha
size the word NO IF.
NoW means immediately if possible, today. For the great Sale has only
tomorrow and three more days to continue.
During these closing days we are disposing of several hundred odd pieces
at half price.
These include some very fine examples of cabinetmaking. They also in
clude a good selection of practical pieces for all rooms. There are some won
derfully fine davenports, day beds and chaises longues at half price, as well
as several hundred bedroom, dining-room and living-room chairs, rockers and
settees, all at 50 per cent less than regular prices.
Your choice is to buy now and pay less or wait and pay more. The best
way to decide is to come to the sale at once and see the opportunities which it
brings.
In the Half-Price
Clearaway
you will find such groups of odd
pieces as these:
Chiffoniers, $15.50 to $57.50.
Toilet Tables, $7.25 to $94.
Wood Beds, $10.50 to $150.
Chevals, $17.50 to $41.
Night Stands, $4.50 to $24.
China Closets, $13 to $52.
Serving Tables, $6.50 to $26.
Chaises Longues and Day Beds,
$27 to $54.
Settees and Davenports, $9.50 to $170
Odd Bedroom Chairs, $3.25 to $14.
Odd Dining-Room Chairs, $2.50 to $8.
Arm Chairs and Rockers, $9 to $127.50.
Wicker Chairs and Rockers and Settees, $2 to $21.25.
The number of pieces in each of these groups ranges from 25 to 150, all
being odd, or individual pieces, and no two of a kind.
These are one interesting feature of the closing days of the sale. Back
of them are our whole regular stocks at August reductions, presenting an un
rivaled field of choice ; but, remember, only tomorrow and three more days to
take advantage of the good things that are going.
(Urili. Mvili and .rrn(Ji Floors)
New Afternoon Gowns
for the Woman Taking a
Late Vacation
Or for any other women who want something fresh and pretty,
but of moderate price.
They are nearly all of satin ; some are heavily braided ; some have
beaded ornamentation ; some are trimmed with fringe or corded tucks
or crochet buttons, and a great many have white vests to relieve their
darkness and plainness.
Colors are taupe, navy and black.
Prices are $17.50, $18.75, $23.50, $25, $32.50 and $33.50.
(First Floor; Ontrul)
Queen Mary Talcum
Powders Are Carefully
Prepared
They are sifted through silk cloth,
making them absolutely freo from gut
and lighter and fluffier than the average
powder. They are cool comforts for
warm weather.
Queen Mary in all the popular scents,
15c. 35c and 50c.
Double Violet, 25c and 50c.
Rose Speciale, 50c.
Charme d'Amour, 75c.
Violette Natuielle, 25c.
(Slain Floor, Chestnut)
New Millinery Reveals
Autumn Secrets
While some are of lustrous, fine qual
ity velvets, others are of the pietty
hatter's plush which promises to be so
fashionable this Fall.
One small hat of hatter's plush with a
narrow, curlinj brim has a soft crown
and trimming of brown wheat and china
blue dahlias.
Another small hat of hatter's plush
has a wreath of bright-colored flowers
round the turned-up brim.
"And a stunning all-black hat, rather
Napoleonic in its lines, is simply tiim
med with two flat, black ornaments.
Other hats aie quite large and of
black and colored velvet in new shapes
and with new ideas as to trimmings.
Prices begin at $20..
(Second 'Floor, Chettuut)
Exceptional
Pocketbooks for Women
at $3.50 and $4
A limited number only!
Of seal skin in long grain, bright and
dull leather.
Also shiny autojeather.
Conservative styles that are ever
useful.
Back and top straps.
, Facts all that prove to the knowing
woman a good thing!
(Mula Floor, Clientuut)
Past the Submarines
comes a little shipment of women's fine
wool golf or tennis hose from England.
They are in brown only, with gold
colored clocks, and the price is $3. '
(Flmt Floor. Vlarltet)
Probably the Most Important Shoe Sale
We Have Ever Told You About
' . We are selling many hundreds ,of pairs of shoes
every day to men, women and children, but we still
have some' thousands of pairs to sell at reduced
prices.
There is at least $2 reduction on every pair of
hoes in the sale for men, women and boys.
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(Women' and Children' filiota, Flr.t Floor, Ccttout)
Men's High Shoes, $4.65, $5.90.
Women's Low Shoes, $2.90, $3(.90, $4.90 and
$5.90.
Women's High Shoes, $2.50,, $2.90, $4.40 and
$8.75.
Also a considerable lot of children's white can
vas, white leather and tan high and low shoes at
$2 a pair.
200 All-Silk Colored
Umbrellas for,
Women $5 Each
Not an umbrella in the lot
that isn't worth half as
much again!
They are of firm, lustrous
silk, in black and the popu
lar colors purple, greens,
blues and other shades and
are finished with the fash
ionable' ring and loop han
dles in white and colors.
And nowadays women like
several umbrellas in differ
ent colors, so this is an ex
cellent opportunity to get
what she wants.
(Main Floor, Market) '
We Have 5000 Pair of
Fine Lace Curtains at
Interesting Prices
Bought a year ago, they are
marked at just about the prices
we'd have to pay wholesale for
them today.
It is an unusually fine collec
tion, including, as it does; muslin,
scrim, novelty, Irish point, Ara
bian, Cluny and Brussels laces in
many attractive designs.
There are from six to twelve
pairs of a kind, so that it is pos
sible to just get them to match.
Prices start at $1 for the scrim
and go on up to $50 a pair for the
Brussels curtains.
(Flflli Floor, Market)
The Finest Wardrobe
Trunks
notyonly have places for shoes, "hats,
eening gowns and wet bathing suits,
but places to carry an electric iron. A
trea.sinc of this kind is $110. Others
are less.
(Fourth rloor, Central)
The Boys' New Fall
Suits Are Real
Wanamaker Suits
These are suits of the kind that
appeal to the kind of mother who
has a gift or happy knack of put
ting something on her boy that
makes him look better dressed
and smarter than so many other
mothers' boys.
The secret is largely in the
modeling, style and fit of the gar
ments, and on these essentials
Wanamaker's boys' suits have al
ways been unequaled. The new
lot of Fall suits now on show are
Wanamaker suits all over in fit,
fashion, finish and fabric.
Of course, they are in the pop
ular Norfolk style, in fancy mixed
gray and brown 'woolens at $15,
$16.50, $18 to $25 and in blue
serges at $12 to $25. Sizes in
both groups for boys of 8 to 18
years.
(Seioncl Floor, Central)
A Splendid Group of Player
Pianos at $465
This is the last lot we can get to sell at this price.
The instrument is known as the WHITE PLAYER-PIANO.
It is manufactured by Wilcox & White, makers of the famous
Angelus, the first and greatest of all player-pianos.
The White player -piano retains many of the features of the
Angelus and is complete with expression devices.
It 'plays any standard 88-note music roll and is a fine, durable,
reliable player.
There will be no more of this high type for sale at this low price,
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If you have a silent piano in your home we will take it in exchange
as part payment.
(Kuptlau Hull, Second Floor, Market)
6000 Pair of Men's Merino
Half Hose "Seconds" for 50c
All the indications are that there will be very little wool hosiery and
eiy little wool undciwear for civilians this year everything of a woolen
kind is needed for our soldieis.
These 6000 pqiis aie the half ho-e rejected by Uncle Sam as not good
enough for his boys, but the slight flaws in them are not of a kind to inter
feie with their wealing qualities; They arc, as "merino" signifies, part wool
and part cotton, and will mean oci thing this winter to the man exposed to
the weather the motou'st, the hhipwoikor, the woikors on farms, as well
at, the few golfers. Some people vill buy thorn to give to their men in the
service to supplement thoe already tupplicd by the Government.
GOc a pair and only 0000 pail.
(Main Floor. Market)
Big Men's Best Chance
in This Summer Sale of Clothing
We have a few hundred suits, worsteds and cheviots, all wool,
hand tailored, standard of the world, in sizes 39 to 50, which are to be
sold out at $20.50 to $25.50.
These prices represent reductions of $9.50 to $14.50.
Considering the scarcity of textiles, you will know this is a good
time to lay in an extra suit or two of them to wear all this Fall
and start in next Spring with.
(Thlnl I lour. Murkt't)
Standard British Fabrics for
Men's Custom Suits
The London Tailoring Shop has received some fine Scotch and
north of England woolens to be made up into men's suits.
The collection is exceedingly varied, including the famous Harris
Island and Highland tweeds.
There are also light, medium and heavy weight overcoatings.
Suits as well as overcoats will be made up with all possible
dispatch.
(loiulon Tuilorluc: Miop, Hie Gallery, llientnut)
Good Rugs of Several Kinds
at Special Low Prices
""""' The Carpet and Rug Store calls special attention to. three very
unusual grottos of good, practical rugs now marked at prices that
should intermit many homekeepers during- this closing week of a great
homefurnishing month.
Wool and Fiber Rugs
8.310.6 ft. J8.50.
7.6x9 ft, ,$7.
6x9 ft, ?5.50.
Grass Rugs From Japan
9x12 ft, $8 and $10.50.
8x10 ft, $7.
6x9 ft, $5.50.
Colonial Rag Rugs
3x6 ft, $1.95.
1x7 ft, $3.25.
6x9 ft.,' $5 to $7.25.
7.6x10.6 ft, $9.
9x12 ft, $11.50 and $14.50.
Also a limited assortment of high-grade rugs at special prices,
(BeventU Floor, Chestnut)
This Remarkably
"Big and Busy Bee"
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In times of plenty he
stores up full supplies for
.times of scarcity.
In a few days now we shall
start a great sale particu
larly characteristic of this
big and buzzy, busy Bee.
Let everybody take les
sons from this wise and
thrifty creature. Let every
body be ready to take ad
vantage of this great Wana
maker Sale we shall tell you
more about in a day or two.
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