Extra Heavy Hose Offer Two Pairs for 25 Cents
A retail pitch touts extra heavy hose with spliced heel and toe and a double knee. The advertisement urges customers to try the hose and offers two pairs for 25 cents.
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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1909
Page
5
A retail pitch touts extra heavy hose with spliced heel and toe and a double knee. The advertisement urges customers to try the hose and offers two pairs for 25 cents.
The page blends local business blurbs and social notes. Mentions Perry’s dimition, a new soda fountain at United Fruit Store, deliveries, and upcoming weddings. Nearby residents like Arthur Delisle and Henry from Keenville return from business or visits, with several ads for shops and services.
A. P. Abbott and Company announce a June stock reducing sale starting Saturday morning at eight o'clock and continuing through the next week if items remain. The advertisement promises goods shortened and reduced stock with selections listed in the Friday page ad.
A local store advertises heavy discounts on spring wash goods to clear stock. Readily available are prints in dark and light colors, beads and colored muslin, chambre ginghains, silk muslins, Madras shirting, linen waistings, and striped ponnes, all offered at reduced sale prices per yard. Manufacturers have cancelled orders, allowing new Grosgreen stock to be priced lower for quick sale.
Wash goods Congress offer at 5 cents a yard while stocks last. Directoire Sitka and other fabrics, not restocking, available now at reduced prices per yard.
The notice urges quick purchase of pillow slips and sheets before tariffs raise prices. It lists Buckeye cotton pillow slips 42 by 86 inches, 4 by 96 inch sheets, bleached sheets, and other mill products with sale prices and references to Loom, Pepperill, and Atlantic mills. The ad stresses scarce quotes later and urges action.
Local store offers bed spreads pulled from stock at deep discounts to clear inventory within a week. Spreads formerly up to 45 dollars are marked down to 2 50 each, with similar savings on other items as company aims for quick turnover.
Muslin underwear with glass display cases showcases children s muslin drawers skirts night wear and trimmed Hamburg skirts. Bargains include affordable night robes and infant wear plus four piece muslin sets advertised as pretty and modest with special prices.
Local linen firm advertises a damask table linen sale with half bleached and half treached damask options. Prices listed per yard for various grades and sizes reflect significant reductions for spring orders.
The fragment mentions pure linen bleached cloths priced by the yard and describes items with blue borders. It references multiple linen varieties and yard pricing, indicating a fabric sale or listing. The readable portions point to linen products and per yard costs, with partial brand or style cues.
Local shop explains higher fall dress goods prices with rises from 0 to 10 percent on wool tweeds, silks, and trimmings. Advertises 4 to 6 yard wide fabrics and storm serge in multiple colors, plus white Berge and chintz silk styles. Highlights advance in silk and wool blends and new stock from William Reidy Lansdownes.
Prices updated on durable goods at the store. White muslin waists previously under one dollar are now 0.98 each on the first floor display. All other waists moved to the garment department for purchase.
A chaotic arsenal of advertisements and notices from Abbott Company to Smith & Cumings market, Arkley livery, Red Crown Wharming, and Tony’s fruit shop. mentions of events, sales on boneless shoul ders, charity lectures, dances, and a Barre aerie meeting with scattered names and dates.
An advertisement promotes casual summer attire featuring loose Outing Trousers, a Summer Shirt, a Belt, and no Coat. Prices range from $3.00 to $5.00 for trousers and $1.00 to $1.50 for khaki options. Materials include worsted serges flannels and homespuns with full sizes offered and services in dothing repair.
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