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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1899
Page
6
A promotional notice touts Kirshbam’s clothing as the year’s greatest money saving deal. It emphasizes reputation for excellence with guarantee labels on each garment and advertises men’s all wool suits at a sensational price, promising first class cut and lasting buttons.
Offer highlights men’s suits at deep discounts with prices labeled at $5.98 and $6.98 from Kirshbaum’s. Describes stylish worsted, tweed, serge, and cassimere options with Italian linings and expert tailoring. Promotes patterns including striped worsted, pincheck, scotch tweed, and blue serge varieties.
Offer No 4 lists men suits priced at 14 dollars with 7 08. Garments stamped High Glass Manufacturing Tailors with a range of styles including Shepherd Plaid Herringbone Whip Cord Silk Worsted and English Tweed. Describes ready made jackets lining Serge and tailor made suits. claims retail value of 14 dollars but sale price 798 216 dollars and 8 75 for tailor made. Kirshbaum’s best garments praised for perfection in detail and fit.
A promotional catalog page touts women’s shirt waists, wrappers, and children's suits at low prices from 35¢ to 2.98, claiming superior styles from Tremont Griffin and Imperial lines. It markets silk front shirts, neckwear, linen goods, and a broad millinery and glove selection, urging comparison with higher priced rivals.
Local shop markets a wide line of umbrellas, parasols, and home textiles with deep discounts. Prices start at as low as 8c for fancy handles, 9c for ladies umbrellas, and 23c for select goods, claiming vast quantities enable better rates than rivals. Includes curtain poles, lace curtains, table oil cloth, bunting, and small flags.
A local advert touts women and children garments including vests, muslin skirts, corsets, hose, and linen. It urges shoppers to compare 19¢ summer corsets with higher priced rivals and promises a free pair if similar quality is found otherwise. Includes textile mentions like India linen and Swiss lawns with fast colors.
A local retailer promotes white duck skirts at 98 cents, contrasting with other shops charging around one dollar. The appeal centers on savings and value, urging customers to buy from this store rather than higher priced rivals.
A fragmented OCR of a shoe listing shows prices and styles for men and women including Creoles in oil grain and viel kid, tan and black laces, and a complete line of infants and children's shoes advertised as competitively priced. The text mentions brands and descriptions but is garbled.
Lace curtains from 3¢ pair up. Chenille portieres, all colors, $2.87 per pair.
Fancy plaids at 28c duck caps 10c soft hats in black and brown at 4c The latest out at 1ee Black and brown stiff hats at 8c Alarm clocks one year warranty Seth Thomas clocks under 4 3 price Marbleized mantel clocks with Seth Thomas movement 10 to 12 regular price. Watches 80c to 11.98 Carlsbad china plates and dishes priced low Wash bowl and pitcher set 10 piece chamber set 1.80 Lamps varied.
Mason's 1 quart fruit jars with porcelain caps from Ball Brothers to be sold at 42 cents per dozen. Rubbers for Mason jars priced per dozen. Limited stock advertised in a small town notice.
A dense OCR listing covers hardware items with prices across a wide range. It mentions clippers, knives and forks, files, wagons, hammers, axes, roasting pans, locks, chisels, planes, saws, screws, pipes, traps, rivets, and various metal ware. Numerous figures and product names appear with inconsistent capitalization and garbled text throughout.
A 1 qt bottle of ammonia and Liebig's Malt Extract are advertised for sale by druggists. Ammoniated Florida water is available, with a promotional price hinted. The note urges customers to try one bottle and return for a case, with a per case price suggested.
Classified notice listing 16 ft bamboo poles 8 ft jointed rods 1.50 fancy rods brass reels Tish hooks 100 in box Cincinnati bass snel double gut best phantom minnows eight quart buckets and various manufactured lines from plain cotton to fine silk priced competitively by local dealers.
An advertising notice touts trunks sold at various low prices and features brass trimmed suitcases. It claims dominance in the county market and highlights affordable telescope and trunk options with bold pricing.
A vintage ad lists mandolins guitars violins and cases with prices from 7c to 2.48, plus mandolin strings and leather cases. It promotes screen doors windows and hardware parts, tools and tripods, and cites firearms and shooting accessories from Winchester Colt and Hopkins Allen with various prices.
A shopper list includes paints and brushes, two boxes of hard wood toothpicks, a 10 by 14 mirror with an oak frame, a box of shoe blacking, le Roll corrugated carpet paper and measured yardage noted at 48 cents, with 18 cents per item indicated.
A long list of odds and ends for sale including pins thimbles thread hats threads hair brushes and a wide range of sewing and dress supplies. The notice also advertises boys and men clothing items perfumery kitchen goods and books with prices and quantities across categories.
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