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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1919
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Organ P 9, li, 11:65 WANAMAKER'S Store Opens at 9 WANAMAKER'S Store Closes at 5 WANAM AKER'S ' f
Chlmet at Noon
le Pleasantest Place in the City on a Gloomy, Rainy Day
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Coming Down the Free
Turnpike of Old York Road
a few mornings ago, a heavy fog made it
seem as if we were driving through a snow
bank.
Not all the brooms in Philadelphia could
have swept it away.
A four-horse hay wagon slowy crept
through it, and we followed along, both of us
half blinded and in danger of a motor
running us down coming from the opposite
direction.
There is a way through obstacles if Ave
are determined to find it.
Necessity is a powerful axe to cut the
way through every kind of log.
It is a wonder to everybody, including
ourselves, how we have ever been able,
in these times, to keep our stocks of
merchandise so full.
Signed
July S2, 1919.
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New Shipment of Good Silk
Specially Priced
$2.10 a yard for light-weight satin in black and desirable
colors.
$2.10 a yard for taffeta silk of unusual quality for the price.
Plenty of black and navy blue, plenty of white for Summer use,
and a good assortment of light and dark colors. '
Both are a yard wide; both are unusual for the price, and
so far as we know are unequaled in town at the price. And
both are most practical for present needs and for Autumn use
as well.
(West Aisle)
35 Women's Fine Novelty Coats
Reduced, Now $50, $75 and $95
In some instances these are actually half of the original
prices, and in every instance the saving is very substantial
the more so as this is a second reduction.
They are all novelty pieces of the richest duvetyne, of
paulette and knitted wool ; some of the colors are vivid and
relieved by contrasting trimmings of brushed wool ; some of
them are quiet. Often the trimmings are of fur mole,
kolinsky or gray squirrel. Linings usually are of plain crepe
de chine.
Prices $50, $75 and $95.
(First Floor, Central)
Blue Serge Frocks for Autumn
Are Here And Young
Womei Are Buying Them
Young wome on the way to the shore or the mountains', girls
passing through '.he city as well as stay-at-home folks who know
that sometimes the first frocks are particularly attractive, have
discovered that corner of the Salon where the new frocks are kept,
and already many dresses have gone out.
They are of firm, wool serge, all in dark blue. Many are
richly braided with glistening, black silk braid. Many are em
broidered, for embroidery seems to be an Autumn fashion. And
some show a touch of color maroon or gold and are among the
prettiest frocks we've had to show you in a long while.
And there's nothing more useful than a blue serge dress!
, $32.50 to $57.5014 to 20 year sizes.
(Second Floor, Chrstnnt)
Noiv Paris Sends Sports Dresses
or Knitted Wool &
'The women of Paris and London
have taken up this new style with en
thusiasm. The dresses are good look
ing as well as practical for street and
sports wear.
In this little advance shipment are
two models only.
One' at $50 is a one-piece dress in
camel, silver or peacock blue, with
contrasting embroidery.
The other, at $75, is a two-piece
suit, the skirt in pleated effect, in
camel trimmed with peacock blue and
fawn trimmed with old rose.
(Sweater Store, First Floor, Market)
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Young Women's Jersey Suits
Specially Priced
$22.50 to $27.50 which is quite a change from their
first prices.
All in the much-liked sports styles well tailored, youth
ful and becoming.
Bright colors and more subdued shades.
And such conservative, practical suits you'll find them
excellent investments at their present prices.
14 to 20 year sjzes. ,
(Second Floor, Cheatnnt)
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Suits of imported fabrics such as Harris and
Ailsa homespuns, and Scotch tweeds are made for
$85 upwards.
Coats of the same materials and English covert
besides, aie $60 upwards.
Capes stait at $65.
Hiding habits of coricct English cut, and of cloth';
as well as Summer fabrics, tait at $65 for linen
crash.
Soft suede coatees in beautiful colors, some fur
trimmed, are $75.
Golfing costumes, $90 upwaid.
English scarfs of wool or silk start at $8.50.
(The r.nllerj, (lirMnilM
75 Women's Tricolette
Dresses Reduced to $50 Each
They are coat dresses in
light and dark colors black
and taupe jostling the lovely
pinks and tans and golden
yellows, also in some in
stances colored tunics go
with white skirts.
Also the styles are many
too many to describe ; and
sometimes the tricolette is
of the drop-stitch variety.
Tomorrow's price means a
saving of $7.50 to $10 on
each frock.
(First rloor, Central)
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L. R. Corsets
for slender women and grow
ing girls.
An Empire girdle which is
hardly more than a belt, be
ing topless, and very short
below the waist, $1.25.
A model for tall, slender
figures. It has a low bust,
four patent fasteners at the
top and a clasp below the
waist, $2.50.
A topless of broche with
elastic section at the waist
and considerable length over
the hips, $3.
A fancy pink batiste, short
skirt with low bust, elastic
gores and patent fasteners
at the top. $4.50.
A white batiste with broad
elastic waist band and short
skirt, $4.
A topless model with elas
tic at waist and long skirt,
made of batiste, $3.50. The
same of pink satin, $5.
Pink satin made topless
and with short skirt, $3.50.
(Third 1 loor, rheatniit)
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Voile Waists Again
Unquestionably voile is the
favorite material for all
white waists, and especially
when the owner thereof pre
fers something that doesn't
crumple badly.
An imported voile with a
lace edge is $6.
Another with a trifle of
hand embroidery upon it is
$3.50.
A third with lace-edged
ruffles is $3.
A shallow-necked affair
with a pleated neck frill is
$2.50
(Third Floor, Centrnl)
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Now It's "Ostrich
Leather" Card
Cases and Such
A soft, plastic leather made
out of ostrich kin and colored
a rich brown. It is new and is
certain to become very popular.
Card cases, hip books, cigar
ette cases, match cases, pocket
books and portfolios, many
trimmed with 1 1 kt. gold.
Price", $5 to $18.-
(Mnln I lmr, Chmtntit)
Fine Nightgowns
From the Philippines,
Nightgowns charmingly
hand scalloped, hand em
broidered and hand made;
cut with kimono sleeves and
low necks and deep hems.
Three styles $3.50, $3.75
and $3.85.
(Third Floor, Central)
The -Shoes Women
Want for Walking
Low or medium heel ox
fords are best suited to the
tramps that have become so
popular. We have a large
stock of them.
At $6 black glazed kid
skin with full round toe and
low heel ; black and dark tan
calfskin bluchers with round
toes and low heels; black
calfskin straight lace with
imitation wing tip and mili
tary heel.
At $8 black and dark tan
calfskin with indicated wing
tips and military heels and
dark tan calfskin with
straight tip.
At $9 black glazed kid
skin and mahogany color
calfskin with full toes and
low heels.
At $9.50 cordovan with
wing tip and low heel.
At $12 black and mahog
any color calfskin with in
dicated wing tip and military
heel.
At $13 Norwegian calf
skin with wing tip and low
heel and tan calfskin with in
dicated wing tip and military
heel.
(First Floor, Market)
That Yearly Sale of
Cotton Remnants
which started Monday with
25,000 yards of goods is go
ing on at a rate which sur
prises even us. Women came
in despite the "wee bit moist
ness" of the weather and
bought right and left.
The remnants are all of
fashionable materials, such
as are correct for children's
dresses, small boys' suits,
women's blouses and skirts
and even whole dresses.
Prices, 12: to $1 a yard.
Savings a third to a half.
(Flrt Floor, Chestnut)
Cooling,
Comforting
Honfleur Specials
A new lot, fresh from our
laboratories, of the pure good
Honfleur toilet preparations
Skin cream, 35c.
Youth and Beauty cream,
35c.
Talcum powder, voilet, rose
and 1'Empire, 10c.
Face powder, violet, rose and
1'Empire, 25c.
Extract, 40c and 60c, violet,
rose and 1'Empire.
foilet water in violet and
1'Empire, 45c and 85c.
(Vet AUle)
It Is a Good Thing to Know That This
Coming August Furniture Sale
will reflect the best principles of craftsmanship and art as
applied to cabinet making, but it is only natural for people
to feel a special'eagerness to know just what the Sale will
mean in an economical or dollar-and-cent way.
That is exactly what we want to tell them today.
Writing from first-hand acquaintance with the quanti
ties and kinds of furniture that will be comprised in it. we
feel fully justified in saying that this is going to be a Sale
of surpassing advantage to everybody who will need furni
ture for many months, perhaps years to come.
Furniture Prices at the
Workshops Are Going
to Remain High
A morning newspaper of the date on which this is
written prints an authoritative statement regarding condi
tions, in the lumber business. The substance of it is that
materials are scarce and that prices are likely to rule high
or go higher for three to five more years.
That is a prediction, and predictions are not always
reliable, but we believe that this one is based on pretty
reasonable grounds. Undoubtedly the last four years have
depleted the world's supply of lumber to an abnormal extent
and it will take a long time before there will be much relief.
In view of the future to which this points, the coming
August Sale has an investment significance such as no other
Sale could have had. Comparatively speaking, it will bring
investment opportunities such as no other Sale could have
brought. All the furniture to be offered in it was secured
when market prices were considerably lower than they are
now. Even within the past few weeks the very makes of
furniture which are in it have been advanced at the work
shops. A saving of even 10 per cent will mean more in this
Sale than a saving of 20 per cent at ordinary times. We do
not need to print statements of this kind to make people
buy our furniture; but the people do need to be correctly
informed of conditions and prospects in the furniture market,
so as to be able to come to an intelligent decision as to what
to do.
It Will Pay to Buy Your
Furniture Here and Now
From all the knowledge that we possess of the furniture
market and of the stock of furniture now in our possession.
New Books
"The Nifiht Operator." by
Kiank L. Packaid, $1.50. All
ot h e r breathless aihenture
story, this time with a little
wild cat of a train-boy in it.
"One of Three," by Clitloid
Raymond, $1.50. A mjstciy
story reminiscent of Babac in
plot and setting.
(Main Floor, Thirteenth)
Pique Beach Hats
for the Kiddies
When the sun does shine,
hats like these are a comfort
to the youngsters who weal
th em.
They're becoming and
may be popped into the tub
when thev need it.
$3.25 and $3.752 to 6
year sizes.
(Third Floor, Chmtnnt)
303. $13.23
30x3, $16.87
323, $19.73
31x4, $26.30
32.4r $26.78
33x4, $28.13
3tx4, $28.77
32x4':., $36.44
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33x4, $37.47
34x4. $38.77
354, $40.56
375,
Chestnut)
wui these suits are all-wool
and in the comfortable one
piece style.
There is blue, gray, tan
(Thlril Floor, rhrntiiut)
6000-Mile Diamond Tires
at Special Prices
These are good tires, nationally known, with Squeegee
tread, and they came to us with a 6000-mile adjustment guar
antee. Prices include the Government tax.
364, $41.13
33o, $44'.81
35x5, $47.52
$50.13
New Tapestry Rugs Enter
the July Rug Sale
All priced much below regular, as any one familiar with i
rug prices will see.
6x9 ft., $16.50 8.3x10.6 ft., $31.50 j
9x12 ft., $32.50
Other good investments in year-round rugs in the sale I
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Wilton Rugs
9x12 ft., $67.50 and $75 i
8.3x10.6 ft., $57.50 and $72.50
Axminster Rugs
9x12 ft., $39
8.3x10.6 ft., $37.50 ,
(Setenth Floor, Chctnut)
Most Mothers Want Wool
Bathing Suits for Children
or maroon worsted; these
are 2 to 6 year sizes, and
suits withbut sleeves are
$3.25 and with sleeves $3.75.
IF YOU don't want a cover for a glass tumbler at any
other time, you want it at night in murky, weather when
flies are rife. Little wooden lids and coasters to match
are 35c the pair in the Oriental Store.
we can assure our customers that it trill pay them to buy
furniture now and to buij it in this August Sale.
Many people will wonder how we have been able to
get enough goods to hold a Wanamaker Sale, considering
that among furniture stores generally there is something
like a mild panic owing to scarcity of supplies.
Visitors to this Sale will wonder still more when they
see the stocks that are back of it.
At This Writing We Have 15,080
Pieces on the Floors
This is no guesswork, but the result of an actual count
of which we were witness. While the count was being made,
hundreds of new pieces were being unloaded from the freight
elevators, s kvSxse shall start the Sale with floor samples
alone numbering more than 16.000 pieces, nearly all of which
have one to fifty pieces of a kind back of them in the ware
house. The upshot of it is that the goods are here and the
goods are right. They will make a fine sight for all our
friends to see next Monday morning, the first of
Four Days of Courtesy
and Inspection
Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday, July 28, 29,
30 and 31.
All orders placed on any one of these days will date from
August 1st.
So Many Men With
Crumpled Clothes
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Eight mortal days of rain, hard rain, was
bound to bring every man's clothing to the test.
Even with the best of care, every man got
wet at least a little every day of it, and had
to change to another suit and get that wet.
And so on for eight days !
It brought the clothing to the test.
Even the best suit ever made has to be
pressed after a good wetting.
The good suit comes straight back to its
form as good as ever.
Unshrunken, unrumpled, unpuckered, un
folded. But not the other kind: not the half-cotton;
not the bargain-store suit.
As many a man knows today.
There will be other rainy spells; be ready for
them with Wanamaker, all-wool, standard-of-the-world
clothing.
It costs no more than the cheating kind.
(Third Moor, Market)
Crepe de Chine Makes Men
Cool Summer Shirts
So thin and light that a man scarcely knows he has
a shirt on.
We have crepe de chine shirts in plain white, cream
color and fancy stripes of all colors.
The price is $8.
(Main Floor. Mnrket)
Men's Handkerchiefs
$3.50 a Dozen
Good, sturdy, Irish linen in every one, too. Per
fectly plain, with neat hemstitched hems 3t)c apiece,
$3.50 a dozen. ,
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