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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 14, 1888

Page

8

New England Store Promises Fair Dealing and Low Prices

In a public notice the store announces a grand opening in a 9 story Tremont and Beacon street building. It touts growth, fair dealing, honest goods, and low prices with a pledge to meet customers halfway in transactions and serve their best interests. It notes innovations that competitors imitate and asserts its originality remains superior to copies. It highlights today’s wares and claims prices are as low as or lower than rivals in New England.

Tremont Beacon Streets New England

Furnishing Goods Dept to Open on Beacon Tremont Corner

Announcement of a new Furnishing Goods department on the first floor of the publisher's new addition at Beacon and Tremont streets. The store pledges a completeGentlemen's Wear assortment at moderate prices, with a full line of Fashioned Underwear from Merino 75c to All Wool $7, plus Silk Underwear from $4. Ladies receive Hosiery and Merino Underwear at reasonable prices across grades.

Beacon Tremont Streets Boston

Finest quality assortment from leading makers

A superb selection in the finest qualities and latest styles offered by top makers of this country and Europe. Special order items priced to suit every buyer with prices from 25e to 2.75 dollars each.

Europe Everbody

Glass Boxes and Satin Embroidered Novelties for Christmas

An advertisement showcases glass boxes and satin embroidered items suitable for Christmas gifts. Prices range from 9 cents to 1.50 dollars for glass boxes and from 83 7e cents to 4.50 dollars for satin and plain pieces ready for embroidery.

Desirable selection of canes and hats offered in new quarters

A broad array of canes in Hazel, Malacca, Crab, Orange, Hickory, Olive, Penang, Weichsel and more with handles in silver plated and horn, priced 50c to 6.00. Hats for all ages featured with new Derby styles and Our Leader and Our Best lines priced to attract. Cloaks and ladies wear on sale with dramatic reductions, including Seal Plush Sacques and Newmarkets at substantial discounts.

Malacca Penang Newmarket

Sale on Men's Alligator Slippers and Ladies Worsted Slippers

The Shoe Department offers men's genuine alligator slippers in multiple colors at 2.85 per pair and ladies worsted slippers at 75e per pair during the sale.

Pocketbooks and Jewelry Bargains in Boston Stores

A Boston shop advertises a vast selection of pocketbooks and jewelry at low prices. Grain leather pocketbooks start at 25 cents, with silver mounted seal leather pieces and numerous solid gold items priced from a few dollars to several dollars. Meerschaum pipes and plush six piece sets are listed at modest costs, highlighting a growing jewelry trade in the city.

Fancy Crockery Week Deals in Decorated China Ware

A sales note highlights unusually low prices on decorated china ware. The message credits persistent effort and summer-long negotiations with manufacturers and agents, claiming prices are lower than ever quoted and that hard work yields visible results.

Dinner Sets Offer Vast Selection in New England

An array of dinner and tea sets from European and American makers is showcased with prices from 5.49 to 360 per set. Featured are 112 piece, 130 piece, and best French china sets, plus a wide range of chamber toilet sets, china fruit plates, and real china cups and saucers in numerous patterns and prices.

Boston Tressemanes & Vogt New England T. G. & F. Booth Royal Worcester Minton Copeland Haviland Aynsley Crown Derby

Buyer Seeks Handsome Line of Plush Novel Ties in Boston

The buyer notes great effort in selecting the most desirable line of Plush Novel ties ever shown in Boston, emphasizing the emphasis on quality and elegance.

Boston

Bargain Ironstone China Dinner and Tea Sets Offered

Plain Crockery presents a sale of ironstone china with dinner plates at 67 cents per dozen, breakfast plates 59 cents per dozen, tea plates 48 cents per dozen, dessert plates 36 cents per dozen, and handled tea cups and saucers 69 cents per dozen. Limited to this lot.

Parisian dolls and accessories sale with varied prices

A long list details 16 inch and 12 to 22 inch dolls with bisque heads jointed bodies and flowing hair, priced from 49 cents to about 19.98. Also offers doll hats shoes stockings and Latin dressed dolls plus Vienna novelties like visiting lists writing desks calendars and Christmas carols with numerous low price items.

Baccarat Glass Ware and Accessories Sale in New England

Baccarat Glass Ware advertised as the finest table crystal, with no seconds leaving the factory. The dealer claims to be the largest in New England and offers 12 ounce fire polished pillar twist bottles, square and triangular cover bottles at 19 cents each, imported optic lemonade sets with pitcher and tumblers for 98 cents, fancy glass candy baskets once valued at $100 for 39 cents, and hammered brass trays 18 inches round for 24 cents each.

New England

Cut Glass For Christmas Gifts In Expansive Array

Our assortment of rich Cut Glass was never so replete with attractive wares. We carry a splendid stock in the newest and most beautiful designs at prices which are now well known for their exceeding cheapness. For a Christmas present nothing could give more pleasure or be more appropriate than a piece of cut glass.

Rare books sale listing by the Standard Poets Dove edition

A catalog of bound books and illustrated volumes offered by The Standard Poets, featuring Milton Paradise Lost Dante Divina Commedia and Dickens Thackeray works in cloth bindings with prices. Children’s Juvenile Books listed with board covers and bulk values. Wide selection from 25c to $4.98, with many items reduced.

Dickens Thackeray

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Houghton & Dutton Aera Ae i Depi Tremont and Beacon Sts Shoe Department Pocketbooks Jewelry Department A Tressemanes & Vogt Sis Royal Dresden Doulton Old Hungarian Old Hail United States Meriden Britannia Co Reed & Barton Rogers & Bro Meriden Silver Plate Co Pairpoint Mfg. Co Rogers Rogers & Hamilton Jockey Club Toys China Politics Halma Parcheesi Stationery Department Vienna Houghton & Button Baccarat
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