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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1914
Page
3
Yard sale style notice advertising discount prices on summer shoes. The brief offers are 25 cent values cut to 15 or 10 cents, with men women and children’s styles in white, tan and black. The text promises full stock available and upcoming arrivals.
The Housewife column notes the canning season is near and reports large purchases of Mason’s Patent fruit jars to meet demand. Quart jars cost 65 cents per dozen and half gallon jars 85 cents per dozen, offered below usual cost.
Our Grocery Department is complete and up to date. We carry a full line of heavy and fancy groceries with prompt and careful service for telephone orders. Satisfaction is guaranteed. We offer sharply reduced prices on high grade men’s ready to wear clothing and showcase bargains in our window.
A speech urges newspapers in tobacco regions to act as state promoters. It extols North Carolina’s climate, land and opportunities and calls for aggressive publicity to attract settlers, factories, and development. The writer emphasizes local papers as engines for statewide progress and urges readers to market the state broadly.
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