24 Jul 1903
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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1903
Page
1
Merchants offer a fire sale style cut in prices on Spring and Summer merchandise claiming 8000 dollars worth extra stock. Advertised reductions promise styles and sizes including ladies shoes and men’s oil grain shoes at deep discounts in a closing out style sale.
Hat sale offers men and boys hats and helmets at various prices from 25 cents to 5.50 dollars. Styles include dress-up straw hats in multiple colors, wide and narrow rims, and extra fine dress hats in black gray brown. Brand names not specified.
News item notes wash goods including calicoes in remnants and short lengths sold by the yard. It lists varieties from two to twelve yards per piece and indicates prices or terms at Bee. The brief advertisement emphasizes value offerings in fabric selections.
Readable sale notes list silk mustins Hop Sacking and Satins with many shades priced per yard. Also includes dress ginghams in light and dark colors and fine table linens in bleached finishes all labeled Clean Up Sale with dispersal on hand.
Notions prices advertise pins hooks and eyes safety pins hair curlers buttons in various colors infants hats hose and lawn items. Items include large kid curlersKid curlers at 10 cents per piece and buttons in white smoked and colored two dozen for one dollar. Ladies black hose priced at five cents per pair.
Advertises muslin gowns and ladies gowns in multiple price tiers including 45¢ 50¢ 78¢ 81 50, with embroidery trims and hemstitched yokes. Promotes Peerless and Defender brands as best in market and emphasizes cleanup sale pricing.
A historical sale advertisement lists numerous women’s garments priced to clear. Items include ladies wrappers, shirt waists in multiple styles and prices from 25 cents to 3 dollars, and a selection of skirts in black gray and cloth blends offered at reduced sale prices. Many entries note clean-up sale terms and front and back stitching details.
A mislabeled sale notice lists various embroidery inserts and ribbons with per yard prices in old currency. Items include embroidery insertions at 5, 6, 7 and 9? per yard, clean-up sale prices across multiple cents, and several widths of Taffetta Ribbon with noted values.
Listings show two inch wide Taffetts Libbon at 12 shillings, six dozen ladies silk parasols with steel frames valued at 1.75 dollars, and Cresco Thompson Glose-fitting Corsets priced at 100 dollars, 125 and 1.50, with notes on clean-up sale discounts.
Wile Brow and Kappenheimer guarantee quality with a new suit for every unhappy purchase. Free gifts with suits up to and above $10. Men and boys gain hats shirts belts and suspenders with various price tiers. Corduroy pants and dress pants offered at reduced Clean Up sale prices. Shoes described as fresh and new with price promotions on ladies shoes.
Carpet department advertises a clean up sale featuring Lograin Carpets in fat colors and fall yard wide, wool carpets, and multiple lots of portieres. Items include 5 pieces of lograin carpets, 6 to 10 pairs of portieres in various sizes and weights, with prices ranging from 1.55 to 6.50 per unit.
The Blue and Gray veteran group gathers at Fair Grounds Rocky Ford for August 9 and 10 events including a church sermon by Rev M M Nelson, a service hour by W R GC, Ladies of the G A R hosted services, and a camp with meals and music. Members are asked to bring full baskets and enjoy coffee, beans and bread on the grounds.
Chief Agricultur est Winterhalter warns farmers of fast spreading weeds especially sweet clover across valleys. He urges immediate cutting and plowing under to prevent seed spread and insect pest breeding, stressing cost efficiency versus future labor. Also reports on honey prospects, mine pipe transport, and local civic notes including Colorado Development and Ditch Company to irrigate La Plata county.
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