Great Clearance Sale Ends Saturday Night
Our Great Clearance Sale ends when the lights go out on Saturday night. The sale claims record-breaking results with thousands of buyers, highlighting the cut prices that moved the goods.
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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1912
Page
6
Our Great Clearance Sale ends when the lights go out on Saturday night. The sale claims record-breaking results with thousands of buyers, highlighting the cut prices that moved the goods.
A local shoe retailer advertises a major sale to clear inventory for fall. Prices drop from former 5.00 across several price points to 3.75 3.50 and 3.00 with deep discounts described as sacrifices of profit to make room for new stock. The ad emphasizes saving and the value of a dollar earned.
The ad promotes big savings on boys suits in sizes 8 to 17. It touts double breasted styles as popular, roomy, comfortable and good looking with worsted and cheviot fabrics in handsome mixtures and colors. The copy claims the store’s boys clothes are more durable and pleasing than competitors.
A fragmented OCR item mentions a chaotic scene involving unusual attire and sharp conflict. Limited readable names and places appear, with the report focusing on a chaotic incident and the sudden reveal of provocative actions.
In a brisk shopwide push the store declares a sale of straw hats with large discounts. Every straw hat is sold with prices cut from four dollars to lower clearance levels, and all Panama hats are reduced by half. Plenty of straw hat weather ahead signals immediate action and strong discounts.
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