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ESTABLISHED JUNE 10, 1871.
OMAIIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1902.
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The Great Receiver's Sale goes on. A. settlement of our business affairs must
be reached immediately. The order of the court to realize every dollar's worth, gives you a
few more days for this CYCLONIC GOODS-FOR-NEXT-TO-NOTHING SALE. Monday morn
ing every price will be cut in two, and discounts of 20, 25,33 1-3 and 50 per cent, will prevail all
over the store. Money we must have, and to get it the goods must go.
The Court Says, Realize More Money
And tlie Dry Goods Departments swing into line. Monday morn
ing will witness the MOST SENSATIONAL SLAUGHTER of
Btrictly first class MERCHANDISE EVER HEARD OF IN THE
"WEST:
All our women's Jackets Cloaks, Capss and Ulsters will be
sold at one-third off the marked prices.
All cur Fur Capes, Jackets, Muffs, Collarettes and Scarfs
will be cold at one-third off the marked prices.
AH women's and misses Suits will be sold at one-half off the
marked prices.
AU women's and misses' Skirts will be sold at 25 per cent
off the marked prices
All women's Wool and Silk Waists will be sold at 25 per
cent off the marked prices.
All Silk Petticoats will bt sold at 25 per cent off marked
prices.
All children's Jackets and Cloaks will be sold at one-third
off (he marked prices
All Infants' Wear will be sold at 20 per cent off the marked
prices.
All Sateen and Mercerized Petticoats will be sold at 20 per
cent off the marked prices-
AH Jersey Sweaters for women and girls will be sold at one
third o'f the marked prices.
All women's Wool Shawls will be sold at 25 per cent off
marked prices.
AU Flannelette Night Gowns and Petticoats will be sold at
20 per cent off the marked prices.
All Knit Wool Goods will be sold at -25 per cent of the
marked prices.; , . ,
Special sale of Muslin Underwear at cost on main floor.
All Dressing "Sacques and Robes will br sold at 25 prrTent
off the marked prices.
SILKS The balance of our plain China Silks, also odd
pieces of Wash Silks that sold as high as 35c yard, while they
last, per yard,; 10c. -
All of the balance of our fin: Foulards values to $1.25 yard
go at 25c.
All of the balance of our Colored Moires, this includes
creams and blacks, all go at per yard, 59c.
All of the balance of our fine all silk Colored Liberty Satins,
75c quality, will be dosed out at, per yard, 49c.
BLACK DRESS SILKS -24 inch fine Black Armure
Silks, $1.35 value, only, per yard, 96c.
ta-lneh fine Black .Silk Peau de Bole, $1.25 quality told
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93c
2-in. extra One Imported Ceded Bllki, very swell tor waists and full dress on
sever sold for lesa tbao 11.15 only per yard OrC
All Black and Colored Dress Goods at from 25 to 50 per cent leas than the regular
prices. Velvets, plain and corded, at about one-half the regular prices. Linings-
Dress Linings of all kinds at about the mill cost.
Dress Ginghams all new, bright colors and patterns, warranted fast,
washable colors, worth 10c yard at
CAMBRICS 27-Inch Mercerised Dress Cambrics, fancy patterns, fast col
ors, worth 15c yard at
REMNANTS of all kinds of cotton and wool goods at half price and less,
Comforter Calico, good quality, fast colors, nice patterns, at per
yard .
It-Inch fancy colored, lace stripe, Curtain Swisses, swell patterns, worth iJ
Sfie yard, at....... , .C
Fine White Cotton Batting worth 20o at
roll
10-4 heavy Bed Comforters, good dark colors, worth 85e, at
each .'.
tt-lncb Percales, the best quality made, all nice patterns, worth 13hic.
at per yard
Bleached Huck Toweling, fine heavy quality, worth 15c yard
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Short lengths of India Linens and whits Lacons, 27 to 40 Inches wide, worth
up to 25c yard, at .'
10-4 double fleece gray Sheet Blankets, worth 85c. at per
pair
FIiANNEL 40-tnch Shaker Flannel, good, heavy quality, worth Sc.
. at
ALL CORSETS 10 PER CENT DISCOUNT.
ALL KID GLOVES 10 PER CENT DISCOUNT.
HANDKERCHIEFS 200 dozen plain hemstitched Handkerchiefs, worth 10c
each, at ,
A00 dosen Linen Embroidered Handkerchiefs, worth up to 25c, at three
for
ALL WOOLEN TARNS. LESS 25 PER CENT.
ALL 6TAMPED LINENS, 25 PER CENT DI8COUNT.
ALL HOUDAT GOODS, including Hand Mirrors. Toilet Sets. Fancy' Pin Cushions,
Handkerchiefs and Glove Boxes, Needle Cases and Vlnegarettee, (0 PER CENT DISCOUNT.
100 pieces Embroideries, from IVi to Inches wide, worth up to 16c at,
per yard ..v
7c
3c
4c
,125c
53c
... 5c
... 9c
... 8c
.59c
...3c
... lc
25c
9c
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16 cv HARNEY STs.
E- E. HASTINGS, Receiver.
LAST CALL FOR TOYS
Monday will finish up the Toys at Bennett's. Everything will be closed out at one price or an
other, and some things given away. A set of doll furniture free with every 50c purchase in our
Toy department.
21c Oo-Carts, at 15c
He Black Boards, at 10c
1.00 Bhv 'v Boards, at 50c
10c Toy Moves, lit
5c
78e "Wagon, at
9Se Wage ii, at
1.38 Wagon, at
?1.78 Wagon, at
,58c
64c
85c
1.10
SALE OF
And Organs Still in Full Blast.
1 new up-to-date piano, $225,
our price $142
1 new walnut piano. . . . $148
1 new mahogany piano. $152
1 new oak piano $162
Second Hand
1 large piano .$185
1 Bohnier used $200
1 Star used ........ $245
1 Horlick used . . .... . $ 1 68
- "New Pianos Sold
$5.00 down and $5.00 a month.
Sheet music and musical mer
chandise sold at a sacrifice.
All sold on our
ment plan.
easy pay-
All sold on our 'easy, pay
ment plan.
$350 piano . $188.00
375 piano ... ..215.00
400 piano 225.00
425 piano .25000
450 piano ....275.00
475 piano -. 300.00
500 piano 325.00
525 piano .... .35000
550 piano 375.00
600 piano .......... 400.00
; ORGANS
Low top
High top
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$15
$32
Sheet music and musical mer
chandise sold at a sacrifice.
THREE CARS IN TRANSIT.
Every second hand, cheap piano naturally weut first high grades must be moved still
greater cuts. Those wanting a standard, high grade piano, will get it at a fraction of cost.
Bennett's Prices Were Always Lowest.
And when you consider that from $75.00 to $150.00 is now taken from already exceptionally
low prices, it gives those who really waDt ami can appreciate a high grade piano, an opportunity
long sought for. Shrewd, economical purchasers will not neglect the opportunity.
EASY PAYMENTS, EASY PAYMENTS
SHEET MUSIC
All 50c music from 12c to 21c.
All 40c music from 10c to 18c.
All 10c music from 3c to 8c.
All 50c folio music from 18c to 38c.
Guitars, Mandolins and Violins, from $1.0 and up.
Everything else in music department in proportion.
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HALF
OFF
HALF
OFF
What is . Left
ol the
Jewelry Department
Must be Sold by New Years Day.
All Holiday Goods
such as Bric-a-Brac, Art Novelties, silverware (meaning hollow
wan), Ladies' Brooch Tins, Gent's Link Buttons, Ladies' or
Misses' Lockets and Chains, Necklaces, etc., etc., Ink Stands, Gold
Boudoir Clocks, Candlesticks, Belt Tins.
And Sterling Silver Novelties
Such as Nail Files, Button Hooks, Curling Irons, Cuticle,
Tooth and Nail Brushes, Nail Polishers, Combs and Brushes, all
go in the
Finishing Sale at Half Off
There's Still a
Whole Lot to Pick
Up Cheap.
HALF
OFF
HALF
OFF
75c
Crockery
BARGAINS THAT. ARE BELF-KVI-DEltT
ALL. OX' TJISPL.AY EXAMINE
THEM ASK THE CLERK ABOUT
THEM OUR WORIWTHESH ARE BAR
GAINS. ,-. , I- .- s. ...
All of pur 10c and 15c 7 ri
and 25c goods, go' at....-
A 50c Decorated China 'ICp
Cuspidor J-Jw
A $1 Decorated Tabic AQp
$1.50 ChinJ Salad
Dish, at
$2, $3 and $4 goods,
$2.50 Decorated 6 pc. "I fi ES
Chamber Set lUt
A $3 Decorated Table Lamp,
No. 2 Hoehester O ES
burner kJVJ
A $0.50 Decorated f
12-pc. Chamber Set
A $(5.50 Decorated Porcelain
Dinner Set, cut A Kf
down to kJ J
A $36.00 Decorated Haviland
China Dinner Set,
cut down ifJ-J
New Year's Gift-Giving
Receiver's Sale in
Drug Dept.
S. E. Cor. Main Floor
Odds and Ends
Mackintosh Cloth Traveling; Rolls for car
rying tooth and cloth brushes and comb,
toilet articles and antiseptics, manicure
sets will hold everything you would ilka
to have beBlde you when traveling.
In spite of our enormous sales we yet
have a most attractive assortment.
Roll No. 1 for ludles and gentlemen,
made of rubber, with "pepper and salt"
satin finish this traveling csbb contains
10 pockets It Is capacious and for travel
ing necessities It Is a surprise V
in design and compactness, price ,,0 VC
Roll No. 2 More elegant in style than
No. 1, made of white rubber lining, satin
finish and silk ribbon for binding has 10
pockets, sponge bag Is the cleverest
thing for traveling needs, price r C
was $2.48 New Year's Gift Price. 1"0
Roll No. S Lined with white rubber, with
changeable silk color cover, satin stitched
ribbon border and band has the usual
number of pockets price was
$3.18 Now Years Gift Trice .
A few leather traveling cases for toilet
articles attractively nlce very acceptable
as a New Year's Gift eV
up from j"C
Each and every one really worth double
the money.
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CLOSING OUT FURNITURE SALE.
SEVERAL ELEGANT PIECES to be PICKED UP. VARIETIES to the extent of 2 CAR
LOADS and BARGAINS that TAKE THE HEART OUT OF COMPETITION.
Parlor Suits.
5-pcs., $50 value, at .
5-pcs., $30 value, at .:.
5-pcs., $65 value, at . .
5-pcs., $60 value, at . .
3-pcs., $35 value, at..
3 pes., $10 value, at . .
3-pcs., $23.50 value, at
Dresse.
Dresser, $10 value, at
Dresser, $15 value, at
Dresser, $18 value, at
Dresser, $21.50 value, at
Parlor
Parlor
1 urlor
Parlor
Parlor
Parlor
Parlor
Suit,
Suit,,!
Suit,
Suit,
Suit,
Suit,
Suit,
.$35.00
.$20.00
. .48.00
. 35.00
. 23.75
. 30.50
. 10.50
.$ 7.10
..10.50
..13.00
..15.00
Dresser, $28 value, at ....18.85
Dresser, $35 value, at 24.85
Dresser, $30 value, at V. 19.50
Dresser, $35 value, at . .24.85
Dresser, $39 value, at" ; . 29.00
Dresser, $48 value, at V32.25
Iron Beds.
Iron Red $4.10 value, at $2.D0
Iron Bed, $5.00 value, at 3.00
Iron Bed, $6.50 value, at 4.35
Iron Bed, $8.75 value, at 5.65
Iron Bed, $9.75 value, at ' 6.45
Iron Bed, $11.50 value, at 8 65
Imn Bed, $14 value, at ..9.85
iron Bod, $18 value, at
Iron Bed. $24 value, at
Iron Bed, $24 value, at "
Brass Beds.
Brass Bed,' $43.50 value, at . .
Brass Bed, $49 value, at ....
Bed Couches
Bed Couches, $25.10 value, at
Bed Couches, $18.50 value, at
Box Couches
Box Couches, $18 value, at . .
Box Couches, $20.50 value, at
Box Couches, $J6 value, at
. . .
. I
.10.00
.18.00
.$25.50
. .30.00
.$16.50
..12.50
.$12.00
..13.50
Walter B. Duryee, millionaire heir of a
K.w Terk starch canuftteturer. still man
ages to get considerable enjoyment out of
life, though he trot hi neck while driving
at Oyster Bay thre years ago. He Is par
alysed below the waist, but Is now able to
It up and physicians say that there la a
prospect of hie yet being able to ' walk,
lie recently ordered built for bis own use
a bandaome steam yacht.
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A story which will "go straight to the
heaxU of shooting men Is told of a clerical
gentleman who was invited to Join a shoot
ing party, la the course of the day the
Vast felt himself prodded in the back, and.
turning around, found the amiable cleric
poking at hits with the munle of his gun,
and hi look of interrogation was met with
the remark: "Can you tell me bow to let
down these beastly things V alluding to the
hammers of the gun, which waa at fuU
cock and loaded.
A lawyer In Canton. O., has brought suit
against a local barber for 1200 damages,
alleging that his hair waa cut In a moat
Inartistic manner In bis shop, making hint
an object of ridicule among his brethren
at the bar and his acquaintances generally.
The lawyer fell asleep la the chair and the
baJ work was done while he al umbered.
Congressman Brown of Wisconsin last
week received la hla mall a human hand,
carefully rolled up In cotton and neatly
packed. It waa something of a shock when,
upon opening the package ta the expecta
tion of finding a Christmas present, the
A CLEAN UP IN
Pictures and
Picture Frames
Picture Frames Madi lo
4 1
Order in Our Art Dept
We have CO, 000 feet of the best picture
moulding, in all the latest and up-to-date
finishes. These will have to be sold either
by the length or made up Into frames, at
prices regardless of value or cost. Mould
ing in all finishes by the length.
One-half Inch wide at 2c and up per ft.
One Inch at 3c and up per ft.
One and a half inch, 4c and up per ft.
2- lncb, 6c and up per ft.
3- inch. , at 6c and up per ft.
4-Inch, at 9c and up per ft.
grewaome relic waa disclosed. A letter
accompanying the package threw light on
what promised to be a mystery. An old
soldier la Mr. Brown's district wis wounded
during the civil war, and a few years ago
the amputation of his hand became neces
sary. He had carefully preserved it In al
cohol, and now has sent it to his congress
ma la Washington to be used as -evidence
in a pension case.
; A correspondent of the Apache Week's
Review, which I published out in Oklahoma,
is anzloua about matrimony. She asks:
"We wonder why somebody don't get mar
ried, t's girls are all ready and waiting,
and the holidays are approaching and a few
weddings would be In order. We could
name quite a number ot nice gentlemen
and some handatme young women to whom
the county clerk would, for a very small
fee, givt- the proper documents to enter
Into this blissful state. Let some good
brother and sister make the start, nd we
venture to aay that they will come as thick
and fast as a Dakota snow."
The China Times relates an extraordi
nary rase of Chinese "Justice." A Mr. Jen
was betrothed last year to Miss Han and
paid bia money to the woman's parents.
A month ago he called on the parents to
have the contract fulfilled and was told
that the promised one waa the bride of an
other. Having paid his money, be con
sidered be waa entitled to ths girl and went
to her husband's house to carry her off,
but she waa not at home. He then laid
hla case before the magistrate. The girl
waa arrested and sentenced to be "kus-cd,"
the magistrate arguing: "It you are so
wicked at 20 years of age, at the age ot
80 you will be a menace to the celestial
empire." The process of kua-lng is very
similar to the ling-chin, or sllclng-to-death
punishment.
William Shipley, a prominent farmer of
Waynesrllle, 111., has In his possesion a
remarkable relic of prehistoric man, which
be dug- up on his farm while plowing re
cently. This relic Is a large-alsed spear of
pure copper. The metal Is highly tem
pered and when suspended by a cord It
gives forth a clear, ringing sound when
struck by some Instrument. It I said that
this science of tempering copper has be
come one of the lost arts and proves con
clusively that the weapon of warfare waa
made by a race of people which roamed
this, continent long before the American
Indian. It is claimed that the spear
found by Mr. Shipley has but on counter
part and that exists In an eastern museum.
The former is quite slender and, as one
end Is tapering. It Is presumed that It va
fashioned to nt Into a handle ot wood. The
heod of the weapon is three inches broad
and, hurled by a man of strength, would
make a wound that could hardly help from
proving fatal. The finder will probably
turn the relic over to the Wesleyan uni
versity of Bloomlngton and It will prove
a valuable addition to the museum.
Editorial Auesltlea.
Brooklyn Eagle: The new paragraptnr
was anxious to know how his work was
"going."
"See much of my stuff?" he asked of
the exchange editor.
"Some," waa the reply. "Want me to
cut It out?" The exchange editor knew of
the average man's ambition to see his
witticisms reprinted with credit.
Oh, I wouldn't want to put you to so
much trouble," replied the paragrapher,
modestly. "And It would delky your other
work."
"Hardly at all, hardly at all," asserted
the exchange editor.
' The paragrapher looked dubious, but It
wasn't until the' other men in the room
laughed that he threw a paperweight at
the excLauge editor.
The ISIark Diamond Express
leaves Buffalo at noon via the Lehigh Valley
railroad, for New York. A la carte dluing
car service and luxurious parlor and day
coaches.
Stopover allowed at Niagara Falls on all
through tickets to New York and Philadelphia.