Biggest Annual Sale FCE Near Spring Goods
Grateful for customers last year I announce a large sale with extensive offers. This event features good modern merchandise at clear prices as I clear room for spring goods and make room for new stock.
26 Jan 1911
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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1911
Page
1
Grateful for customers last year I announce a large sale with extensive offers. This event features good modern merchandise at clear prices as I clear room for spring goods and make room for new stock.
A column promoting a dry goods sale listing various fabrics and domestic linens with reduced prices. Items include cotton flannel, flannelette, blankets, bed ticking, blue denim, bleached domestic, table linen, toweling, percales, ginghams and calicoes, all offered at sale prices. The text reads like a shopper’s bargain inventory with regular values and sale figures.
A readable old price sheet listing items and discounts: Fancy Table Syrup regular 45 cents, Pure Country Sorghum one gallon pails at 50 cents, Coal Oil for lighting five gallon quantities, Best Black San Matches four boxes for 15 cents, Lenox Soap bars, brooms priced at 25 to 35 cents, lanterns at one dollar with a 85 cent value, wash boilers in all sizes at 42 cents, galvanized tubs offered at a big reduction.
A local clothing sale advertises drastic discounts on men’s and boys’ suits with prices slashed. Mentioned items include $22.50 suits now $15, $20 suits $14, and $5.00 options, all aimed at clearing room.
Textile items such as silk waistings water proof suiting broadcloth and mohair brillianteer are advertised with sale prices and discounts. Assorted lames and puffa roider items appear, with various terse price notes and promotional wording.
An old catalog style ad lists prices for children's cloaks, shawls, silk lace, wool shawls, silk handkerchiefs, gentlemen scarves, curtains, and bed comforts. Mentions regular values and sale discounts with numerous item names and prices in a dense retail display.
A fragmented list details jewelry items and prices including Ingersol Watches Watch Chains Coat Fobs Scarf Pins and Cuff Buttons. Prices range from 25 cents to several dollars with several items listed as regular values and sale values, reflecting a catalog style page.
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