' j I , 1 !,", r "..,. - -f T t.j'l'ii " l .". v ..!' ' . ', v. 'Jin ,f vj t;, ,,,;,; K 4 v V : .'"J. '4 I Vs EVENING PUBLIC LEDaEB-PHlLADELPHIA,' MONDAY, ' JUNE 13, 191 ft Strawbridge & Clothier's Anniversary Sale is the '.(J 1 Greatest Price Reducing Event Since the War "t !( ' 1000 Stenciled GRASS RUGS 8 x 10 feet $4.50 9 x 12 feet $5.50 Probably the last lot of theso Rugs to bo imported from Japan this season, will be disposed of under the Golden Special sign at prices which insure an early clearance. They nro a very closo and heavy weave known to the trade as 1350-warp and 30-pound grades extremely durable. They havo neat stenciled designs including the much favored Japanese effects in blues, tans and greens. The most desirable kind of summer Rugs nt great savings to-morrow. &h" Ptrawbrldee & Clothier Fourth Poor, Filbert Street "$n TO-MORROW These Are the Dress Values That Have Every body Talking Nothing like them in the city, they say an entire new stock of Dresses, thousands of them, in full assortments and complete size ranges, ana an ac wonaonui price concessions. Special, $5.00 to $7.75 Ginghams and voiles, light, medium, dark, many with touches of white or white collars. Special at $8. 75 Voiles in light, medium and dark shades, some combined with white organdie, one of the latter sketched. Special at $15.00 ' Ginghams, dotted Swiss, woven stripe and linen-trimmed voiles many kinds, models and shades. Special at $17.50 Dotted and woven voiles, in medium and light shades, made in tunic and straight-lino styles, with embroidery collar and cuffs. Regular and extra sizes. Special at $19. 75 Dotted Swiss, organdio-and-Swiss combina tions and woven voile, in a variety of shades. Regular and extra sizes. Extra-size Silk Dresses, Special, $35.00 Taffeta Dresses, in sizes 42 to 50 Vz. Long-waist and surplice effects, with tunic or panel skirts. Navy, black and dark brown. sy strawbridge & Clothier Second Floor. Market Street Hru.3Klh&(ui 2500 Men's Vassar Athletic Union Suits 95c Well made of check nainsook, cut full and comfortable, and with the convenient Vassar drop-seat feature. Finished with pearl buttons. Sizes 34 to 4G. As the saving is about one-fourth, the cntiro lot should go quickly at 95c. t-- Stravrbrldgo & Clothier Alete 2, Market Street Women's Silk Stockings Three remarkable examples of Anniversary Sale values in these Women's Silk Stockings: 85c Seam back, mer cerized tops and soles. Black, white, Russia calf, gray and cordovan. Sizes 8! to 10. 95c Drop-stitch Silk Stockings, mercer ized tops and soles. Black, white, cor dovan, Russia calf, navy. 8 to 10. r&--3traubrldce Clotfcler Alile 8, Market Street $1.00 Full- fashioned Silk Stockings, in black and white. Excellent value. Sizes 9, 10 and 10 Vi. In the Great Sale of Silks Many Lots at Half and Less Than Half 'Former Prices for the Same Grades Thousands of yards of Silks of tho kinds most in demand for immediate use nro in this great Sale. Canton Crepe de Chine, 40 inches wide now $2.65 Novelty-striped Sports Canton Crepe, 40-inch $4.65 Ninghai Chinese Pongee, 33-inch now $1.35 a yard Printed Foulard Silks, 10-inch now $2.55 a yard Satin de Luxe, in street and evening shades now $1.95 Wonderful Values in Silks of all Kinds on the Centre and Market Street Cross Aisles &-' Btrawlirldre A Clothier Alele 0, Centre Here's Musk for Your Home ! Pianos, Player-Pianos and Phonographs, all of the Dependable Windham Make at Sharp Reductions Windham Pianos A Saving of $145.00 Full-size mahogany case, dull or polished. Stool fieo. Con venient terms $10.00 initial payment and $10.00 monthly can bo arranged. $345 Player-Pianos A Saving of $105.00 $5.45 WTMHII AM Tee.1t mm ltlif.l mnhnnpnmr ncr Plinft n niil free. Convenient terms $20.00 Initial payment and $15.00 monthly can be arranged. JVindham Cabinet Phonographs $80, $90, $100 and $115 Savings of $20.00 to $50.00 At their former prices these splendid 1'honogrnphs wero unquestionably the best obtainable. At tho reduced prices tho valuo Is extraoidinarv indeed. Convenient torms $5.00 initial payment and $5.00 monthly thci carter can bo ananged. or $0.00 s.-y strawbridge & Clothier fifth Floor, Wct Toilet Goods at Reduced Prices! A Remarkable Anniversary Sale of Standard Soaps, Powders, Perfumes and Articles for the Toilet Table A notable feature of the Anniversary Sale is the great collection of toilet table requisites in this SAFE TOILET GOODS STORE at less than the regular prices. These are all standard, well-known articles, and we strongly advise a com plete replenishing of supplies for the summer season, TO-MORROW. 25,000 Cakes of Fine Toilet Soaps Reduced S. & C. Hardwater Soap 6c a cake Pears' Unscented Soap -13c a cake Omnibus Soap 8 cakes (box,) 35c Peroxide Bath Soap 75c a dozen Olivilo Soap 8c a cake ; 85c a dozen Cuticura Soap 18c a cake Floating Castile Soap 55c a bar Green Olive Oil Castile 35c a bar 4000 Packages of Tooth Preparations Reduced Pebeco 38c Pepsodent 38c Kal-Pheno 20c S. & C. Chalk and Orris 15c Alkalol Mouth Wash 35c, 65c Lavoris Mouth Wash 20c, 40c Kolynos 23c Forhan's 42c Lyon's 20c 5000 Cans of Talcum Powder Reduced Mary Garden, 21c I Mavis 20c Chinwah 17c I Brown's 18c Garwood's Talcum, 1 pound 18c Colgate's Splendor and Violet De Mar Talcum 16c each H IV 9 1 1000 Bottles Toilet Water and Extracts Reduced Garwood Toilet Water 30c and 50c Assorted Extracts 28c and 48c Brown's Toilet Waters 95c Other Preparations Mum 20c 'Odorono 25c and 45c Frostilla, 21c Violet Witch Hazel, 40c Epsom Salts for the bath, 4-pound can 20c Garwood's Bay Rum now 30c Violet Ammonia 18c a bottle Twink 2 packages, 15c; 3 for 20c; 6 for 35c 1000 Presqu' Ivoire Toilet Articles Under Price A large special purchase. Ivory finish, with pink, blue or black edging. Hair Brushes $5.75 and $0.25. Mirrors $0.50 to $8.50. Combs $1.00 and $1.15. Puff Boxes $1.75, $3.00, $3.75. Hair Receivers $1.75, $3.00 and $3.75. Button Hooks, Nail Files, Cuticle Knives, etc. 75c. Shoo Horns $1.00. Per fumo Bottles $1.50 and everything elso for the well-appointed dressing table. 10-Piece Toilet Sets; now S21..50 100 Hair Brushes now $3.75 Hl Strawbridge & Clothier Aisles p and 10, Centre; Alii 10, Filbert Stresti and Filbert Street, Cross Alalo Rubber Goods, Brushes and Other Articles Save Household Rubber Gloves 50c Rubber-lined Tourist Covers 75c Tooth Brushes, 15c Nail Brushes, 18c Rubber Bathing Caps 35c Bath Sprays 65c and 85c La Vida Electric Vibrators $6.50 Hair Brushes, assorted styles 75c 1000 Packages of Toilet Creams Reduced S. & C. Rose and Almond 26c S. & C. Lemon Cream 52c S. & C. Peroxide Cream 38c S. & C. Sin Olor Cream now 18c Professional Cold Cream 36c I "" A Very Unusual Purchase of 800 Men's Alco Suits To Sell in the Anniversary Sale at $29 $33 One-third Less Than This Yeai's Prices One-half Less Than Last Year's Prices Hero is a concrete example of tho eagerness of this Store's suppliers to co-operate in making this tho greatest Anniversaiy event in years. The "Alco" shons have just sent us theso fine Suits carefully "Alco"-tailored, of fine worsteds and solid-twill cassimores in a wealth of tho season's best styles. This shipment represents the entire surplus spring stock of the "Alco" shops and the liberal price-concession by the manufacturer, enables us to mark them one-third less than they were mado to sell for. All sizes regular, stout, snort, tall and slender. Meis Suits with Two Pairs of Trousers $24.50 and $31.50 Of serges, worsteds, herringbones and twoeds in spic-span, brand-new spring styles and practically all Sizes. 3 -Strawbridge 4 Clothier Second Tloor Figured Organdie Morning Dresses $2.85 Ever so dain ty in their sim plicity and crisp freshness. I n navy or light blue, pink or luown effects. With white or gandie vest, col lar and cuffs. The wide, figured organdie sash is bound In white. They will sell quickly at $2.85. Strawbridge & Clothier Third Floor, Kllbert Street, West 1000 Pairs of Men's Silk Socks at 68c Fine, full - fnshioned Silk Socks, with tops, toes and heels of fine cotton. Black only. Sec onds. Sizes 9Vj to 11. Strun bridge & Clothier Alele a, ir.irk.st Street Rag Rugs at Half Price Several hundred of these Colonial Rag Rugs now in such great demand for summer or year-around furnishing schemes which we have marked at just one-half their current retail prices. The collec tion comprises Small Rugs in uHit-or-Miss" Patterns and the Much Wanted Plain Shades 34x48 inches $1.00 Rugs, 30x60 inches $1.35 27x54 inches $1.15 Rugs, 3x6 feet $2.00 Large Rugs in Plain Taupe Color Rugs, 8x10 feet $10.00 Rugs, 9x12 feet $12.50 Many other economy opportunities in practically every standard weave Axminsters, Wiltons, velvets, etc, Rugs, Rugs, StrnwbrldKo . Clothier l'ouith Floor, Weat Nemo Corsets $2.45 Half Price and Less Nemo Corsets with all tho excellence of style, material and making tho name implies. Various models of light-weight coutil and batiste FOR SUMMER WEAR all substantially boned and equipped with exclusive Nemo fea tures. Low-bust models with long hips. Nemo Self-Reducing model 3G0, with Self-Reducing straps is sketched. A limited number of famous Nemo Corsets Reduced One-half and More, S2.45 K- Straw bridge & Clothier Third Floor, Market Mred West Bloomers- and- Waist Combinations 45c Comfortable, sturdy, easily laun dercd that is the reason that mothers of littie folk ot 2 to 8 years will buy these Combinations by the hnlf-dozen to-morrow. And" they'll buy them all the more eagerly when they lealize the snving is neaily one half. Of cambri" with embroidery-edged bloomers 4."c. Strawbridge ft Clothlor Third Floor. West Candies Special Jars of Fruit Tablets 28c 8-ounco Jars; assorted flavois. Wilbur's Nonpareils 50c Spiced Jellv Drops 15c S. & C. Assorted Chocolates, 55c Straw Midge A Clothier Haeement; and ri'bort birtet iruta Aisle Long- Cloth Special Three oxcellent grades 10-yard pieces only. Moio attractive by leason of the Snle prices $1.50, $2.25 and $2.75 a piece. Straw brldire & Clothier Alle 18 O-ntrn Sterling Silver Pieces Reduced Picture Framos, Toilot Articles, Vases and Candlesticks just tho Sterling Silver pieces that many are planning to buy for commence ment and wedding gifts at Anniversary Sale savings. Picture Frames, oval and square, small or medium sizes, reduced now $1.25 to $8.00 Toilet Articles, Gray or Polished Finish Mirrors $8.00 to $12.00 Hair Brushes $G.OO to $7.75 Clothes Brushes $2.00 to $4.25 Hat llrushes $2.00 to $3.50 Flat Clothes Brushes $2 to $2.73 Nail Buffers $2.25 to $4.00 Nnil Brushes $2.25 to $2.75 Flat Hair Brushes $2.00 to $3.00 Candlesticks, 8 to 12 inches, $12.00 to $25.00 a pair Vases, 9-inch, $9.50; 12-inch, $14.00; 15-inch, $22.00 s- Strawbrldw Clothier AUlea 8 and 10, .Market Strwt $1.25 Chair Se at Cushions Cretonne-covered Another lot of 2000 BOX-EDGE Cushions, like those that sold so quickly a short time ago. Cotton-filled and button-tufted, size 10x20' inches thoroughly well mado. Coverings are of cretonnes and block-printed Eng.ish chintzes, handsome floral, Chinese, Egyptian and tnpestry verdure patterns selected from our own stock. A saving of neaily one-third at $1.25 each. !-- Straw tindtre A Clothier Third Floor, Centre Strawbridge & Clothier MARKET ST. EIGHTH ST. dSMfo 1900 Yards of 66-inch Silver-bleached LINEN DAMASK TO-MORROW At $1.95 225 Dozen Napkins, $5.15 a Dozen Housekeepers will flock to the Golden Special sign to-morrow. For well they know the desirability of sturdy silver-bleached Linen Table Damask. This is the kind we could not get during the war. But this limited yardage has arrived in time for the Anniversnry Sale. An occasional dark thread appears in the Damask, but docs not mar nppearanco or durability. Damask, 60 inches wide, in spot, lily, leaf, hydrangea and wild rose designs. The Golden Special saving is exceptional at $1.95 a yard. Napkins, 20-inch, in leaf pattern only $5.15 a dozen. 3 - Straw bridge & Clothlor Aisle 11. Centre i ,. Thousands of Boys' Suits One-third Under Present Prices Which Means About One-half the Prices of Identical Grades Last Year The Anniversary Sale affords an unusual opportunity for parents to meet the boy's every Clothing need for the coming season, at con siderably less than the usual cost. For instance Suits with Extra Trousers now $8.95, $12.50 and $14.75 Suits of all-wool cheviots, tweeds and homespuns, in new spring colorings; with mohair-lined coats and two pairs of Knickerbockers. Boys' Blue Serge Suits $10.75 Of fast-color, all-wool serge, well tailored in attractive inverted plait, yoke-back styles. Small Boys' Wash Suits 95c, $1.35, $1.95 and $2.25 Scores of becoming styles for boys of 3 to 8 yenrs. Well-made of fast-color fabrics. Summer Knickerbockers Under Price Of gray cotton, 85c; tan khaki, 95c; mixed cheviots, $1.65; blue serge $2.95. Vr-y Strawbridge & Clothier Second Floor rilbcrt Street, East Misses' Apparel Reduced Fine Suits now $55.00 to $95.00 Navy, piquctine, tricotine and Poiret twill, also checked velour. Only one of a kind, ranging from the severely tailored to the elab orate three-piece models. Fine Coats now $45.00 to $75.00 Sports Coats of covert and tan cloaking, also Wraps, Cape Coats and Tuxedo-front Coats, of Bolivia, veldyne, romona and orlando. Only one of a kind. Wash Dresses, Special, $7.50 to $10.75 Checked gingham, light organdie and dark figured voiles, in tunic, ruffled and straight-line styles, with kimono or blouse waists. Sizes 14 to 18 years. -r-- Strawbrliw . Clothier Second floor. Market Street All-Wool Jersey X CO OCJ In the 54-inch Width i -wJ All-wool Jersey Cloth, fine, firm weave, and in the most desir able Shades of the Season I y Strawbridge t. Cloth.er -Alele 7. Centre Nainsook Night Gowns, 95c Think of it! The Anniversary Sale price of these dainty Night Gowns is less than $1.00. Most women will want two or three when they see the pietty style square neck nnd set-in sleeves, and trimmine of lace and embioidery t)5c. b Lingerie in Extra Sizes in the Sale Nainsook Night Gowns, embroidery-trimmed $1.00 Nainsook or Long Cloth Drawers, extra sizes now ?2.25 and $2.50 Nainsook Envelope Chemises, reduced now $2.85 T- Str.iHl rldt.e A Clotnler Third Floor Weat Wrist Watches Half Average ( dj-l q A Regular Price pJ-O.OU About 100 GOLD-FILLED Watches some convertible, some with ribbon bracelets .-lrul Knmn with extension gold-filled bracelets. Various shapes lound, cushion, hexagon, square, decagon. Some plain, some engraved. All have 15-jewel movement, all fully guaianteed tho same styles we have sold nt an average of double this price S13 50. Straw hrldR" f. Clothier Mm. I) Market Street These Trunks Under Price No matter whether you start your journey next week or next month you will vave substantially by buying the new Trunk in the Anniversary Sale. These at notable 1 eductions: S. & C. Special Mendel Drucker Wardrobe Trunks, Size 42x22x24 Inches $52.75 Fibre-covered Dress Trunks $22.00, $24.00 and $26 Fibre-covered Steamer Trunks $17.00, $19.00, $21 Fibre-covered Dress Trunks, 36-inch now $18.00 Canvas-covered Dress Trunks $9.75, $10.25, $10.75 I - " awirldK & lotH. r -Knurth V'wr Market Street. l!at FILBERT ST. I Men's Leghorn Hats i EA KX Worth Over Onp-lmlf lVWo I Ot:"-'" Finu, cool Leghorn Hats m smurt, new styles, with blnek or biown band, i All size, $1.55. Panairio Hats Sll.fio Straw Hats 52.10 JiK-lrattl)uJif & cioihier hc nd Toor i.rl. t r'lrei't, i: n y n i ? "i a A K. M( ' V,f Ail , V. i.'ft.n u , M
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