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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1896
Page
3
Retail ad lists yardage and prices for fabrics and goods. 1500 yards prints at 3c, 1000 yards muslin at 4c, 500 yards outing flannels at 7c. Ladies wrappers 65c, best table oil cloths at 12 2c. Indicates easy trade and competitive rates.
A brief note emphasizes plain truth over rhetoric, asserting that solid, verifiable facts attract readers and crowds to the publication. The piece underscores restraint and factual reporting as a selling point in journalism.
Listing of dress fabrics and remnant textiles with discounted prices including plaids at 124c and 25c, brocade dress goods, plain serges, novelty dress goods, lace effects, and silk remnants. Also contains cambrics, selesias, percales, and corsetry stays at reduced rates.
Fast color Turkey Red at 16c to 50c per yard. Turkey Red color warranted 35c to 65c. German Table Linen 39c. Towels 25c. 100 Pairs at 40c. Listings include various prices and items.
A clipped advertisement lists men and women stockings including heavy wool socks and fleece lined hose. It promotes ladies all wool hose and heavy ribbed hosiery for children and youth at reduced prices around 20 cents from 35 cents.
Product listing notes heavy Saxony mittens for women. Indicates two warmth levels Very warm and 22c likely price or size. Readable as a brief catalog item with no clear retailer or date.
An advertisement offers ladies heavy ribbed and fleeced shirts and drawers at fifty cents each. The wording highlights ribbed and fleeced fabric with emphasis on affordable undergarments for women.
Local sale lists women and children's wool shirts and drawers at heavy discounts. Ladies all wool shirts and drawers priced at $1 and 85 cents for various pieces. Children half wool and all wool options offered between 10 and 35 cents per item.
Men’s heavy shirts and drawers offered in half wool at 25c. Heavy fleeced shirts and drawers priced at 47c. $1 heavy fleeced set at 5c, best made. $1.25 all wool shirts and drawers at 0c.
A garbled listing shows men's chinchilla and black kersey overcoats priced from 50 cents to 14 dollars. Includes Ulsters with storm collars and Cheviot models, suggesting a dense bargain display in a period-shop.
The shop announces its Great Annual Cloak Opening on Wednesday October 21 with a large lineup of jackets and capes. Prices include Ladies Fine Black Cloth Capes at 2.00, Kersey Capes 3.50 and 4.00, Ladies Double Capes at 9.00, and Ladies Fine Kersey Capes at 7.00, plus new rough goods jackets.
The notice advertises goods including large buttons jackets, children and misses cloaks, blue and black jackets, and men’s heavy duck coats. Prices range from $1.25 to $2.50 with blanket linings and rubber interlining featured.
A small advertisement lists hats including men’s 500 hats at 35c and $1.25 fedora hats for 75c, with other prices like 1.50 and 1.00 and notes of partial sale details implied by the fragment.
A compact price list shows 10-4 blankets including 3 wool extra heavy large at 2 dollars and up, 11-4 and 12-4 all wool options ranging from 2.98 to 3.90 dollars. Amana 10-4 and 11-4 all wool blankets priced at 3.00 dollars.
Heavy cotton flannel sells at 4c per yard. 10c cotton flannel at 7c per yard. 124c a yard for Shaker flannels. Bed comforters priced at 65c 85c and 1.00.
A fragment lists numerous footwear discounts including ladies shoes from 75 cents to 2.00, men's calf shoes at 1.25 and 1.98, and boys boots at 1.25. Also mentions working shoes and heavy kip boots with various price points.
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