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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
3
The store closes on each Friday in August at noon for a clerks half holiday and reopens at 8 a.m. The ad invites patrons to arrive early, especially ladies to bring husbands and sons. It advertises pants from 2.59 to 4.00, Friday Morning Sale at 1.00, boys pants and suits, caps, ginghams, aprons, and yard goods with deep Friday discounts.
Window displays showcase new from the loom quilts both fringed and plain. Friday Morning Sale offers 34 inch Plaid Dress Goods at 1.48 with additional 25c values for sow or later. Hats for men feature value at 1. These include 1.50 and 1.25 pairs at 98c. Women and children benefit from 10c and 15c items, kerchiefs and hemstitched pieces, with bulk deals like 3 for 19c and 4 for 25c or 7c each.
An advertisement touts Marvel Flour in a 49 1b sack with the claim this flour is making friends wherever used and invites readers to try a sack for themselves. The call to action emphasizes the product’s popularity and usefulness for home baking.
A daytime blaze in Parkersburg West Virginia destroyed the West Virginia Veneer and Door plant and the Parkersburg Ice plant, burned twelve homes, damaged the Baltimore and Ohio railroad bridge over the Ohio river, and threatened the city. Low water pressure hampered firefighters, and losses were estimated at 176000 with the ice company claiming 125000. The fire started in the Radeker Lumber plant recently bought from the Veneer company.
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