The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, March 24, 1905 Page: 1 of 10
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Wash Dress Goods.
Footwear.
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FOR BOYS.
Boys' best plow shoes, $1.25 elsewhere, our price $1.15.
We undersell in boys’ dress shoes.
Athens,
Altus.
Vernon,
Quanah,
Jacksboro,
Alvarado,
Terrell.
Greenville,
Kaufman,
Decatur.
Commerce,
Sulphur Springs,
Winnsboro,
Gilmer,
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In our Millinery Department will be found an excellent as-
sortment and a great variety of styles in the newest and cor-
rect things in ladies' street and ready-to-wear hats at prices
that will not scare you to death. See our pretty spring hats
and you will be convinced that they do not have the long-
winded price tacked to them that millinery usually has.
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Our buyers have just returned from the I i t .<
is new and dependable in merchandise for the Spring
the statement that, by persistent efforts* and experience
new and dependable Spring and Summer goods ;
values in the past. This means we are n >i onh read). ;
new in merchandise, but a larger variety for less money than
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Changeable taffetas in golden brown with electric blue
cast and dainty stripes; others with small neat figures, at 50c
per yard.
Al quality 36inch Japanese wash silk, the real thing, only
75c per yard.
Same, 27 inches wide, 50c per yard.
All shades in China silks at 50c per yard.
81.25 quality, 30-inch guaranteed black taffeta at $1.00
per yard.
Dotted silk tissue in white and black, 50c values at 40c
per yard.
All former effort* of the designers of Spring cloths ano
fabrics ««em tame indeed when compared with the present
grand display of wash dress go als at our store. Not only do
you find the art features superior, but the very low prices
add to their attractiveness.
Mohair lustre and metallic mohair, especially suitable for
Spring suits, 25c and 1U • p<T yard.
Lancaster lustre, an entirely new wash fabric, in browns
and blues, checks and fancies, 20c per yard.
Embroidered Voiles in Sheppard plaids with embroidered
figures in blacks, blues, tans and pinks, 25<- values for 10c
per yard.
Organdies in large floral designs, worth 25c; our price Hie.
Voile mistrals in beautiful brown small check, blue small
check, and watermelon pink flaked with white, 15e a yard.
New Spring boureties in champagne, brown and blue,
flaked, 15c per yard.
India foulard, looks like silk, checks, plaids and dainty
figures, regular 25c seller for 15e per yard.
Mercerized chambray in pink, blue and tan, just the thing
for a pretty wash dres-, 25c values, 12'»c per yard.
Brodie rr.aline in floral dot and embroidered rick-rack de-
signs, 12‘»c per yard.
Marissa voile in light blue ground with dark blue lot, and
brown check with oval figute, and dark blue with white,
worth 15c for 12'»c.
Glendale suitings in several shades, very pretty material
for wash suits, 10c per yard.
Brousse stripes, a soft, sheer material, floral designs with
mercerized stripes, 10c per yard.
Lawns, batiste and dimities in great varieties, colorings,
and designs, 5c and 10c per yard.
While dotfed swiss 10c, 15c and 20c per yard.
White piques in Bedford cords, also figured stripes, 10c
and 15c per yard.
Dress duck in dots, plaids, figures and flakes, all colors,
10c per yard.
This promises to be a big season for laces, and we are
prepared to show you all the new things, and much the
cheapest line we have ever shown. Torchons, orientals,
valencienne-. et in all the widths, priced all the way from
50e per yard down to 1c.
Madras and Ginghams.
Madras for shirt waists, men's shirts, and boys’ waists, in
light and dark ground, many new patterns, at 10c, 12'sc and
15c.
Ginghams at all prices from 3'sc up.
are now -howing the greatest assortment that we have
•ver ahowit N aieet aarortawat, but
the low. st prices we have ever had. We have dozens of
pieces of narrow edge at from 1c to 5c per yard.
Big staeks of insertions and edgings marked at 5c, 7c, 10c
and 15c that would be cheap at one-third more.
Big stacks of all-over embroideries in both swiss and lawn
at from 35c to 81.00 per yard.
Ladies’ tan Gibson tie, hand turned, the swellest $3.00 low
shoe on the market, our price $2.50.
Ladies' tan Blucher, welts, $3.00 elsewhere, our price $2.50
Ladies’ tan Yale tie, a splendid value, for $2.50.
We offer excellent values in ladies’ tan Oxfords at $2.00
and $1.50.
Ladies’ white canvas Oxfords at $1.50,
In ladies’ black kid slippers we have a complete line from
$1.00 up.
Right in style and right in prices, you will find our shoes
and slippers for infants, children and misses.
We have received many new novelties, such as ladies'
neckwear, comb-, bags, waist sets, belts, etc.
It is an undisputed
one or two stores. The enor-
us to get special discounts that merchants
We work hard to buy bargains, so as to be in position to
We want your business, and if fair and courteous dealing, coupled w ith the same
While it is
We are ever on the alert to get the very best shoes possi-
ble for the money. Our shoes are guaranteed to be just as
represented.
Twelve styles in patent colt, vici kid, box calf, and tans;
the best shoes in the world for $3.50.
Regular $3.50 tan Bluchers elsewheae, our price $2.75.
The best values you ever saw in vici and calf shoes for
$1.50, $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00.
Satin calf shoes at $1.15 and $1.35.
Low shoes for men in patent, vici and tan.
Men’s plow shoes, creoles and creedmores, guaranteed,
$1.15 and $1.25.
The correct styles for spring in Stacey Adams fine shoes
and low cuts at $5.00.
The footwear sor spring, 1905, easily outclasses all former
seasons. The various styles are so fetching it is indeed a
difficult matter to make a selection.
Spring Waistings.
While linen-finish waisting. 30 inches wide, at only 12'»c
per yard.
All pure linen. .0 inch white waistings at 25c per yard.
Big assortment of new weaves in white waisting at 20c to
25c per yard.
1 he supplying of our Fourteen active cash stores by the same expert buyers has a wonderful leverage in
getting and giving the right price.
PERKINS BROS
after several wceeks spent in searching for all that
J season, and we do not hesitate in making
‘ we have secured the greatest variety of
at cheaper prices than we have ever secured such
as usual, to show you everything that is
i ever before.
fact that we are in position to buy cheaper than merchants with
mous quantities we buy for our fourteen stores enables
with only a store or two cannot get.
sell bargains. r“
goods for less noney, is worthy of your consideration, we w ill not be disappointed.
true a few articles are priced the same in all the big stores, the bulk of our prices are lower on
the same quality of merchandise. We guarantee to save you money on your Spring purchases.
W hether or not you are ready to buy, it w ill be a pleasure to show7 the pretty goods. Just a
few quotations:
Staples.
23 pieces of silver grey dress prints, and other styles,
marked at 3'»c a yard.
Yard-wide LL sea island domestic at 4c per yard.
The very best g.: de sea island domestic, that has been
selling at 7'»c, now 5c.
Reg ilar 7'sc grade, full yard wide bleaching, no starch,
at 5c per yard.
Green-ticket, Lonsdale, Hope, Gold Medal and such
brands of bleaching at 7'*c per yard.
ACA feather ticking at 10c a yard.
Good mattress ticking at 5c per yard.
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