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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1899
Page
6
The store announces a removal sale to clear stock before occupying Mr. Chandlers building. Every cent spent during the sale is claimed to buy more of the satisfactory sort than elsewhere, promising customers unusually good value as goods are sold at cost.
A readable fragment lists household groceries and quantities including fruit jars prunes dried apples peaches pears mince meat oats potatoes jelly corn starch rice pickles and garden seeds. It reads like a shopping or pantry inventory from a past era with multiple unit measures and product names.
The listing details multiple soap products including Something Good 11 bars Corn Oi 12 bars and Dandy Fairbanks 14 bars, plus boxed soap and 4 bar sets. It notes fine castile soap mechanics tar soap and buttermilk soap with hazel, and mentions a fine line of icy toiler soaps.
A fragmented ad note lists varying price points for coffee quality levels ranging from 23 to 33 cents and a reference to 4% in a damaged OCR snippet. The readable items show multiple quality tiers and inconsistent cents values without clear context or quantities.
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