THE 3IOHNTXG OILEG QSTA3T. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913.
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$20,000 Sale of Black Silks-Greatest Silk Event on Record
Women's-fiig'h Top
Introducing Seven Different New Models
Bought Expressly for the, Birthday Sale
And Offered at the One Price of
$3.85
Patent colt and dull calf foxed lace and button boots,
with black cloth tops, plain toe models, Cuban Louis heels,
welt soles.
Also patent colt and vici kid, button boots with black cloth
tops, three-quarter foxed, plain round toes, welt soles.
Full range of sizes and widths in every style.
Second Floor
NEW MILLINERY
Think of It-Fashion's Best Styles in the
Third Birthday Sale
c. The Most Remarkable Assortment
of Early Season
Regular $6 to $8
Trimmed Hats
Birthday Sale
The finest assortment of trimmed
hats ever offered at the beginning of
a new season hats that reflect noth
ing but what is new and best in the
Autumn millinery world. Hats for tailored, dress and street wear.
Hats of a most superior quality of silk pile velvet, many of which
are original creations and copies of exclusive models.
New Untrimmed Hats
of Black Lyons Velvet
Birthday Sale $1.95
Lyons velvet is the most fashionable and wanted
material for hat shapes, and in this assortment of hats
will be found a host of the latest modes in untrimmed
shapes of black Lyons velvet.
Small and large hats, combining both quality and style hats are so
complete in themselves that little trimming is required to make them fin
ished models.
A History-Making Birthday Sale of
$3.50 Ostrich Feathers at $1.33
Ostrich feathers have again come into their own. The opening of the
new 1915 Fall season sees them the leading millinery trimming for velvet
hats. This group of ostrich feathers was purchased expressly for our
Annual Birthday Sale, and it will be a sale that will long be remembered
as the greatest of its kind in ostrich feather selling. Not alone because
ostrich feathers are fashionable, but because the feathers are of an extra
fine quality, made up into French plumes with broad head and the same
width to the stem, straight curve. In black, white and all the pew shades.
$2 to $3.50 Ostrich Feather Novelties
Birthday Sale $1.19
This sale offers the choicest patterns and designs of high-class
ostrich feather novelties. The colors consist of the new zebra
effect in black and white in all-white and in other desirable
colors. Many of these pieces make complete trimming for a hat.
Third Floor
Two Big Birthday Sales of
Hand-Decorated Table China
China Selling Up to $1.25 for 29c
Salad bowls, fancy plates, candlesticks, chocolate pots, teapots,
perfume bottles, teacups and saucers, tea strainers, vases, and
bonbon dishes, etc.
China Selling to $3.00 for $1.19
Vases, salad bowls, creamers and sugars, fancy plates, fern
dishes, covered bonbon dishes, teapots, chocolate pots, covered but
ter dishes, covered muffin dishes, boudoir sets, berry bowls, tea
caddies, etc
$5 Nickel Percolators and Chafing
DishesBirthday Sale $3.75
The best makes only the chafing dishes are fitted with the new
inferno burners and have ebonized handles, three-pint size. The
percolators, in a new and graceful shape, three-pint size, new in
ferno burners and fitted with ebonized handles. Sixth Floor
Remarkable Savings Made Possible Through the Successful Consummation of a Sensational Purchase
Seven months reflect a moment grasp, if you can, the unremitting labor the energy the foresight used in pre
paring" this great Black Silk event. Every well known silk mill was visited. "What have you in desirable black Silks?"
What have you worthy of our annual Birthday Sale?" We secured one lot here another there, until after weeks
and weeks of silk hunting-, we have brougtit together the most remarkable yes, the greatest stock of Black Silks ever
collected in one store. Black Silks over 33,000 yards at prices lower than ever before quoted on similar qualities.
y Messalines, Taffetas, Gros de Londre, Faille, Satin Duchesse, Crepe Meteor
Bengalines, Poplins, Gros de Paris, Satin Charmeuse, Fleur de Soie
BLACK CHIFFON TAFFETA
$1.00 Black 36-in. Chiffon Taffeta 73c
$1.25 Black 36-in. Chiffon Taffeta 89c
$1.50 Black 36-in. Chiffon Taffeta 95c
$1.75 Bl'k 36-in. Chiffon Taffeta $1.19
$2.00 Bl'k 36-in. Chiffon Taffeta $1.35
$2.25 Bl'k 40-in. Chiffon Taffeta $1.69
BLACK MESSALINE
90c Black 36-in. Messaline Silk 69c
95c Black 36-in. Messaline Silk 74c
$1.0Q Black 36-in. Messaline Silk 79c
$125 Black 36-in. Messaline Silk 95c
$lQ Black 36-in. Messaline Silk $1.19
BLACK DUCHESS SATIN
$1.00 Black 36-in. Duchess Satin 83c
$1.50 Black 36-in. Duchess Satin 95c
$1J75 Black 36-in. Duchess Satin $1.19
BLACK PEAU DE.SOIE
$1.25 Black 36-in. Peau de Soie 89c
$1.50 Black 36-in. Peau de Coie 98c
$2.00 Black 36-in. Peau de Soie $1.39
$2.25 Black 36-in. Peau de Soie $1.73
BLACK SATIN DE PARIS
$2.50 Black 40-in. Satin de Paris $1.69
$2.00 Black 36-in. Satin de Paris $1.49
GROSGRAIN BRILLIANT
$2.50 Black 36-in. Grosgrain Bril
liant $1.69
$1.75 Black 24-in. Grosgrain Bril
liant $1.19
BLACK FAILLE
$1.75 Black 36-in.
$2.00 Black 36-in.
Silk Faille $1.29
Silk Faille $1.43
BLACK FAILLE FRANCAISE
$2.50 Bl'k 36-in. Faille Francaise $1.89
BLACK BENGALINE
$2.00 Black 36-in. Bengaline Silk $1.43
PEKIN STRIPE TAFFETA
$1.75 Black 36-in. Pekin Stripe
Taffeta $1.09
$2.00 Black 36-in. Pekin Stripe
Taffeta $1.45
BLACK MOIRE
$2.00 Black 36-in. Moire Silk $1.35
BLACK CREPE DE CHINE
$1.25 Black 40-in. Crepe de Chine 98c
BLACK "CREPE METEOR
$3.00 Black 43-in. Crepe Meteor $2.48
Second Floor
" The Most Wanted
Silk All-Over Laces
Embroidered Nets
REGULAR $1.00 TO $2.00 YD.
Birthday 69c
Craquelle, diamond and filet mesh in
silk and silk finish. Also silk chantilly.
In cream, white and black. First Floor
Novelty Ribbons 39c
Regular From 75 c to $1.25
The most beautiful collection of ex
quisite Dresden, Warp Prints and Jac
quard ribbons ever shown in this store.
Every piece new, showing the latest de
signs and effects. From 6 to 8 inches
wide. For millinery, dress and fancy
work. First Floor
Newest Fall Veilings
REGULAR 75c TO $1.50
Birthday Sale 39c
Strong hair every woman knows
these veilings, the best without question.
Hexigon. filet, craquelle mesh, chenille
dotted ' designs. In black, brown and
navy. Also many plain and figured
white wash-blond veilings. First Floor
JEWELRY SALE
$1.50 Velvet Neck
Bands OUC
Various widths of silk
velvet neck bands with silver
slides and novelty buckles,
with French rhinestones.
25c Sterling Hat
Pin Sets
10c
New Hat Pins of sterling sil
ver, fancy stone set two pins
in a set.
$1 Fancy Import
ed Brooches for . .
49c
In the new Basket designs
set with colored stone3.
$t.25 Italian Jet jf
Necklaces for. ... 7C
Real Italian jet, perfect cut
beads in oval and rdund shapes,
gold fitted clasps, neck sizes.
$1.00 Novelty
Collar Sets. . .
68c
Two pins in a set, gold filled
and mounted with small colored
Btones, flower designs. Each set
in a fancy lined box.
Kirat Floor
Your Opportunity-Remarkable New Fall Apparel-For This Event
The Compelling Force Alone of These Extraordinary Offerings Will Mark This a Record Making Birthday Sale Never Equaled
Twenty of the Latest Fall
Models in
Silk Dresses
Regular Price $20 to $35
Birthday Sale
$15.95
; Dresses of crepe de chine, chiffon taffeta, in plain
colors, plaids and checks.
Twenty different models, two of which are illus
trated. Some with scalloped flaring skirts, bolero
jacket effects, other models fluted, others plaited and
draped; a great many have chiffon sleeves.
Third Floor
The New Fall and
Winter Coats
Of All Wool Scotch Mixtures
Regular Price $20.00
Birthday Sale
$11.65
Coats in beautiful shades of grays and
browns in the newest 48-inch lengths. Velvet
collars and cuffs, with many of the collars very
large, which can be worn buttoned high or
open, belted and half-belted models, and mod
els with velvet bands around the hems. Two
models illustrated. Thiri Floor
Strictly Man Tailored Suits
of Wool Poplin
In Style as Illustrated
Regular Price $25
Birthday Sale
$18.85
These suits are exact copies of suits that
sell for more than double this sale price. They
can be had in black, navy blue, brown and s
green and made of a fine grade of wool
poplin
They are slightly fitted, having wide box
plaits in the back of coats, mannish sleeves,
lined with striped satin. The skirts are in
the new plaited and flare models. Tailored
throughout in the best manner. Third Floor
Agents for the famous
Klosfit Petticoats.
Fiber Silk Sweaters
Regular Price $6.95
BIRTHDAY SALE
These sweaters are made with
V neck and the belt across the back
and with two side pockets. In Co
penhagen, rose, watermelon and emerald-
Third Floor
CHIFFON TAFFETA PETTICOATS
With Flaring Flounces
BIRTHDAY SALE
$2,48
Regular Price $3.95
-rme, soft-finished taffeta silk petti- S
coats in all the new Fall colors, includ- U;
mg black, navy, brown, Russian green,
emerald green and changeable effects.
These petticoats are cut in the new
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tucked, corded and knife-plaited Jh'i.p$-Mk
imiMieu at ine waist wiin eiasuc lined
tops.
The best petticoats you have ever
bought at this price. Tkireioor
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$2.50 New Fall Nadia Corsets $1.69
Made of soft grade of coutil with low bust, long over the hips and
back -curve at the waistline. Trimmed with lace and ribbon. All
bones finished with silk floss. Three pairs of hose supporters at
tached. Sizes 19 to 26.
New $3.00 Rengo Belt Corsets $1,95
Made of heavy coutil and boned with double watchspring steel;
medium low bust, medium long over the hips and back, reinforced
over the abdomen; finished at the top with embroidery; wide elastic
across the back ; three pairs of heavy supporters attached. Sizes
19 to 30. Fourth Floor
CREPE DE CHINE
BLOUSES
Regular Price $4.00
Birthday Sale
$2.25
Blouses of extra quality all-silk crepe de chine in white and black-and-white striped pussy-willow silk. Fash
ioned in the very newest Fall styles ; some are made with the new convertible collars, others with squar sailor
collars. The front are tucked and hemstitched; the sleeves are long with fancy cuffs to match the fronts
and collars. . jhifi roof