Best Goods Cut Down in Price to Nearly Nothing
Retail note shows Huestedler shop slashes prices on top items. Bargain crowd gathers as discounts take effect, with customers scouring shelves for marked down staples and seasonal goods.
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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1892
Page
7
One More Great Fall Sale Opens with Bargains
A late 19th century sale advertises clearance prices on ladies garments, linens, ginghams, lawn, prints, corsets, and Smyrna rugs. It promises “great sale” values to clear season stock before September 1 1892, with many items reduced to fractions of their usual cost.
Special Notice on Ladies Bargains in Embroidered Handkerchiefs
Special notice advertises a sale for Normal Laties with cheap embroidered silk handkerchiefs at 15 cents and folding Japanese fans in colors. It promises special silk prices, including a 22 inch black silk at 89 cents and describes Faille silks and trimming silks for silk suits and waists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faille
Invitation to Normal Students to Visit and Copy free
The notice invites Normal students to call on the facility even without purchasing. It notes a rear room offering free materials for copying, note taking, or writing letters, available at no charge.
Railroad Time Tables Chicago Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad time tables for the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific line present a concise schedule overview. The listing highlights departure and arrival times, station names, and service routes for passengers planning travel on the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific
Fairfield Items in Brief Highlight Local Happenings
The city council meets Thursday evening. Lutheran church women host an ice cream and cake social in the park on Thursday night August 4. Franklin school work progresses with chimneys and turrets removed and brick footing begun. A Fairfield party camps on the Des Moines river below Eldon and reports good fishing. The Presbyterians let a $2,534 parsonage contract to Cook & Gilchrist with a 90 to 120 day completion window. Train tickets to Denver go on sale August 3–7 for $12 with return via October 11, and similar one way rates to Nebraska and Colorado points. July post office receipts rise to $772.60, up $134.24 from last year. Democrats plan a Friday evening club room meeting for congressional convention preparations. Notables leaving for Denver include DuBois, Howell, Huffman and others. Johnny Cochran’s son breaks his leg from a hay stacker rebound. Mrs. J. W. Turner dies in Chicago of lung fever, leaving a child. Batavia liquor cases result in a guilty verdict against A. Urban & Son. a second case tied to thirteen beer cases and whisky. Batavia anticipates Morrell & Co. building 100 dwellings. meetings seek to secure site. Santa Fe railroad rate guarantees help. $50 and $100 gold prizes offered for bread made with Davis Royal No. 10 flour at regional fairs. Superintendent Derby resigns for health. board to appoint successor. Local ad notes largest line of saddles in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin School
Fairfield
Des Moines
Ejsdon
Presbyterian
Cook & Gilchrist
Denver
Nebraska
Colorado
Club Room
R. D. DuBois
Geo. Howell
F. B. Huffman
John Quillen
T. B. Rains
Jno
RK. Thomas
Rollie Junkin
Jay Copeland
Geo. D. Clarke
Verner White
Burkit
Maria Tilson
Johnny
W. G. Cochran
J. W. Turner
Chicago
Barnes & Summers' Dramatic Company Delights City
The Barnes & Summers' Dramatic Company, filling an engagement at the opera house this past week, is praised as the best repertoire company to appear here. They play to full houses despite heat, with universal satisfaction. On Monday night during Hearts of Gold Edna Reming received a silver purse from admirers, presented on stage after the third act by Mayor Jaques who gave a short fitting speech. The public would welcome their return with a cordial reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnes & Summers’ Dramatic Company
Opera House
Hearts of Gold
Edna Reming
Jaques
Praise for White Wine Syrup in Elks Mills endorsement
Elder T. Stevens of Elk Mills Missouri praises White Wine Syrup as the best medicine for throat and lung diseases after using nearly a bottle. He would buy it even at five dollars a bottle. Sold by R. H. Hufford. Home money to loan on easy terms JoNES & FULLEN.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. D. Warner
Elder T. Stevens
Elk Mills
R. H. Hufford
Jones & Fullen
Guaranteed Cure Dr King’s New Discovery Ad
We authorize our druggist to sell Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds on trial. If you suffer from lung throat or chest trouble and see no benefit you may return the bottle for a refund. Trial bottle free at Geo D Clarke’s drug store. Large size 50c and 1.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Geo. D. Clarke’s
Local Vendor Offers Leather Fly Nets and Covers
W. W. Lewis advertises good leather fly nets for 3 dollars and fly covers for 1 dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Lewis
Lisle Thread Gloves At 10 Cents Offer
A brief notice lists Lisle thread gloves priced from 15 to 25 cents and offered at 10 cents in a sale. The item appears in a small display advertisement likely from a department store.
Missionary concert and community notes from Lockridge
The women's missionary society held a concert in Lockridge with readings by Mrs. R B Stevenson and Miss Lizzie Acklan, songs by Flora Smith and others, and a $3.50 missionary collection. Local obituaries, visits, and social notes from Burlington and nearby towns follow, including farm and family updates and a DeWitt's Sarsaparilla endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkirk and
Thackery
Burlington
Ed. McIntosh
Sampson
Bert Anderson
Hattie Carstrom
Kansas City
Lizzie Acklan
Robert
Manda Erickson
Mattie Fichthorn
Mark
Willie
Jessie Carter
Mt. Pleasant
Reeder
Nellie Peterson
Salina
Coalport
Buggy bargains at JAS. Locke & Co store
When in need of anything in the Buggy line see us before buying and we will save you money. JAS. LOCKE & CO. One half block south of post office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JAS. Locke & CO
Also Mentioned on This Page
Huestedler
Smyrna
Dor
Northeast Corner Square
Iowa
Biosss Sves
Fidon
Davenport
Eldon
Muscatine
Washington
Columbus Junction
St. Joseph and
Leavenworth
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Risk & Hufstedler
Batavia
State of Iowa
A. Urban & Son
Quincy
Liss
Isaac Stearns
Crane
C. E. Noble
E. D. Hoopes
B. F. Cox
Hamilton Smith
J. E. Cummings
Z. W. Held
Justice Pickett
Squire Noble
Squire Tinsley
Tinsley
W.G. Ross
Messrs Leach
Ottumwa
A. W. Jaques
John Morrell & Co
Agency City
J. W. DuBois
John Copeland
James Payne
M. 3
Sparks
Morrell & Co
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Ottumwa Fair
Des Moines Fair
G. A. Unkrich
Derby
Ross
Fairfield School Board
L. R. Derby
East Side
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
Missouri
Albert
Queen City
Shoults & Barger's
Lockridge
Joe Patrick
L. R. Patton
Rockford, IN
DeWitt
Hood
East Sipe Square
Fairfield, Lowa
Aving
Bert. F. Barr
Telephone
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