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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1887
Page
4
Cobwebbed ad lists wide assortment of ribbons laces and fabrics with prices low. Curtains gowns and hosiery for ladies and children including lisle gloves velvets silks and table linens. Various colors sizes and discounts emphasize value and sale atmosphere.
Abilene residents boast the city’s bright prospects with new rail connections looming within sixty days, existing factories employing hundreds, and a thriving board of trade. Writers praise Abilene’s beauty, growth, and central Kansas position as a seedbed for continued prosperity.
Fragments discuss lifelong duration viewed by statisticians as 33 years, suggesting end of usefulness. Emphasizes individuals' duty to use time spared for self and community while noting strained mental and physical capacities and a call for reoccupational remedies to curb system waste.
Sterl and Zahner urge Abilene shoppers to visit their shoe department for bargains on Ladies and Misses fine shoes. They tout the stock of boots and shoes including grain button goat and kid button styles priced from 1.50 to 2.50, claiming the best quality and lowest prices, with Ziegler Bros shoes also praised as the best.
Read what Sterl and Zahner say about low prices during the Exceptional May Sale at Sterl and Zahner's Mammoth Two Floor Dry Goods Clothing Boot and Shoe House. Prices are stated for this month only and will not apply in June. The column lists items to view at unusually low regular values to attract customers and measure buy interest.
One lot black gros grain silks priced at 6.71 2c per yard with a $1.00 value, grain silk at 9.31 2c with $1.25 value, rhadames at $1.50 limit, and a 22 inch black grosgrain silk at 1.18. Assorted spring gros grain silks at 72 1/2c. Summer dress goods from 12 1/2c to 15 and 20c. White goods 8c to 18c. Plaid dress ginghams 10c. Good lawns 2c to 10c per yard, for this month only.
A bold sales pitch touts $12.50 suits as the best and urges shoppers to visit Sterl and Zahner's for $7.50 cheaper options. The ad asserts no misrepresentation and promises value and customer trade.
Local shop promotes deep cuts on comb pins, hair pins, linen collars, embroidery, skirt braids, pencils, cotton gloves, silk mitts, indigo prints, and dress prints. Urges customers to visit, promising further unquoted stock prices reflect overall bargain levels.
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