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About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1913)
v Otsr First B With the Greatest Series of Sales Ever Offered the People of Portland -Our First Birthday Celebration wul consist of a sharing of profits of deep underpricing on the newest Fall Merchandise. Read and profit by every item, for every item has been selected with the utmost care. -Manufacturers and wholesalers co-operate with us to make this a sale affording the greatest economy on seasonable needs. Owing to the lack of space many items are necessarily crowded out of the paper. fn every section special signs will call your attention to "Birthday' Specials. Every sale is limited to one day only. The following are the sales for Tuesday: Visiting Merchants and their families are invited to in 'spect our new store. Attendants will be placed at their disposal .to show the many attractive features of this mod ern mercantile establishment. - From the Suit Store 100 New Fall Silk Dresses Selling From $ I 5.00. $20.00 to $35.00 Birthday Sale Price $9.85 One of the best dressmakers in New York, en term? with us Into the BDirit of the occasion, sent us these exquisite silk dresses. Think of buying crepe de chine, silk poplin, messaline, moire, veiling and fancy foulard dresses at $9.85 -Exquisite gowns, black, navy, -brown, gray, Copenhagen, tan, green," American Beauty, taupe, light blue, wistaria, Nell rose and pink. Scarcely two alike in the entire collection. These beautiful dresses are fashioned in high and low neck effects, with the choice of either long or short sleeves. The skirts are exquisitely draped and trimmed to match the waists. Positively only one dress -to a customer. Third Tloor From the Millinery Store 1 00 Trimmed Fail Hats of Velvet and Silk Plush "Selling Regularly at $9.00, $10.00 to $12.00 1 - ' Birthday Sale Price $4.95 There are just one hundred of these hats every one a model. Jaunty, close-fitting, practical hats in medium and small shapes, with smart turn-up brims, rolling crowns, tam crowns, soft pleat ed crowns and the ever-popular mushroom. They are made of silk, velvet and plush. In black, white and all the popular shades of the season. They came to us from one of the best milliners in New York, who declared that he would allow no one to contribute to our sale any item of merchandise that would outrival his con tribution. These hats certainly are chic, and we believe will be fully -appreciated by every woman who is fortunate to secure one of . them. looond Roor Silk Velvet and Silk Plush Untrimmed Hats, Selling at $3.00 Birthday Sale Price $1.48 Smart in every line showing some of the season's most at tractive shapes and styles. These hats come in silk velvet and silk plush in a multiplicity of colors taute. black, oumle. browns, blues some with col- . . A - . !i a l ii . orea croserain Danas wun smart tauorca dowb, ouicrs witn Dana ' and bow of self material. They are smart attractive shapes with full tam crowns and up at the side or turned down all round, and need only a quill Sooond rioor. Never Before Equaled Here or Elsewhere A Theodore Haviland 1 00-Piece China Dinner Set Selling Regularly at $35.00 Birthday Sale $19.95 A Fitting Celebration in Announcing Our New China Department Consisting of 100 pieces of this famous china in dainty spray designs in pink, blue and green and in six different patterns for your choice. auw avi io in iii ia ivoi auapca -an iivJiiUW Wdl C Willi gUUJ 1AratM Vl OnlpC in VlJ VArtr Kacf jys1j4 MWW .-.-WW , V W T-Jf VWU gVIUl The quality of the china is the very best Theodore Haviland, and the patterns, which are exclusive with us in Portland, may be duplicated or replaced by special order. THE SET CONSISTS OF - W 12 Dinner Plates . 12 Tea-Plates 12 Bread and Butter Plates 1 2 Fruit Saucers 12 Soup Plates 12 Tea Cups and Saucers'" 1, Baker 3 Meat Platters 2 Covered Vegetable Dishes 1 Open Vegetable Dish 1 Sauce Boat 1 Covered Butter pish 1 Pickle Dish 1 Sugar and Creamer , Sixth Floor. Finest Quality Dark Warp 50c to 95c Fancy Ribbons 33c In the face of the greatest scarcity ever known in the silk, ribbon business,; we offer the latest Cubist designs, in warp prints, also the very newest Dresden rib bons in navy, Alice, black and brown, striped effects and other, desirable ribbons for millinery and dress purposes. rirt r & nercnanaiso or cy rierit Only V Oriental and Venise Allovers Now in Great Demand Selling Regularly From $1.50 to $5.00 Yard Birthday Sale Price 98c Direct from St Gall, Switzerland Oriental and Venise allover laces. Fashion demands the use of these laces in innumerable ways. Nothing more popular for trimming Autumn dresses. An immense variety of stylish and dainty patterns all 18 inches wide. Light, medium, dark and black nets. An exquisite collection offered on Tuesday at but a small fraction of the import cost rimt rio0 A Silk Sensation Finest Black Charmeuse Selling Regularly at $2.50 Birthday Sale Price $1.79 Black satin charmeuse it has just come rushed to us by ex press from one of the largest silk manufacturers fashion's most favorite fabric. Here is a material that promises to hold first place in the entire field of fashionable silks. It is also one of the scarcest silks. On Tuesday we offer 2000 yards of our regular $2.50 black satin charmeuse for $1.79 yard. Pure Thread Silk Stockings A Rare Occasion Stockings Selling From $1.25 to $2.00 Birthday Sale Price 69c 600 pairs not a great many, but considering the remarkable price concession we were delighted to receive even 60 small an amount Every woman who buys these stockings will recognize at once how underpriced they are. Pure thread silk stockings, in black, white and colors. In light medium and heavy weights. In grades that (for fineness pf .weave and texture) rival the finest imported stockings. rim rioor. Rich Oriental Rugs at A Wonderful Price Only 59 of These Prizes, Selling Regularly From $35.00 to $42.50 Birthday Sale Price $21.45 An Oriental rug never depreciates in value there is alwaysv a fixed price that a good rug will bring. We are merely giving you an added dividend when we offer these rugs at less than the price they cost to import. When fishing for this lot of rugs the unsettled tariff question played a most important part in our argument, and helped us to close the purchase. Irans, Mossouls and Belouchistans Sizes ranging from 3 by 6 to 6 by 6 ft. Rugs that are beautiful in design and rich in color in, Feraghan patterns and palm leaf designs in color combinations! that are certain to delight every rug connoisseur. ruth rioor Only Through a Concession of the Makersjjf the Domestic Sewing Machine Can We Offer for One Day Only the $55 Domestic Special $24.75 WITH A 20-YEAR GUARANTEE To celebrate our one year's exclusive agency for the famous Domestic Sewing Machines we secured from the manufacturers special permission to sell for one day only FIFTY of the regular $55.00 Domestic Sewing Machines, the new 1913 model, for $24.75, which we offer you Tues day with a twenty-year guarantee. This machine is equipped with every modern improve ment the lock and double thread stitching chain or single thread stitching ruffling tucking hemming binding shirring in fact has all the requirements of the best up-to-date sewing machine. It it durable, quiet and light running yet simple in construction. A full and complete set,, of nickel-plated attachments free with each machine. Wood work of the finest quartered sawed oak. Sold on the easy payment plan of $1.00 Down $1.00 Week ant rioor. Canvas-Covered, Fiber-Bound Trunks . Birthday Sale $7.95 A large box trunk, canvas-covered and fjtber bound, with brass bumper clamps, front dowels, large bolts and valance clamps on the box. " Fitted with extra heavy straps and strap protectors, and one very deep tray. These are 32 and 34-inch trunks. im K $6.00 Umbrellas FOR MEN AND WOMEN Birthday Price, $2.98 Umbrellas made of water proof silk taffeta with rein forced tape edge standard teel rods, best quality of steel paragon frames. They have 12 and 15 inch handles of black ebohoid ; straight and flat tops capped and outlined with silver; plain and carved hard woods with and without gold or silver trimmings. Prince of Wales crooks in polished woods with and without silver trimmings; all have detachable handles. rmt koi Stamp'd Child's Dresses Art Needlework Section Regular Price 75c to 85c Birthday Sale, 39c Pretty little dresses for children from 1 to 3 years old. Made of French lawn and mercerized pop lin. Little Empire style, one-piece hanger style, belt and kimono style, one-piece slipover style. All made up and stamped for embroidering in the simple ' scallop and French embroidery, floral and conven tional designs, in the Lazy Dazy patterns, and for eyelet embroidery. Second rioor. $1.25 Percale House Dresses, Birthday, 89c Plain, practical house dresses of percale in light or dark colors, in stripes, checks 'and plaids. Made with small yoke outlined with pip ing of harmonizing color, one pleat over the shoulder and elbow sleeves. Belted at the waist line and have plain skirts ronrtli oot Imported Beaded Bags Selling Regularly to $2.75 Birthday Sale, $1.48 -Beautifully beaded bags, in large assortment of col ors and patterns white grounds with gold, silver and every imaginable color, worked into artistic designs. Black beaded foundations, with gold, silver and steel patterns. These bags are all cloth lined, carried by chain, and have pretty fringed fin- nin8' Writ Floor $1.25 and $1.50 Muslin Combination Suits Birthday Sale, 75c These combinations, which are corset cover and drawer and corset cover and skirt combinations, are splendid, practical garments, made of good quality nainsook, perfect in every particular, cut, finishing and trimming. They are made in the walsted style, with new cut medium nar row drawers and skirts, in accord ance with the prevailing fashions. Prettily trimmed with linen and shadow laces, embroidery yokes and inserts in covers and drawers. Finished at neck and bottom of drawers with lace edgings, ribbon run- ronrth rioor 2-Clasp Silk Gloves Always Sold at 75c Birthday Sale, 59c The very best quality two-clasp silk gloves with double finger tips. In black, white, brown, tan, pongee, grey, navy, champagne, red, and Copenhagen. There is not a bet ter silk glove than this glove and you will find that it will give you the very best of service. first floor. 75c, 85c and;$1.00 Bathroom Fittings Birthday Sale, 49c Heavily nickel plated fixtures such as tub soap dishes- with extra heavy rim! 18 and 20 inch towel rods; tumbler holders in many dif ferent styles; bath seats 1n white or oak finish, crystal towel rods, 24 inches long with nickel brackets; bath sprays, metal shower tips, red rubber tubing. ' ririt rioor. Men, Too, Will Be Here Bright and Early For Their Share of Neckties Selling Regularly at $1.00, 75c and 50c Birthday Sale Price, 35c New Silks direct from the loom and made' up in the very newest shapes and styles in Fall neckwear. Notwithstanding the great advance, in the price of silks and the great scarcity, owing to the silk strikes, we offer the newest Persian silks, brocades and novelty silks, bordered ef fects and plain colors in a wonderful assortment of the new est fall shades. Of course, these scarfs are sold greatly un der price. They need must be in order to make this an event out of the ordinary. Included, too, are a hundred dozen all-silk knitted ties tn crossbar patterns in two and three-tone combinations. Tint riocfc Famous Kayser Union Suits for Women Selling Regularly at $3, $2.75 to $2 Birthday Sale Price, $ 1 .43 Kayser union suits of white silk lisle in a light medium weight Made with low neck, sleeveless and knee length Some with Italian or French band tops, also crochet yokeV or plain neck. Some silk finished and trimmed by hand. Also included are some silk lisle vests in a variety of pat terns of handsome hand crocheted yokes. Kayser Knit Underwear Underpriced SELUNG REGULARLY AT 75c to 90c Birthday Sale Price, 55c Swiss ribbed lisle thread and silk lisle vests, in white or pink, light or medium weight. They have low necks, plain or with pretty hand crocheted yokes, and come In regular or extra sizes. rout moo .-Remarkable Contributions in Seasonable Wash Fabrics From Foremost Manufacturers 50c Silk Mixed Shantung Birthday Sale Price, 25c A cloth admirably suited for girls' school dresses, waists and for slips. A fabric constructed with cotton warp and silk filling, woven In the fashionable rough effect. In solid colors such as navy blue, white, jasper, pink, black. Can be laundered without impairing the color or finish. Superior Outing Flannel Birthday Sale Price, 6c Every housewife appreciates the worth of a good outing flannel and this special offering consists of a superior quality that can be used for nightgowns, children's wear and comfort covers. In light, medium and dark colors stripes in hair line clusters, and fancy small checks and medium plaids. 75c Irish Linen Damask Friday Sale Price, 49c This is a medium weight full bleached Irish linen table damask woven in an assortment of effective patterns. It is 66 inches wide. 45c Mercerized Damask Birthday Sale Price, 24c A heavy bleached damask in patterns usually found in the higher grade of linen table damask. Full 60 inches wide and will not lint BaMmMti . Fichu Collars, Imperial Ruches Unprecedented Opportunity New 75c Neckwear 35c There is nothing in the whole neckwear line more popular for Autumn than these collars and ruches for jackets and waists. One sees them everywhere! worn by the best dressed women, and for that reason this sale is bound to create the greatest interest. Fashionable fichu collars of net, edged and trimmed with, dainty shadow laces. Round and square shapes frilled at the neck in Medici effect. j Imperial ruches of white, nets and soft crepe de chine boned at the neck, which gives it the full Medici effect. wsi rioor. v. French arid American '.r vl, ansian For One Day-One-Third Off Our entire stock ; of : Imported' and?doiiaeatte . Parisian ivory will be sold at just one third the regular selling price on Tuesday onKf. This in cludes the plain and the hand-decorated ivory, in many neV styles, designs and shapes. 9lnt ri0)rf .