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rHE 3I03XIXG OREGOSIAX. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1905.
Tbi Meier (3b Frank Store j TS; Meier Sb Frank Store IS Meier (2b Frank Store !! TS. Meier (2b Frank Store 1 1 Meier & Frank Store
"Opening Days" for Millinery, Cloaks, Suits, Etcl
Tomorrow and Thursday, September 1 3th and 1 4th All Are Invited
Portland's Leading Cloak and Suit Store
Cordially invites yon to the formal opening of the new Costumes, Wraps, Waists, Etc., tomorrow and Thursday The beauty and eaclusiveness of the
showing is far in excess of any heretofore attempted, and will inspire the greatest admiration It is with a feeling of gratification that we, are enabled to place
before our patrons such a beautiful assemblage of Foreign and Domestic Conceptions in Feminine Attire Ever in the lead, and feeling the responsibility of
our position as the foremost Cloak and Suit House, in Northwest, we have made extraordinary efforts to combine in the Fall and Winter Exhibit the most recent and up-to-date
styles and fashions for all occasions All the ideas which would be likely to meet with your approval and be of assistance to you in the complex question of Winter Attire The
styles this season are so elaborate, so varied and so extensive that the most wonderful results have been attained The unlimited scope given our cloak chief has resulted in a col
lection which embraces everything desirable and at a range of prices which will at once appeal to you Even the less expensive garments are things of beauty, while better ones
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prove irresistible in their attractiveness We will be pleased to have every woman in Portland and vicinity, as well as every Fair visitor, consider this announcement a personal invitation to visit the store-tomorrow
and view the new Costumes, Wraps, Suits-, Coats, Skirts, Raincoats, Waists, Silk Skirts and Children's Apparel V
Magnificent Showing of Fine Millinery Second Floor
This 1905-6 Fall and Winter showing will far surpass any display we have ever made Imported hats and bonnets and exclusive creations in great variety The leading artists of Europe
and America are all represented as well as beautiful productions from our own workrooms Every new effect, shape and trimming, and as in former seasons, a high degree of excellence
has been maintained The exhibit will be a revelation of the newest and prettiest effects; the cumulative result of months of planning and preparing Strikingly attractive shapes, shades
and combinations The handsomest headgear seen for years Do your choosing as early as possible, for foresight is a most potent factor in buying millinery, the most becoming styles
finding new owners very rapidly The opening display is for two days, tomorrow and Thursday Every woman will be delighted with the extent and completeness of the showing Come!
Misses and Children's Fall and Winter Headgear in the most approved styles Great assortment Second Floor
Opening Days for Curtains, Draperies
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday "Opening Days"
in the enlarged and renovated Curtain and Drapery
Department Everything new and pretty in curtains
and Drapery Materials If you have in mind the fur
nishing of a new home or the refurnishing of a room
or rooms and are not just certain what to use, a visit
to this department will be productive of practical
suggestions which will aid greatly in your selections.
? Our facilities for doing the best drapery work are
5 ""equaled in the city Three expert drapers of ideas
and wide experience at your service The department
is decked out in grand attire The newest, richest
and'handsomest merchandise we own will be displayed
at every turn Don't fail to visit the 3d floor tomorrow
New French Embroidered Velour Portieres, $35 to $1.10
pair. Embroidery on these Portieres can be put on any
kind goods for Portieres, valances and -window draperies
to match.
Entire new line of Armures, Damasks and Moires for
' Draperies.
New Cretonne Taffeta Linen, Printed Linens, Printed "Warps, Linen Taffetas, etc., for bed
room purposes, the yard 20 up to $4.50
Plain and figured mercerized Reps, , with tapestry borders to match; all colors; large and small
patterns, yard .., S1.00 and S1.5(H
New Lace Curtains, Cluny, white, Arabian, pair 3.00 to S15.0O
Brussels, plain centers, detached, figures or allovers, pair . ... $4.50 to $25.00
Novelties in Grenadine Soutaches, Fillets, etc", pair $7.50 to $45.00
New Scotch Madras, French mulls, velours, silk and linen Portieres, etc., etc.
New Blankets at Very Interesting Prices
The Great Advance in the Cost of Wool Has Made No Difference in Our Selling Prices
10- 4 Oregon gray, all-wool Blankets; extraordinary value at the very low price of, pair S2.70
11- 4 extra heavy all-wool dark gray Blankets; great special value at the low.price of, pair 4.21
10- 4 all-wool mottled Blankets, pair $3.85- 11-4 all-wool mottled Blankets, pair $4.67
11- 4 natural gray Blankets, extra value, pair, $3.50. Best values in the city. Third Floor.
10- 4 white wool Blankets, pink and blueborders; regular $5 values for the low price of, pr..$4.27
11- 4 white wool Blankets, pink and blue 'borders ; regular $6 values for the low price of, pr. .$5.21
Extra large white wool Blankets, pink and blue borders; regular $7-values for, pair $6.05
Silkoline covered Comforters, full size, best patterns and colorings, filled with lanated cotton; great
values at $1.25, $1.50, $2.00, $2.25 and $2.50 each. Third Floor.
Handkerchiefs
Women's plain hemstitched pure
linen Handkerchiefs in .
and -lnch hems: the quality
otherstores ask you to pay o'
5oc for; our price, each CiSO
Women's flne hemstitched em
broidered, nil-linen Handker
chiefs, splendid assortment of pat
terns; regular 20c and 25c a '
values, each lrC
Women's Swiss hemstitched and
scalloped edge-embroidered Hand
kerchiefs, large variety of pat
terns; regular 35c and 40c values,
today at the low price
of, each JC
ROGERS "1&4?" AND
"FORBES" SILVERWARE
AT LOW PJUCES
' Basement,
Rogers "1S47" Berry Spoon Mc
Hosiers "JK47" Butter Knives.... 39c
Rogers '1S47" Sugar Shells SBc
Rogers "1S47" Gravy Liadle...$1.0-4
Forbes Silver Hair Receivers.. M
Forbes Bon-Bon Dlshfes, each.. $1.4
Forbes Syrup Jugs, each X63
Forbes Butter Dishes, each. . . .VSfi
Forbes 4-piece Tea Sets. set.... WAS
33 Cut Glass Jelly Dishes
Cut Glass Sugar and Creamer. .98.42.
$7.50 Nickel Coffee Machine. . .6V
$7 50 Nickel Chafing Dishes. ...fK.4m
Brass and Gilt Candlesticks....
KITCHEN GOODS
No. 9 Nickel "Teakettles $1.07
$1.00 3-pU Nickel Teapots...... -78c
$1-25 pt. Nickel Coffee Pot 90c
$1.50 Food Chopper. No. 2 tlHS
Mrs. Potts' Iron. $1.25 val.. set.. 04c
16-ln. Feather Duster, eacn 32e
12-ln. Feather Duster., each 21c
12-tjt. Galvanized Pails, each.... 18c
No. 2 Galvanized iron Tubs eoc
No. 3 Galvanized Iron Tubs 72c
$3.50 Wringer, guaranteed . . .foLso
$1.00 Willow Clothes Basket S2c
$1.10 Cop. Bottom Wash Boiler. .87c
No. 2 B. & H. Nickel Lamp, white
dome shade,complete ,.$V47
15-in. Nickel Towel Bars ...37c
Nickel Toothbrush Holder....... lie
Nickel Tumbler Holder 21c"
Cook's Steel Knives, 10-in 7c
Christy's Bread Knives, sot 48c
September Sale of Fine Portpres
$2.7o Tapestry Portieres, floral patterns, fringed top tf 1 qq
and bottom; 45 in. wide, 3 yds. long; all colors, pr. V
Double-faced Tapestry Portieres, two-tone effects,' heavy fringe
top and bottom, 3 yards long, 50 inches wide, lO
$4.50 values at the low price of, pair..:.. 330
Mercerized Portieres, light and, dark colorings, floral designs,
heavy fringe top and bottom, $6.75 values for $4.98
Mercerized and Tapestry Portieres, two-tone and floral effects,
3 yards long, 50 inches wide, $7.50 values at 4f t SQ
the exceptionally low price of, pair pJOdP
Remnants of Silkoline, Cretonnes, Swiss, Wal'FPf'ir1
Denim, Burlaps and Tapestries; all lengths. ICC
Boys Clothing 2d Floor
We can supply the boy with proper clothes for school or
dress wear at unusually reasonable prices The new Fall
and Winter styles are now readyThe best selected stock
in the city Good serviceable mater
ials in all grades The very best
values for your money
Boys' all-wooL rain-proof School Suits in
the besVmixtufeis, double-breasted coat,
trousers Aiil .linen lined, sewed with
silk throughout, 8 to 16 yrs.; tf Cf
greatest school'suit in land.
Russian Blouse Suits in navy blue serges
and cheviots, brown or gray mixtures,
ages 2 to 6 years ; great line at these
low prices, a .$4, $5, $6 and $7.50
Novelties in Little Boys' and Girls' Reef
ers, in red, navy, brown and gray mix
tures, coverts and shepherd plaids, ages
8 to 12 years,, great values at the very
low prices , $5,
$6, $7.50, $8.50, $10, $12.50
Little Boys' Overcoats, very newest styles
in 'navy blue and Oxford grays and
mixtures, 2y2 to 8 years, unusual
values at . . ; $2.50 to $5.00
' American Rnv" With every purchase of boy's suit or overcoat to
fMUC WJ the amount Of 45.00 or over at regular nrlee w rlvn
Free for 1 Year ree one year's subscription to the American Boy
1 . the bisrsesvbrlghtest and best boys' paper published.
Wash Goods Worth Buying
4300 yards of Galatea Cloth, plain and fancy patterns In great ,
variety; extraordinary value at this low price, yard 13C
Plain, and Dotted Cotton Crepes, large assortment of colors; grreatest
value ever ottered at this extraordinarily low price, yard.'. 1 IC
2 5-Inch Percales and Shirtings splendid value at this low price, yard.. 13 e
1500 yards of Silk Ginghams in Scotch Plaids; very beautiful color- ,
Ings; best 50c grade on sale for this very low price, yard ..JJC
Special Men's Umbrellas $1.09
Value extraordinary In Men's Umbrellas for today; 200 of them; soft-finish
gloria covering, steel rod. fancy and plain crook handles. 20th-ctury
patent runner, close roller. 26 and 2S-lnch sizes; an umbrella "most
stores would ask you J 1.75 or 52.00 for; your choice today f
for the exceptionally low price of
Greatest Lace Bargains in Town
18-Inch Allover Venise and Point de Gaze Lacerf and 45lnch figured nets.
In white and cream; suitable for waists and gowns; values up to-. . 0
54.50 yard; on sale for the very low price of, yard l.ov
45-lnch Black Dress Nets plain Point d'Esprlts and Chantlllys; eo
values up to 52.75 yard; on sale at this very low price, per yard$".-"
Point Gaze and Irish Crochet Galoons and Appliques, very beautl-. mn
ful styles; values up to 53.00 yard: on sale for. yard 1.7
New round-thread Valenciennes and Mechlin Edge3 and Insertions;
cream and ecru; 10-cent values on sale for the low price of. yard uC
Same as above, values 20c yard; on sale for this low price, yard 13c
New Raincoats $12.50 Ea.
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The Grandest Raincoat Value
in the City on Sale Today
This season's Jatest and best
garments at a remarkably
low price A class of rain
coat yon are asked to pay
$18.00 for at other stores
can be bought here today for
$12.50 Full length, tans and
oxfords, collarless, leg-o'-mut-
ton sleeves, finished with turn
back cuffs Box-pleated back,
belt and button-trimmed; well
made and finished throughout.
The greatest bargain of its
kind ever offered Mail orders
9 IMUWll 'JLiei 'HAT'
will be care
fully filled..
$ 1 2.50
New Silk Waists $6.00 to $18.00
Beautiful new line of popular-priced Silk Waists for even
ing and street wear Plain and fancy styles in plaids,
checks, stripes, white, light blue, pink, tan and black
Also lace waists with short or full-length sleevec Prices
from $6 to $ 18 Handsome new Lingerie Waists for dr s
and evening wear just received 2d Floor
35c and 40c Ribbons for 21c Yard
4000 yards ot o-Inch satin taffeta and all-pure silk taffeta Ribbons. In. all
the leading shades light, blue, cardinal, pink. Nile, reseda, brown, black,
white, cream, navy and old rose. Best 35c and 40c values on sale .
today at the extraordinarily low price of, yard d IC
Art Department Specials 2d floor
Pillow Covers, stamped .on, linen for Berlin embroidery; best Mc vals..4c
Laundry-Bags, made- of art denims; in sreen. red and blue; 50c vals. for..2Tc
Lithographed Pillow. Tops, in pretty designs, bigr varieitf, rs. uJc vals.. Me
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