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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1903
Page
3
Manns 2 o emphasizes thorough price marking to stay competitive as fall stock arrives. The ad invites customers to visit, notes strong stock in style fit and durability, and highlights W. L. Douglas men’s $3.50 and Queen Quality women’s $3.00 shoes as value leaders.
We have 45 boys suits left over from last year priced originally at 2.50 to 5.00. On Monday they were placed on sale in two lots at 1.95 and 0.95 a suit. Likely no suits will remain by Saturday night. Also a large line of reefers and overcoats this year.
Wise merchants advertise lower carpet prices before a big strike while promising no advanced price. They tease an upcoming exhibition of Art Embroidery and Linens, featuring Corticelli floss embroidery silks, Battenburg lace, and mountmerlick embroidery silk, inviting first-time customers to visit.
Readable ad copy offers black mercerized sateen petticoats at 1.00 with four bottom ruffles and options in finer goods. Also lists imported mercerized silk finished sateen petticoats at 3.00 with flounce and ruffles and a wool knit top petticoat with twelve inch flounce at 1.75.
The column records Lerimore visitors and shoppers, with Horsman & Strawbridge promoting furniture and lamps. It notes funerals, gatherings of Oddfellows and Rebekahs, farming results, and upcoming performances by Ed Andrews at the opera house, plus assorted notices on sales, relocations, and farm equipment auctions.
Quality matters in clothing and customers should expect fair pricing. The store promotes well made suits with fit fashion and finish, stressing that shoppers will not pay more here. New styles are limited in stock but priced to attract buyers who seek value and style.
Local retailer announces a weekly sale on hosiery and underwear with lower prices rather than increases. October is expected to bring strong demand while offering deep discounts on items like boys union suits, misses fleece corrected suits, women’s tights, children’s wool garments, and sleeping wear at cut rates.
A description of a young red and white steer with prominent horns, likely two or three years old, from John B. Stewart in Township 156 Range 62 Section 20. Garbled lines about ASURE.CARE FOR THE ELVES and a stray sentence about not wanting to wear good.
Ed Andrews and his all star company present a musical farce comedy Birds of a Feather at the opera house in Devils Lake Thursday evening Oct 29. Reserved seats 75 cents on sale Monday at Hodgkinson's drug store.
An exhibition at A. E. Hodgkinson's drug store features a fine water color in roses gifted by Mrs. Stoner to the XIX Century club. To support the new library quarters the ladies will canvass the city selling library cards for one year and offer a chance to win the painting. Drawing details to be announced. winners will be drawn by an impartial party at the library room.
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