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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
8
Four weeks of record business prompt drastic price cuts as a closing out effort. The sellers insist the stock must and will be sold regardless of cost or former prices to benefit the trading public with wholesale level reductions.
In November, unheard of sale prices on woolen dress goods are announced with extensive reductions. Formerly 1.50 yard now 75 cents. 1.25 yard now 62 1 2 cents. 1.00 yard now 50 cents. 75c yard now 37 1 2 cents. 50c yard now 25 cents. Applies to all black and colored fabrics to clear stock.
A former price list shows silks in black and color at 36 inches priced at 1.50 per yard, with 1.25 and 1.00 grade options for various silks. The notice also references a prior 75c and 50c level, with a garbled line noting 0c.
Advertises cotton dress goods at 10c to 15c yard, ginghams and percales reduced further. Ready made bed sheets and pillow slips offered bleached. Damasks, towels, napkins, blankets marked down from $1.25 to $1.50 and below. Stock sacrificed to clear.
A flooded shipment of MAISH bed comfortables, long delayed, is now available at extreme discounts. Bulk clothing stock also half price, with suits for 12.50, 11.50, 10.00, 8.75, 7.50, and 6.25, urging quick purchase for needy buyers nationwide.
Our full purchase of lace curtains have just come in and will be in our way. You can buy them for exactly a half price. Some of the swellest curtains we ever had in this house in the lot and every one the newest and most desirable styles.
A logistics note states an order for linoleums for the fall was cancelled due to a business change. The bulk shipment was dumped days ago and offered to you at exactly half price. Each piece features a new pattern and the latest designs.
A local house offers a drastic sale on all window shades, slashing prices to 50 percent. Shop owners promise complete inventory reduction, urging customers to act quickly before stocks run out.
Entire stock all wool 85c in Carpets now 48c. Wool Ingrains grade now 45c. 65c Wool Ingrains now 30c. 50c Wool Ingrains now 30c. 10.00 Art Squares now 5.98 and 6.50. 12.50 Art Squares now 7.50. 15.00 Squares now 8.75.
The notice offers coats at uniform reductions matching suits. Children’s bear skin coats are priced at exactly half their usual price, signaling a broad clearance. The fragment implies a sale event with emphasis on coat pricing and equal discounting across items.
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