10 Jul 1895
Page 1
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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1895
Page
1
Fragmented OCR text describes bargain pricing and closeout language. Mentions prices such as $5 packages now $1.25 and references cleaning up mid summer selling terms. Names and places are unclear, but ad shows discounting and castile soap references with genuine per pound options.
W HL Hess drives a handsome new rig. Rev J Harrison goes to Lathrop. Miss Maud Valentine on vacation, J Emmert at trade in Freeport. Lost sow and ghost. ads for boots at Walker's Shoe Store. Many visits, moves, and social notes from Lanark, Savanna, Mt. Carroll, and surrounding towns. Updates on carpentry, water works, hotels, schools, and local businesses.
Advert describes early summer sale on dress goods and silks with large assortment and wholesale pricing. Mentions wash silks, dotted swisses, dimity lawns, cambrics, India linens, silk mitts, and shirt waists. Encourages visiting store or requesting samples by mail with prices touted as exceptionally low.
The ad promotes a wide reduction sale in Carroll county with low priced shoes for ladies and gents, plus heavy discounts on shirts ginghams and other goods. It lists gents low shoes 75 cents to 2.50, suits from 3 to 16 dollars, pants and underwear bargains, fabric yard goods and table covers, touting unprecedented savings and a “tearing down” sale.
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