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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1907
Page
2
Special holiday sale features ladies sweaters marked down from 1.25 to 0.50 and 1.50 to 0.75. Long coat sweaters priced at 2.25, a sharp cut from 3.00. Retail framing suggests a department-store timing and value emphasis.
Local sale lists men’s overcoats priced at three dollars for six dollar value and four dollars for seven fifty value. Offer highlights substantial savings on durable outerwear.
This Week catalog lists oilcloth at 2 yards wide for 30c per yard and 1 yard wide slightly soiled carpet. Ingram Carpet priced at 25c per running yard, with a worth of 40c. 9x12 Wilton Velvet Druggets offered at 18.50, value 25.00. 9x12 Druggets priced 11.50, value 18.00.
See display in our window featuring 30 inch umbrella stands and jardiners offered free. Local shop promotes window display items on promotional giveaway.
A brief catalog note advertises cloth bound boys books in large type at 15c, saving 25c, and other books at 12c instead of 20c, highlighting exceptional value for readers.
Bargain coats listed at reduced prices include Children's coats at 2.25 for 4.00 value and Ladies coats at 3.19 for 5.00, 3.75 for 5.00, 5.00 for 7.50, and 6.50 for 9.00. Offers highlight significant savings on winter outerwear.
Reported by a Chicago observer, L. T. Cooper touts a New Discovery that he says corrects the stomach and so improves digestion enabling natural healing. He claims fifty thousand Chicago users and presents Mrs. Hilda Pflueger of 1202 Ainslie Avenue describing six years of stomach trouble relief after trying Cooper medicines.
Advertisement promises a one day cure for colds using laxative bromoquinine tablets with money back guarantee by E. W. Grove. Also seeks a capable fruit business man to farm 30 acres near Winchester on a percentage basis, workable with other work. Apply to H. F. Byrd.
Wholesale and retail dealers in grain and country produce report quotations to The Star. The snippet lists several items with prices such as Wheat, Chickens, Potatoes, Corn, Rye, and Oats, along with retail market figures and related notes.
In Jubilee Virginia on December 13, J B Carson suffered a foot injury when a wagon ran over it. L y s l e Russell and Boyd Fries visited Reliance VA over the weekend. Attle Clark returned home from Rappahannock County. Turner Fries did business in Winchester. G A Newcome and spouse stayed with relatives in Boyce. Jesse Bailey lost a valuable cow last week.
Mrs. William S. Love returns from several weeks at the home of her daughter Mrs. J. Wilton Hope and Mrs. Kenneth W. Hudgins in Hampton Virginia.
Mr. Thomas J. Fenton of Berryville is the guest of his sister Mrs. Lewis Trier in the city. Mrs. Joseph Wright Jr. has returned from an extended visit to Mrs. W. H. Pleasants in New York.
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