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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1899
Page
3
The passage states a store intends to become historic by daily actions through May. It mentions storing ammunition for a warfare to bring results and urges readers to look to their own interests so they will not miss the opportunity.
Stocking darners three cents a item and needle book with papers three cents. Chamois skins five and ten cents. Polishing cloths ten cents. Tape measures two and five cents. Darning cotton assorted colors. Pall warranting steel scissors and shears twenty five cents. Warranted penknives twenty five cents. Warranted nickel alarm clocks fifty nine cents. Stockinette dress shields pair two and four cents. Ivory tipped dress stays a dozen ten cents. Basting cotton a dozen ten cents. Two dozen pearl buttons seven cents. Black linen thread spool five cents. Five hundred yards basting cotton five cents. One mile white cotton twenty cents. Hooks and eyes card two cents. Colored and black velvet skirt bindings four yard pieces ten cents. Telegram skirt binding yard eight cents. Waterproof skirt binding yard twenty cents. Feder s Pompadour dress binding ten cents. Black hand sewing silk a dozen spools twenty five cents. Black reversed sewing silk twist spool five cents. Cake of ironing wax with handle.
These $6 $8 and $10 forty yard room mattings are seamless imported goods from long ago. Some are cotton warps with spotted mixed styles and inlaid figures blocks and stripes. The store offers matting never seen before and for a limited time only while lots last. No duplicates at these values.
Miss Harriet B. Cole returns home from Hightstown. The Methodist festival is planned for Decoration Day afternoon and evening. Rev. W. S. Courtney to lecture in Cranbury May 17. The Epworth League and local clubs announce musicales and Chrysanthemum shows. Obituary notes include Mrs. Mary A. Hampton of Bridgeton.
A catalog listing shows women's ribbed vests and necklines priced at 10 to 12 cents, lisle hose and mix blends at 8 to 40 cents, and men's natural undergarments priced from 26 to 50 cents. It includes various fabrics such as Balbriggan and Maca yarn and notes styles like double-seat drawers.
An 1890s page advertises Dr King’s New Life Pills claiming health benefits and a remedy for stomach liver and lung issues. It also notes oyster supplies from Craig and Son in Hightstown and J E Lilly’s tale of Typhoid Fever and Pneumonia cured by the medicine. A portable ante hern sale at A Goodwin’s grocery is advertised with a price.
An advertisement touts affordable stoves including kerosene gas and gasoline options. It lists 1 to 3 burner kerosene models from 35c to $8.50, 1 to 3 burner gasoline stoves up to $4.25, and gas ranges with an oven around $7.25.
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