Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-02-21
miscellaneous.
A GREAT SECRET EXPOSED |

A GREAT SECRET EXPOSED
Yielded at last to tn wishes of friends. Time
and again has the following proposition been
made; but never exposed until the present
FIVE YEARS IN UNREYEALED Sc.
+ CRET!
| NERVE YOURSELF FOR THE IsHOCK
| First proposition to be made public
| FRIEND NELSON First, | would say, ac
| cordng to the best calculations, in the Borough
| of Towanda, there is sold yearly one hundred
| thousand dollars worth OF Boots and Shoes
| mostly sl0p work Of the most inferior kind
| and the people generally are. sick OF it. And
/ now say TO your again, as / have before, en-
! large your Store make it neat and commodious.
! and keep 4 good stock OF Boots and Shoes and
| you shall be sustained. Most OF the people be-
| gin to feel little above buying their boots and
shoes at Dry Goods Stores it looks verdant
| and Outlandish. : e do not ask to make your
goods if it is not convenient. The facilities in
| some other localities, where better choice of
st0 ok and workmen can be had, may be still bet.
ter And you have always been in the business
and better understand this one point ana i'm
pOrtant branch Of the Merchants art, than
those that deal III silks and Muslins, and they |
believe, would be glad to let this business 20
where it belongs that they have done it hereto
fore to accommodate the people ! DO believe il
you would open a fTs-class Shoe Store the
people would not.go to Dry Goods Stores to buy
Shoes any more than they would to Drug Stores
for Oats.
Stop, stop! what are you talking about has
not any one the right to sell what he pleases? It
may be, bunot in justice is it right in so large
place as this, where practical men are engaged
wholly in this business, L has been given up
in every other place, and according to custom
it will be here.
Two thousand five hundred propositions
m Gp il n nF ba
same kind OF Boots and Shoes you brought with
you when you came in town seven years ago.
have neye seen a good Shoe before nor since is
the language Of them all at the same time.
Raise thy feet gently
And think il SO queer
That the Boots | sold then
Should wear them year
now yield to the above propositions. and have
promised to sell Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars
worth OF his Boots and Shoes il he would make
them as good as those | brought here seven
years ago, and the answer is | will / will
Well friends, your proposition made
And I've consented TO the trade,
50 | will sell you Shoes both strong and neat,
To please the taste and suit the feet.
have ladies' Misses, Boys and Mens',1
From fancy down to coarse brogaus,
Come enc and all, do as you agree,
And buy your Boots aud Shoes Of me,
Come Come! Isay, where you can find
Boots ezactlyto your mind :;
\ II you was never here before,
You'll find it is the very Store,
Come Ladies, Gents, have goods for all,
Buy your goods OF me this Fall,
And when Spring comes will the cry,9
g At l.. c. NELSON'S | will buy!"
There is one thing more III say to you,
I'm in the old Store made over new
If any read, aud stand the shock,
My place you'll find joins Ratton's Block.
GENTS CALF BOOTS At BARGAINS.
MINERS
KIP & COWHIDE
Gents and Boys Metallic Corrogated Periora.
ted Plates A great saving
Terms Cash, no credit. Small profits for
money is the motto. L. c. NELSON.
Towanda, Nov. 20, 1866.