Akron Memorial Day store hours and local notices
Local Akron merchants will close 10 am to 12 pm on Memorial Day May 30 as requested by G A R and W B C, reopen 12 to 1 pm and remain closed the rest of the day. Various deliveries, sales, and personal notes from Dudley’s store, Home Shop, Cobbs Paint, and local residents are listed along with weather and travel updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Dudley
G. A.R
W. BR. C
Josie Bengtson
Vermillion
John Bengtson
W. AB. C
GALR
W. RC
Bess Creglow
Sioux City
Kiner Anderson
Olive Scheckel
Blanche Dean
Akron Public Schools
W. H. Mears
Wilbur
Eunice Fickle
Storm Lake
Iowa
War Clothes: A Key But Not Producing Asset
The statement frames clothing as an essential war factor not in production but in conservation. It argues that smart purchases save resources, while wasteful buying harms the war effort. The idea emphasizes discipline in consumption as part of overall victory.
Our Closing Out Sale
Our low prices for good dependable merchandise during this period of high values offer a cool oasis in a desert. A week of advances in cotton goods shows we are below wholesalers on many items. It costs more to replace the stock than our sale prices, benefiting all as we convert merchandise to cash and you need the goods.
Outing Night Robes Bargains Push Season Marks
A terse ad urges buyers to purchase outing gowns and night robes now while prices are low, noting expected price doublings for fall and claiming savings on a full line of reds and leather items. It promotes marked down stock and closeout values with a single dollar price point per pair.
Little Paris Shop Jewelry Sale From Marshall Field Co
Catalog ad states jewelry from Marshall Field Co is marked in plain figures with 14 off the price. Rugs also reduced ten percent, promising prices lower than current market rates.
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Paris
Marshall Field & Co
New Silk Petticoats Arrive In Fresh Shades
New silk petticoats in pretty shades have just arrived at favorable prices, offering updated styles for shoppers seeking light, elegant undergarments.
Closing Out Prices At Store On Decoration Day
Aged sale notice offers galvanized tubs in large and medium sizes and discounts on coats shirts umbrellas embroideries muslins sheets and pillow cases. Food items include potatoes new pure sugar candy canned vegetables and cabbage with prices noted. Store will close from 10 to 12 in the forenoon and again from 1 pm for the rest of the day on May 30 Decoration Day.
Ladies Wais t Sale Prices Cut This Week
New waists arriving by express with exceptional value. Customers respond to bargains. This week special prices 5.95 waists reduced to 4.50 and 45.00 waists now 3.50.
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Express
Shoes add fresh styles for spring orders in stock
New spring shoes arrived this week featuring attractive shapes and higher apparent value. The items enhance upcoming orders with modern designs and premium appeal for buyers seeking updated footwear options.
Local Elk Point notes and farm ads from Akron paper
A dense mix of short items, greetings, visits, local business offers, and farm goods. Includes egg and cream prices, incubator ads, optics, paint, seeds, and household wares. Mentions visits by Mrs Biddlecome, Miss Hauck, and others, plus Kinship, camp Funston trip, and a Fire Dept still alarm.
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Kyle Squires
Fred Manning
Camp Funston
Kansas
J. Ervin
Sioux Falls
Ruth Hauck
Vermillion
Emily Way
Antisie
Gladys Nall
Theogene Dobbs
Nall
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Claude Sullivan
Dell Rapids
K. Sullivan
H. M. Niemia
Lucile Lanpop
Windam
Minn
Mr. Stroud
Klauer-Swanson Co
M. Silkebakken
Cobb’s
Hanford Produce Co
M. W. Redmond
LeMares
Ruby
Kenneth Hanser
Ernest Ostrom
Waldo Hilliker
Eagene Lias
Barrington Hall
Dudley's
H. M. Nienhuis
Tda Ostrom
Fern
Madison
Tripp
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Burrill-Douglass Co. the Home of Good Clothes
H. Rohrer Cash Store
Dan Smith
Elk Point
Mary Henke
Minnie Raynor
John Hansen
Dilly
Clarice Biddlecome
Hawarden
M. A. Biddlecome
Fred Post
HH. L. Smith
W. A. Ervin
T. L. Burnight
A. Spelberg
A. Amundson
S. W. Harker
Olof Ericson
Klauer- Swanson Co
Adolph Papritz
Chicago
Aug. Papritz
Western Electric Co
L. M. Dorreen
Correctionville
Commercial Club
Stone City
Hi. el. Hennings
Mammen
This County
Indiana
F. A, Meske
Winteristeen’s
Hedges
Roy Lohmar
W. H. Morse
Jacek Reilly
Pender
Nebr
Conrad
W. W. Meredith
Vermillion, M. D
C. ‘J. Barber
F. A. Meske
Amanda
Henry Stryzewsky
Tuesaday
F. Bengon
Springfield
S. D
W. B. Whitney
Dudley’s
Fie
John Hamman
Henry Simeon
Sutherland
Winn
Simeon
Hamman
Hedgen Elevator
G. C. Milliman
Milliman
Canton
Alsop Wakeman
Tina Bellwood
A. D. Whitney
Rossville
Towa
Mason City
Delko Bloem
Doon
Tews
Rock Valley
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