Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-17
u. S. RETAIL store
TOBE OPENED HERE
Government Shop Will Start
Week From Today and Handle
All Merchandise
PLAN CHAIN OF PLACES

One week from tomorrow, Uncle Sam
will set up in business here as retailer
of merchandise.
II you need any wool underwear for
cold weather use, he'll sell it to you.
Maybe you need only balbrigsans. Your
Uncle will sell you those.
Socks, bath towels, shaving brushes,
garbage cans, hats, brooms, gloves,
lariats-in fact almost anything sal
able win be handled at the nations re-
tan store. And you won't have to carry
home your purchases, either. The par
eel post system will bring them to your
door.
Twenty Other Stores
Other cities where the stores will be
established are: Atlanta, FL Paso, st.
Louis, San Francisco. Los Angeles,
Denver. Washington. Seattle, Port
land, Chicago, Jefersonville. Indiana;
New Orleans, Boston. Detroit, st.
Paul, Omaha, Charleston, s. c.; New
port News, Va; Columbus, Ohio, and
San Antonio.
Following list includes the commodi-
ties to be offered in the stores and the
prices which have been fixed:
.rcss A5ssi'' a. e'Gta 4asbep eGp' sSS pair pair
blankets, all wool, Sc each; blankets,
wool and cotton, SIS each blankets.
cotton, $3 pair; bags, rubber, hot
water, sixty-five cents each; boots,
rubber, hip, $5.26 a pair; brooms,
stable, with handle, seventy five cents
each; brooms, corn, sixty cents each |;
brushes, scrub, fifteen cents each I;
brushes, shaving, fifteen cents each ;
candles, tallow, twenty cents pound
cans, ash or garbage. assorted, So each ;
ribbed, winter heavy, 81 pair; draw
ers, winter wool, light, 81 a pair !;
drawers, summer balbrigEan, nainsook,
elias, seam knee and full length. fifty
cents a pair; gloves, jersey knit. fifty
cents a pair; hats, oil skin, seventy
FIVE cents each; lariats. sixty five cents
each leggins, foot. seventy five cents
a pair; overalls, bib, s1.25 n pair
overalls, combination, $3.50 pair ;
raincoats, commercial, $5.25 each ;
staffs, flag, five-foot sectional steel,
$1.1o each; staffs, flag, eight foot Sec
tional wood, 81. 10 each socks, summer,
cotton, fifteen cents pair; socks. wool,
light, twenty five cents a pair; stocks,
wool, heavy, fifty FIVE cents a pair
thimbles, saddlers, eight cents each ;
towels, bath, forty-fve cents each
towels, huck, twenty cents each ; under
shirts, winter, wool, 81 each under
shirts, winter wool, light, 81 each
un6ershirts, cotton fleece lined, fifty
cents each undershirts. summer, fifty
cents each; whips, artillery, 81 each.
Renovated Article Prices
Price list Of reclaimed or renovated
articles:
Arctics Of all kinds, 81 a pair
blankets, all wool, S. each: blankets,
wool and cotton mixed, $3.50 each
blankets, cotton, 81 a pair; cans. meat,
twenty cents each; drawers. summer,
twenty five cents per pair; forks,
twenty four cents dozen; knives. forty
eight cents a dozen; leggins, foot,
thirty five cents a pair.
Overalls. combination. 81 .25 a pair
overalls, bib, seventy five cents a pair
spoons, eighteen cents a dozen; socks,
wool, light. twelve and one half cents
pair; socks, wool, heavy, thirty cents
pair; undershirts, winter wool, heavy,
sixty cents each; undershirts, winter
wool, light, sixty cents each; under
shirts, woolen and cotton, thirty cents
each undershirts, summer, twenty five
cents each