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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 27, 1901
Page
1
A long OCR fragment describes a Clearing Sale on Saturday August 10 with mixed textile goods, clothing, fabrics, dresses, linings, and accessories. The text lists various items and prices in a dense vintage catalog style, but many words are garbled, making specific items and entities hard to confirm.
In a early sale notice, a shop advertises stock of 50 pairs of Travellers sample blankets, slightly soiled and discounted. Single bed blankets at low price, double bed blankets of all wool Castlemine marketed as fallize. Colored woolen blankets and dark bush boge offered, prices shown in old currency.
A foggy listing of Pattoras and Flor stores offers opal value versus city prices. Items include Flannelettes, Flanneilia, Tartan Flanoelelies, and reversibles. Yardage ranges from 32 inch pieces to 74 yard reductions with heavy Masterton fabrics and colored Domotta available at reduced prices.
Prices given for various wool and yarn products include Paton's Second Fingering Wools reduced to 1s 9d per bead, Paton's ocond Yarns at 20d, and colors across Palac e Boat Fingering Wools reduced from higher rates. The listing notes all colors and chain reactions in the market.
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