Boots and Shoes Must Go At Great Sacrifice
Store announces clearance sale with all boots and shoes marked down. Limited time to clear inventory as prices are aggressively cut to move stock quickly.
08 Feb 1891
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Newspaper
Columbus Daily Herald
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1891
Page
1
Store announces clearance sale with all boots and shoes marked down. Limited time to clear inventory as prices are aggressively cut to move stock quickly.
The notice promises better grades and special prices to clerics and merchants on twelve pair lots. It claims 50 centa savings per dollar and urges quick action to sell stock held only months at half cost.
The firm announces a closing out sale in Columbus insisting prices will rise after they depart. They urge buyers to stockpile shoes for two years and consider other lines, arguing goods are no cheaper at origin than in Columbus.
Washington notes a Brazil driven reciprocity push as the Brazil United States pact gains favor. The plan would appoint three U S commissioners to meet with Brazil to draft a treaty for Congress ratification. The measure could reshape sugar flour and mining trade and affect Spain Cuba and Europe.
Governor Boyd in inaugural address urges wisdom economy and fairness, opposes cutting interest rates, backs Australian ballot reform, warns against sumptuary laws, supports railroad regulation without maximum rate law, favors people elected railroad commission, backs Columbian Exposition funding and district presidential electors.
The Pittsburgh coke region faces a showdown as 17 000 miners oppose coke operators led by Carnegie interests. The union demands a 12 to 14 percent wage increase, mine workplace scales with proper car weights, and a union representative at scales. Operators offer a 10 percent wage cut and refuse talks.
Washington February 9. The national world’s fair commission faced a three hour House dispute as Chairman Candler urged a vote to slash salaries. Mason of Chicago ruled the amendment out of order, then the House adjourned. In a later session the clause was amended setting director general pay at 7500, with other officers listed, and the clause passed.
Fire Friday wiped out blocks in Caledonia New York destroying business properties and homes valued at about 75000. The event adds to a string of incidents across cities from Ohio to Kentucky and beyond reported this Friday by various papers.
A mixed telegraphic dispatch reports a 2.5 million revenue figure, civil service reform bills, women voting rights in local elections, and livestock purchases for state institutions. Indiana factory layoffs cut wages and jobs. a Wabash paper mill collapse follows. legislators and officials tour schools and asylums, with bequests to an orphan’s home and a hydrophobia warning amid civic events.
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