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10 and 4.25 WANAMAKER'S
Store Opens at 10
WANAMAKER'S
Slore Closes at 4.30
WANAMAKER'S
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Only Two More Days
It Takes More Than a Name
as a Label
to build and hold business success.
The holding of the A. T. Stewart business remains
was not enough for any of the three firms that succeeded
to it to succeed.
In early days Philadelphia had two great clothing
stores, Tower Hall and Rockhills. Both were popular in
their day and left large businesses that have vanished.
There were at the same time three much advertised
'concerns of once famous medical preparations that were
largely used, but are now practically out of sight, though
all of them built upon splendid and most honorable
names.
Times change, and what suited the times of Stewart
would not suit at all today.
Progress must keep pace with each new year.
Mere old labels do not count.
This Store is as unlike what it was 58 years ago as
a fresh 1918 peach is from a peach canned and well
labeled a year ago.
Signed'
August 28, 1018.
400 Waists Special at $1.35
Tailored waists of cross-barred and dotted muslin, with collars
that can be worn high or low. '
Also white batiste waists with collars, cuffs and tics of voile
in heliotrope, black, blue and apricot stripes.-
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New Winter Coats for
Young Women
So attractive are thev you will not
I Want to wait till the cold weather really
comes to wear them!
Of soft, thick Nebnii'ii, or the pretty
llvertoncs, of duvetyms and bolivas
and sturdy mixed tweeds, the new coats
re practical, good-looking winter
Wraps.
They have ever so many features that
are enough different fiom other sea
sons to interest you great wide belts,
novel pleated effects, new cuffs and
collars. They are richly lined, . and
many have great furry collars. '
Brown shades, blues, mixed effects
arP -, o tno many colors.
$27.50 to?$85--14 to 2,0 year sizes.
- (Srruml Floor, Chestnut)-
Georgette and Net Robe
Patterns at Special
Prices
There are three to three and a half
yards in each of these beautiful robes
and the same amount of banding to
match. The colors are rich and the
embroidery elaborate. These along
with many other lovely things nre be
coming harder and harder to get.
(12.50 to $10.50.
, (Went Alile)
Diamond Jewelry of
Exquisite Perfection
Still anniversaries come and are cele
brated as in the "niDinc days of peace."
I.Why not make a gift that will -be c.n
investment ior tne lavorea one i ina-
monds answer the question, in ail their
radiant loveliness!
Single stone diamond rings, $53 to
$8000.
. Three-stone diamond ring, $170 to
11025.
W niamnnrl Vnr m'n SRR rn $3900.
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Brooches, $85 to $1050.
Bracelets, $200 to $1275.
Necklaces, $900 to $5500.
La Vallieres. $45 to $1000.
Circle pins, $85 to $5000.
Watches, $300 to $525.
r. (Main Floor, Chestnut)
Patent Leather
Slippers Opera Cut
Slippers with extremely pointed toes
and the slenderest of high French heels.
ifiey -can De correcuy worn wun street.
costumes or with afternoon gowns.
Price $11 a pair.
Tsf- i a, mi t i ; t nil.
rina incra in ine exclusive XjiiAiu
Boot snop.
(First Flour. Market)
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; Novelty White Silk
Raincoats
J We have had a great many requests
for them, but hitherto the rubberizing
has' been too unsatisfactory for us to
put them in stock. Now at last we have
some that promise- to be all that they
hould be in the matter of wear, and
refreshing to look at besides.
? They are of white peau de sole, with
ieemented seams, big pockets and
jBtTBign. rippim uul-ks. in o(.uu.
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The Graceful Comfort of
American Lady Corsets
ris well known by women who desire these
hevery figure, of a good sejection of materials with the thought of .satisfying our
, customers ever in mina.
At $2.50 Light weight, low bust, medium hip. Dainty pink figured material.
, !At $3--Laced-in-front model of white coutil,' topless, elastic gores under bust,
WU- boned. Suitable for average or slenderfigures.
r At $3.50 Of white batiste with fancy pink satin stripe, trimmed with satin
' ribbon, and Jace. For average figures. $ f
V' At $3.50 Of pink coutil. medium Jiigh bust, lone hip, with wide insert of pJ-ife-it
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.Male)
Uniforms for Officers of the Army
and Navy Ten-Day Service
We have received a number of letters from Europe complimenting us
on the excellence of the uniforms made here and now being worn by Ameri
can officers in the battle zone.
Our stocks of materials arc unsurpassed and our tailoring is of the
best. Uniforms will be finished in ten days if required.
(London Tailoring Shop, nailery, Chentnut)
Last of the Summer Dresses
Only a few left and those to be cleared out-at $2.50 to $15. There
are voiles, crepes, nets, ginghams, linens and organdies mostly in
need of a pressing and sometimes of a tubbing, but a good investment
nevertheless for women who like to snatch an advantage when they can.
(First Floor. Centrnt)
Another
that on next Monday, Septem
ber 2, the Wanarriaker Store
will present the half-yearly
sales of
Housewares
Glassware
China
We are pleased to inform our good
customers that, in spite of all scarc
ities and all war conditions, our
preparations have been up to" and
above normal.
Like the industrious bee, who
knows no shortage; whose wisdom
is always foresight wisdom; who
"carries on" in the golden present,
making sufficient preparation to
meet all necessities like the busy
bee, we have been busy in the best
markets of the world for the past
six months with a special view to
having these salts better and more
plentiful than ever before.
And we have succeeded.
We shall invite your inspection of
more than 100,000 of the best (mod
ern household utensils at reductions
ranging from 10 to 50 per cent; re-
(Fourth
We Can Bring
Your Old Furniture Up
to Match the New
Look over your old furniture and let
us know, and we will send for it and
reupholster it.
We are prepared to do this work just
now at comparatively low prices, since
we have on hand an excellent stock of
woolen and cotton tapestries in excel
lent 'patterns and colorings, which we)
can sell at $1.75 to $13.50 a yard, these
being about the usual wholesale prices.
'(Fifth Floor, Market)
qualities. They have been designed for
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Bathing Suits at
Reduced Prices
For those who arc planning to spend
Labor Day and a few days thereafter
at the Shore, we have the following
special offerings in bnthing suits:
Women's Pacific Coast bathing suits,
from $2.50 to $7.
Men's and boys' fancy bathing jer
seys, $1.50 nnd $2.50.
(Onllrr.T, Central)
Leather Brief
Cases With a Business
like Air
The American business men aie live
wires, and it is important that any ac
cessory made for them should be up-to-the-minute
-in style, durability nnd
quality. These cases are! If you don't
need one right now, have an eye for
the future leather is becoming scarce!
In black or tan cowhide; 10 by 15 inch.
1 pocket JB ill by 16 lnrli
2 pockets 16 60 2 pnrl.pt J7 B0
3 pockets $7.50 ' .1 pockets f R 50
In pigskin, from $15 to $20.
(Mnifl Floor. Clipntnut)
10c to 50c Each for
Player-Piano Rolls
We are clearing away several thou
sand of these rolls, including every
class of music, all 88-note, suitable for
use on any modern player-piano. At 10c
to 50c each. They nre fractional in
price. '
(Egyptian Hull, Second Floor)
New One-Piece
Pajamas Women's
Flesh-colored crepe de chine pajamas
of refined and simple fashion are $7.50
and $10.50.
Pink crepe de chine with a lot of
white lace these are sleeveless are
$12.50.
Pink wash satin, $10.50 and $13.50.
(Third Floor. Ontrnl)
Reminder
frigerators, sewing machines, fire
place furnishings, enamel cqpking
utensils, aluminum ware, wooden
ware, bathroom fixtures, vacuum
cleaners, tinware, brushes, chamois,
dusters, mops, serving trays, casse
roles, almost beyond counting, every
thing a first-grade article and of
the highest quality and at distinct
and remarkable savings.
Besides which there will be many
hundreds of fine china and porce
lain dinner sets and pieces of jut
glass by thousands at notable re
ductions. These great Sales
open next Monday,
September 2.
Floor)
Upholstery Remnants
Various odd lengths of all kinds of
cretonies and chintzes and tapestries
at fractional prices. ,
Every clever housewife can find
something among these pieces to make
use of. ,
(Went Al.le)
Your Boy's New Fall
Suit Is Here
The first new Fall suits for boys are
fine, especially fine in modeling, fit and
detail.
We have often been told that "there
is something about our boys' clothing"
that is different from ana finer than
any other boys' clothing to be had.
That "something" is in these new Fall
suits, and no mistake.
They are of good woolens, well tai
lored and proportioned to insure the
kind of fit that gives a boy the smart
appearance that only a well-proportioned
suit can give him.
Norfolk styles in brown, gray and
greenish fancy mixed fabrics and in
blue serges.
Fancy suits, $13.50, $15, $16.50, $18
to $25.
Blue senre suits". S12 to $25.
Sizes in both groups 8 to 18 years.
Ill K..
of the
Two Days
The Man Who Said
"Tempns Is Fugiting"
was mixed in his Latin, but we know what he meant.
In the August Furniture Sale the goods are here, the op
portunities are golden, but time is flying and time never re
turns. ,
The time being so short, our statements should be very
plear.
For everybody with a home or an apartment in which
good furniture is needed, or likely to be needed in the future,
time was never more valuable than it is at this moment.
Every minute between now and store-close Friday evening
is of value, every minute is golden.
The opportunities to be offered between now and the
close of the August Furniture Sale are such as in all likelihood
cannot again present themselves in a very long period, perhaps
years.
Tomorrow and Friday you can choose from an unlimited
variety of the highest grade furniture made in America at
August Sale prices averaging about 30 per cent less than reg
ular markings.
You can choose from hundreds of odd pieces at half price
and these include some of the best examples of furniture
making to be found anywhere.
You will understand us when we say we have no half
price furniture to get rid of, but we have a very attractive
collection of odd pieces of Wanamaker furniture to sell at
half price.
Not one piece in the entire half-price collection can now
be bought at the factory for the price we have marked on it.
No matter how much furniture you may have, you cannot
say you have all you should have until you see the furniture
Some
$20 for a white enamel Colonial china
closet.
$37.50 for a mahogany and ivory
china closet.
$24 for a William and Mary brown
oak china closet.
$29.50 for a Jacobean brown oak
china closet.
$24 for a Queen Anne cathedral oak
china closet.
$27.50 for a Sheraton inlaid mahog
any china closet.
$13 for a Sheraton mahogany china
closet.
$31 for a Jacobean American walnut
china closet.
$5 for a Scotch gray Sheraton design
serving table.
$14 for a mahogany Adam design
serving table.
$11.23 for a mahogany Adam design
seiving table.
$21 for a mahogany William and
Mary design serving table. m
$12 for a mahogany claw-foot serv
ing table.
27 Pianos to Make Your
Choice From
Herewith is a list of pianos and player-pianos of exceptional merit
that should all be sold at once because of their much reduced prices in
the August Sale of Pianos.
We particularly recommend the fine reproducing instruments that
are mentioned at savings of $125 to $400. Many people have never
heard the Art-Trio and Ampico, which is the most wonderful musical
production of modern science.
We shall be very glad to demonstrate these fine instruments. Any
instrument in the list can be bought on convenient terms.
New Upright Pianos
Ori0inaly .Von' Urn inp
Lindcman (new) 31)0 $275 (35
Marshall & Wendell
(new) 325 280 45
Hnlnen Bros, (new) .... 375 2!5 80
Schomacker (new) 475 115 60
ChlckerlnR (new) 625 526 100
Player-Pianos
Lindcman Angelus (new) 550 51S 35
Chlckerlns Angelus
tl-ew) 1000 875 125
Chlekerlng Grand Player
Piano (new) 1250 976 276
Knabe Angelus Grand
(used) 1650 1200 450
Reproducing Instruments
(Electric Control)
Schomacker (new) 950 675 276
Haines Ampico (used).. 975 825 150
(Ktyptlani 1111.
Last Call for Men's Straw Hats 50c
A varied remaining collection, mostly small sizes, none over size 7.
Also a clearaway lot of men's and boys' caps and children's straw
hats, also at 50c.
(Mala Floor, Market)
IT'S called a trench lighter, hut It will
light anywhere and anything, no 'mat
ter how perverse the elements. 26c.
f.otidon Shop, uallery.)
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Send the limn In
T1TAKE It a habit!
slTX camp some candy
dv rrEuarlr: they
i can i get our candy everywnere, you
know. A box that Is especiall packed for
sailors and soldiers la J1.7B. Wain Floor,
Chestnut.)
NOW jthat officers of all branches of the
army are to wear IT. S on their col
lars, there has been a big rush for thej
to get. but we, at all times anxious to do
our bit for the military man, liae made the
effort and succeeded In getting a lot of
these U. S. collar devices In a beautiful
bronze at $1 a pair. (London Shop, Onllerv.)
DO you know the corner where our
postal' cards are? They are many, and
an i unlimited , assortment Is there.
Send them often to the man over there;
they smack so of the rood old U. 8. A.
August
to Choose Anything in the Sale at
Hundreds of Things at Half-Price
of the Hundreds of Odd Pieces at Half-Price
for the Dining Room
$11.50 for a mahogany Sheraton
design serving table.
$9 for a Jacobean blown oak serving
table.
$15 for a Jacobean figured walnut
serving table.
For the Bedroom
$4.50 for a golden oak Colonial
de-
sign night stand.
$7 for a mahogany Sheraton night
stand.
$17.50 for a mahogany carved col
umn night stand.
$12.50 for a mahogany inlaid Shera
ton night stand.
$7.50 for an American walnut claw
foot night stand.
$5.50 for a mahogany turned-leg
night stand.
$14 for a mahogany inlaid night
stand.
S24 for a mahogany Adam design
night stand.
$37 for an Adam mahogany tripli
cate mirror toilet table.
Cllh
Ortoiitnllu Sou' Sitl'to
I.lndeman Art-Trio (new) B50 son 150
Knubo Art-Trio (new).. 1300 976 325
rhlckerliiu Ampico
(uwtl) ..1350 1050 3ii0
Knnlie AmpIeiWjAiiow ) . 1350 1225 125
Schomacker Art-Trio
tlnind (new) 2050 1725 325
ChlckerlnR Ampico (Jrand
(used) 2300 1900 400
Used Upright Pianos
Wing $75
New England 91
Swlck 110
Pease 115
Webster 120
N'enbv & Evans 125
Krakauer 135
Pecker 15'
Chlekerlng- 160
Schomacker 185
Serontt Floor)
Wagons
So useful for the many things that Young America has been called
upon to do.
Made in Maing, where the wood is sturdiest, so they will stand any
amount of hard usage.
Roller-bearing coaster wagon, with or without detachable body,
hubs of pressed steel, heavy steel tires, jointed handle for coasting,
strong steel axles. In five sizes, $3.25, $5, $5.50, $6, $6.75.
Express wagons,"85c, $2 and $3.50.
Police patrol wagons, $12.50 and $17.50.
Wheelbarrows, 50c. to $2.50.
I t (8en' Floor,
Furniture Sale
you can buy at half price in this final clearaway.
But you will need to see it at once, for Friday evening
ends the sale, and your choice is only between now and then
or wait and pay 10 to 100 per cent more afterward.
$30 for a William and Mary ma
hogany toilet table.
$18.50 for an American walnut trip
licate mirror toilet table.
$29 for a Queen Anne Ameiican wal
nut toilet table.
$20 for a figured walnut Colonial de
sign toilet table.
$26 for a mahogany triplicate mirror
toilet table.
$94 for a mahogany French' Chip
pendale toilet table.
$32.50 for a mahogany Colonial de
sign cheval.
$33.50 for a mahogany Colonial do
sign cheval.
$26 for a walnut Empire design
cheval.
$24 for a walmit Colonial dchign
cheval.
$20.50 for a giay enamel Louis XVI
de.sign cheval.
$20 for an ivory enamel Sheiaton de
sign cheval.
$41 for a gray enamel and decorated
cheval.
$41 for an antique ivory cheval.
S37.50 for a single size enamel deco
rated and cane bed.
Floor)
Anxious to Show
Men's Exceedingly Fine New Silk
Shirts From Japan
Whether the "man about town" need', new silk .shirts just now or not,
we would be glad to have him come in nnd s-ce these we have just received
in order that he may better understand how finely silk shirts may be made
in Japan when the American merchant poes about it the ripht way.
The ordinary or garden variety of "export trade silk shirts" from
Japan is well known in this country. It is a fairly Rood .shirt, and that is
about all.
But these shirts were made fiom exceedingly line white Habutais,
selected by us in Japan, and were made by the most careful manufacturer
we could locate, after he had agreed to cut them over our patterns and to
accept our specifications without deviation.
The man evidently put his piide into the work, for these shirts are
among the most beautifully made we have ever seen. Please note the neat
and tailorlike manner in which the seam uie finished.
Please note also that in the pleated shirts the pleats "face out" instead
of facing in, as is usual in ready-made .shirts.
All in the shipment are white, and the prices aro $6 for the plain and
$6.50 for the pleated shirts.
(Main floor. Market)
Tomorrow and Next Day
of the Mattress Sale
On the first business day of September all our mattresses, pillows,
bolsters and springs will go back to the regular prices, some, in fact,
will be a little higher than they were before the sale began, owing to
a market advance in the meantime.
If you want to take advantage of the low prices obtaining in this
sale you will have to be here tomorrow or next day at latest, because
the sale positively ends Friday evening.
Vou have tomorrow and Friday to choose hair mattresses, cotton
mattresses, pillows, bolsters and bed springs at notable reductions in
price and a long time afterward to wait for the same opportunity. We
leave it to your own good sense to decide what to do:
(Mith Floor, Chrttnut)
and Wheelbarrows for the
Youngsters
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$63 for a pair of mahogany gold and
cane beds.
$29 for a walnut brown finish Louis
XVI bed.
$10 for a pair of mahogany Sheraton
bods.
Slfi for a mahogany full size slatted'
bed.
$33 for a full size mahogany bed.
$105 for a pair of inlaid Sheraton
ciotch mahogany beds.
$22.30 for an American walnut Wil
liam and Mary chiffonier.
$40 for a mahogany Queen Anne
chiffonier.
S37.50 for an enamel and decorated
chiffonier.
$32.50 for a mahogany Adam design
chiffonier.
SI5 for a mahogany Queen Anne
chiffonier.
$32.50 for an ivory enamel Adam de
t.ign chiffonier.
S39.50 for a white enamel, secret
diavter, Louis XVI chiffonier.
$57.50 for an ivory and decorated,
sepal ate toilet, chiffonier.
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