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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1895
Page
8
The firm boasts its 1895 performance as the most successful in its history driven by a new Bargain Day on Fridays, a larger store, New York purchases, and entry into the Cotton Market which boosted prices locally. It credits loyal customers and vows to double energy to merit continued confidence through fair dealing.
This week the store will receive a handsome line of holiday goods with silver articles ornaments stick pins and more. A large shipment of fancy rocking chairs awaits along with ladies coats and capes and a case of linen bound standard 25 cent novels. Avoid missing out on gifts.
Local ad offer. Calicoes and Ginghams five cents per yard, Bleached Canton Flannel five cents, Good Checks five cents. Red Flannel cut to twenty cents from twenty five. Jeans discounted from forty to thirty, from thirty to twenty five, and from twenty five to twenty. Dress Goods down twenty percent. Men's Brogans and Sunday Shoes one dollar. Men's Rubber Coats priced at one dollar fifty.
A local grocer urges customers to buy there for superior groceries at the same price. They advertise Xmas delicacies and note continued status as sole agents for Obelisk Flour, claiming flatly that none is better on earth and inviting new customers to try them.
In a bold downtown ad a retailer boasts a full upstairs inventory of furniture carpets and sewing machines sold at rock bottom prices after a rapid clearance two months earlier wagons hauled away the prior stock and now the store proclaims its replenished bargain levels with a challenge to pay more elsewhere.
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