Great Money Saving Store December Bargains Offer
Near the end of the year the store thanks patrons and announces December bargains to make the month the banner period. Read each item carefully to profit from substantial savings and better value.
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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1900
Page
4
Near the end of the year the store thanks patrons and announces December bargains to make the month the banner period. Read each item carefully to profit from substantial savings and better value.
The ad touts men’s overcoats and suits in blue black brown beaver and covert fabrics. It lists prices from $3.25 to $18.50 with many styles under retail, claiming comparable goods elsewhere at higher marks and highlighting fifteen styles at $5.
The ad promotes over twenty styles of men’s suits at $7.50 and $12.50, plus boys’ overcoats from ages 5 to 19 at low prices. It touts remaining stock from higher price lines and claims quality, style, and long-lasting satisfaction with prices well below city equivalents.
The store touts low prices on men's dress pants from 1.50 to 3.00, with job lots and odds and ends at 75 to 98 cents. Also offers free duck coats with suit purchases, hundreds of vests at 19 cents, and a push to clear stock before January 1st.
Our stock features new shades and shapes in soft and stiff hats from 50c to 3 dollars. A special emphasis on the 2 dollar line offers stylishgers at lower prices than many stores charge. Also available are men's and boys winter caps, heavy fleeced cotton socks, half-wool socks, and all-wool cassimere socks at notable savings.
A merchant offers a wide range of men's shirts at discounted prices from 75c to 1.25 plus reductions on under shirts and drawers. Highlights include Madras shirts at 75c, regular 50s 38c, 35c packs, and 48c samples. Also offers gloves, neckwear, mufflers, handkerchiefs. silk items arrive for the holiday trade.
A local store advertises a mixed sale of footwear including ladies grain button shoes 1.25 value at 1, child and men’s shoes of various sizes, rubbers at 19c, and special prices on heavy work and Latin Calf lace shoes. Many items claim substantial savings from typical prices with limited quantities.
Special bargains in table linen yard goods and scarfs. Large sample line of facina linen at 25c 27c and 30c. 48c for 64 inch 65c quality. 32c for 40c grade table linen. Ladies vests and pants 40c and 25c. children's union suits 50c. 98c kid gloves for Xmas. Silk umbrellas 1.25. Coat suit cloth 56 inch navy and browns at 65c. All-wool Tricots 45c. Cut prices on Venetians Whipcords Pebble Cloth Broad Cloth Empire Suitings Satins Cheviots Serges.
Nice lace curtains 31 by 24 inches per pair 47c. 200 terra cotta window shades with gilt borders 25c 50c 60c our job price 6 ft 25c 7 ft 35c 8 ft 40c. Cot ton warp matting 15c. Oak curtain poles 10c. White enamel poles with trimming 1c. Art squares 24x3 yds and 3x4 yds priced 3.95 and 2.25. Moquette rugs 18x36 inches and larger sizes 2.50. Peddler prices higher, sale cash price offered.
A sale listing offers various capes and jackets with heavy fur trim silk linings and satin lapels. Prices range from about $1.98 to $6.50 with discounts on plush capes, Kersey jackets, frieze jackets, and Saultz plush capes. Special half price and bargain notes emphasize last year styles and large sizes.
The Corydon Democrat editors discuss national issues including the Hanna Payne Ship Subsidy bill, salt trust control, and public virtues. They critique McKinley era corruption, praise honest opinion, and note tax reductions mainly hit beer and cigars. Also reported: Towne’s Senate appointment supported and a 10 percent wage cut at Steelton steel plant affecting 6,000 workers.
The piece attacks trusts and subsidies, predicting tax hikes linked to the Philippine war, ship and newspaper subsidies, and major 1901 Army Bill spending. It cites Clinton County voting machines and looming corporate failures tied to McKinley era politics, with figures from Strong & Co. and Grant Brothers.
Analysis of historical rhetoric on democracy from 1872 to 1884 shows repeated claims that democracy was dead or failing, followed by elections that contradicted those statements. The pattern reveals cyclical skepticism about democratic legitimacy versus actual electoral outcomes.
The speaker argues farmers face more failures relative to workers than other ventures and questions why subsidies go to shipping while farming is left unsupported. They ask why subsidies aren’t extended to all businesses, calling for policy parity.
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