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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1894
Page
7
Readers flock to a Tribune coupon driven sale of hundreds of volumes bound in vellum cloth, featuring standard novels and histories. The ad touts low 25 cent prices, wide titles from Dickens Thackeray Cooper and many more, with heavy emphasis on value and library-building quality.
An advertisement touts 1000 plus volumes bound in cloth and stamped, all new, with popular works by Dickens Eliot and other authors. A customer buys forty books for eight dollars, boasting titles like Alice Dooling Crawe and John Halifax.
A catalog note announces a miscellaneous series titled Goutema with over 100 titles across science art philosophy history and fiction printed in large type on fine paper bound sturdily. Regular price is 75 cents but sales list offers them at 30 cents each with a 7 cent extra for postage.
The World's Fair judges award a medal to four Washbourne Crosby Co flour milled at Great Washburn Flour Mills Minneapolis. The committee reports the flour strong and pure and deems it first class patent flour for family and bakers use.
Flour shoppers can find Gold Medal and Superlative brands at numerous merchants listed across streets and avenues. The notice enumerates retailers including Main, Olyphant, Jermyn, and Clark areas, highlighting availability of Flour brands such as Gold Medal and Superlative through various stores and names.
Three Coupons plus 10 cents secure The World's Fair Portfolio in four parts. Each part contains fifty to sixty views of the exposition and the complete set forms a superb representation of the greatest exposition. Demand is heavy, but orders will be filled as fast as presses print the books.
A Philadelphia issue extols the Wanamaker Panorama of the World’s Fair as entertaining and instructive. The voluminous illustrated history comes in weekly parts with ten cent cash plus two coupons. Part One is available now in unlimited quantities.
The Portfolio of Photographs presents a tropical Hawaii view with Queen Lil and other noted scenes. It’s pitched as an educational album for youth, with two coupons and 5 cents cash required to secure this treasure.
The publisher announces three concurrent offers in response to overwhelming public demand. All three series are emphasized as better than the last, with rapid sales and eager reader interest noted.
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