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Newspaper
Correctionville News
Location
Correctionville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1910
Page
8
The note proclaims a busy final sale of 1910 with best preparations to serve customers. It asserts yearly improvement, better assortments and prices, and increasing trade through December across every department.
Auction notes show cloak sale with reduced prices for ladies misses and children. Items include furs and various sizes from 9 to 60 inches, with discounts emphasized and limited stock available.
Fragmented OCR reads as a promotional sale notice offering discounts and prices for various items. The readable parts mention a 10 percent discount and a sale list with prices and shopper tips. The overall meaning is obscured by garbled words and missing context.
Local ad lists dress patterns, embellishments, and fabrics with low prices. Includes wool shirts and assorted clothing items priced from a dollar to a few dollars, with figures like $12 and $14 cited and notes on fabric quality and colors.
A local curtain shop announces curtain stock clearance after a sale run ending on the 14th of the month. Prices list curtains at up to 700 dollars per gown wall and include a 29 yard length option.
A garbled shopper’s guide lists wide ranges of holiday items from dresses and skirts to gifts for women and girls. It mentions sale prices, assorted fabrics, toys, treats, and blue ribbon merchandise, hinting at catalogs of clothing, personal gifts, and seasonal trims available for the season.
The fragmentary text mentions a warm shore and items named Slippers and Sreendet Gores. A price range is shown as $140 to $2.25, with stray terms like Mind G2 cabin and CUVLINES. No coherent event or entities to confirm a full news item.
The Correctionville News led a countywide anti saloon campaign in Woodbury County Iowa urging elimination of saloons. Editor Fred W Colvin promotes temperance, cites social and political harms, and notes ongoing petitions, endorsements, and community debate across towns including Correctionville Washta Anthon Moorhead and Smithland.
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