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Newspaper
Windham County Reformer
Location
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1894
Page
7
Hawley finishes stock taking and announces a last call to close the season. Unprecedented reductions on new and last season cloaks, coats, and warm jackets priced from under 20 dollars. Limited quantities remain for different costs, with children’s garments also to be offered.
This fragment cites a boastful remark about price values from a piece in The Washington Star style column. It includes humor and mock advice as dashaway dialogues and mentions products such as Winklow’s Syrup and Hal’s Vegetable Sicilian Headline renewer. It reflects early 20th century advertising tone and social chatter with brief moral quips.
A busy sale month offers cut prices on Merino Underwear and a wide fur assortment. Special bargains list items from Martin ape fur at 37.50 to 27.50, monkey capes, wool capes, boas, and children's sets. Also featured are cotton fabrics, ginghams, shirts under 1.00, and assorted dry goods deals.
Local items report improving illnesses in Athens except Javanthas Dunnam, upcoming church services led by Dr Tate, Reverend Bill Aliardoer in Vernon, and various town events. Snow, property sales, teacher meetings, farm talks, and community notices fill the page, with deaths, weddings, and school activities noted across Brattleboro, Jamaica, Londonderry, West Brattleboro, and nearby locales.
A local retailer advertises remaining wool dress goods in a single patterned lot at 8 yd pricing levels of $1.165, $1.25, $1.95, $1.50 and $1.76 per yard. Additional wool dress goods piles and fancy dress trimmings are offered at deep discounts to clear stock and close the season across all departments.
Local items describe church services at Universalist church on Sunday, February 4, social meetings, theater at the town hall, lectures by Mone of the African prince, and various town happenings. Entries mention new officers, school and road concerns, and residents traveling or visiting nearby towns.
At Grafton Winslow the board of agriculture urged careful cattle care to prevent disease spread, stressing isolation of sick stock and good feed. Talks covered home markets, berry growing for market, and the benefits of intensive farming, with emphasis on healthy stock and profitable, local sales.
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