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Operators Taken by Surprise as
House Passes Measure to
Investigate Prices
HOPE TO BLOCK INQUIRY
Bu a Btaff CorrejHmlf
IMrrlKburiE, Feb. 8. - Anthracite
mining Interests In the state hare not
n up hope of heading off tho pro
rossd probe of the profits on hard coal.
The fnte of the Glass resolution now
lies with tho Senate, and tho coal In
terests plan a last desperate assault
to choke off the probe provision which
unexpcctedlr went sailing through the
House Ut night by a voto of 110 for
t0n8e7prM8entatlTe James A. Dunn. Phil.
idflphla, summed up the reason for the
wte for the resolution on the part pf
numbers who had been wHed upon to
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uopie arc iireu u i,... T . ..... .-.
flirt, ana ""-3 -!,:- ,,
gat tbls pronieenng mm Buuii"i
Lobbyists for the coal companies were
Interested spectators at the debate over
the resolution, which marked the first
fight In the House this s!on.
Representative Leopold C. Glass,
Philadelphia, author of the probe
ncuure, led the fight by calling It up
fur final paisage. Representative
nngh A. Dawson, of Scranton, coun
tered for the coal people by making a
motion to send tho resolution to the
appropriations committee "to help It
Try to Block Measure
Dtwson and other opponents of the
Mil staged their fight on the fact that
the resolution carried no appropriation
nd that the bill proposed by Glass
to appropriate $5000 to defray the ex
pense of the investigation was not suf
Members, from the bituminous regions
who had fought to have the probe applv
eoly to anthracite coal fought along with
members from the anthracite regions to
check the measure. They attempted to
plaj the old game of the disinterested
jierty by interrogating th resolution
tponjor.
representative Charles A. Baldl,
Philadelphia, a retail opal dealer. de
chrcd the retailers were not profiteer
ing. The representatives of the op
erators and miners took the same stand.
Glass retorted that, "operators pass
tho buck to the retailers and the re
tillers pass it back and the consumer
tisjs $1. to $10 a ton and is caught in
the middle." He declared the total
tost to the consumer in Philadelphia, in
cluding everything should be $10.52 a
ton aud that the consumer "wants to
know who gets the other $5."
Philadelphia Delegation for Probe
Friends of the bill offered to tnck a
hundred thousand dollar appropriation
on, if necessary, to probe the anthra
cite conditions thoroughly.
With the bill safely through the
IIou the main fight will be staged in
the Senate, which is 'mown as a con-
wrmm& public mbmimrn&vmtd Tuesday, febbttaby & 1021
'ft
crvftlvo body and tiot partial to lnven
ligations. The first fight will be to get
It out of committee, and much will de
pend on what committee it Is referred
to.
If tllfi hill lAmt mif nf vtv.mllft... Ik.
fight will be carried to the floor of the
ocuaic Advocates 01 me dim ore con
fident public opinion will force mem
bers of the Senate, as it did many mem
bers of the House, to vote for the reso
lution. The fact the Philadelphia delegation
tvnn nrflrtfonllv linWe.l tn .. ... -.
the bill threw considerable weight to
its support. Bmlnk, who lias the bill to
jirnue rem proiueenng J WMKer, llaldi
and Green, of tho rhllndclphia delega
tion. vntoH tn linlf iht. ...!.. rfl.. ...-
of thirty.scven other Philadelphlnw
nu nu luuituiiuu i me sentiment
"bnck home."
Philadelphia has eight members of
the Senate. If they fmccccd In getting
the bill to the floor of the Senate there
is certain to be enough members Join
to put the resolution through and as
sure the investigation, legislators slid.
KING ARRIVES IN SEAPLANE
Rex, of Mardl Qraa Revelers, Mod
ern In Hit ADDolntments
New Orleans, Feb. 8. (By A. P.)
xurougn sirccis accorated with banners
and bunting, Rex, ruler of Mardl Gras,
rode with his queen today, the parade
bringing to a climax the public fes
tivities incident to tho annual carnival
celebrations.
Bex, moro modern than usual, ar
rived at tho royal reception rooms from
a seaplane, the usual trip up the river
having been done away with. The
streets from early morning havo been
gay with maskers.
Reception to Assembly on March 15
Harrlsbnrg, Feb. 8. The Ilarrlsburg
Chamber of Comnvrco yesterday an
nounced Its biennial reception and din
ner for the members of the Legislature
will be held March 15. A short program
of addresses by state leaders Is being
arranged.
Prompt Action Will
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Every advertiser should read Sinclair Lewis'
"Main Street."
Gopher Prairie, Minn., is America.
The heroine wants to accomplish seven re
forms in seven minutes and it cannot be done.
Some manufacturers Carol Xennicott on a
national scale.
They would revolution' all our Main Streets
in a season or two and it cannot be done.
The prizes for national accomplishment con
tinue to go to the tortoises Campbell's Soups,
Ivory Soap, Colgate, Bon Ami and the like.
As one great advertising agent has it, "Keep,
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Business needs that
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3 1 ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY
Our Annual Winter Sale of Shoes Brings Still
Further Reductions From the New Lower Prices
Thousands of our customers will read with pleasure that our great Sale of all the remaining lots of Autumn and Winter
Shoes begins TO-MORROW. Both high and low Shoes, including many attractive lines of Pumps, Oxfords, Evening Slippers,
Boudoir Slippers and Spats in fact, a very great variety of standard and novelty Shoes for WOMEN, MEN AND CHILDREN will
be found here at prices that average not only far below the early-season prices, but far BELOW THE NEW LOWER PRICES, as
oasea on replacement cost or, trom UJNJbJ-TJtliKU to UNE-HALF BELOW LATE 1920 PRICES.
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In this Sale are many of the smartest models from Laird, Schober & Co.,
Kozak & McLaughlin and J. R. Newton & Co. new styles, novelty strap
effects, welted Pumps and Oxfords, and the various standard grades of high
Shoes. Equally attractive lines for men and children.
A Clearance!
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Our Entire
Stock of a
Boys'
Clothing
at Sweeping
Reductions
from the Prices
That Were Already
Greatly Reduced
Our entire stock already marked at trreatly reduced pricci, at
the beginning of the new year, and since augmented by purchanes
totaling about $50,000 (these lots having been marked at prices
determined by earlier reductions) this great all-Inclusive collec
tion is now marked at another general reduction. There's no doubt
but that the Clothing vril go quickly for tho clearance prices
Average One-half Former Prices
Suits, 7 to 10 Years$5J5
Suits that wero previously ?8.50 to ?10.00.
Suits, 8 to 18 Years $8.75
Of cheviot, many with double scat and knees.
Suits, 8 to 17 Years $10.50
Of dark mixtures. Now about half price.
I Jack o'Leather Suits $11.50
Half price for these leather-reinforced Suits.
Two-trousers Suits $10.75,
$15.75
These In sires for boys of 8 to 17 years.
Boys' Corduroy Suits $8.75
Ideal School Suits. Not nil sizes.
Small Boys' Overcoats $13.75
Fur-collar Overcoats. Sizes 3 to 8 years.
Junior Overcoats $8.75, $13.75
Sizes 6 to 11 years, at ?.75; 11 to 14 years, at $13.75.
High-Schoql Overcoats $18.75
Excellent Winter Overcoats for boys of 14 to 19 years.
Mackinaws$6.75 and $12.75
Neat woven styles, In sizes 8 to 18 years.
Wash Suits $1.65 and $2.95
Becoming styles for small bovs.
Small Boys' Novelty Suits
Many in combination of serge trousers with wash blouses now
SG.7G, $7.75 and $10.75.
Blue Serge Knickerbockers $2.65
Strawbrldre & Clothier Second Floor, Filbert Street, Eest
Every lot is an extraordinary value. Among them are Women's Low
Shoes that were originally $10.00 and $12.00, now $5.95 and $6.45; some that
were $14.00 and $16.00 are $9.75; High Shoes that were $15.00 to $18.00 are
$9.75; High Shoes that were $12.00 to $16.00 are $6.45.
$5.95
500 Pairs of Women's
Pumps and Oxfords
Smartest Welted-sole rumps and Uxiords; brown and biacK Kid
Oxfords; patent leather Pumps; glazed Kid Pumps with black satin
quarters ; tan calf and brown Kid Oxfords, and Pumps with brown kid
vamps and brown ooze quarters. From our regular stock. Wonderful
value.
Women's Smart Pumps, S6.45 Seamless
tyle, baby Louis heels ; gun-metal calf, patent leather
ind dark brown calf.
Women's Fine Pumps, $7.75 Patent leather
Lazuli Pumps; patent leather and tan calf seamless
Pumps, and other handsome styles.
Pumps and Oxfords, $9.75 Welted-sole low
hoes from Laird, Schober and other high-class
nanufacturers patent leather, gun-metal calf,
rown calf and cordovan many smart styles. Also
beautiful Turn-sole Pumps and Oxfords of the finest
nakes dark blue satin, blue suedo and brown Kid
Strap Pumps, black buckskin seamless Pumps, etc.
Original prices $14.00 to $16.00.
Women's High Shoes, $6.45 About half
ho average original prices. Tan calf, brown kid,
run-metal calf and black kidskin.
Women's High Shoes, $5.45 Black buckskin
with cloth tops, patent leather, lace, and other at-
rnctive styles. Half average original prices.
Women's High Shoes, $7.45 Tan calf, black
tid and patent leather, very smart models from
regular stock; extraordinary values.
Women's High Shoes, 59.75 Black satin,
'ace; field-mouse kidskin and brown kidskin, lace;
patent leather, lace, with fawn cloth tops. The fin
est in our stock formerly $15.00 to $18.00.
Felt Boudoir and House Slippers, $1.90
A variety of styles, worth much more.
Women's Spats, now $1.85 New patterns,
'rrht and dark fawn and dark gray; 10 buttons.
For Misses and Children
Children's tan leather lace Shoes, sites 8K to 11,
broad lasts, welted oak-tanned soles now t$3.45.
Misses' tan leather lace Shoes, sizes 11$ to 3,
broad toes, solid leather welted soles now 43.95.
Growing Girls' Shoes, patent leather, dull leather
and gun-metal calf, lac! now $7.75.
Misses' Shoes, with white tops, black leather, and
all-whltc now $2.45.
Children's Shoes, dark brown and tan; brown with
lighter shade tops, and black; nature-shape, solid
leather soles; all sizes, reduced to $3.75.
Misses' Shoes of brown or tan leather, broad toes,
oak-tanned soles reduced to $4.25.
Men's Shoes Reduced
Now $5.45 Tan Blucher Shoes, broad Munson
last, soft toes, extra tips, heavy welted soles.
Now $7.90 Dark tan English last lace Shoes,
heavy single soles, rubber heels.
Now $6.45 Tan grain Brogue Shoes, rubber
slip soles, full wing tips, perforated; 1920 price, $9.
Now $9.00 Tan calf, English last, and tan
grain Bluchers; 1920 price, $12.00.
Now $6.85 Dark tan and black, lace.
Now $7.75 Dark tan cordovan, and tan
leather Oxfords, English last.
Boys' Shoes now $3M
Dark tan English last, broad'toes nature-shape;
1920 prices, $5.00 and $5.50.
)-V Btrawbrldre & rimhler Klirhth nJ Fllloirt Streets
Save $1.00 on a Ticket
for Ten Manicures, $4
The usual price for a Mani
cure is 50c, but Tickets en
titling you to Ten Manicures
are $4.00. Flrtt Floor. Baloony
The American Home Diet
The book that answers the I
question, "What shall we have
for dinner?" And answers it to I
the satisfaction of housekeepers,
mothers, educators and doctors.
An unusual book by E. V. Mc
Collum and Nina Simmonds
$3.50. Strivrbrldce A ClotM
Seond Floor. FUUrl Street. W
33 per CentFrom Our Prices
Means a considerably greater reduction than the same percentage off of
the prices elsewhere, for the reason that all of our Furniture price-tickets
were new on January 1st, and every o no shows a lower-than-1920 price. The
greater part of our stock is subject to the 33 1-3 per cent, reduction, but
many pieces and suits have the 50 per cent reduction tags attached.
OUR GREA TESTFEBRUAR Y FURNITURE SALE
Every day since the Sale started the volume of business has been far
greater than that of the correspondin g day last year. The prices being verv
much lower than last year, this mean s a vastly large number of pieces sold
this year. NOW is the time to buy Furniture.
An excellent selection of Dinin g - room, Bedroom, Breakfast - room,
Living-room and Library Suits, Sun -parlor Suits and odd piecesTables,
Chairs, Rockers, Willow and Wickc r Furniture.
hr- Strawhrlilee & Clolhltr Furniture. Third Floor, Mll neditradi and HoJdlns, Fourlli Floor
Another Reduction in Prices
Of Women's Winter Coats
For an immediate clearance, all remaining lots of our Reduced
Winter Coats have been still further reduced. Sizes are broken,
but there is a good range of sizes in the different lots:
Dark Wool Velour Coats now $15.00
In good dark shade?, made in an attractive belted style, with fur
collar, and lined throughout. These were originally $25.00.
Several Smart Models in Coats now $20.00
Wool velour in black and colors, lined throughout with silk, somo
trimmed with stitching, all have fur collars. Formerly $27.50 to $30.00.
Attractive Coats and Dolmans now $25.00
Several attractive models, some fur-trimmed, including a good
sports model, with collar of natural raccoon. All silk-lined through
out. These were $35.00 to $40.00.
j, y Straw brldo t Cloihlei- Second Floor Onlro
Stamped Nainsook
Night Gowns, $1.00
Ready-made and stamped for
embroidered scallops; three de
signs at $1.00. Another style
finished with hemstitching and
stamped for embroidery $1.50.
Ptrawbrldio ClotM-r
Third Floor Mdrnoi Street
Famous Nemo
Self-Reducing
Lorsets
Three New t
Models '
54-inch All-Wool
Velours, at $3.50
Particularly desirable for
the new spnncr wraps, and for
the short little coats that
Fashion says will be worn
this spring with anything and
everything except tho most
formal costume. Soft, fine,
light in weight; in lovely
shades; width 54 inches
b rabrldffe I ilothrer -Aljle
7 Centre
$5
Another achievement added to
the Nemo list. Three new mod
els in famous Nemo Self-Reducing
Corsets, at $5.00 each. And
each is of that same high stand
ard of excellence in fabric, style,
workmanship and hgienic-stylc
features that have placed Nemo
Corsets far ahead.
Models 620, 622 and 626
Are of the low-bust tvpe so in
favor this season. Ench is
equipped with Nemo Self-Reducing
straps that mean comfort,
improved figure lines and reduc
tion of flesh oer the abdomen
$5.00.
Nemo Model 320 $6.50
A fa orito model in Self -Reducing
Corsets, of white coutil, long
over the hips and medium bust.
Nemo Model 102 7.75
Self-Reducing Corsets, heavily
boned, with rubber section in the
hack. Low bust and medium hips.
Nemo Model 51457.00
A KopService model, of pink
couttl, with long hips, graduating
front clasp, elastic at the bust, at
the sides and back of the bkirt.
. 6trabrdi. 6 Clothlor
Third Woor. Mrkef Stroet, Weet
Women's Inexpensive
Undergarments
In Larger Sizes
And they are all correctly pro
portioned and nicely made:
Night Gowns, $1.75 Of
long cloth, with set-in sleeves and
neat embroidery trimming. Other
styles, more elitboratcly trimmed
$2 50 to $7.50.
Envelope Chemise $1.25
Trimmed with lace und em
broidery. Various other models
$1.50 to $3.50.
Corset Covers, 75c Dain-tily-trimmed
model of nainsook.
Other Corset Covers, $1.25 to $3.
Petticoats, $3.00 Of long
cloth with ruffle of blind embroid
ery Others $2.05 to $7.50.
Drawers, 75c Of cambric,
embroidery-trimmed. Others 8Gc
to $3.00.
Bloomers, $2.25 Of flesh
color batiste, trimmed with lace
and satin. Others $2.75 to $3.50.
ntrawbrtdsa A Clothier
Third Floor. Wel
STRAWBRIDGE &
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Market Street Eighth Street
Filbert Street
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