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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1889
Page
3
Campbell and Martin announce their spring stock of dry goods notions. The collection includes boots shoes ladies and gents hats clothing trunks valises tourist bags and related items ready for customer inspection.
A fragmentary newspaper item advertises a bakery offering fresh bread and cakes with delivery in the city and custom orders, then rapidly shifts to bankruptcy notices and a clothing store failure, with stray phrases about mining powder and local Broadway firms.
A sprawling Johnson City advertisement touts a bankruptcy stock sale offering dresses, suits, parasols, gloves, ribbons, and watches at substantial cuts. It promises 50 to 70 cent dollar prices, mentions Abe Greenbaum as assignee, and invites crowds on opening days April 22 and 23 with added sales staff and a large assortment of goods from clothing to groceries and hardware.
The advertisement lists wallpaper prices from 1 to 50 cents and up to 5.00 per roll, covering centers corners and ceilings with decorations. It notes new stock of latent styles patterns mattings and window shades across all grades and prices offered at unusually low rates.
Our carnet buyer returned from New York with a full line of carpets and shoes in all grades and prices. Prices are lowered to unheard levels as 5,000 Iba dynamite deals. Hardware, ladies shoes from Drew Selby Co, kids and infants lines, and French calf upper gents shoes priced down.
An advertisement proclaims the largest furniture stock ever brought to the place with prices to astonish shoppers. It urges customers to compare prices and claims not to be undersold in any line carried by McNeil & Wolfe.
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