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SECTION FOUR
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Dramatic, Automobile
and Moving Pictures
VOL. XXXV. POKTLAXD, OREGON, SUNDAY MORXIXO, MAY 7, 191C. NO. 10.
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May Sale Gloves
75c Chamoisette Gloves, elbow length
two clasps at wrist, well-known makes,
white only 59c
Superior Chamoisette Gloves, el
bow length, three clasps at wrist, -spear
backs $1.UU
Slip-on Chamoisettes, strap at wrist.
Ideal for motoring and general wear.
Black and natural o9c
2-Clasp Chamoisettes, natural shades,
three . "rows contrasting embroidery.
Splendid gloves 65c
Pure-Silk Double-Tipped gloves, mill
run of a famous maker. Elbow length,
white and pongee 79c
First Floor
$100 in Gold Given Away
In Our Art Needlework Contest
Prizes given for every kind of work.
Join today!
You have a chance to win a prize.
Fifth Floor
New Classes in Dressmaking
By Madam Richet
For beginners, Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays. Advanced classes, Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays. Classes 10 to 12, use of
sewing-room all day. Eighth Floor
Join Our Painting Classes
Conducted by Miss Myra Helm, well-known
artist. Lessons in oil and water colors. Bring
your prints and photos and color them under
her directions. Sixtli Floor
To-morrow-first' Ban of the
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EXTRAORDINARY
This May Sale Hosiery.
Instead of QQ
Regular at $1.25 OOC
Clocked Lace Inset
Black, pure-thread silk stockings; white clocked
with black: black clocked with white; also white
pure-thread silk stockings with white lace insets.
This is the last word in smart Summer hosiery.
Remarkable offering, quantities limited.
Fancy Top Socks 18c
For Boys and Girls, Sizes 4 to &z
Plaids, stripes, plain or rolled tops, all new pat
terns, fast and stainless color.
18c pair, or 3 pairs tor 50c.
F.rt Floor.
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Exposition and Sale of Tub Fabrics
Tomorrow the Women of Portland
Will Be Shown the Greatest Collection of Summer Wash Materials
Ever Assembled in One Store in Portland
New Weaves, New Materials, New Colorings, New Patterns
$10,000 Worth of New Wash Goods at May Sale Prices
Extraordinary Economies V4 to V3 Less Regular
Left to the ingenuity of American designers and manufacturers no branch of weaving has shown the progress
as the wonderful examples presented in cotton tub materials. The creation of new Wash Fabrics today vies
with those of the finest silk materials. To illustrate this wonderful advancement, we shall present to the
women of Portland, tomorrow, by far the greatest exposition of Wash Goods ever made in Portland.
New English Voiles 75c
Striped Sports Skirtings 35c
Smartest color combinations in inch
stripes and combination stripes, bright
color effects, for skirts and suits. 32
inches wide.
Novelty Silk Mixtures 60c
Newest colorings in light and dark
tinted grounds, also black and white
stripes. 36 inches wide.
New Ladder Voiles 75c
Full 45 inches wide, in white
grounds, in lavender, pink, black and
blue striped effects.
New Bordered Voiles $"..00
Large striped floral borders and
combining satin stripes with allover
floral centers. Very effective. 45 inches
wide.
35c and 40c Novelty White
Wash Fabrics 25c
New novelties in stripes and flake
patterns, 36 inches wide. 20 different
designs to choose from.
Awning Striped Suitings 50c
The new beach cloth in wide two
inch stripes, printed in bright combina
tion colors. Correct weight for suits
and skirts.
$1.25 White Golfine 95c
Yard wide, extra fine quality
golfine, the most popular and scarcest
of the new materials for suits and
skirts.
35c Figured Voiles 25c
New stripes, plaids. Dresden and
challie patterns, full 40 inches wide,
in all colors.
75c Woven Voiles 48c
Over 50 different patterns, in wov
en stripes and plaids. 36 to 45 inches
wide an immense assortment of
colors.
60c Silk Mixtures 49c
Closely resembles the tub silks
half inch and narrow stripes in color
combinations, especially suitable for
waists and men's shirts.
Exclusive designs and novelties,
shadow effects in beautiful color com
binations, also stripes.
New Shirting Madras 30c
Over 30 patterns, in new colorings
on .white grounds. Full 32 inches wide.
40c White Voiles 25c
40-inch, all-white voiles for dresses
and waists. Fine, evenly woven quality.
75c White Voiles 50c
Double-twisted, sheer, pure white
voiles, full 45 inches wide, very fine
quality.
Embroidered Voiles $1.35
45 inches wide, with deep embroid
ered border in two and three combina
tion color effects, for Summer dresses.
New Colored Gabardines 50c
Correct weight for suits and separate
skirts. 36 inches wide. Colors such as
pink, light blue. Belgian blue, tan,
khaki. Second Floor
"What Is Worth While Doing h Worth While Doing Well"
This May Sale of Undermuslins
Unexampled in History of This Store for Quality and Economy
The central attraction of May White Sales will be this extraordinary collection of undermuslins. The showing is wholly beyond
and unlike anything heretofore attempted by this store. The rare beauty, the unusual quality, the perfect tailoring and the unex
ampled low prices are features that spell SUCCESS for this sale and SATISFACTION to our patrons.
$1.50 and $1.65 Combinations 75c and 85c Corset Covers 59c French Skirts, Half Price
$1.19 Of fine longcloth. with and without Of French longcloth, hand embroid-
Several models of longcloth in waisted cap sleeves. ered.
styles. -' Other specials 29c to $1 .15 Others at 99c, $1.38 to $22.50
Other specials 59c, $1.00 to $3.39 Regular.. 45c to $1.65 Regular.. $1.98. $2.75 to $45.00
Regular 75c. $1.35 to $4.50 $7.50 Skirts $1.19 $1.00 French Corset Covers 69c
r rn rr.,.r rh.;- 70r Of longcloth. with deep 'flare ruffles. Hand embroidered. French longcloth.
$1.00 Envelope Chemise 79c iTLmcd. Others to $1.65 for 98c
Of excellent quality longcloth. beauti- Other specials 59c to $3.39 CREPE DE CHINE
fully tnmmed and made. Regular.. 85c to $4.50 UNDERWEAR
Other specials 50c to $1.98 knot 99 o
Regular.f..... 75c to $2.50 French Combinations $1.69 $3.00 Bloomers $2 39
Regular to $2.95. in exquisite hand- n white and flesh tint, finished at knee
$1.35 and $1.50 Crepe Gowns embroidered styles. an waist with elastic.
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Fine phsse and Windsor crepe gowns Philippine Gowns $3.39 Made of society satin in white and
in white and pink. 1 t c- 1 i- - 1 j j n l .
, . , . Made ot tine sheer lingerie, hand made tlesh tint.
Other specials 59c to $1.19 and hand embroidered. Other specials $1.00 to $1.98
R8ul" 85c to $1.50 Other specials $3.95 to $7.45 Regular $1.50 to $2.75
75c and 85c Drawers 59c Regular $5.00 to $8.50 $4 SQ Envelopte Chemise $3.39
Of longcloth in flat-leg or circular-cut $6.00 Philippine Envelope Also of pussy-willow and society satin,
styles. Chemise for $4.95 in white and flesh.
Other specials 25c to 85c Of sheer lingerie, hand made and hand Other specials $1.79 to $2.95
Regular 35c to $1.25 embroidered. ' Regular $2.25 to $3.75
$1.00 and $1.25 Gowns 79c Other specials $2.39 to $4.45 $5.00 Gowns $3.98
Longcloth gowns in slip-over styles, in " Regular $3.00 to $5.50 In white and flesh tint. Trimmed and
various pretty styles 75c Crepe Bloomers 49c ofhTr's at $4.95 to $7.45
Other specials ofc to $3.39 run regulation cut, clastic at knee and Regular $6 00 to $8 50
Regular 85c to $4.50 waist. " Fourth floor.
An Unusual Offer of $1.50 New
Sports Corsets 98c
A Price That Is Less Than
the Present Wholesale Cost
Made of pink batiste with elastic top,
very lightly boned, free over the hips
and but one inch above the waistline.
Two pairs of supporters attached. Sizes
20 to 28. Fourth Floor
New 56-In. Cream Wool Coatings $2.19
Very Scarce Even at $2.50 and $2.75 Regular
Imported and domestic weaves in this great assortment of the season's
scarcest, most popular fabric. A special purchase enables us to offer them
at this exceptional sale price such weaves as diagonals, granites, basket weaves,
brocades, stripes, herringbones, now greatly in demand. Every yard 56 inches
wide.
56-Inch Checked Suitings, $2.50 Regular, Sale $2.19
Smartest new combinations of black and white, grays, browns, tans, green,
blues in checks of all sizes. 56 inches wide. Second Floor
10,000 Summer Undergarments
FOR MEN
The man -who knowingly needs Summer underwear and who reads this
advertisement, and then willingly lets the opportunity pass, is false to himself
and to this store. No man dare ignore this Sale. It means dollars saved on
every purchase. The time, the thought, the scheming to formulate this Sale
covers a period of over nine months. Consequently the best in men's Summer
underwear will be found in this Sale.
$1.00 Genuine Porosknit 50c Athletic Shirts and
Union Suits, in two styles, every Drawers, of check nainsook, ex-
suit -guaranteed o5c cellent fitting garments OCC
$1.50 Globe Union Suits,
., , . .1 i i i i ' $1.00 Athletic Union Suits
athletic style, or lisle thtead.
reinforced $1.15 of plain soisette. stnpe madras nclQ
nainsook OiC
$2.00 Globe Union Suits
of pure white gauze lisle, long $2.00 and $1.50 Athletic
or short sleeves ifr 1 . t 5 Union Suits of pure Irish
$2.00 Jefferson Union Suits linen, pebble cloth, striped mad
white or ecru color, of fine ras. mercerized shirtings and
grade cotton yarn Ijl.HO silk effects )1.0
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Summer Knit Underwear Sale
For Women, Misses, Girls and Boys
$1.25 Women's Union Suits, ol
lisle thread. Summer weight, lace
or plain yokes, tight or lace
trimmed knee. Sizes 34 to 44. . 69c
Women's Union Suits, Smiss
ribbed, of lisle thread, fine
weave, lace or tight knee.
Sizes 34 to 44 $1.00
65c Women's Knit Union Suits
of cotton, low neck, sleeveless or
loose-knee style. All sizes 39c
Misses' Cotton Union Suits all
buttoned on side, low neck, short
or sleeveless, or Dutch neck,
elbow sleeve, knee length. Priced
according to size, from $1.50
to .45 c
Women's Swiss-Ribbed Union
Suits, beaded lace yokes. tight,ff
loose or lace-trimmed knee OUC
Women's Silk Lisle Vests, fine
weave, low neck, sleeveless, fin-
ished with silk tape o5c
Boys' Cotton Union Suits, with
short sleeves, knee length. Me
dium weight. Sizes 2 to 12 years 5 0c
Same garments, sizes 14 to
16 years for 59c
Women's Silk Lisle Union
Suits, low-neck, sleeveless,
tight or loose-knee style.
Neatly trimmed $1.50
First Floor
Laces Embroideries
To $1.50 Embroidery Flouncings 49c
18, 27, 40 and 45 Inches Wide
1 8-inch flouncings in fine, dainty patterns, with lacey edges, also beautiful hand
loom edges, for waists, dresses and underwear, etc.
27-inch flouncings in eyelet, floral and conventional designs, also infants' and
children's hemstitched and ruffled patterns.
40-inch colored voile flouncings in effective new designs, for Summer frocks.
45-tnch sheer Swiss flouncings in solid and eyelet patterns, very effective.
To $1.00 New Laces, Special 25c
In Widths From 8 to 27 Inches
New, first time shown beautiful laces, sheer, fine qualities, with effective designs
for waists. Summer frocks, evening dresses, underwear, etc. In cream and white.
To $1.25 Laces, 27 Inches Wide 69c
Lovely new laces, embroidered on fine nets, in cream and white, suitable for blouses,
dresses, trimmings. Also 36-inch allovers, very popular for waists and tunics.
$2.75 and $3.00 Novelty Georgette
Crepe and Indestructible Voi'e
A price that is extraordinary plain, candy and awning striped effects. Plain crepes
with self "Stripes, and all exclusive new novelties now so much in demand. First Floor
$2.39
Thousands of HANDKERCHIEFS in May Sale
Tape Border, hemstitched
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with colored embroidery a5C
15c Hand-Embroidered initial on corners
f in. merAlrl lawn. Prenrk kern nl rl - Alt Pt,r f in.n ttliit Iwa.
English letter :...9c inch hemstitched hem, sheer quality 18c
15c Box 3 Children's Kerchiefs 9c
All Picture Framing to Order
One-Quarter Off the Regular Prices
This includes our complete line of the newest mouldings and ready-made wall and
stand picture frames. , Sixth Floor
To Introduce Our Enlarged Phonograph Section
We Offer the $15.00 Victrola
at special terms $1.00 down, $2.50 month
75c Record Album, Holds Dozen 10-Inch Records, 48c
35c Double-Disc Records, 18c
With every purchase of 6 records we give 1 5c attach
ment free. 15c Little Wonder Records, 10c.
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Lovely new styles in vestees of fine Georgette crepe; guimpes of
net, hand embroidered; vestees of dainty Oriental lace;
separate collars of sheer organdie and Georgette
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