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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1908
Page
7
A fragmented ad alleges aggressive pricing in Washington with a bold yellow card campaign. It touts 13 cents buys, 20 worth merchandize, and loud bargain tables as a sale gimmick, while criticizing competitors.
A fragment list outlines discount odds and ends in the dry goods department. It cites gingham aprons, hose supporters, embroidery, calico, Turkish towels, buttons, wash cloths, neckwear, infant items, talcum, garters, felt hats, gloves, handkerchiefs, lace, and embroideries with various sale prices, mostly around 18 cents to 13 cents per unit.
Readable sale notes list carpet paper brass sash rods and matting priced by the yard or half yard. Includes children and babies footwear, Japanese matting, Hartshorn shade rollers, ready to wear waists in flannelette, embroideries, Tam O Shanter caps, Torchon lace and embroidered collars with bargain prices.
A rummage sale spreads bargain prices on mirrors, glassware, and china pieces. Items include 25 cent mugs and plates, 13 cent coffee pots, 19 cent salt shakers, 28 cent granite pots, and beach of 20 cent sugar bowls and water pitchers.
Local ads list numerous five cent and six cent cigars and tobaccos with varying package counts this week. Includes brands such as Key West Chums Standard and Sea Lion as discounts compete with regular bacon sale noted as 14 cent cut to 13 cents.
A historic daily sale item promotes 13c bargains in the China department. The feature includes etched crystal tumblers and a cluster of combination offers such as Clark's thread spools plus hooks and eyes and a bundle of pins needles and mourning sheets at deep 13 cent prices. The sale emphasizes novelty and prestige in this city.
A newspaper ad touts boys knee pants at 60 and 75 cents with a two-leg minimum per buyer. It promises daily special sale days through the week and urges customers to study the bet, mark items, and bring the sheet, noting no changes to the published program.
A retail page advertises Thursday only specials including 2 pounds of crackers for 18 cents, 20 cent roasted coffee at per pound, 4 bars of soap or 3 bars of another brand for 13 cents. Phone orders accepted but store visit preferred.
Friday bargains fascinate the economical housewife with dry goods specials. A plaid suiting piece formerly 25 cents now reduced per yard, a lot from the silk clearance sold by the yard at reduced prices, and towels sold by the pair for a small amount. Bring them to save time for both clerk and customer.
Readable sale notes advertise curtain poles in white red and osh at below cost and oak white and mahogany poles five and six feet long priced at 20 and 24 cents. Trimmings brass and wood offered at two cents each and lace curtains two and a half yards long at eighteen cents per pair.
Frank Buddle, a driver at Freeman coal mine in Bicknell, died six hours after a Tuesday morning coal fall crushed him. He was 25, a former Washington resident, and left a sister Mrs John Kennedy. Burial at Union Cemetery followed.
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