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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1914)
THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1914. 9 Wonderfully Attractive Birthday Sales For Thursday Nothing Is So Successful as Success From the outset this store two years ago decided upon a policy from which it has never deviated a policy upon which was based its entire success. A policy which called for the merchandising of all goods on a fair basis. To win success a modern store must be pro gressive not only adhering with painstaking exactitude to the absolute truth in its announce ments to the people, but day after day, year after year must provide the things which are needed by the people and at prices that gains their confi dence and support. This store has persistently and consistently followed this course, and today, without a ques tion is known by the people as the ONE STORE which can always be relied upon. ' A striking illustration of this truth is its ever increasing patronage, forcefully illustrated by the unprecedented attendance at OUR SECOND BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY SALE New School Coats For Girls Sizes 15 to 17 Years Regular $10.00 Sale $5.95 These coats were selected for their good style and making. And no smarter and at the same time more practical coats could be had for school girls. In box style of fancy wool mixture in plaids and large checked effects, set-in sleeves, deep cuffs of self material, large patch pockets and collar of black plush. Single breasted in style which can be worn open or but toned close around the neck. In brown, blue, tan and gray mix tures. Another model is belted across the back of diagonal and striped diagonal coating, lined throughout. In double-breasted style, trimmed with fancy bone buttons. Has two pockets. In tan and gray. Fourth Floor. New Basque Dresses Specially Priced at $16.85 Which Sell Regularly at $22. SO They are made .of fine French and English serges and serges, by the way, take the foremost place in fashions for the new season. Shown in the newest colors, such as navy blue, the new green and brown. They show the charming basque style, fastening up the front and with tunic skirts that are plain and box-plaited. The bodices are cut low in the neck, with either broadcloth or satin collars, and others with high necks, satin collars and cuffs. One of the latest features shown in wide-crushed girdle of satin. New $3.75 Silk Jersey Petticoats, Birthday Sale $2.95 Nmv Fall model netticoats of extra fine all-silk iersev with the fitted elastic top, which requires no fitting and will adjust itself to any figure. flounce of box-plaited fine silk messaline. In black, navy green, plum, brown and new blue. More New White Balmacaan Coats at $12.50 and $15.00 Another shipment of these popular and beautiful coats has just arrived, which are so popular and in such great demand this season. They are made of a splendid quality white chinchilla, having the smart new wide flare and a deep plait down the bach. also trimmed with these frocks is the Third Floor. Made with a blue, emerald, Russian Third Floor. Third Floor Picture Framing Lowest Prices Birthday Purchase of 100 of the Newest Voile Blouses Which Would Sell Regularly at $3.50 Birthday Sale $1.95 Every one enjoys seeing the new fashions as they come and it is doubly interesting when these new modes are priced below the regular. In this special sale we show two of the latest of voile blouses, which are of a fine quality and exquisitely em broidered in all-over effects. One model, as you can see by the illustration, is made with a pique flaring collar and cuffs, and with a hemstitched yoke. The other style has a turned-down embroidered collar edged with lace. Both styles show the new set-in long sleeves. Third Floor Georgette Crepe Introducing the New Sheer Material to Be the Most Popular This Fall The $2.50 Quality $1.75 Yard A very special collection of the finest fancy this silks. season tor $25.00 New Suits for Junior Girls Are Only $17.50 This new group of Juniors' Autumn suits reflects the very latest modes of the day, designed especially for the youthful figures of girls from 1 4 to 17 years. Never have the. styles for girls been more attractive the popular and fashionable serges, cheviots and broadcloths are used in these models, as well as the new fancy plaids and striped mixtures. Made with jackets in "Country Club" styles or box effects and the modified blouse styles in medium lengths. Trim mings of tailored braids and velvet collars. Many of the coats have yokes, others with belted backs, patch pockets and button trimmings. Skirts in yoke effects with pleats at the sides or plain, also trimmed. Fourth Floor. Basque Middy Blouses for Girls These basque middies have now made their appear ance in white galatea, having red or blue ties and collars and cuffs. Also shown in navy blue serge or black satin. All finished with bands around the bottom and with pockets. In sizes from 16 to 22, or 32 to 40 bust. Priced at $1.75, $3.75 and $5.00. Fourth Floor NECKWEAR -COLLARS in the Very Latest Styles Daintily Hand-Embroidered Special 95c $1.25 and $1.50 if Sold Regularly The very - newest ideas are shown in these collars of finest lawns and organdies and heavy linens. Cape collars with pleated. flaring backs and soft, rolling sides, with hemstitched hems and pretty hand-embroidered sprays, or with picot edging. The new basque collars that may be wired in standaway effects or worn flat, and collars of scalloped edges and collars of double organdie, beautifully and simply embroidered by hand. All the latest models will be found in this showing. First Floor. which promise to be most fashionable evening gowns and for novelty blouses. This Georgette crepe is a very exquisite fabric, having the appearance of chiffon, but possessing more body, thus making it more adaptable for the fashioning of the new models. Daintily tinted in flesh, pink, coral, apri cot, maize and ivory. Full 40 inches wide. We Also Offer the New Printed Georgette Crepe Very Special $2.25 Yard At this price you will find the same lovely quality as the above but in white grounds with beautiful floral designs in blue. pink, maize or lilac. hull 4U inches wide. econd Floor 3 fie3 The Most Distinctive Made of Imported Tweed Sold Regularly at $32.50 Birthday Sale $2 1.45 These are individual coats, which will appeal to women who desire a practical outer wrap. While they are fashioned on the Balmacaan style, they show new touches, such as yoke across the back, deep stitched through pockets and a more decided flare to the skirt part. They are made of a fine imported Scotch mixed shower-proofed tweed in grays and browns and are full 48 inches long. The yoke and sleeve sec tions are satin lined. For a practical, all-around, service able coat these models will answer the purpose perfectly, as they possess all kinds of good style, and yet are prac tical for all kinds of weather. Third Fltor of Slip-on Coats Remarkable Economies in House Furnishings Brass Beds at Special Prices $20.00 Beds.. $14.45 $37.50 Beds. .$22.85 $32.50 Beds.. $17.85 $45.00 Beds.. $24.85 $35.00 Beds.. $19.85 $50.00 Beds. .$27.85 Straight or continuous-post beds and Colonial designs, of guaranteed satin finish brass that will not tarnish. These beds may be had in three-quarters or full size. Our entire stock of mattresses greatly re duced. All makes of bed springs at special prices. $4.50 Axminster Rugs $2.95 Oriental, conventional or floral designed Axminster rugs, of good qualify, in a large selection of patterns. Size 72x36 inches. Blankets at Specially Low Prices $2.25 Fancy Plaid Blankets, pair $1.79 $3.50 Fancy Plaid Blankets, pair $2.79 $4.75 Fancy Wool Blankets, pair $3.45 $5.50 Fancy Wool Blankets, pair $3.95 $6.50 Fancy Wool Blankets, pair $4.95 In white, gray, plaids and combinations. Fifth Floor A Special Purchase of an Importer's Sample Line of Fashionable Combs and Pins Worth From $4 to $10 Sale $1.00 This very timely purchase enables us to share our good fortune with our customers a large as sortment of the very newest of hair ornaments. The collection consists of Spanish combs, beautifully hand-carved, tango and fancy pins in new shapes, casque combs, fancy barrettes, and, in fact, nearly every fashionable, new comb and pin which will be worn for Fall. Many novelty shapes will be found and each article is paved with the finest French rhine stones, very brilliant and good-looking, in white and bright colors. The combs are shown i ii i 1 1 i i i shell, demi-Diona ana amoer. in First Floor ONLY 8 DAYS MORE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OFFER Pictorial Review THE SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER NUMBERS OF PICTORIAL REVIEW ALL FOR 25c LEAVE YOUR ORDERS AT THE PATTERN COUNTER Second Floor. NEW Large Velvet Sailor Hats Copied From a French Model Birthday Sale $8.95 . Picturesque, very large sailor hats of rich blad( vel vet, with straight flat brims. Simply though effectively trimmed with heavy gros grain ribbons, or silver and gold ribbons, small clusters of flowers or one large flower placed near the outer edge of the brim in a most artistic manner. The shape and the style of trimmings of these hats have been carefully copied after those of Paris, each model possessing a wonderful lot of style and chic. .Second Floor S-T-A-T-I-O-N-E-R-Y 65c Linen Fabric 33c Box Large cabinet, containing 48 envelopes, 24 gold edge cards and 24 sheets of pure white linen fabric finished paper. 50c Correspondence Cards 25c Paquin stationery box, containing 24 gold-edge cards, with 24 envelopes to match. Finest linen stock in white and tints. Gold Edge Playing Cards 18c Vogue playing cards with gold edges and fancy backs. Large indexes and fine quality cards with super finish. Only 300 decks in the lot. Stationery Dept., Basement Free Sewing Machines for Fall Sewing Fifth Floor Scarfs Again Very Handsome Silks $1 Silks in $1 Shapes 55c "Pick from mp whole stock," said one of our regular neck wear manufacturers, "and I will sell the scarfs so cheap that pou can sell them all in one day." They are here $1.00 silks made in the largest dollar shape. Here in all the newest Fall colorings in a rich lustrous solid col ored wide-end scarf. Beet root, wine, royal, midnight blue, Russian green, cadet, white, purple, black, brown, violet. On your way to business look them over in our furnishing windows on Washington street. By the way, have you noticed for the past few months how many of your acquaintances you meet in the Men's Shop of this store? It's the headquarters for the men who are fastidious in their dress. First Floor. NEW UNDERMUSLINS AT BIRTHDAY SALE PRICES $1.50 Secco Silk Corset Covers 98c The new cap sleeve Corset Covers, worn under sheer waists, made with low-cut round neck and sleeves in kimono style. Daintily trimmed with VaJ lace, beading and insertion around neck, sleeves, around waist line and down front. Made of plain or figured secco silk in white, dainty blue and pink, and drawn with ribbons. All sizes. 75c, 85c Drawers, Corset Covers, 49c Each Corset Covers of fine nainsook, crepe and all-over embroidery, in round neck style, prettily trimmed with Val lace and insertion, embroidery and lace pioot edging, embroidery insertion, medallions of lace and ribbon drawn headings. Some have entire fronts of lace and embroidery. Drawers of good quality long cloth, made in new flat-leg style, fin ished with scalloped embroidery band joined by hemstitching. French band finish at waist line. 75c Crepe or Nainsook Bloomers 59c Of white crepe and soft nainsook, made with elastic at waist and knees. $1.50 and $1.65 Crepe Nightgowns $1.19 Made of fine plisse crepe in blue, pink or white, or white with dainty figures and stripes. They are made in slip-over style with short kimono sleeves, V or round necks, and trimmed with Val, Cluny and Torchon laces in many different styles, some with slashed fronts, laced with ribbon, others with scalloped neck and embroidered sprays in dainty colors on fronts, or with sailor collar forming revers in front, scalloped and embroidered. Some have yoke effects in front. 85c Misses' Crepe Nightgowns 59c These gowns are in sizes for misses and small women and are made of striped mummy crepe, slip-over style, finished with torchon lace, ribbon drawn. They come in white with lavender or blue stripes. Fourth Floor THE NEWEST CORSETS FOR AUTUMN New Modart Front-Laced Models New La Vida Corsets New W. B. Nuform Ask to see these attractive new models. Fourth Floor. SERVICEABLE, ARTISTIC LAMPS Electric Desk or Study Lamps Birthday Sale $1.98 These lamps are very practical for desk and study use, as they can be adjusted to any desired angle. They are made of brass in brush finish, with 4-inch brass shade finished with green bead finish. Base and shade are trimmed with black enamel lines. Each lamp fitted with four feet of cord. Lamps exactly as illustrated on the left. Berlin Brass Electric Student Lamps Birthday Sale $2.98 Electric student lamps, 1 8 inches high, of brush brass. with two black enamel lines. They have a 9-inch green shade, mushroom shape, and four feet of cord. For desk and library use these lamps are ideal, as the green .harli. rlnr not injure the eyes. The illustration is an 2L exact copy of these lamps. Sixth Floor i - : . VON BUELOW'S DEATH TOLD Belgian Private Shoots, Tlien Takes General's Horse and Flee. LONDON. Sept 2. In a dispatch from Amsterdam, the local correspondent of the Central News says the shot which ultimately resulted in the death of Prince von Buelow, one of the German Generals, was fired by a Belgian pri vate, Rosseau, who since has heen dec orated by Kins Albert for his conduct in the battle of Haelen. Rosseau was lying badly wounded among a group of dead comrades when he saw a German officer standing be side his horse and studying a map. Picking up a rifle from beside a dead German. R06seau fired at this officer and wounded him. The officer subse quently proved to be Prince von Bue low. Exchanging hie hat for the German General's helmet and taking the Gen eral's horse. Rosseau maile his way to the Belgian lines and was placed in a hospital at Ghent. Owners of Autos Filing Claims. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. Americans whose automobiles were commandeered by military authorities in some of the EuroDean countries began filing claims Hoday with the State Department. Most of the tourists obtained receipts for their cars with the, promise that they would be reimbursed. In most cases settlements are not expected before the end of the war. Embargo on Pharmaceuticals Stays. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. Representa tive Metz today received from Rotter dam, and transmitted to Secretary Bryan, advices that Germany has raised tne embargo on exportations of dye- stuffs, but. not on pharmaceutical producta RUSSIAN PRIEST ARRESTED Service of Prayer for Success of Czar Proves Untimely at Carlsbad. COPENHAGEN, via London,-Sept. 2. Herr Tad. the pastor of the Danish ft, - .i ,i Anatrla. reached Copenhagen today. He reports that the Russian priest, Ryechoff. attached to the Russian church at Carlsbad, was taken into custody because he held a service of prayer for the success of Russian arms. Herr Tad passed some days in Prague. Russia. He says the Czech population there is extremely uneasy and is unwilling to fight against the Russian or Servian enemies of Austria. The published reports of actual Czech uprisings In Prague, however, are un true, Herr Tad declare. Aid Sought for Portland Folk. WASHINGTON. Sep. 2. At the re quest of Senator Chamberlain, the State Department is trying to aid Portland citizens in Germany, and M T. Mitch ell. WTfe and niece, relatives of Julius L. Meier: Dr. Konrad Delbruck. Clara Keclihelraer and Kathleen Lawler Belcher, in Paris.