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Gimbel Brothers
Store Opens at 9
For Tomorrow, Saturday
store Closes 5:80 Gimbel Brothers
Friday. December fi. 1918
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Men's Real Winter Clothing Intensified Values
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Camp Meade, Md., Dec. 6.
Because the War Department has
established ai a policy that no selected
Mcnnonlte bo forced under m'lltary
order to wear the uniform of the army,
either before or after his assignment to
noncombatant service, Private Samuel
V. Barkdoll, of the Auxiliary Remount
Depot, will not spend the next twenty
five years of his Ufa at hard labor In
the disciplinary barracks at Kort
Leavenworth, Kan. Tho question of rai
ment Is one of the tenets of the Men
nonlte faith, and for this reason tho
War Department has formulated this
policy In dealing with men of this faith
who were selected for service In tho
army.
Barkdoll was one of many objectors
assigned to noncombatant service. Llko
"the rest ha refused to don tho uniform
when ordered to do so by Lieutenant
Whippier. When he was arraigned bo
fore a general court-martial he pleaded
not guilty of any breach of the regula
tions, because of his "religion He was
found guilty and sentenced, but tho
reviewing authorities remitted tho sen
tence. Four soldiers who were prisoners In
the stockade and who attempted to dig
themselves to liberty late In August have
been sen, enced to long periods of con
'flnement In the disciplinary barracks at
Fort Jay, N. Y. Tho men are Private
Earl W. Carlson, 337th Machine Shop
Truck unit of the quartermaster corps;
general prisoners James Richardson and
John T. Hurley, and Private William
Isenberg, of tho Fifth Company of the
lB4th Depob Brigade. Carlson was sen
tenced to serve five years, and becauso
of previous convictions each of the
others will serve .en years.
CECIL TO BACK LEAGUE
Chosen to Head British Section to
Deal With Question i
London, Dec. 6. Lord Robert Cecil,
former Assistant Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, has been asked by the
Government to take chaigo of the Brit
ish section of the peace congress which
Is to deal with Uie question of a league
of nations.
Lord Robert Cecil made this an
nouncement last night In a speech at
Letchworth:
"I very cordially accepted the Invita
tion," he said "There Is no better work
I would readily do for my country than
to get up the British case and state it
at this conference In favor of the great
est political and social reform It Is pos
sible to achieve In the Interest of mankind."
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P&&ffl& SECOSD FLOOR 5!K'1
Big Sale oi Holiday
Shoes,Slippers,Boots
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8000 Pair
Women's Shoes
2.95
to $5.95
Samples and War
purchase of leading
mattes over to or
the most wanted
styles to choose from
In toigh and low heels.
All sizes and widths
In the assortment.
Women's hpat Pumps
$3.45 to $4.95
Heal smart looking with
Ions: vamps and hiRh French
heels Sl7es 1 to 8, AA and
AAA to L,
Well Tailored
Sp t
In the wanted shades
$1.49 ani $1.98
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6000 Pr. Women's Jul cts
(s, and Slippers
25 aM9
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Good grade
of felt. In
brown, cray
black & red.
Children's Felt Juliets
Sizes 6 to 11 Qo
And 11 to 2, $149. 70C
Boys and Giis'
Hiffh Cut S orm
Shoes, $2.29
Tha rhiMrtn'a Am-
light, with etrapa and
buckle; in black
Slzea 10 to 1-1'i and
i.to S2.79
Boys High Cut Storm
Shoes, $3.95 '
Tan Chroma Uather. Pull Bellowa
Tongue atrapa and bucklea. Sliea to 8V4,
2000 Pair Men's Hoi day
s.ippers,$i49
to $2.95
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Tan and black Kid Homeo. Eeretts &
Operas. Alio Felt Slippers and Itomeos
6000PairMen'sShoes
2-95 to $5.95
R $
Samples and Spe
cial lota of lead
ln makes. Over
40 of tho most
wanted ntyles to
choose from In
Ounmetal Calf,
alcnts Tana and
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Boies, All tilzea, (
Gimbel Toy Store Is
Planned and Manned
By Lovers of Children
They know boyish and girlish tastes they have a
heart for your pleasures and longings.
The toys and games and guns and building things
and so on, have zest to them.
And you are to come here freely and just as often
as you can. It's worth a hundred-mile trip to any boy
or girl.
It's the sort of a store you would plan, if you were
a man and planning one.
We want your bright eyes to sparkle; your brain
to grasp the fun that lies in the things we offer.
Come, see Santa Claus or telephone him from your
home.
Come, little folks, and ride the Shetland ponies.
The facilities of the Store are gaited to the great
, business you are bringing in.
Come at your convenience and expect exact and
careful service.
Please quicken the closing of transactions by
showing your Gimbel Shopping Coin it authorizes
instant counter delivery, and the sending of goods to
other than your address as in the case of a gift.
Gimbel Clothing Sales This Year Have Set New High Records in Every Month
The Store is gathering friends from all quarters.
Gimbel clothing has been kept honest on your old fine standard of demanding pure wool and fast colors. In this the Store had almost no rivals.
And more this all-wool clothing has been continuously developed in the upstanding styles that military life has made men demand. Herein Girtbels have
no rival.
All this time we have been piling in stocks until now we are justifie i in starting ,
A Sale Based on More Value at Each Price
Every garment in each of these three groups has been reduced
Overcoats and Suits at $22.50, $28.50 and $37.50
which means that the poorest pick you could make would still mean
A Saving of a Fourth- On a Liberal Few the Savings Run Almost to Half
Every coat is full silk-lined, or half-lined, or quarter-lined with silk. Every coat has guaranteed Skinner silk sleeve linings.
"Society Brand" and "Kuppenheimer" Suits and Overcoats in the Group at $37.50
Overcoat Fabrics Worumbo Overcoat
ings, Plaid-back Overcoatings, Hocka
num Overcoatings, Germania Overcoat
ings, Woronoco Overcoatings, Wilson
Overcoatings, Metcalf Overcoatings,
Allen Overcoatings.
Suit Materials Silk Mixtures, Worsteds,
Serges, Cheviots, Tweeds, Homespuns,
English Worsteds.
Suit Styles Conservative, Semi-Conservative,
Young Men's Ultra Models,
Double-breasted, Single-breasted, Gre
nadier (5-seam back).
In the Second-floor section we have held to real all-wool fabrics.
Overcoat Styles Single- and Double
breasted Box, Body-fitting, Ulsterettes,
Ulsters, Great Coats, Chesterfield with
self and velvet collars and convertible
and ulster collars.
Pockets Plain, Patch, Slash, Crescent,
Bellows, Open Welt.
-Gimbels, Second floor, Ninth Street
Women's Finer Kind of Stylish,
Warm Winter Coats
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Save a Third of Early Season Prices
Because makers' stocks of fine coatings are being cut up and
converted into cash as quickly as possible due, of course, to Peace
changes. Five Hundred Coats at $35 Save $15
Pompom-bolivia and sucde-kersey. In the smart style pictured. In black,
taupe, brown and blue. Lined. Warmly interlined. With immense storm col
lars of skunk-dyed opossum.
Baffin Seal-Plush Coats at $75, $79.75, $89.75, $115 and $125
Save $25 to $75
The "big story" about them the huge collars and cuffs and the deep
borders of skunk-dyed opossum. One style with fine beaver-fur, at $125.
Bolivia Coats at $48.50 and $55
Silvertone Coats at $35 and $48.50
Collar and all of the do luxe fabrics.
Or with storm or shawl collars of natural raccoon, nutria, skunk-dyed
opossum, seal-dyed coney, variously at $47.50, $55 and $58.50.
Fur-Fabric Coatees Plain or Fur-Trimmed
at $27.50 to $48.50
Variously of silk-plush, broadtail-fur-fabric and beaver fur-fabric.
And 2000 Thoroughly Good Coats
All at $25
A thousand specially bought. A thousand taken right from our own
stocks. Plain or with big fur collars. Blnck and all street shades. Wool
velour, kersey, cheviot and overseas coatings. ,...
Gimbels, Salons of Dress, Third floor.
Men's Silk and Knitted Gift
Neckwear
Gimbels is a man's store
no doubt about it. Full
of the new things men buy
for themselves because
bought by men who know.
Seemingly no end to the
choice in these new Four-in-hands
Silk Ties, at 65c, 75c, $1, $1.50, $2 and $2.50
Knitted Ties, at 65c, $1.25, $1.50, $2 and $2.50
OTHER ( House Coats at $5 to $13.50.
-wr'T'o Men's Canes at $1 to $50.
Glr lb Men's Umbrellas at $1.50 to $25.
Gimbels, First floor, Ninth Street.
American "Sheffield Plate" Silver
Tea-Services at $35 to $89
One of the most popular gifts this Silver Store is selling husbands
to surprise ( ?) wives with Christmas morning.
Five-piece Sets. In Colonial, Adam and favorite French period
styles.
In two "finishes." platinum-effect, chased; and high-polished
engraved.
At $35, $50.75, $55.75, $64.50, $79.50, $82.75 and $89
Special Sheffield Baking-Dishes at $5.50
Perfectly plain and high-polished (and we'll engrave a script letter
without extra charge).
Yes, there's the piactlcal agate dish inside.
Gimbels, First floor.
Famous Books, Now 35c
Though All in the Original $1.50 Editions
A partial list of the titles' and every book-lover will recognize how
famous both books aud authois are
"Picadilly Jim," by P. G. Wodehouse.
"My Wife's Hidden Life."
"Burkeses Army," by Julio M. Lippman.
"The Taster of Apples," by Jennctte Lee.
"The High Hand," by Jacques Futrelle.
"Lady Rose's Daughter," by Mrs. Humphry Ward.
"The Marriage of William Ashe," by Mrs. Humphry Ward.
"The Call of the Blood," by Robert Hichens.
"The Reef," by Edith Wharton.
"The Fetters of Freedom," by Cyrus Townsend Brady.
"Sally Salt," by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow.
"The Awakening of Helena Richie," by Margaret Deland.
"Storm," by Wilbur Daniel Steele.
"Vergilius," by Irving Bacheller.
"Love and Lucy," by Maurice Hewlett.
"Dollars and Cents," by Albert Paytfon Terhune.
"The Little Nugget," by P. G. Wodehouse.
Gimbels, First floor.
jT-O' BATUBDAY EYJJNJNa r-1
Silk Socks for the Man
You Want to Give
Something Specially Nice"
Silk, of course dyed-in-the-skein, which means greater
strength and weight and luster. Full-fashioned. Black and
colors
All-silk at $2. With extra foot and top at $1.50.
And Silk Socks a bit gay for the "young fellows."
Plaids and vertical stripes. Greens and blues and champagnes
and black with gray-Bhot effects. At $1 a pair.
Gimbels, First floor.
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Girls' Winter Coats
Now at $15, $19.75 and $21.75
That Belong at Higher Prices
Whether the girl is to have her new coat before Christ
masit should be selected from these three price groups.
Girls' Tailored Coats in the $15 group of heavy coatings.
Some with brass buttons that denote the navy. Many other
styles. In 8- to 14-year sizes.
Many, many styles at $19.75. They are of velours and plushes. A
particularly pretty model is trimmed and banded in kerami. Bright
colors. For ages 8 to 14 years.
Unusual "lines" and quality fabrics characterize these girls' winter
Coats at $21.75. Dross shades including the new aeroplane blue and
tans. In 8- to 14-year sizes.
Misses' Smart Style Dresses at $15, $22.50 and $29.75
Practical business or "college" Dresses of serge and jersey as well
as the dressy types of satin and Georgette. Newest fashions and colors.
For ages 14 to 20 years.
Misses' Dress Coata at $35, $45 and $55
Of soft, warm velour and silvei tones. Fur-trimmed mostly.
Lovely colorings. In 14- to 20-year sizes.
Gimbels, Salons of Dress, Third floor.
Sale of Waists-Unprecedented Values
At $3.95 and $5
Georgette waists and crepes de chine in sale's group.
Suit colors and the dainty, lovely pinks and white.
Tailored models and styles embroidered in silk or beads ; in one
or two or even more ! colors.
Twenty-two Styles, $3.95 I Ten Styles at $5
Salons of Dress, Third floor. ' First and Third floors.
J?oor'fc -Make "Service Blouses"
Worn wherever the tailor-made woman goes
In navy blue Crepe de Chine
at $9.
In navy soisette at $5
In striped fbnnelet at $2, S3
At 55
and $5.95.
In navy blue pongee silk at
S3.
In black poplin at $2.
Gimbels, Salons of Diess, Third floor.
Nifty Styles in These
Large Boys' Overcoats
At $15, $17.50, $20, $22.50 Up to $30
Boys of 12 to 18 begin to give more and more thought to appear
anceto clothes. These double-breasted Overcoats have that mannish
look that suggests grown-up styles; convertible collar, belt back. At
?15 to $30. A gift?
Polo Model in Boys' Junior OvercoaU, $8.75 to $17.50
Double-breasted; all-around belt with buckle; convertible (button-up)
collar. Fancy overcoatings.
Boys' Norfolk Suits, $10, $11, $12.50
Extra Trousers; Both Pairs Lined.
Natty military models; fancy mixtures, slash-pockets, all-around
belt, with buckle. $10, $11 and $12.50.
Sale of 2700 Wash Suits : 2y2 to 10 Years : At $2.85
Sample Suits and surplus lots from the Manhattan Wash Suit Ci
Wanted materials, newest models. $2.85.
Gimbels, Philadelphia, Third floor.
Men Want Watches That
Keep Time to the Second
And the watches we are selling oftcnest this Christmas are
Howard Watches in Any the Four "Period Designs"
' Augustan, Victorian, Ionic and Tudor
In 14-K. solid-gold cases.
17-jeweled movement, at $65 and $75.
19-jeweled movement, at $90.
In 25-year gold-filled cases.
17-jeweled movement, at $50.
23-jeweled movement, at $90.
WALTHAM AND ELGIN
14-K. solid-gold all the new models.
7-jeweled, at $20. $25 and $30.
15-jeweled, at $30, $35, $38, $42 and $18.
17-jeweled, at $35, $40, $15, $50 and $55.
19-jeweled in unusually massive cases $70 and $75.
21-jeweled, Riverside maximus, at $95.
THE NEW STREAMLINE ELGIN
14-K. solid-gold, 17-jeweled, at $50.
21-jeweled Elgin, at $70.
Gimbels, Philadelphia, Jewelry Store, First floor.
Give GOOD Candy
,For Christmas
Cheap confections don't taste like Gimbel candies.
Gimbel Candy Specials
Chocolate-covered Butter Straws at 65c lb.
Chocolate-covered Honeycomb at GOc lb.
Chocolate-coveied Peanut Buttercups at 50c lb.
Old-fashioned Gum Drops at 45c lb.
Old-fashioned Mint Plait at 40c lb.
Gimbels, Philadelphia, Chestnut St. Annex and Subway Store.
Women's Comfy Slippers
At $1.75
Plain tailored with just a "cut-out" of felt
stitched on the vnmn. But nothintr plain about
the colors warm pmk and wine shades and blues
an dlavenders. At $1.75.
Gimbels, First and Second floors.
Every Housekeeper Should Be Desirous of
Equipping Her Kitchen Entirely With
Aluminum Cooking Utensils
Combination Aluminum
i ffr r'tL J Double Rice Boikr nnd
1000 Gifts i Sauce Pan $1.50
Lat
Chance to start or to add to somebody's
equipment by tivinpr one of these convenient
Combination Rice Boilers and Sauce Pans
(same lid fits both) of aluminum at $1.50.
UnlTermil Klec
(rlo HeatliiE Tailt,
three heats, gray
eiderdown covers,
alze 15x1!. com
plete with 10 ft
of silk cord and
Hubbell lamp soc
ket plug, at 10.50.
UnaJrHl 5l'o- vA
irle OMlte' l'erco- rrZ .
Intqaf choice of BHQViMt
nlclJPJ or copper AT " mvt
fliuSfT'ebony hnn- In
dies complete with 11 I kAF
cord and pluit. live- L f Ih Umr
cup size, tio.ooj U Ijf
sevf n-cup h i z e , Sri- mJ "
J 11.00, nnd nine- mtwi
cup slza nt su.oo. fcJLS
The Famous UsU Stlf-btln
Enamel nost I"nns (alio lined for
preserving and canning;), recom
mended and approved by the Good
Iloutekeepern' Institute. 0 lit. aim at
SS.50I B-lb. at fS.TSf 13-lb. gtu at IS)
tO-lb. nil at 13.50.
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Klectrle Four-Heat Grill, a com
plete cooking appliance wherein the
heat can be regulated at will, and
where you can boll, fry, toast or stew
perfectly, complete cooking pans and,
six feet of cord, at 19.80,
Gimbels, Fourth floor
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Subway Store Sale of 3600 "Rejects" of
Men's "Fifty-Fifty" Army Under
wear : Half Wool Half Cotton
At $1.50 a Garment
Nobody more particular than "Uncle
Sam" things must bo exactly according
to specifications ; and although (as in these
Shirts and Drawers) the matter may be
entirely immaterial, the Government in
spectors have no option: Goods MUST
conform or they are rejected.
Made for long service for soldier wear.
Shirts are "pull-over" style, with long
sleeves. More Drawers than Shirts good
idea to buy two pairs with each shirt.
Half wool, half cotton at $1.50 a gar
ment! Gimbels, Subway Store
SALE OF 2700 PAIRS OF
Misses' and Children's Shoes
At $1.65 and $1.95
We took the maker's lcmainder stocks of these Shoes for mitses and children.
Black jrunmetal and dark tan; lace and button; broad toes; will give good service.
Sizes 5 to 8 at $1.65 Sizes 82 to 2 at $1.95
BOYS' SHOES, sizes 10 to 13V2, at $2.25
' Gimbels, Subway Store
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