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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 03, 1906
Page
2
Remnants and Godments from the fair marked at exceptionally low prices this week. Wording is garbled but references to sale items, discounts, and shopwide savings appear, with mentions of fabrics and flannel products. The piece reads as a busy, period advertisement format, urging customers to visit the store for reduced goods.
Fragmented catalog notes show various hosiery items with inconsistent spellings and prices such as 91 per pair, ML per pair, and 04 per pate. The legible entries reference children and adult stockings, quantities and brands in a rough 19th or early 20th century trade catalog style.
Fragmentary text notes irregularities and notes from a local facility about dress items. It mentions a weeklong period, a law related to Pieris Leti, and names Sapte Gabi and others in a muffled report. The legible portions suggest a brief notice about clothes or fabric stock, with no clear event.
Remnants and oddments offered in Manchester goods department this week. Readable items include great bargains samples coats and Mackintoshes with English and Australian makes. Limited time only call in to view the sample goods and special offers in force this week.
Ada article lists boys suit samples with varied fashions and prices. Includes ready made outfits in multiple fabrics and styles with price points from twelve shillings sixpence to twenty-seven shillings sixpence, and mentions samples of shirts, pants, and belts.
Catalog style entry noting various garments and fabrics including dark tweed, pale trousers, sample woollen vising glues, leather palms, serge suits, worsted trousers, and multiple patterns. Mentions prices and stock details in a fragmentary list style from a department store.
A fragmented advertisement offers felt slippers, ladies and children's footwear, and boys and youths Balmorals at reduced prices. Items include goats designs in goat’s leather, leather school boots, and repair services with rubber heel work. Prices listed in old currency indicate deep discounts through end of sale.
A brief ad notes odd corsets and good pairs of kitchen aprons priced at 6d each.
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