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Newspaper
Ismay
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1908
Page
1
The Ismay store claims small towns can beat mail order and big centers on price by offering complete stock and low costs. It guarantees quality and offers returns exchanges or refunds if customers are not satisfied.
Local shop advertises work shirts, gloves, buckskin items, and pants with cheap prices. It promotes corduroy suits at 13 dollars, dinner sets at 8.40, and a range of gasoline engines from 15 to 40 dollars in stock with international models highlighted.
A price list for varied groceries and supplies with guarantees of quality. Items include roast beef cases, corn beef tins, hammer and lighthouse soaps, stock salt by barrel or sack, and flour sacks. Prices range from 1.00 to 4.50 with several line items listed.
Local shop proclaims all new stock of dry goods and patterns with Luxor silks at 45c yard and table clothing at 75c. Shirt waists range from 1.25 to 6.00 while Toweling and Sheeting are priced low. Come in to see bargains.
Ismay a new town in Custer county Montana on the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line lies 75 miles east of Miles City and 39 miles southeast of Terry. The article lists promoters merchants bankers and tradesmen backing Ismay with plans a bank brick yard hotel and various shops while detailing the town’s promising agricultural valley and active development.
Our inventory includes commodes chiffoniers tables iron beds springs mattresses chairs rockers and more. Prices are attractive with a dining chair at 1.00 and a ladies' rocker at 2.00 offering value for home comfort.
The report lists pine lumber one inch at 35.00 per 1000 feet and cedar one inch at 32.00 per 1000 feet. The figures reflect local market rates for small buyers and builders.
Our stock includes mowers rakes plows harrows disc harrows cultivators disc seeders sulky and gang disc plows in single and double configurations. Prices list 14 inch plow 820.50 12 inch steel beam stubble plow 14.40 12 inch new Defiance gang 76.50 single disc plow 85.00 double disc plow 67.50 disc harrows twelve discs 33.50 steel harrows 7.50 per section wood frame harrows twelve cents per tooth.
A shopper's note lists prices for a good iron pump at 8600, Red Jacket Force Pump at 15.00, a Sheep Wagon Stove at 11.50, and ranges priced from 30.00 to 4.00 plus mentions stoves cooking utensils and other department items.
The listing advertises lumber wagons spring wagons and buggies with a good top buggy priced at 64 dollars and a 3 inch Indiana wagon with double box seat whiffletrees neck yoke and good brake offered at 100 dollars. Other goods in proportion follow standard catalog pricing.
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