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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1901
Page
3
A scanned catalog style list presents a mix of everyday groceries and household goods with prices and measurements. Items include shoe polish, ironing wax, tea strainers, laces, towels, canned goods, eggs, soap, oils, brushes, fabrics, lace, and various hardware. The tone resembles a promotional shopping page offering many small, affordable items.
The Scandia store promotes its fair treatment and best attention for shoppers. It advertises low prices on a $25 dress pattern or a penny pin, urging customers to visit at once for shopping.
A fragment lists small everyday items such as hat pins hair pins fish hooks buckles and household goods. The note mentions quantities like 1 hat pin 1 box tacks 1 dozen invisible hairpins and 3 fish hooks among other odds and ends.
The fragment lists common daily goods including lace, ribbon, thimble, harness buckle, tin cup, asbestos mat, milk skimmer, pencil, hat pin, soap, door hook, nails, buttons, pins, mustard spoon, clothes pins, rubber cord, matches, shoe laces, and yard of calico. It reads like a shopper’s itemized bill.
A brief note on pricing noting that small items fetch higher value than their nominal worth. It highlights market conditions and buyer interest, with emphasis on bargains and rising costs in certain shops.
Fragmented item list shows price focus of articles offered at four cents each. Items include washing powder yard velveteen binding scythe stone carry comb skein silk tracing wheel satin ribbon and other fabric notions. The text reads like a catalog blurb or advertisement fragment from a period paper.
A list of assorted common goods and supplies priced or described for purchase including prunes, sardines, hairpins, soap, starch, lye, fabrics, sewing notions, notions and hardware items. The inventory reflects a general household and craft shopping catalog from a past era.
A list of items includes buttons in multiple counts and sizes such as pearl and bone buttons, sewing notions like spool crochet cotton and silk twist, measuring cup, yardgoods including silk ribbon and tape, kitchen tools such as egg beater and te a strainer, and ancillary items like a towel, eye needles, and a yard of lawn fabric. The notation mentions several small accessories including beauty pins, dress pins, floss, and a tea skewer.
Readable lines show a list of cheap items such as a nickel seven cents and yard goods including gingham and lace braid suggesting a 19th century small shop inventory or advertisement. The fragmentary text hints at prices and common fabrics offered.
Catalog lists daily bargains priced at eight cents each including pins comb sharpener screwdriver pipe fittings and sewing notions. Items span pins hair accessories tools and fabrics such as muslin ticking linen and dress stays with quantities limited by stock.
Short OCR fragment lists assorted items priced at ten cents each including baby bibs and dress shields. The text references fabric, child accessories, and small household goods in a likely catalog or ad snippet.
A price list shows fifteen cents buys items from pure Rio coffee and fruit jam to hardware and sewing notions. Available are washboard, hose, lampshade, pocketbook with chain, tools, combs, corset clasps, pins, necktie, hooks, knives, axes, brackets, tumblers, jelly dish, and granite ware including a wash basin and pudding dish.
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