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Newspaper

Athens Weekly Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Oct 08, 1889

Page

8

Bargain Sale – Monday October 7 Plum Lot Specials

Rain or shine shoppers flock to the sale from 7 to 12 featuring White Blankets 95c and 15c, California Scarlet Blankets, White Quilts with borders, Broad Plaid Dress Flannels, solid color dress flannels, imported Broadcloth, Wamsutta Bleaching, ladies cashmere vests, all wool red flannel, medicated flannel, and fine wool twilled white flannel. The ad promotes eye catching discounts and vows strong customer value, urging readers to visit and compare with advertised prices.

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Prices for Ginghams Calicoes and Linsey Fabrics

The listing details prices and quantities for various fabrics including ginghams, calicoes, indigo blues, bleaching, and bleached linens. Noted are 19 pieces of choice ginghams at 47 8c, 43 pieces best quality ginghams at 5c, 1,300 yards of remnants at 10c, 60 pieces best fancy prints at 5c, 43 indigo blues prints at 5c, 16 pieces bleaching at 43c, 23 pieces 4-4 bleaching, and linsey equal to flannel at 18c.

Bargain Linen Offerings From Imported Stock in Auction Sale

Twenty cases opened from Bal fast Ireland offer better bargains than ever. Linens, damasks, towels, napkins and table sets at deep discounts. 200 pieces bleached damasks and napkins, 500 dozen linen doyles, many sizes and prices. Also men’s and ladies’ undergarments and shirts at unusually low rates.

Balfast Ireland Bolsieres

Corsets and bargains at Max Joseph's Gilt Edge Palace Store

The Athens shop touts fine French woven corsets priced from 56 to 2.50 as part of a bold sales campaign. It touts aggressive advertising, compares methods with rivals, and urges merchants to adopt a proactive, city-wide buying and shipping strategy to attract customers.

Max Joseph Athens Palace

Athens Fair to Open With Grady Gordon Speaking

Prominent Georgians including Grady Governor Gordon and W J Northern plan to attend Athens Fair November 12 opening. Directors prep a week of attractions with military features prize drills and football and baseball events. White carriers of Birmingham quit over two Negro carriers employed.

Messrs Grady Lvingston Northern Gordon Athens Banner W.J. Northern Livingston Henry W. Grady Birmingham Ala

Great American Desert as reality not myth described

The author warns the Great American Desert is real and largely barren with vast alkali plains and dry mountains. He recounts a 900 mile journey from Vinita to Fort Wingate with a Navajo guide, detailing harsh climate, water scarcity, frozen crops, and the challenging landscape between Santa Fe and Defiance. The piece notes Navajo life, terrain, and the misleading “Wheat Lands” maps while highlighting the desert’s potential with irrigation.

Wild West Arizona Cheyenne Salt Lake Rocky Mountains Latham Laramie Maj. Powell Vinita Plains Colorado Las Vegas Santa Fe Fort Wingate Rio Grande el Bosque del Santo Trinidad Trietey Francis John Boggs New Mexico Juan de Palos Tim Murphy Timotheus Murfando Defiance Jay John D. Lee Jacob's Pool Oasis Twenty Mile Desert Si Rock Budskin Rain Thirty Navajo Springs Oasis of Kanab Hamlin Church Ster Leserts

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