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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1889
Page
8
A dense, stray OCR collage of a retailer's catalog style page listing gloves silks lace and dress goods, with prices and multiple names. It mentions SWARACKER, LOU SWABACKER and partner merchants, plus jewelry, spectacles, and holiday goods. Numerous misreadings obscure exact items and dates.
An assortment of community notes, auctions, legal notices, lodge events, and vendor promotions in Wheeling. Items include the sale of the McCord farm, extra jurors summoned, a Knights of the Golden Eagle event, store openings, and holiday promotions from local merchants.
The Wheeling Instalment Co announces the greatest all department sale in the city covering furniture carpets store goods crockery bedding and more. The firm apologizes for delays and pledges deep discounts with ample stock, urging customers not to miss the opportunity.
Local furniture department proclaims a flood of stock and deep discounts to clear rooms. Highlights include 100 complete solid ash chamber suites at 20 dollars each, 50 heavy marble topped dressers from 25 dollars, 10 antique gilt walnut chamber suites at 21 dollars, and a range of dressers from 10 to 1150 dollars. Installment plans offered to aid purchases amid the glut.
Our stove department draws new customers with a heavy sale. We offer for 12.50 the largest cook stove, formerly 1 dollar more. Heating stoves priced around 4.00 and 5.59, with larger models down from 13.00. We must move stock to fund a war effort, forcing sacrifices in this department.
The Wheeling Instalment Co advertises an expansive crockery and home furnishing department on the first floor. It claims massive store size, aggressive pricing, and deep discounts on toilet sets, tea sets, jar and diner sets, lamp stands, and decorated lampshades to entice housewives to visit and buy now.
In a bold sale Wheeling Installment Co offers Chenielle and Turkish Portieres with Nottingham lace artistry at cut prices. Lace curtains, bed sets, and related items are advertised with dramatic discounts including $5.50 per pair for long lace curtails and $3.00 for lace bed sets, urging comparisons with other town prices.
Thousands of handkerchiefs priced up to 3.00 each. Special one hundred dozen shirred hemmed handkerchiefs at 5c each. Hundreds of silk umbrellas in latest handle styles. Examine stock before buying. Stone and Thomas.
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