THE REE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2S, 1012.
Greatest SaIa in Our Hictnrr k
A Wonderful Clearance
tVAl
The tremendous sellinc: of the past fwo davs has been the
I
The modern business methods adopted by this great store
compels us each season to effect a complete and absolute clear
ance. Positively only fresh new garments are shown at tho
opening of each season. 4
greatest, ever known in the history of this institution. It's a
demonstration of the complete confidence the women of Omaha
and vicinity have in an Orfcin sale.
Ik!
n
Our Greater Annual Clearance Sale
$200,000 STOCK of HIGHEST CLASS APPAREL for WOMEN and MISSES
EXACTLY HALF PRICE
Tailored Suits, Evening Gowns and Wraps, Street Dresses and Coats, Fur Coats, Sets and Separate Pieces
q All the wise women who have been waiting to take advantage of oar wonderful annual half-price clearance sale know
that this is a bona fide clearance of Exclusive Styles that are in a class of their own. This will be the greatest clear
ance sale Omaha has ever known, and we predict that Saturday will be the greatest selling day in our business history.
J It must be remembered that this is a clearance of our own High Class Stock garments that are the choicest produc
$62.50
9HM U
$3475
$32.50
ALL OUR
TAILORED SUITS
HALF PRICE
$125 Imported
Suits Clearance
sale price
$97.50 Imported)
Suits Clearance
solo price
$85.00 Tailored inrA
Suits Clearance Jjifl. 311
sale price j&IWW
$75.00 Tailored Prt
suits- .onjf jjy
69.50 iaiio,
Suits Clearance
sale price. . . .
$65.00 Tailored
Suits CJ ea ranee
sale price. . . ,
$59.50 Tailored (feffcf) 7P
Suits Clearance M f
sale price "
$50.00 Tailored
Suits CI earanco
sale price
$45.00 Tailored-
Suits Clearance
sale price
$39.50 Tailored
Suits Clearance
sale price ,
$35.00 Tailored
Suits Clearance
sale price
$29.75 Tailored
Suits Clearance
sale price
$27.50 Tailored
Suits Clearance
sale price
$25.00 Tailored
Suits Clearance
sale price
$25.00
$19.75
$17.50
$14.75
$13.75
S12.50
$75.00 Coats
Clearance sale
price
$69.50 Coats
Clearance sale
price
$65.00 Coats
Clearance sale
price
$59.50 Coats
Clearance sale
price. .,
Clearance sale
$55.00 Coats
price $50.00 Coats
Clearance sale
price
$45.00 Coats
Clearance sale
price
$39.50 Coats
Clearance sale
price
$35.00 Coats
Clearance sale
price
$29.75 Coats
Clearance sale
price
$27.50 Coats
Clearance sale
price
$25.00 Coats
Clearance sale
price
ancesulo price. . . .
$145.00 Evening,
Gowns Clear
ance sale price. . . .'
$125.00 Evening
Gown3 Clearance
sale price
$95.00 Evening
Gowns Clear
ance sale price. . ,
$75.00 Evening ,
Gowns Clearance
sale price '
$65.00 Evening
Gowns Clearance
sale price
$50.00 Dresses ,
Clearance
sale price '
$39.50 Dresses
Clearance
sale price
$35.00 Dresses
Clearance sale price. .v
$29.75 Dresses
Clearance Bale price
$27.50 Dresses
Clearance sale price
$25.00 Dresses
Clearance sale price
$22.50 Dresses
Clearance
sale price
$19.50 Dresses
Clearance sale price
All Fur Sets. and Sep
arate Pieces at a
Hons of the most prominent Designers. Tailors and Furriers in this countrv and abroad. This is not a sale of SDecial
purchases, odd lots, and mistakes of the wholesale trade, but a legitimate Half-Price Clearance of more than Two
Hundred Thousand Dollars' worth of the Choicest, Cleverest Garments ever collected under one roof.
ALL EVENING AND
STREET COATS
HALF PRICE
$125 Imported
Velour Coats
Clearance sale. . .
$95.00 Imported
Velcur Coats
Clearance sale. . .
EVENING GOWNS
AND DRESSES
HALF PRICE
$175.00 Evening f-jr pa
Gowns-Clear- Kill HI I
UUI lUU
ALL FUR COATS AT
A GREAT
SACRIFICE
$500 Fancy Hud
son Seal Coats
Clearance sale price. .
$300 Hudson Seal
Coats Clearance
sale price
$250 Hudson Seal
Coats Clea ranee
sale price
$200 Hudson Seal
Coats Clearance
tsale price
$400 Persian
Lamb Coats
Clearance sale price. .
$300 Persian
Lamb Coats
Clearance sale price. .
$300 Beaver
Coats Clearance
sale price
$100 Near Seal
Seal Coats
Clearance sale price. .
$95.00 Near
Seal Coats
.Clearance sale price. .
$150 Russian
Pony Coats
Hp-
$100 Russian Pony
Coats Clearance
salo price
$75 Russian Pony
Coats Clearance
sale price
$85 Russian Pony
Coats Clearance
salo price
$65 Russian Pbny
Coats Clearance
sale price
SACRIFICE
$211
$350 Mink Sots
Clearance salo
price
$300 Mink Sets
Clearance salo
prieo
$225 Mink Sets
Clearance sale
price
$195 Mink Sets
Clcarauco salo
price
$150 Mink Sets
Clearance salo
prieo
$85 Mink Sots
Clearance snlu
price
$125 Fox Sets
Clearance sale
prieo.,.
$100 Fox Sots
Clearance sale
prieo
$75 Fox Sets
Clearance salu
prieo
$50 Fox Sets
Clcarauco salo
price
$45 Fox Sets
Clearance salo
price
$35 Wolf Sets
Clearance sale
price
$27.50 Wolf
Sets Clearance
sale price
$35 Jap Mink
Sets Clearance
sale price
All Children's Cloth
Coats About
HALF PRICE
$18.50 Double-Faced Johnny
Coats Clearance
sale
price
$15.00 Zibcline MQ
Coats Clearance ilk f iLK
UP I ITU
1GU U KJllllliy
$9i25
sale price
$12.50 Corduroy
Coats Clearance
price
$2.98 Corduroy
Coats Clcarauco
salo price
$10.00 Cloth
Coats Clcarauco
sale price
$7.98 Cloth Coats
- Clearance
sale price
$6.50 Cloth Coats
- Clearance
sale prieo
$7.98 Persian
Cloth Coats
Clearance sale prieo1
$10.00 Crushed ,
Velvet Coats
Clearance sale price.'
$7.98 Plush Coats
Clearain e
snle price ,
$7.98 Chinchilla
Coats Clearanco
salo prieo
$4.50 Chinchilla
Coats Clearance
sale price
$5.00 Flannel
Lined Coats
Clearanco sale prieo
$5.00 Caracul
Coats Clearanco
sale price
APPLES ANDJGGS POST
New York Housewives Register All
Farmers in First Zone.
PLAN IS TO DEAL DIRECT
tjiinnnmrr' Organisation 'Will Co
Operate Tilth Stntr Grnntte In
Effort Cnt Out the
Middleman.
NEW YORK. Dec. ST.-Apples, fresh
eggs and country butter direct from tho
farm to the housewife by parcels post, to
reach half a million homes In New York
nnd Its environs this Is the newest plan,
announced today, of Mrs. Julian Heath,
president of tho National Housewives'
league. Mrs. Heath says her plan will
become operative to some extent on Jan
uary 1, when the malls are opened to par
cels post packages.
lliKltr- CoiiiniUtri'.
.Mrs. Heath's plan to eliminate the mid
dle men involved the creation of a reels
try committee. Already this committee
1ms begun. its preliminary work of'llstlng
all farmers within the- fifty-mile zone.
Tho rolls will be open to all housekeepers
who wish to avail themselves of an op
portunity to obtain fresh produce at a
small cost. The league will work in har
mony with the state grange.
The resultant economy, Mrs. Heath be
lieves, will bo dual, Inasmuch as the
farmers will receive more for their pro
duce than they now receive from dealers,
while the consumers will get fresh food
at lower prices than those now 'charged.
Tho plan will be attended, Mrs. Heath
mid, to Include vegetables In season.
Similar registry bureaus will be opened
next Wednesday in the principal cities of
.he country, Mrs. Heath declared.
are now serving long terms In the
penitentiary. Occasionally some of these
notes turn up in circulation indicating
.tliat there was a pjant somewhere un
discovered in the raid several years ago.
By the arrest of Louis Julian of Now
York, on a charge of counterfeiting,
secret servlc officials declare they have
captured an old-tlmo offender. ire is
paid to have been, sentenced to two
years in the Clinton. N. Y prison In
1905 for having counterfeit coins In his
possession. In December-. 1911, it is be
lieved, he was arrested in Hoboken as
a confidence man and served a year In
the penitentiary.
TWO COUNTERFEITERS
TAKEN IN WEST VIRGINIA
WASHINGTON, Dec. E7A United
States secret service opeiator left Wash.
Ington toduy for ClHrksburs, W. Va.. to
Like charge of Salvadore Lotello ami
Iortuuallo I-obello, charged with pasting
U counterfeit notes made by the famous
Morc'K'-I ypo gang, the leaders of whl h
Urges All Farmers to
Raise Sugar -Beets
WASHINGTON. Dec. 27WIth the
declaration that the United States should
ralso all of its sugar, the Department of
Agriculture today Issued an appeal to
me American farmer to go in for the
cultivation of the sugar beet. There are
2,000,000 short tons of beet murnV nnu.-
Imported annually, says the department,
wnicn snouw be raised at home.
"The average American consumes
eighty-three pounds of sugar each year,"
says, the report, "and only ten pounds
of that Is produced In this country. The
farmer of this country should keep that
money at home."
DIXON LEAVES FORTUNE
TO SISTERS AND NIECE
KANSAS CTrr. Dec. 27.-By the will of
W. H. Dixon, a hotel proprietor, filed
today, an estate valued at $300,000 was
practically all left to his two sisters, Mrs.
Flllle Thumber of Marshall, Mich., and
Mrs. Anna Mast of Hlverslde, Cal., and a
niece. Miss Ruby Kltckner, who lives
here.
WIFE MURDER AND
SUICIDE AT ROCK ISLAND
DAVBNPORT. la , Dec. 27.-G. W. Grif
fith, aged 34 years, shot and killed Ills
wife and then committed suicide at their
home in Rock Island early lodav. Jeal
ousy Is presumed to have ueen the cause.
There were no witnesses.
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In this book. Phoebe and Ernest grow
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A collection of short stories deal with
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The laifioly tru- story of the Bar Circle
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THE KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN
SPUR. Ily Rupert HaiRent Hollund. 313
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There Is plenty of maglu In this story
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"adventure." bofoto he wins the golden
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This volumo contains nbojit forty short
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1(3 pp. $. George H. Doran company
A sweet and humorous story, of south
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Hester, now a very attractive girl of IT
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taught many things not to bo gained nt
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! This fourih of this series Is especially
lntrAfitlnr f rrin Iffu i.n....- rri
Aleutian Islands have witnessedimore des-
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The new frlcnda which Pccev wewatt csUUfc' as $Ue) are immense in their scope
f