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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1911
Page
4
Local items report Gillham store ads and holiday sales including underwear stockings and china. Residents travel visits to Waterloo Sioux City Elkton and Cherokee with family plans and a cemetery lot sale announced by the Cemetery Association.
A catalog style listing covers men overcoats with fur collars priced 18.00 20.00 23.00 and 25.00 400 fancy socks worsted and cotton 15 to 25 cents wool ribbed union suits 3.00 suitcases 1.50 to 6.00 suspenders 35 50 and 75 cents four in hand bow ties purses 50 cents hats caps shirts gloves mittens and felt slippers all items mentioned with prices and brief notes on selection.
A local retailer advertises bear skin coats and a line of fancy coats priced from 1.50 to 3.50 and up. Underwear and garments range 0.25 to 1.00 with caps, hats, and gloves offered in multiple colors. Shoes, hosiery, sweaters, and warm slippers complete the winter supply with similar budget prices.
Advertises a shop offering ladies dishes cups saucers salad bowls and accessories with prices for tea aprons Swiss lace trimmed 25¢. Silk waist patterns per yard 1.00 and petticoats 3.75 4.00. Silk hose comfy slippers collar pins hat pins and belt pins 25 50¢. Christmas candies nuts fruits cider and more. Promotes reliable up-right goods and low prices, rejects freebie giveaways like cars or houses.
Wat son Graham suffered a severe arm injury at the Damm farm three and a half miles northwest of town while forcing corn into a sheller. The forefinger was cut off the forearm shattered and a small bone removed. Doctors hope to save the arm but amputation at the elbow may be needed. Graham is a young man with a family, son of L. W. Graham, and a member of I. H. Graham and Sona stock firm of Mt. Olive.
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