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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1896
Page
5
Local notices recount a bustling morning at Hocking Valley depot as a man fled after a reported diamond incident. The column lists visits, travels, illnesses, and social events across Athens, Gallipolis, Columbus, and Meigs County, mentioning schools, churches, and community figures along with multiple personal milestones.
Wes proclaims a one week sale to move every dollar’s worth of surplus stock at marked prices. He states former value and loss will not be considered and urges buyers to regard every word as a cold fact. The event is pitched as a wise loss and an unparalleled buying opportunity.
Read the list of bargains and cut out items of interest. Compare the printed statement with actual merchandise offered. Money back on every dollar's worth purchased if not as represented or satisfactory. The notice emphasizes value and accuracy in shopping.
A fragmentary notice invites readers to a sale on Saturday August 1 featuring silk prints. It mentions low prices and references silk goods previously selling at 35 and 54 cents, now offered at 1 cent. Details are limited but indicate a clearance style promotion.
A fragment describes a clearance sale on wash goods with items such as Tine Ginghame at 5 cents, Lawns 24 cents sale, Fancy Taifalte Silks 35 cents, Dimity 4 cents, Dimity and Lawns 9 cents, Challies 2 cents, Blue Calico 34 cents, Slirting Prints 3 cents, Fancy Prints 34 cents, Sateen 8 cents, and creales 7 cents with various original values listed.
Regular 75 cent goods cut to 44 cents. Fancy Taffeta Silks for worsts, normally 1.25 and 1.50, now sale price 89 cents. Limited quantities, hurry to secure value in this dress goods event.
Overstocked on dress goods prompts a heavy sale as store slashes prices to clear inventory. Highlights include 20 wool patterns reduced from 88.00 to 2.69, 20 wool dress patterns from 10.00 to 4.95, and various fabrics like cashmere and cheviots discounted to fractions of their former costs. Old price ranges noted.
A campaign style sale advertises dramatic discounts on summer wear. Outing shirts drop from 50 cents to 39 cents while 75 cent shirts and $1.00 shirts see 39 and 75 cent prices respectively. Suspenders fall to 14 cents and neckwear to 30 cents. Ties and socks also slash prices with multiple bargains across colors and quantities.
A sale listing for Mosquette Rugs and Smyrne Rugs shows regular prices of 22.23 and 2.25 with sale prices of 31.85 and 1.75 respectively. Matting Rugs are offered at 20 cents from 50 cents, Japanese Mattings at 15 cents from 25 to 30 cents.
A one week sale offers bleached and unbleached muslin and wide sheeting at deep cuts. Bleached muslin regular eight cents now fifty four cents for igrade. unbleached muslin five for a cent. wide sheeting unbleached twelve cents. bleached fourteen cents. outings ten cents. Towels and napkins priced low with bed spreads from one to two dollars. linen sale discounts apply to table linens and towels with nine percent off regular prices.
Summer stock advertised with absurdly low prices on ladies vests, children's vests, fancy hose, and black hose. The flyer lists multiple bundles such as 3 for 20 to 3 for 50 cents, 4 for 25 cents, and similar offers, urging quick purchase before winter.
Vintage sale ad lists coats jackets and capes with sale prices including children’s jackets 81.58, duck suits 29 cents, velvet and silk capes 3.00, best spring capes 36.08 and dresses at ball price. Regular prices noted and emphasis on money over goods.
A limited time sale offers Black Serge in 40 inch width at 30 cents regular 24 cents sale, 46 inch Black Serge all wool at 47 cents regular sale 52 cents, Black Mohair 40 inches at 35 cents, and Black All Wool Jaguarde at 39 cents, with sale prices well below regular.
Overstocked hats and ribbons are reduced in a rapid sale. Fancy Persian ribbons drop from 75 cents to 230 cents per yard, untrimmed hats at 20 cents each, trimmed hats originally 1.50 to 2.50 now 75 cents, other trims 1.50, flowers at half regular prices.
A brief advertisement touts a clearance of waists with damaged prices. Regular values from 50 cents to $1.75 are cut to 25 cents, 2 cents, 49 cents, and 7 cents. Stock is described as cleaned out, emphasizing deep discounts and end of season sale.
A civil section notice notes Soap Slide offers Castile Soap during a sale. Refined like art and literature, the item is pitched as a political catalyst and is priced at 10 cents for four for 1 cent.
Mixed sale notes describe muslin underwear items with nominal town prices and sale prices. Entries reference skirts drawers and other garments with various old prices and discount figures. The readable fragments list several items and their reduced prices in a shorthand catalog style.
A line list advertises various sewing goods with prices. Pins point to one cent papers, needles eight cent papers, threads two for five cents, crochet cotton four cents, dress shields twenty cents, and small items like eyelets handkerchiefs ribbons laces and embroideries on sale with modest prices.
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