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Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 7

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PART ONE THE DETROIT REE PRESS: SUNDAY MAY 21 1916 retail PS Like a this is mighty important Just as we finish this advertisement the Likly Co man calls and offers to PAY US WHOLESALE some of the prices advertised below This shows how prices have gone up And shows how lucky YOU are to pay these amounts at A Sale of A mighty fortunate chance for those who are gting to America this summer is 71 years old You might almost call it a national institution This is the first time to our knowledge that Likly Trunks and Bags have sold under value It happens now only because a new manager has assumed charge As new managers always do he is These patterns now discontinued he sold us very low All Likly Trunks except the lowest priced are guaranteed for five years a guarantee with no or Steamed Trunks Some of them duck some fiber some fiber bound 34 and 36 inch sizes: $8 Trunks $5 $12 Trunks $750 $1250 Trunks $750 The Bags are the handsomest and sturdiest you have ever seen There are the big kit bags triangular at the end There are Oxford bags which have a shoulder There are Club Bags and some great Suitcases $20 to $25 Bags are $18 Oxfords and Kits including genuine walrus $15 to $18 Bags $1250 $1350 to $15 Bags $10 $10 Bags and Suitcases $7 $650 to $8 Bags $5 $450 and $5 Bags $350 $6 Suitcases $350 Black oiled doth $4 and $450 Bags $250 Black seal grain leather riey Basement Dress Trunks have little weight great strength Seven important points in their con struction are found in Likly Trunks alone This sale has all sizes scores of every material trunks for every purpose $7 and $750 Trunks are $450 $950 and $10 Trunks are $7 $1050 and $11 Trunks are $750 $1250 Trunks are $8 $1350 Trunks are $850 $16 Trunks are $8 $17 and $18 Trunks are $12 Wardrobe Trunks Nobody knows how to make a ward robe trunk convenient or how to use space better than There are just 1 2 and 3 of a kind of these: $35 Trunks $25 $45 Trunks $32 $30 Trunks $20 A $3 Drive! A few months ago it looked impossible to get such pumps so we could sell them for $3 and been a good part of that time doing it But they're here! Gunmetals soft and sleek looking Patent leathers that stay bright a long time In such styles as that sketched and many morel VP Hi One is an instep strap pump in gunmetal with thin sole ribbon bow low Cuban heels Then a patent leather three bar pump with ribbon bow and leather Louis heels Another with three bar instep strap small vamp or nament Cuban heels Another with three cross bar and ornament and bow Also in patent leather an instep strap style thin soled A plain gunmetal pump has no straps at all Another in mat kid has a graceful tongue thin sole and leather Louis heels The surprising thing about them is that $3 Crowley irst loor if Xi 5 7 Crowley Milner Co Gratiot innir Monros and Library Avenses The Store Closes Saturdays at 6 Except the Departments They Remain OpenTiI19PlL These abrics They are Worth $35 to $50 The Silks 3 The Dress Goods Important! Subject: Your Home! Our Advertisement in Saturday Papers 29c Bulgarian Crepes 15c Silk for shine cotton for wear! ine range of solid colors with jacquard figures what dresses it makes! 39c Chiffon and Seed Voiles 25c White or tinted with flowers large or small overplaids Pekin and sport stripes to choose from 40 inches wide This is Word of Sherwood Snyder at Close of Big Show $6 Blouses $498 Shimmery Georgette or crepe de chine in all the exquisite new colorings with soft flat collars and jabots and some more their sleeves are all long and their cuffs new $498 A Spitzer Son Victim of Stomach Ailment 18c Scotch Ginghams 11c ast colofc checks stripes and plaids 32 inches wide do not fade in the summer sun nor in the laundry 49c Ratine Suiting 9c a Yard! A rough weave like pink brown Rus sian green navy light blue Copenhagen and yard wide! Quick! 15c and 19c Light abrics 12c Printed Dimities English Batistes Mercerized oulards Plisse Crepes some two hundred pieces in all Hurry! Crowley Third loor in the fairest milan hemp braids Trimmed in the most becoming ways you ever saw One with a long flat wing behind two smaller ones perched like a monoplane on the crown Another perked up at the side front caught by a tiny bow of ribbon One for Miss Simplicity with rows of silk velvet about the crown a posy holding them A fourth garnished with sweet peas and leaves all lustrous white And all of them banded with white crepe over the top of the brim Just $498 Crowley Third loor We seldom write advertisements to those who have "already But these Gowns are so UNBELIEVABLY fine for the money and this space so VERY insufficient The only way to make women realize how SPLENDID they are is to ask you to share your extreme good fortune with your friends You remember they are from a Dressmaker who dis tributes in New York City only through Altman Co and in Chicago through Marshall 65c Navy Blue Serges 49c ast color double twilled rench serges and heavy storm serges summer weight perfect in dye Three shades yard wide 50c Cream Woolens 38c Henriettas and Batistes for baby things and In All the Glory of Georgette Crepe de Chine and rilly Jabots Come $350 Blouses at $298 They are as amazing as the first collection There are stunning bridge and street costumes There are simple frocks There are elaborate gowns with extreme decolletage There is every type of gown between Really no more exclusive garments are made in New York City and much of the handwork on these dresses was done in Paris There are very few if any duplicates There are pussy willows and soiree radium taffeta and Georgette chiffon and rench serges real laces silk nets and La Jerz The linings are all silk Each is an exact copy of an original rench model by Jenny Paquin Doeuil let Cheruit Callot Poiret or Lanvin $2450 bears no relation at all to their value It is best to have your friends come to morrow Crowley ourth loor quite the loveliest creations you could hope to Every little stitch is so painstakingly put in Many have the fluffy embroidered iabots that give such an Others not so fussy are for the woman who revels in tailored looking blouses They come in delicate pink and snowy white with long sleeves and becom ing new sorts of colors Really remarkable blouses at $298 $5 Blouses $398 Handsome satin striped crepe de chine white striped with coral mais or black They have the very new deep rolling col lars and long sleeves with smart cuffs $398 Crowley ourth loor $139 Silk Crepes de Chine $119 Even light evening shades there are so many! A sterling value better take advantage of! $189 Black Taffeta $149 Heavy enough for this season's suits rich and lustrous and long wearing enough for any woman! $110 Black Moires 89c Lovely black good weight So very good for the money that you'd better not wait long to see it! Yard wide 75c Crepes de Chine 59c Sport stripes about an inch wide in blue and white or rose green tan or black with white a yard wide for skirts and blouses de luxe! Crowley Third loor a Nemo Corset for YOU at $300 Whether you're tall and stout short and stout medium stout or whether you have an average figure a special Nemo Self Reducing model that will gradually mould your figure into onr of lOO'o pleas ing lines And for wearing and holding its shape we know of no corset more satisfactory than the Nemo S3 New Building ourth loor RENOWNED TOLEDO ATHLETE IS DEAD Cobwebby White abrics That Will Make Charming Gowns for Brides and Graduates Are Here in' Plenty We bought them months ago while June and its func tions seemed a far off dream to you And before fine white stuffs got so scarce and so expen sive! Which is the only reason we can sell them At Lower Prices 25c abrics 15c Plain sheer white voiles and splash voiles as dainty as can be 35 and 40 inches wide 50c abrics 29c Self striped nubbed and barred voiles rice voiles and softest sheerest plain voiles 50c abrics 39c One of the finest plain voiles made very airy fairy 40 inches wide $1 abrics 75c Diaphanous embroidered voiles and Swiss muslins 40 inches wide And Other White Goods 17 Plisse Crepes 12c Splendid for underclothes and 30 inches needs no ironing 50c Skirtings 39c All the pretty new weaves for whito skirts $150 Nainsook $119 A fine soft rench nainsook 40 inches wide for undermuslins and baby clothes Third loor Might Have Dropped rom a Summer Sunset So gorgeous and so various are their colorings so exquisite their pat Closeouts Bring Standard Sets of Books at Savings Averaging JZj! They've had to discontinue making these editions be cause they get some of the materials the chance of your life time to own the works of authors you love and to give your children the opportu nity grow up" with them In some cases you save enough on large sets to pay for smaller sets 13 VOLS SHAKE SPEARE WORTH $650 AT $449 Gilt tops With Glossary and notes 12 VOLS SCOTT WORTH $9 AT $719 Cloth binding 8 VOLS AINS WORTH WORTH $4 AT $289 Cloth binding HISTORY ENGLISH PEO PLE" 4 VOLS WORTH $2 AT $139 6 VOLS GEORGE ELIOT WORTH $350 AT $249 Cloth binding 8 VOLS HUGO WORTH $5 AT $369 Gilt tops 15 VOLS DICKENS WORTH $11 AT $849 Cloth binding 15 VOLS DICKENS WORTH $2250 AT $1198 Three quarter leather bind ing 12 VOLS DUMAS WORTH $750 AT $549 Cloth binding HISTORY ROME 5 VOLS WORTH $4 AT $249 18 VOLS BALZAC WORTH $15 AT $1049 Cloth binding New Building Second loor have some remarkably low even startling prices for Monday! Hard to get? Maybe but getting them! 79c Silk Shirtings 59c 27 and 30 inches wide stripes that men and women both like for business and lounge wear see these! i $110 Guaranteed Tub Silks 98c Not less than 30 different stripes or blouses shirts and frocks 33 inches wide Silk Pongee for 49c All 23 inches wide natural shade only When will you have a chance like THIS again? 85c Showerproof oulards 69c Light blues dark blues browns greens old rose and so on all with colored flowers dots or other designs 60 in all 24 inches wide $110 Duchess Satins 98c Black only lustrous as a midnight pool for frocks and coats Too good to let pass The Wash Goods have never been more fascinating in design and weave and coloring Note well these six prices for example 25c Embroidered Voiles 15c A fine sheer fabric with lovely figures on whiterounds beautiful! Exposition in Detroit One of Best Held Ends Saturday you eat adulterated foods It js your own said Sherwood Snyder Saturday afternoon in Detroit armory at the closing lec ture' of The ree Press Westfield Exposition Conning school While he whs lecturing he was also bak ing honey hermits and making uh iiel cuke The topic for the afternoon lec ture You Use Adulterated oods? gave the lecturer a chance to make it plain that it wm care JesMiess or ignorance that made Use uf food poison possible are enough pure foods" he sam 'ot all sorts and thv can be had anywhere if tne purchaserwill lake the trouble and care to for them There are also enough laboratories and testing stations wlbcre samples can be sent and an analysis obtained 'Without charge so that anv new prod icl may be ciassi tied at once whether it Is pure or The speaker traced the progress to a rd a belter understanding ut ffourt and the necessity of watch ing and exercising care In the making of purchivses lie told of what han been done In The Mc Cluie laboratories at Westfield Mass and of th aoverlty of the Vveintid standards which Ihshm to those who insist thM roods they buy are able to meet such tests Immediately uftr the lecture the mechanical division of the ex jotion commenced to tear down and prepare the booths and ape cud equipment for transportation to Milwaukee Wis and by night tne train known as Westfield 'Exposition was speeding cii its way toward Chicago The piaetlce of using benzoate of soda as a preservative in foods waa illustrated during the week A quartette of spring and summer beauties that will as well as their charming looks promise! 50c Scotch Tweed Suitings 26c All wool light gray and tan grounds with colored salts and peppers or stripes for coats skirts or boys' things Yard wide $125 Checks 79c 54 inches wide 82 net cent wool it launders perfectly without shrinking Separate skirts and such that you want to launder again and again coats of it are pretty and durable Checks plain 36 inches wide or broken Crowley Milner's Third loor Lately It's Been One Millinery Surprise After Another White Hats Worth $750 for Won Honors for II Olympic Team in London in 1908 Special to The ree Press Toledo May 20 Roland A Spit zer the youngest son of A Spit zer Toledo millionaire stock brok i er died at his residence here early! today Mr Spitzer was 31 vears old ne was connected prominently in terns so sheer and filmy their quality various local enterprises and was treasurer or tho Spitzer puiidins And because we knew positively before it happened that a certain trade company Mr Spitzer is survived by his condition would come and prepared widow and two children one about Some Prices Are 1 2 and Ldwer! waa MBuciaicu 111 me i lek company specialist ait to Give Relief Roland's Spitzer's death was due to stomach ailment which took a violent form the first of this year He sought relief with surgeons in Boston He returned home in eb ruary but steadily suffered He then went to Rochester Minji where he was treated byAhe Doc tors Mao He returned home two weeks ago On his trip to the northwest Mr Spitzer was accom panied by his father and brother Young Spitzer gained an interna tional reputation as a funner while he was a student at Yale where he was graduated in 1909 In 1908 hewas a member of the American Olympic team which carried away most of the honors at the London meet Mr Spitzer wag captain of theroBA country team at Yale While Ui school he had several school jtrack records He appeared in aev £ral eastern cities as a runner for is school and gained much prom inence He attend the Central high school in Toledo Member of raternity Mr Spitzer wa a member of the i Alpha fraternity of Yale Upon his return to Toledo he (launched Into active business lite land took an active part in civic af Calrs He also was active in church I work being a Junior vestryman of 'trinity Episcopal church He was a member of the To 'fedo and Country clubs He was Assistant treasurer of the latter He was also a member of the Commerce 'club He wa actively identified with the Boy Scout movement inToledo EAT DOPE NOW AND BLAME SEL ONLY me to That Wonderful Sale of Dressmaker Gowns 1 JI li at a Jo $498! at the exposition Snip find water cleanliness In person and factory and purity of products used wm the answer given the women who want to know why some manufac turers insist on using It and thenpending thousands of dollars printing circulars for wholesale distribution making It appear that this piLCcss is Justifiable Probably the most striking ex ample afforded when a bottle of drugged foods was placed long tilde nuther which did not con tain this preservative Women In utrntly recognized the article they preferred for while one was rich jn color snd full of body the drugged article was muddy look ing frothv at the ton and gate evidence of being forcibly held to gether when In reality some of Its component parts would appar entlv rather netlo at the bottle of the container Profcsnr Lewis Allyn creator of the Westfield standard has no use for drugged foods He nsrUc ularly scorns the manufacturer who uses benzoate of soda He Insists that It Is unnecessary andays that factory cleanliness would accomplish the same purpose Another point brought out by T'cnfessor Allyn Is that while cer tain manufacturers claim thst their product contains one tenth of 1 per rent benznate of soda Actual analysis shows that It con tains a much higher percentage In some factories he save the benzoate of soda Is shoveled in fond apparently with a hit or mhn Idea It being satisfactory to the mixer so long as the product will ken well fo months on some gro cery store shelf The exhibit here was one nf the best eve carried nut he said Tending unusual Interest tn the final session was the giving away of two useful door prizes One peculiarly enourh went with rh thirteenth ticket presented The Awards were presented br thhow management to Mrs Graham 191 Lovett treet who was efve fb cabined end Mrs Lutzen who will have delivered hr home Tv enttch street a useful kitchen Both were Interested dally nfendsnt at the show 1.

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