Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-03-11
sgananlaker,s.
Where are the women going
to buy?

III tiiS idiiSot POI tiSuiuiSs W.
are going to give them-all
but one-not going to tell
how many thousands of yards,
or tens or twent es Of thou
sands of yards, we are going
to sell for ten cents on the
quarter-dollar. If we should,
the merchants would club to-
gether and buy them away
from you. We don't intend
they shall do it.
These black-and. white-check
zephyr ginghams are such as
are most available, from little
girl to grandmother. Nobody
shakes the head at black-and-
white checks.
They are perfect. The
white is as clear a white as
ever gets into ginghams. The
black is as good a black. The
white is bleached; which isn't
done for coarser ginghams.
The cotton is finer and costlier
cotton than gets into coarser
ginghams. The yarns are
finer-spun and woven; that
you can see with half an eye.
Count them.
Ten-cent gingham has forty
eight threads to the inch. Forty
cent Bingham has ninety-six
to the inch. French sateen
the same. These accent
black-and-white checks have
eighty threads to the inch. For
the present we sell them for
Ioc.
! Six sizes of checks from
very small to halfinch, black
i and-white checks-no colors
8 the colors of equal grade
are 25c.
9 Don't mistake-a thousand
a of you will in spite of our care
J. full Systematically the black
and-white checks have met
!, with this disaster. Disaster
9 Yes, to the owners behind US.
y 1t doesn't hurt the zephyrs.
h You and we are the gamers.
a. The colored checks and plaids
as are, where they belong, at 25c.
n The black-and-white checks
are going for 10; and, Of
y course, there's no sale at all for
70 70 common Bingham black-and-
Is white checks till these are out
a of the way.
Of Northwest from the centre of the store.
- Mrs. McGregor 1--WE have
y, it from the good-natured man
is who sells us the nails) is a
r. Is born and practical carpenter.
he Mrs. McGregor has her family
he tool-box. Mrs. McGregor
:, knows what tools are good
oi for. Mrs. McGregor can drive
81 a nail as we'll as a tandem.
on on Said Mrs. McGregor one
,s. day to the maker Of steel-wire
y; nails-By the way, you have
nd met in the course of your life
'lss a dozen or twenty long slender
pointed nails with round flat
s@ heads-how easy they drive
t Of how tough they are-how
y never they split-how tight
", they hold-and you've won
re- re- dered where they come from
Al Al Said Mrs. McGregor "Give
ri me an assortment of nails.
he Now the clever old nal
re- ;D maker knew what Mrs. Nc
A + Gregor was up to. So he
raj made a little tin-box with cover
i iot and hinge, put in it four-hun'
% of dred steel-wire-nails of forty
zee or fifty different lengths and
Of sizes, and dubbed it Mrs. Nc
Gregor's Family Nail-box.
is. And every woman, married
or maid, wants Mrs. McGre-
gor's Family Nail-box. 1t
u.s. u.s. isn't the box; it isn't the nails;
n, ~ it's the having in forty or fifty
on different sizes exactly the mali
5us for every occasion. A paltq5
led ed half-pound of a mixture d
-, nails but they say "Its dol
ace lars in pocket. Why wasn't
5 9ss it thought of before?"
A Mrs. McGregor hasn't lived
lcE in vain; nor the steel-wire-nal
p cd man. The world is a handle
'hG world for Mrs. McGregoiI
u, me and lot of things in it are who'll
ter instead Of in pieces because d
i reS the steel-wire-nail man.
rev rev Ten cents for Mrs. McGre
ms gor's Family Nail-box! Wild
he a grip those slender stee
tes wire-nails have got, to b
ing sure There isn't woman
spirit in town that isn't afte
EN-.
'ar Ten cents more for postaes
sat All over the country Il
women are after 'em-Mry
in McGregor's Family Nail-box
the Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit
us ungula campum.
o Ss Wanamaker sells 'em n
ara course.
mad Basement north of centre stairway with i
nc thonsand other bits of hardware handy