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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1911
Page
6
A fragmented catalog line item list shows prices for overcoats and miscellaneous items. The entry includes prices like 3.90 and 4.30 plus various overcoats and household goods such as ash trays, dress patterns, scarves, doilies, and luggage items.
A diary of children items shows discounted coats from 3.64 to 12.14 and a variety of toys including wooden dolls teddy bears picture books blocks and drums. The listing references shells boxes rabbits lions authors and sets of dishes alongside miscellaneous handkerchiefs and musical tops.
A selection of refined gentlemen’s accessories including leather dress gloves driving mitts neckties fancy suspenders fancy hose house slippers shaving and smoking sets along with a range of fancy cigars and caps.
Readable items list fabric ware and accessories including gloves handbags linens and boxes. The fragment suggests merchandise categories and presentational wording from a shop or catalog. No clear events or people identified.
A local ad offers 18 kinds of Gandy and 7 kinds of nuts described as strictly pure. Emphasizes cash only transactions and urges buying Xmas goods from the seller for quality items.
Local notes report Bergman Bros. advertise Kerchiefs for every nose at low prices during A. V. B. Co special sale saving $3 to $10 on overcoats. Stores open every evening Dec 18 to 23. Also updates on Miss Anna Van Anken trip, J. A. Benson visits, and Henry Bergman horse tragedy. Opera house fire-safety work underway as council wires for electric lights.
H L Fink of Carstairs Alberta writes L J Button of Sheldon Iowa in 1911 describing near frost on mountainside farms. He notes five elevators in his area with high capacity yet little grain moving, compares Saskatchewan crops to Alberta, and requests a job with Hall Co. in an elevator.
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