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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1896
Page
2
Three days each week beginning Friday July 3rd and continuing through July we will sell goods every Monday Wednesday and Friday at the stated prices. On these sale days we will not charge goods to anyone or send goods out on approval.
Wide assortment of sale goods including paper products, envelopes, writing supplies, fish hooks and lines, money purses, suspenders, buttons, day books, memo books, playing cards, pencils, vests, mitts, and silk ties offered at low prices. Includes quantities and per item prices in a vintage catalog style.
Classified listing of gent and ladies handkerchiefs with prices from 1c to 10c. Items include white silk hemstitched cambric lawn and colored bordered varieties, plus turkey red men’s handkerchiefs. Each entry notes size and discount wording for exchange.
Readers can buy Ladies shopping bags at 24 cents each, steel thimbles in sets of three or four for small totals, crochet needles in single or double ends at low prices, and small textiles like bleached knitting cotton. Cosmetic items include Cascarilla face powder in large boxes and Hoyts dime cologne at seven cents per bottle. Also listed are basic undergarments and drill drawers with reduced pricing.
Sale advertisement lists shirts overshirts and undergarments with prices from 10 to 42 cents. Includes corset waists caps collars and fans with large discounts across silk and embroidery items. Promotional language claims revolutionary prices and warehouse quantities, inviting customers to call or visit the store.
Beginning July 3 the sale runs three days weekly Monday Wednesday and Friday all month. No goods will be charged to anyone and no goods sent on approval on those days. Remember the policy and note the dates.
Cash sale offers water ground meal at 10 cents per peck. Dry salt meat at 1 dollar per pound. Red Warrior Tobacco 22 cents, Good Luck Tobacco 22 cents. Circus Soap three for 10 cents. Snow Boy washing powder three cent package. Pearline four cent package. Pickles in bottle, pepper sauce seven cents per bottle.
The Steininger Mercantile Co advertises sales on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays in July only. Prices are strictly cash with no charges or approval-based deliveries.
A list of sale prices for Mason fruit jars glasses soap pitchers and glassware including 2 quart jars 65 cents per dozen 4 gallon up to 85 cents small glassware such as tumblers 18 cents per set jelly glasses 35 cents per dozen decorated toilet sets at 2.25 full price 3.50 glass syrup pitchers 8 cents glass stand lamps 22 cents lantern globes 7 cents white granite dishes 45 cents and nappies 8 cents and up preserves dishes and pickle dishes offered at discounted rates.
A local ad lists a cash sale offering bleached towels at 9 cents per yard, linen duck towels, linen damask towels in various sizes, and Turkey red table damask at 23 cents per yard. Doilies priced at 25 cents per dozen, fig challies reduced from 6 to 44 cents.
Readable text notes silk stripe wool challies 124 cts and French challies 1 yard wide reduced to 18 cts. Ottoman crepon and corded figured organd discounted from 25 cts to 15 cts with claims of clearing stock.
Yard sale style listing showing bread trays 18c, dish pans 15–20c, tin cups 20c, ladies silk mitts 25c, leather girdles 15c, men’s fancy teck scarfs 15c, four in hand scarfs 5c, ladies countess teck scarfs 25c. Many items offered at reduced prices to clear stock.
A list of discounted men and women clothing including bow adjustments, puff front shirts in various fabrics, dotted Swiss and polka dot designs, laundered shirts with slight soiling offering 80 to 90 cents, embroidered fronts, and white pique lace stripe puff fronts. Also hats, pipes, and hairline half hose sold at sale prices to clear stock.
A stored sale note lists fabrics with price cuts. One yard wide Scotch gingham nine cents, Chinese madrass cloths eight cents, Silk aleen reduced from twelve to eight cents, furniture drapery from fifteen to ten cents, striped hatise washable under skirts down from twenty five to eighteen cents.
The clipping lists fabric prices with Black serge at two cents per yard, white and navy duck at ten cents, Gingham from America four cents, from Germany six cents, and from France ten cents.
Composite French dress suiting 30 cents now. Grenadine stripe lawn down from 30 to 20 cents. Raven black stripe lawn reduced. Grenadine cost 25 cents per yard to import. Black check lawn with white polka dot 10 cents. Seasonal wear and durability noted for year round use.
J. R. Graves of Bainbridge Georgia advertises general insurance services for fire insurance with old and reliable time tested companies. He promotes experience and reliability for policyholders seeking protection for property and assets.
A jumbled local page lists Fred Smith's offerings including ice, butter, and pickling vinegar, plus a for sale notice for a 3 year old filly at Eddie Moore. It also covers church services, a candidate announcement for Tax Receiver J B Overstreet, a steamer schedule on the J P Williams, and a campaign note to grow the Democrat newspaper list.
At the earnest solicitation of friends I have consented to open an office in Bainbridge for the treatment of constitutional diseases from blood poison and rheumatism. Can be found at the office of Dr. E J Morgan from 8 to 11 in the morning and 3 to 5 in the afternoon daily, M. N. Paverr, M. D.
Decatur County offers a favorable climate fertile soil abundant land and cheap living with public schools and growing property values Bainbridge sits at the Flint River navigation hub with rail connections and 1800 residents claiming pure artesian water and strong health metrics Local notices invite new settlers and outline obituary and political items from the Quitman Free Press
The next regular applicants for Teachers' certificates in Decatur county will be examined on Friday and Saturday July 4 and 25. They will be questioned on this year's Institute Syllabus and White's School Management. Teachers without a copied Syllabus should call at the office. no other examination will be held until next summer. Licenses expiring July 1897 must take the yearly exam.
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