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Newspaper
Hickory Democrat
Location
Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1913
Page
6
The story highlights a Hickory retailer boasting rapid growth by offering dry goods, notions, clothing, and shoes at unusually low prices. It emphasizes safe, affordable purchases and claims quality remains higher than price, inviting readers to seek the store and its Royal Blue Shoe offering.
An advertisement extols a local bank’s conservative appeal and sound principles. It highlights experienced officers, a strong capital base, and readiness to assist legitimate business. The piece invites opening a savings account and notes two Hickory men recently joined Southern Life Insurance Company.
A veteran professional with three decades in the field keeps up with the latest books to correct refractive errors. He notes many are aided by glasses and stresses that delays are dangerous. His office is described as the best equipped and most modern in the region.
A business states it serves customers with the best possible service at the lowest prices. The author asserts five years of experience delivering quality goods and claims to offer the latest in steel. The text reads as a promotional pitch emphasizing service, value, and up-to-date products.
A local ads piece urges shoppers to visit a city store offering clothing hats shoes and gents furnishings. It touts careful selection, latest styles, wide stock, quality merchandise, and money saving prices backed by a guarantee. Customers are nudged to recognize the store by its well known reputation among patrons.
Name the young man who has recently embarked in the furniture business and offers the newest line of furniture at Hickory. He promises the best values and a dollar's worth of furniture for the latest designs for every dollar invested. Call and inspect the stock to see why success is certain.
An ad proclaims honesty of value in furniture, stressing midrange pricing and quality. It promotes purchasing from a trusted dealer known for keeping worth above ice and invites customers to visit Luxury Mattresses and Silver King Springs Jewel Ranges for value per dollar.
The store touts freshness cleanliness purity and courtesy as four necessities for first class service. It claims the largest grocery selection with fresh meats and staples, a motto of courteous treatment fair price and prompt delivery, and notes sole agency for Golden San coffees and Teas and Monstor Flour, promising rapid delivery with up-to-date conveyance.
A Hickory article highlights a firm manufacturing a clear, pure summer product used in most homes. It promises health benefits and cost savings, noting a dime’s worth daily impact and essential support during summer. The firm also markets Hot Stuff with accurate weight and prompt delivery.
The advertisement promotes a city store that claims lasting low prices and courteous service. It urges shoppers to visit, noting they sell on merited merit and do not follow old ruts, with a cue to ask a person named George for guidance.
A contractor touts 18 years in business promising all kinds of repairs with guaranty of satisfaction. He asserts a proven reputation and asks patrons to judge by his work, stressing thoroughness and reliability in repairs.
A local shop proclaims that a good book should advance the reader and promises to help readers find such books. The advertisement highlights the store’s large Hickory stock of stationery blank books fountain pens typewriter ribbons carbon paper Kodaks Kodak film music and post cards and notes they know where to get what you want.
The text praises a Hickory firm with the city’s largest plant and modern machinery, capable of producing a necessary article for all businesses. It promises specimens to prove domestic capability, notes the work is not flashy yet appealing due to novelty, and acknowledges higher costs for quality compared with cheaper, inferior products.
The advertisement touts Ford and Hupp autos as the day s most successful in appearance and performance. It promises full value for every dollar and urges readers to find the home of these cars.
An advertisement urges customers to buy home baked goods for better quality and prices. It promotes local industry and labor, claiming fresher, cleaner products and warning against goods that have spent hours on the road. It appeals to conscientious patronage of home industry.
The familiar shop in town, managed by a veteran, is renowned for its wide range of goods. It carries an exclusive line marketed with a promise to cure every human ailment, with money-back guarantees if customers are not satisfied.
A business appeals to the public to use its services, stressing prompt and satisfactory handling. It notes the operator has 12 years of experience and invites business with assurance of meeting city residents’ needs.
In 1910 the firm proclaimed youth, energy, faith in the future and ideas. By 1915 it furnished a fully equipped French dry cleaning plant for Hickory, claiming the largest of its kind with a Hoffman pressing machine delivering fresh work without gloss. The aim was always to please customers.
A playful verse promotes a downtown candy and ice cream shop as the center of the business block. The poem touts homemade candy and celebrated ice cream, inviting readers to ask locals which shop is “Who is Who” in the town.
A home means comfort and security in old age and many neglect to plan. The firm advertises a complete tool and a skilled head-of-department staff offering top quality construction and finishes at savings to the buyer.
Quality and artistic workmanship are posed as constitutional elements of high grade millinery. The author claims superiority by catering to the better class and 24 years of conscientious effort and study. The hat shop offers newest creations from top markets and positions itself as selling the best goods.
The article extols a bank’s deposit safety tied to strong capitalization and prudent management. It notes officers and directors are influential local businessmen who monitor trade closely. They forgo profits to avoid risky investments, promising absolute security and equal courtesy to small and large depositors.
A local shop in the city offers a Deere brand tee and related horse supplies. The ad mentions investment in repairs and four days of repair work aimed at horse care and equipment maintenance.
A jewelry ad touts Real Jewelry as a wise investment and urges buyers to visit for fine quality gifts. It highlights 14 years in the trade, new designs, and special watch discounts at one third off, promising best values and ample choice.
A historical ad declares a leading firm for wagons harness and farm implements. It touts a long service record, top value and finish, and exclusive agency for Babcock Rock Hill Hughes wagons Nissen wagons and Bolick pony buggies. It claims the firm serves discerning customers statewide with superior goods and guaranteed quality.
An old time ad promotes a health oriented store claiming up to date pharmacy services with a prescription department led by a registered druggist. It promises pure chemicals and medicines and a large selection of cigars and soda fountain area noted as sanitary.
The firm stresses three qualifications for contractors: experience, judgment, and equipment. They have operated for 10 years, growing into the largest of their kind locally by delivering good work and sound judgment. They handle plumbing steam heating hot water heating and all tin work large or small. A trial proves their prominence.
When your mind turns to produce think of the men who by fair and honest dealing for the past year in the Produce and General Merchandise business have established themselves in the confidence of the people here who are receiving and shipping to the people here the best in produce. It’s the firm that gives you a square deal and the highest market price for all country produce. We believe that close application to business is the sure road to success and with this understanding we solicit your business.
The article warns buyers about misrepresentation when purchasing hardware and emphasizes choosing firms with complete stock of heavy and light hardware. It notes the firm’s goods are superior in finish and lasting quality and lists that they are sole agents for Faros ite Range, Chattanooga Plows, Shervin Williams Paints, and Keen Kucer Tools.
The Ladies Store is pitched as the city’s premier ladies shop offering high quality and up-to-date stock at the lowest prices. The advert stresses confidence from years of experience and square dealing, promising a hospitable, sociable meeting place with a hearty welcome for shoppers.
A promotional notice urges readers to investigate a firm offering complete stock of the latest designs and high class materials for home surroundings. It promises a statistically elegant finish for every room at a ridiculously low price and positions Globe Wermicke Bost as the home.
A unique Hickory business manufactures a universal home essential that keeps money in households. Its product, praised for merit and usefulness, has driven rising demand each year, making it the city’s sole specialized industry and a staple in American homes.
An improvised ad-like note extols a drink described as pure, sanitary, and flavorful. It claims the beverage, named Tes anak j, is sold in groceries and rapidly gaining popularity locally, touting its refreshing, blood-like tonics and connection to a top bottling works owner.
The advertisement argues for choosing a local oriented insurer seen as progressive with the lowest death rate and dividend leadership. It claims reinvesting premiums locally, respecting policyholders spending choices, avoiding selling out or bought up firms, and notes medical examiners approving risks.
A fragment describes hats, foods, clothing, notions and merchandise in endless variety. It boasts up to date styles and high grade workmanship. Mentions Stylenias Clothiet, Crosset Shoe for men, and Selby 4 for women as exclusive lines through local agents.
A skilled horseshoer with a long track record offers thorough work and a wide range of services. The shop handles wagon and buggy repairs, painting, and rubber tire work, boasting a well equipped horseshoeing department. The craftsman highlights 25 years in the business and a reputation for satisfying customers.
The text touts best value at low price with Rice and Hutchins Shoes and Oxfords for women and the C Line of Clothing. It claims guaranteed goods for all times, promoting stocking at half price and a store where the dollar doubles in value.
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