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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1899
Page
7
A saturated, promotional notice touts Kirshbaum's department store clothing as the year’s greatest money saving chance. It highlights half price deals on men’s suits from 38.00 to 16.00, praising quality, tailoring, and guaranteed fabrics, with prices paralleling high end tailor made lines.
An early 20th century advertisement touts men s suits in mixed worsted novelty and English cheviot with serge linings and handmade buttonholes, priced around 8 75. It claims superior fabrics and workmanship, broad selection from youth to men s sizes, and asserts prices are half those of competitors with silk front shirts, fancy dress shirts, linen cuffs and neckwear offered at low rates.
Regional retailer touts Tremont and Loperial shirt waists and Saratoga wrappers with comfort and fit claims. Highlights include 3c to 2.98 prices for waists, 32.19 silk options, 23c shirts, 2 for 15c quills, 29c trims, 48c Kid gloves, and 14c black silk mitts, urging comparison with higher priced competitors and promising large county selection.
Extensive early 20th century ad touts women’s and children’s undergarments and hosiery, corsets, and summer outfits. It promises value through price comparisons, offering samples and guaranteed fast colors, with a wide range of items from vests and corsets to shoes, umbrellas, flags, and fabrics, all at low prices to outpace competitors.
Soft hats on display near the blotched shop window. Local residents note brown tillage and a hint of frost as cold weather shapes headwear choices.
Fragmentary notice lists Mason’s 2 qt jars and Ball Bros ware for sale at unknown price. Mentions porcelain items and rubber components for Mason jars. Content is garbled with unreadable fragments and lacks clear entities or dates.
A fragmented price list shows hardware items such as knives and forks sets, large monkey wrenches, files, ax handles, corn pones, door locks with porcelain knobs, patent ice tongs, framing chisels, auger bits, shoe repairing outfits, hand saws, door bolts, rivets and screws, steel traps, sheep shears, measuring tools, tinware, pie plates, sugar cuses, and galvanized sprinkling cans with various cents prices.
A local ad lists mandolin and guitar cases in leather and canvas, violin cases, strings, window hardware, screen doors, and assorted tools. Firearms include Winchester and Colt repeating rifles, shotguns, revolvers, and ammunition with prices shown.
A wide assortment of home goods and notions is advertised including pins, thimbles, thread, tape, soap, hair pins, hooks and eyes, hat pins, cord, curlers, toothpicks, brushes, tape measures, powders, vaseline, perfumery, tracing wheels, knitting cottons, sea island twine, combs, brushes, dress shields, dress stays, plastics for children, buttons, corset strings, embroidery, collars, garters, stockings, bar soap, laces, belts, purses, books, cards, poker chips, pipes, towels and linens, legal paper, envelopes, pencils, tablets, ledgers, novels, Bibles, baskets, and kitchen goods all on offer with varied prices.
Lorain shop touts huge trunk stock and low prices with quotes like 2.50 for 123 trunks and 3.00 trunks at 1.69. Best made telescopes advertised as top market gear. A brass trimmed brass suitcase offered at 4 dollars value, sale price 1.00.
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