Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1886-05-28
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The Almighty Dollar-The Many
Have to Few, and the Few
too Many.

| We have the pleasure to announce a new
departure-the location of an Agency in Chi
cago for the purchase and selection of our
stock in order to enable us to quote lower
prices than others who buy ON long time and
ask big prices in these days of panic and hard
times. Our Agent has instructions to watch
every sale and every failure; to look after
every house on the verge Of bankruptcy and
ruin, and with cash in hand to buy in the
lump or in the lot IL all are first class goods
that we can get at less than their value, so
that we can mark them in plain figures on
our bargains prices that have no. been named
or quoted in this market or any other. Not by
favor, but by merit alone. win we maintain
and increase our unrivaled reputation. Big
prices will not do in these times when even
the wealthy cannot afford to waste their money
and the poor require double duty of every
dollar and every penny. 1t will be our aim
to name figures that will compel you in self
defence to buy of us. We deal in good goods
and not trash, and believe the masses will
patronize that house that sells the best goods
for The least money. Among our daily ar
rivals we shalI place before our people some
landslides that are positively beyond the
whisper of competition, comparison or men,
opoly-prices that will teach you In the silent
logic of truth the difference in dealing with
live and with dead men-between the cash
and the credit system-between the right and
the wrong way. Hence we throw out among
the masses these specialties-these matchless
goods and matchless prices, TO check this in
sane and criminal practice of wasting money
for the paltry consideration of little credit
Who can tell the waste of money when you
getyour goods of houses that buv and sell on
long time. Gold is good thing-but give Us
genus and ambition, and then an energy
that never tires, a mind that never wanders,
an eye that never sleeps, and a
nerve that quivers, We will ride rough
shod over the world! New
advanced ideas crowding out the old-pluc k
instead of luck-cash instead of credit-braiLs
in the place of eheek-and science and abili-
ty beating back and crushing into oblivion
these moonshine merchants with their tough
and tremendous long time prices. What is
the use of wasting dollar when you may
save it? Upon our counters will be thrown,
day after day, new arrivals at panic prices,
from houses that collapsed, others will go
down tomorrow, and still others who throw
out these sacrifices in vain hope to outlive the
storm. From such sources as these We buy
some of our goods, and the house that wants
the trade of the people must go beyond
this advanced Hne-must beat these
prices or go down-for if there lis honor In
man, or virtue IN good goods at low prices,
we mean to be master of the situation-the
live pioneers who dive down to rock bottom.
We shall oner Such unanSwerable arguments
as no house can match-leaders and special
ties at quotations that no other man can offer
stern and stubborn facts that will level your
head on the subject of genuine bargains
Hard luck and harder times pinch some high
toned old credit concerns-They must have
money to meet The inevitable note to-mor-
row-they all know we have the ca>h-ana q
thousand will buy double its value, an, we
can offer goods ut figures away below the
regular wholesale joDbers of Chicago. We
wish TO right the wrong and believe the
God of ba tie is ever with the right. When
bankruptcy and ruin overtakes the victim we
are always there with the American Dollar
When the hammer OF the auctIoneer falls
upon some grand and gigantic windshake
listen for Our Name, Thus weiare fighting
against the old rotten system for money, for
| reputation, and for the people. This is the
music and these the prices that crowd our
stores whilst other merchants sleep on theil
counters, little dreaming of the day of disas-
ter and ruin awaiting all who buy on long
time and sell on longer-who pay big prices
and sell at figures that no people can afford
| to pay. We invite an early and repeated visit
and inspection. Our stock will be replen-
ished every few days and to merchants we
offer some special leaders fully 10 or 20 pei
cent less than current prices in Chicago.
Respectfully submitted to the Cash Trade by
POLLOCK & THOMPSON,
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