Adams Great Clean Sale Ends At Half Price
Auctioneer notes a city sale by P P Adams offering heavy discounts with many articles cleared out for less than half original cost. advertising a big finish on a wide range of goods.
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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1901
Page
5
Auctioneer notes a city sale by P P Adams offering heavy discounts with many articles cleared out for less than half original cost. advertising a big finish on a wide range of goods.
Large assortment of ladies and misses colored and white shirt waists priced to clear. Prices range from 29c to 99c and include bulk lots of 10 to 100 dozen with former prices up to 3.50. Come and see the peep bargains ever offered in this city.
List features dozens of ladies and misses skirts with braid trims, polka dot patterns, and flounced designs. Items include duck and linen crash fabrics with varying insertions and prices labeled as clean out or out price, such as $2.49 and $1.26, across multiple dozen quantities.
A clipped sale listing offers jackets, reefers, skirts, suits, hats, corsets and more. Items include Misses reefers at 2.50, ladies Eton jackets, storm skirts, dress sessa, outing suits, walking hats, sailor hats, and corsets with prices sharply cut from former amounts.
Incoherent report notes names such as Mr and Mrs BE L Tuttle and Prescott Keyes. Mentions Co H Towle and a likely appendicitis operation and tax books held by authorities. Details are incomplete.
Erastus H. Smith offers a Mason and Hamlin organ in good condition for sale. The listing includes a garbled note with unclear contact details and location references, but indicates a private sale.
The obituary notes the death at about 6:45 p.m. of a Maynard resident born June 22, 1880. She prepared supper for her son James when she collapsed. Survived by a brother in Australia and sisters in Australia and New Zealand, two sons in Toronto. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 2 o'clock from her son's Summit Street residence, conducted by Rev. Chas. H. Washburn.
The Hartford Custard Pie association members held a picnic at Swan Lake with a custard pie display for 400 attendees during old home week. The secretary of the navy was slated to attend but did not appear.
Mrs Harriet returns home from North Brookfield after visiting her son W Curtis. Joseph F Scott and W W Curtis Jr visit Worth Brookfield. E W Blossom attends Worcester Embalmers convention. Thomas White from New Hampshire State Prison visits sister A E Payson. William Nagle of South Boston takes two week vacation. Rev George Dodge of West Acton to preach at Union church. R Clifford Pratt and E Blanche Pratt spend two weeks with friends. Charlestown visitors, family updates.
Waltham edges Concord Junction 7 to 1 as Powers leads with strong defense and big third inning. Nauss Henley Coleman Burns Stankard contributing for Waltham while Messer Bass Hayes Lan Onlial Mart Powers pace Concord Junction lineup.
Mrs. A. P. Joyce advertises a tent for sale in her yard at cheap price. The note also reminds readers that O. S. D. remains the place to buy celluloid collars, touted as the cheapest and best.
In Fall River Massachusetts unions vow to resist a 14 percent wage cut in print cloth wills. Mule spinners carders and weavers held joint meetings voting to fight and to seek financial aid from New England unions. The strike mood echoes a historic 1879 wage drop in weaving.
The obituary details Timothy A Coolidge, longtime Marlboro banker and civic leader. He served in the Massachusetts legislature, chaired the board of selectmen, led the First National Bank, and held Masonic and other society memberships. He died at his home 51 Howland Street after a life of public service and community involvement. The funeral will be held Thursday at 2 pm under Masonic auspices.
California detectives pursue two theft cases as a man who took gold bars from a smelter and another who took money from a mint are held in custody.
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