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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1903
Page
8
The ad touts the greatest sale in local trading history a ten day Pre Inventory event where every stock item contributes its best to offer money saving opportunities for present needs and the future. It urges readers to read investigate and buy during the period.
A public sale opens Tuesday morning December 29 1903 and continues through Friday afternoon January 8 1904 offering items from local consignors. The event runs at the usual auction rooms with bidding open to the public.
Housekeeping goods promoted as staple items with steady value and strong price reductions. The notice touts the sale as the most notable bargain in the area, urging customers to compare prices and act boldly.
Dress goods section offers dramatic price cuts across fabrics and essentials. Bleached cottons, Toweling, linens, damask, napkins, and flatware items show deep discounts with numerous yardage and pack deals. Silks, taftas, waist patterns, and robes also marked down, inviting shoppers to stock up.
Local store cuts prices across coats skirts and children's wear to clear inventory. Coats from 7.98 to 9.98, various items slashed including girls coats belts hats and garments. Specials on silks cheviots sacques robes and suits with many pieces below typical values.
December 39 forecasts light tonight with increasing snow and brisk east winds. Real Happenings section lists removals and inventory sales at Abbott's and Vaughan's, furs remodeled, children's coats and winter wear at discounts, glassware and clams at various shops, and Holton glass fittings guarantee. Madame LeRoy clairvoyant ad appears with hours 10 am to 9 pm.
Clara Burnham of Concord arrives for a week with Mrs Julia Horeham. Fred Curdle returns to Pike after visiting his parents. Dr Curtis and Mrs Curtis plan to stay, with Mrs Curtin joining later. About fifty friends host a surprise Grange ball reception for Mr and Mrs Pearl Rumrill who receive a handsome gift. Waterman Melutyra, employed by Dix Camp, injures his hand and undergoes an elbow amputation to save his life as blood poisoning threatened. Drs Batley Angell and Gift perform the operation and the patient recovers slowly but with grave doubts about recovery.
Tolstoi reports not socialist during Bryan’s visit in The Hague as Bryan arrives from Berlin to meet the foreign minister and notes Tolstoi’s age. In Washington Moody orders a New York naval yard court martial for Otto Fries and Sergeant Brooks over a magazine explosion. British miners face high fatality and injury rates with 1100 deaths and 5500 injuries yearly.
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