Cold Weather Prompts Warm Apparel Line
The store highlights a full department line for cold weather and invites careful inspection, promising not to demand a higher price than the lowest available quality.
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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
5
The store highlights a full department line for cold weather and invites careful inspection, promising not to demand a higher price than the lowest available quality.
Large assortment of ladies coats and skirts on display with prices ranging from 5.00 to 85.00 for coats and 3.00 to 10.00 for skirts. Special values noted in coats from 10.00 to 12.50 and additional price options from 4.50 to 6.00 with emphasis on value.
A dealer touts honest wearing quality of shoes and especially the Beacon Falls arctics. The note urges customers to try these durable goods on their next purchase, claiming superior wear and health benefits.
Full supply groceries advertise 1908 crop walnuts at 20 cents per pound plus 40 to 50 count prunes, 10 cents apricots and 8 cans for Elgin cream corn. Other items implied with 1908 crop labels appear in line with promotional prices and package counts.
Dress goods priced from 25 cents to 1.50 per yard and silks in all colors and grades. A fine selection of silks with waist patterns, new stripes and plaids. A button machine was added to the dry goods department, enabling matching buttons in two principal sizes.
A 1909 column urges readers to become consistent ad shoppers, arguing home merchants offer genuine discounts and local papers deliver full community news. It notes New York Central orders, rail improvements, and political shifts, including Cannon’s fight and Cummins’ senatorial bid, while praising honest, square dealings and urging progress in the solid South.
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