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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1907
Page
5
Smith and Brother advertise Saturday specials on handkerchiefs. Handkerchiefs include ladies linen embroidered styles and embroidered options, with the best pieces offered at reduced prices. Some items feature initial monograms and tonal borders, with discounts emphasized to clear stock.
A bustling Barre update notes shop displays at Vaughan's and Perry's with Virginias and watches, a church visit, and a variety of social events. Details include families at home, a Canton Whist meeting, a public dance preview, and a notable theatre bill Fabio Romani at the opera house.
A. P. Abbott & Co advertises ample goods at low prices to boost Christmas sales with extra items added this week to attract shoppers.
Vintage textile sale lists neckwear at 33 cents, ladies fast black pantaloons, and silk petticoats with bold pricing. Items include double heels, gloves, and waistline fits described as Detelianbe shapes with hip overhang. Prices emphasize value and novelty in a general department store display.
A shuffled catalog offers Ladien Grey mix coats, Drews coats, velvet trim, and rippled bark style skirts at discounted prices. Items include fifty inch coats, sizes around armada and ogee styles, with prices ranging from 4.98 to 62.08 and select items noted as best grades. Special closeout sale while limited numbers last.
In Children’s Fur Lets a sale lists special prices on an odd lot of items. The notice mentions a lot described as 7 Searls and Mule and indicates a limited time for the pricing.
Local notices advertise Christmas displays and sales at Perry’s store on Church Street with items from A P Abbott Co and Pitts' diary displays. Highlights include a basketball game on Friday at Church Street gym and promotions for watches, clocks, corset covers, bracelets, and “the watch and clock man” along with estate agency notices and Masons’ aid plans.
The advertisement promotes fresh fish available at City Fish Market highlighting dock, cod, cusk, halibut, salmon, smelts, herring, flounders and skate. It touts daily shipments and urges orders for best market quality. It notes Scotch cured Finnan Haddies as a growing demand item, claimed as sole Vermont makers with the correct flavor.
The advertisement touts a smoking jacket with a Merry Christmas card as a universal pass to happy evenings and Sundays. It highlights double-faced golf cloth in olive, Oxford, blue, and brown with plaid trims, priced from 5.00 to 12.00, plus matching bathrobes. Cleaning, repair, fur care, and rental services are offered.
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