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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1905
Page
4
Struck by sales pitch asserts mammoth stock arranged to show goods and convince customers of the largest and most complete stock in Scandia. Calls to get prices. Quoting only a few bargains offered for cash or produce.
A compact sale list notes groceries and fabrics priced at 80 cents on the dollar. Items include 16 pounds sugar, soaps, best mince meat, canned goods, fruit, calico, ginghams, seeds, tobaccos, Beloit Flour, Chase and Sanborn teas, tapestries and apparel with per yard and per item prices.
Barge Bro's shows a numeric ledger reading 67 pounds 9 shillings 51 pence 33 122.02 in a compact entry. The fragment hints at a shipping or cargo record with monetary and weight-like figures.
A local notice lists dressmaking ads and a March program featuring Mrs J M Weistocey and Mrs THORPE The Troubadour Variations Dance Antique L Amazone Grace Cooper and others. It includes a piano used recap and a city treasurer balance with a report by the audit committee of Scandia.
The advertisement touts Builder's Hardware at Whitney's Old Stand claiming the store buys more than any county outlet. It highlights hog fencing, poultry setups, frame work, lamp repairs, and run of goods. It notes an experienced harness and shoe man, tin and pump work, Globe Stock Food, hog dip, and a 2 hole gasolene stove for $1.99.
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