19 Sep 1888
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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1888
Page
1
The Greeley Cash Store reports ten days of busy business with crowded premises. Despite busy sales and imperfect arrangement, the retailer invites inspection and promises a fine line of goods mirroring eastern cities after recent purchases.
A shop invites all to inspect Turkish Mohairs English and French Broad cloths and Broken Striped Trimming Silks creating excitement in the east. Materials for a dress range from 7.50 to 10.00 dollars. See Black Silk Wrap Henriettas and Persian Plaid and Stripe Flannels for wrappers.
Store advertises a full stock of corsets from 59 cents to 3.50 and kid gloves from 75 cents to 5.00. It highlights the P. D. Corset and promotes case-priced underwear supplies for the season.
Our stock of domestics is complete with one hundred pieces now pattern ginghams and prints.
Large stock of new napkins, bed spreads, bustles and buttons with comforts priced from $1 to $4. A floor display of hose in six baskets, prices 10 to 20 cents. The shop invites customers to help themselves and promises strong values as stock is nearly complete.
In July the store advertises cloaks from top manufacturers, highlighting imported Scotch and English fabrics that are soft warm and light. Fifty children's cloak styles are offered at affordable prices alongside new shawl stock.
New stock throughout in Ladies' Hats and Trimmings. Ribbons and Velvets in Novelties and Staples.
A showroom highlights new designs and shades in carpets oil cloths linoleums curtains shades and mattings. The display emphasizes updated textures colors and patterns for living spaces and high-traffic areas.
California goods of every kind and hats in every style and price. We invite inspection and invite you to come and see our selection of apparel and home furnishings.
The advertisement promotes The Little Giant School Shoe with a warranty and highlights a full line of new goods. It urges customers to inspect other footwear and grocery offerings, promising the best quality at the lowest prices.
The Greeley Gash Store introduces dress trimmings including paramentaries and Jets in black and colors with prices from 25 cents to 12 dollars per yard. Braid ornaments sell for 1 to 1.50 per yard emphasizing durability and beauty and available for overhauling dresses. Special focus announced for children's wool dresses this fall with new German plaids 42 inches wide at 75 cents.
An advertisement announces The Greeey Trisaxe available until January 1 1889 for fifty cents. Subscribe now and receive the paper for as long as the offer lasts.
Denver and Colorado Springs events set the social and political pace with Masonic sessions in Denver, revisits by Rev Reid and Captain Macy, and diverse visits from Idaho Springs to Sterling. Dahlia exhibition reports, a funeral for Edward Hollister, and civic notices round out a bustling week in Greeley.
Friday events featured a dahlia and bouquet exhibition at John Leavy’s luxuriant arbors with prizes of 2.50 1.50 and 1.00 for top displays plus a 5 prize pool from the Women’s Relief Corps for bouquets. Attendees enjoyed refreshments, cake ice cream and coffee as locals discussed horticulture and local news.
Correspondence notes Platteville's recent organizational surge with the Odd Fellows and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. It mentions new brick and stone constructions, shipments of hay and grain, and upcoming Democratic convention at Sterling. Also reports on residents moving, speeches by James Stanton, and Powers Hotel renovations and illness.
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