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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1898
Page
5
Underwear factory doubles capital and runs at cost to liquidate excess stock. Furniture goes at factory cost with freight added. Buyers from Monroe and surrounding towns urged to attend as clerks shift management to A J Stephens and J C Collier for next year.
Advertisement lists jeans at cost three times, yard-wide sheeting and Sea Island also at cost with low cents-per-yard figures. Calico and oil calico offered at cost with several price markers. Note emphasizes no extra charge for any calico in store.
The sale begins Saturday October 29 and runs for 60 days. No credit allowed. bring cash or you will not receive goods.
A list of fabric and writing notion prices appears, including best table cloth, best red table cloth, thread for writing paper, note paper quire, ink bottle, and pens per dozen. Prices show eight to fifteen cents per unit with several smaller cents amounts.
Shoes at GOSt advertise heavy all leather brogans 75 cents men’s boots 1.25 Amos White red russet shop shoes 1.25 women’s goon at cost 7?0 women’s fine Sunday shoes 60c baby shoes 10 cents all 3.50 and 4.00 shoes now 2.50 shoes at COST Krippendorf Drew Selby lines praised save 1.00 per pair.
Georgia dry goods shop advertises all millinery items including hats flowers feathers ribbons at strictly cost. trimming charges from 25 cents to one second and velvet hat making priced as usual.
The company announces a major stock reduction of about one half to redeploy capital into manufacturing. The underwear division will be closed and the store turned over to the Stephens' brothers after January 1st. The business is not closing but will not be run as a large enterprise by young managers.
Mrs. Warner heads the dressmaking department and offers quick delivery on dresses and suits purchased from us. When not busy with our own orders we also make goods bought from other stores.
A short classified notice states all plow goods at cost and cane syrup offered in a sale. Details unreadable in the fragment.
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