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Commorco Department Lays
This to After-tlie-War
Depression
MANY ORDERS CANCELED
By ttic Associated Press
Washington. Aug. 18. The dccrcnfci
Of m"re than $3X).000.00p in the
value of the country's foreign trade
during the last fiscal itar w as aW ,
by the Cmnmerro Department tmln to
the world-wide depression coming as an
aftermath of the war
Lower prlce rather than diminished
fluantitics wcie to n Rrent extent re
sponsible for the deeren in exports,
the department nertrd in a t-tntemrnt
revlenlng the .lear's torelgn com
werce. The total value of the foreign trade ,
of the country dropped fr"13:'1'
J7l',000.000 in 1021. a decrease of 23.8,
tcr cent
Imports (hopped from S5,23S.OO0.0O0 ,
In 1020 to S3.a"4.000.000 in 1021. a1
loss of St.5S4.000.000. or 32 2 ner
cent, while opoit amounting to SS.
300.000.000 in 1020. ngninst .-lt
000.000 in 1021. decreased $1..93,000.
000. or 10 0 per cent ,
Aside from lower pnce other muxes1
contributed to the "-mall foreign trade,
total", the department declared, assort
ing that the adnntnge enjoved bv tlii'l
country during and after the war of,
being the only country ab'e to supply
the needs of the others has passed
Crops are now being raised in thn
devastated regions of Europe, the press-1
ing needs of manufacturing industries
nbroad for raw materials has hcen filled,
nd the United States must now com
pete In the world markets in prices and
terms with the other countries
"The foreign exchange situation "
the department said "alo had an ad
verse effect on American exports lu-t
year.
"With exchange rates of1 foreign cur
rencies depreciated to a point which
made prices In dollars prohibits c. with
declining imports, the Impossibility of
fettling the balances alreadv due the
United States in gold, the difficulty of
arranging further credit facilities, with
cancellation of orders, rejection of goods
already shipped, and collection drafts
dishonored, it was Impossible for ex
ports to continue at the rate of $.")00.
000.000 or S000.000.000 a month, to
vhich thev had grown during the war
Two-thirds of tlie eni's decline in
Imports, the depaitment nssirted. was
In raw material, as American fac
tories running onh part time or entho
ly shut down, s-topped hujlng foreign
hides, wool, cotton, silk, rubber ani
other materials. 1
ARTISANS
Store Hours, 9 to S Store Closed All Saturday
For
Friday
fatMii'it MiAr1fnl f rnitrntA anrl nnlirpri AtltomobilA
Camp Sites are featured by numerous Western cities. They
have water, electric lights, wash tubs, gas stoves and other
conveniences for auto tourist parties and the itinerant
motorist. Philadelphia needs several such sites.
Gimbel Brothers
MARKET CHESTNUT EIGHTH NINTH
Thursday, August 18. 1821
Children's eyes frequently need glasses. Often a child
ts poor "marks" at school because of defective eyesight,
thus nettinR an undeserved reputation for dullness or
inattention just because he or she can't see well. Bring your
bov or girl here to have eyes examined. First floor.
Tomorrow
Men's Kuppenheimer,
gwtrtg Irand and Other
Associated Makes
Suits at $25
Critu JUL Tt Hmm l Kiutaliif
In distinctive models.
In distinctive all-wool fabrics.
In tans, grays, browns.
In pencil stripes, herringbones, checks.
Less Than Average
Half Price at
$25
-Gimbels, Second floor, Ninth Street.
flprelal Tnln ::20 . M
Chestnut M Wharf.
Adults, $1.73
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Children. 8l.no
OUTING AND BEACH FROLIC
WILDWOOD, SAT., AUGUST 20
Ticket from out member or nt the ferrj
SING
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FALSE TEETH?
SURE!
Dr. Wernet's
Powder
KEEPS THEM TIGHT
Relieves sore gums, sweetens
the breath. A white powder. At
best Drug" or Department Stores,
30c, 60c., $1.00 or write direct to
'WtroelDeattlMfg.Cs.,n5BIunuiSt.,N.Y.
Tomorrow
Boys' One-Piece Pajamas
at 95c
The most practical sleeping garment made for little fellows.
There's nothing to roll up or slip down to cause restlessness
Made of cotton pongee in plain colors; finished with frog and
pearl buttons. Has drop seat and button down the front. Sizes 6 to
14 years. At 95c.
Gimbels. First floor. Ninth Street Side.
Sample Chamber Suites
From a Big Grand Rapids Manufacturer
A "Plum" In the August Sale
At $300 and $350 the Suite
Regularly $700 to $850
A trifle belated but here in good time! and a mighty good
bargain for anyone getting one of these sample bedroom suites!
You know it's only human nature that the makers should have
their samples maybe just a "leetle" bit to the good!
Here are three of the lot
$7UU four-fc.
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namoer June
at $350
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$800 Chamber
Suite, Four-Pc.
at $350
Tomorrow
For
Friday
$700 Chamber
Suite, Four-Pc.
at $300
Women's Suits Three
Greater-Value Groups
That Demonstrate
Gimbel Preparedness
"But you're the only store in town that is ready!"
commented more than one customer, yesterday, j
Fact!
And these three groups are as sure tests as sure proofs
of the utmost value for every dollar invested; of utmost
service and satisfaction in the wearing as they are of read
iness readiness without equal.
Group I Silk-Lined Flex-o-tex arid
Homespun Suits at $33.75
Winter weight fabrics. All coats silk-lined.
All warmly interlined. The new-length coats.
The rieht colors: Java brown, Bagdad blues, heather
browns, heather navy, and black.
Six styles in homespuns. Three styles in "Flex-o-tex".
Sizes 34 to 46.
Group II Eight Styles in $69 to $85
Tricotine Suits at $39.75
The best tricotine that comes.
The new coat-lengths. The new collars,
The new beltless and belt treatments,
Braid-bound smartness, Embroidered elegance. Un
usual tailleur treatments. Sizes 34 to 46.
Group III New Fall-Weight
"Flex-o-tex" Suits, Imagine! $18.75
Three styles.
Heather brown. Heather navy. All-navy. All-black.
Oxford gray. Sizes 34 to 46. Salons of Dress, Third floor
Tomorrow
Gimbels, Sixth floor
The Inevitable
Question
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On Baby's Head. Itched
Badly. Could Not Sleep.
" My baby suffered for three
months with nn itching skin trouble
wnicn broke out on his head
in a rash. Ititched bo badly
that he scratched his scalp
and his hair fell out. At
night he could not sleep.
"After trying several rem
edies I sent for a free
sample of Cuticura Soap and Oint
ment and after a couple of treatments
the Itching stopped. I purchased
more, and after using one cake of
Cuticura Soap and one box of Oint
ment he was healed." (Signed) Mrs.
C. M. Crisman, 347 Hastings St.
Pittsburgh, Pa., April 7, 1921.
Improve your skin by dally use of
.Cuticura Soap.OIntmentandTaleum.
StapUZichrrMbrUtll Addru "CattauLrt.
ortorli,,DH n,MJd.n8 Uiu SoWerj.
whr Boipitt Olntinent25!iM TiicumMc
WCuticura Soap iharei without muf .
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How Far Will
$5
go toward a boy's suit?
The answer is At Gimbels you
can buy a Palm Beach or Panama
Suit for boys from S to 18 in anv
of the popular snappy models and
smart colors, each pair of knick
ers with a leather belt. And $5
will bu.v the suit.
Or others at $7.50.
They're all half price.
And just what they want for
back-to-school wear.
Gimbels, Third floor.
Graceful Long Collars
With Cuffs to Match
at $1, $1.25 and $1.50
Ejctra-long, flat collars of crossbar organdie edged- with plain
organdie "flutings." Roll tuxedo collars of plain organdie, tucked and
lace-trimmed. Plain organdie lace or net-trimmed. Double organdie,
tucked and button-trimmed. Many with extra length cuffs for short
sleeves.
Vestees with cuffs to match, very special at 50c. Organdie with
rows of shell tucks and Valenciennes lace. Daintyl
Gimbels. Neckwear Store. First floor.
Wood Bead Girdles at 50c
Including Values up to $2
Fall fashions will continue the straight-line dress, therefore the
popularity of the narrow girdle.
These of wood beads; some few of wood and imitation jet; or of
wood with glass in the popular 1?$- to 2-yard lengths and about a
dozen smart color combinations.
Plenty of black and white; of lapis laruli blue with light blue;,
wisteria with purple; apple green with black; amethyst with red;
dark blue with red, and the Spanish combination of bright red with
bright yellow quite daring vou'll say, but admit it's smart on black.
Gimbel. Dress Trimmings Section. First floor.
1500 $1.60 Week-End
Candy Combinations
1 lb. Assorted Chocolates. ( 3 lb. for
1 lb. Hard Candies 7Q.
1 lb. Mint Plait. .J OC
Gimbels, Chestnut Street Annex, also Grand Aisle and Subway Store
Tomorrow
600 More Girls'
Juniper Dresses
With the Detachable Guimpe Included'
--Special at $2
How mothers snapped them up last weekl
Check percale red, blue, green, maize, pink.
The guimp of white rep color-stitched to
match.
6- to 14-year sizes.
Additional Blouses at 85c each
With the same smart color-stitched Peter Pan
collars.
Gimbels, Salons of Dress, Third floor.
Clearance of Misses'
Fall-Weight Coats
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$20
HalfPrice
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Every imaginable, kind of
Sports Coatseven including
those stunning camel's hair
coats in rich colorings-
But every other sports coat
material besides in natural
tans, in soft grays, in blues and
browns even some stunning,
stunning overplaids.
And some exceedingly smart
wraps including a cape wrap
with heavy embroidery and a
great big tassel.
Everything Sports or
Dress SilhAined
Throughout
And all sizes, 14 to 20, in the
lot.
Salons of Dress, Third floor
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Will Save 4S"c of the
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30x3 Hi , 32x3
$18.45 $26.45
32x4 33x4
$31.95 $32.95
34x4 32x4
$33.95 $36.95
33x4 W
$37.95
35x4 W
$39.95
35x5
$46.45
34x4
$38.95
33x5
$44.45
37x5
$48.45
45c Peaches at 29c
500 cases of "Lnoxw Callforntn vfllovr peach
halves blB cans, at 88.30 a ca of
two dozen or In dozen, half-doren or three-can lots at
890 a can
Get our Folder on "Tire Adjustments" it tells
just what's what. -Gimbels, Fourth floor.
"mr wxrirs" corPM
at 31o lb.
6004 lbn of OhsrtnTit
Roaat Smooth drinking
Coffee, In 60-, 35-, 10,- or
Mb lots nt 310 lb
"bt. james" oorrrn
at 390 lb.
SOOft ib of "Pride of
Philadelphia," 60c rich
aroma i offe In 100-lb.
bags at 838.50, or E0-, 2B-,
10. or 4-lb lots at 290 lb
DUB TEA BOOM COTPED
at 36o lb.
"Quaker Blend" Heavy
bodied hlgh-grad? Coffee,
Boo value In 10-. 5- or
3-lb lots, at 360 lb.
FalmoUve Soap Co'i.
White Laundry Soap, half,
price at 10 cakes for 4flo,
or boxes of 100 cakes at
00.
JTew Season Tippy
Ormnre Pekoe Black Tea,
75c "Keystone Chop," 10
lbs for $3.03, or 6 lbs, 93;
or t lbs , 91.30, or 00 lb
BACOXf 33o lb.
2000 pieces Philadelphia
sugar-cured boneless
Bacon, pieces welching
from 4 to lbs , at whole
sale price 35o. lb
ITX1W PZAB 83.9S CASE
Bny a Case 1000 cases
new Purity Brand Tender
Sweet Early June Peas.
20o cans, '4 dozen cani,
B5o; dozen 81.63 (limit
two cases), at case 52.33.
Gimbels. Pure Food Store. Chestnut Street Annex
Hurry! Tomorrow's the Last Day of the
Great Remodeling Shoe Sale
Sensational Shoe Values at
$1.50, $3, $4.65
"Oddments," broken lines, short lots, single pairs of fine stylish shoes swept into three wonderful
groups on the Center Aisle tables. Some have been $8, $9, $12, ren to $14.
Street, dress and party shoes. All leathers and fabrics. Countless styles, and everybody's size in
some good style.
Come e.ven if you can't1 and come earlyl Gimbels, Shoe Section, Second floor.
Subway Store Offers
$17.50 to
$25 Silk
Dresses
Tomorrow at
$10
Best of all, they're the beaded
Geortrettes the hearlrrl Satin the
Kfrince trimmed Crenes He Thini
R the Canton Crepes that everybody
-'wants i
All Women's Sizes:
36 to 44
Misses' Sizes: 16 and 18
And mostly the colors are
browns, blues and black.
All in Advance Fall Styles
Gimbels, Subway Store
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In the Subway Store
Great Sale of
Men fs All- Wool Suits
Tomorrow at
SI
Tomorrow
Buys a Pair of
Women's Low Shoes
There Are 5,000 Pairs in the Lot
A grand clearance of all summer shoes'
White plain pumps. White buckle pumps. White oxfords.
And black patent leather pumps and oxfords. Sizes ranee
from 2ij to 7. At $1.
1000 Pairs of
Children's $ J
Shoes at. . . .
Men's Low Shoes
at $2.95
Black or tan. Sizes n to 10.
- Cjimbels, Subway Store.
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To see the throngs of men
"buying these suits proves that
Gimbels offer the best clothing
V values in Philadelphia.
Can't fully describe them here!
but
There's every desirable coloring
Wonderful Serges,
Herringbones and
Pencil Stripes
And plain worsteds, smooth
velours, cassimeres, tweeds and
cheviots.
Single- and double-breasted mod
els for men of every description.
Sizes to fit men of every build.
And Every Suit is
All-Wool
The greatest sale ever
Suits With
Extra Trousers )
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