The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-01-29
GOOD MORNING
We Want to Give You Five or Ten Dollars To-Day |!
T5E: SPECIAL SALE
public, Ends To-day

We have lost money, but made host Of
friends and we WANT every body to come
and get what they WANT before Wednes-
day, p. m. After that hour st. Peter
less than S1S. There is no great amount Of
fun about selling at loss. but there's heap
Of space at our disposal now that was
blocked before.
We would like to cast overheard into 20
fashionable homes, 20 of the finest Side
boards ever turned out of a factory and will
land them safely at from $40 to SIS less than
their regular price. Sideboard hunters, lay
claim on one of these, you'll feel three rungs
higher on the social ladder when you next
give whist party and cheese and crackers.
Say, gentle whisper in your ear. Is the
parlOr looking as nobby and gay as the rest
of the house? Five o'clock teas and charade
parties play old gooseberry with the Parlor
Suits. Take run down to our store to-
morrow, slide up on the elevator, turn to the
right and some of the prettiest of Crushed
Plush Suits In six pieces for $50. S35 and $50
will meet your eye. Not thing the matter
with them. II you leave your decision till
of bons % Yon sSak w ts %srtb
an effort to get these bargains. You see the
papers every day, you go to the stores once
in while. Did you ever hear Of such
prices? No, nor nobody else and yet people
hesitate like they did when the English lord,
for wager sold golden guineas at penny
each. He couldn't sell 20 an hour.
Perhaps the Carpet Department Is the one
to strike you. 1t has struck most people
as being the place to linger fol good, sensi
pie trade. Fancy Body Brussels at 60
and All Wool Carpets that you'll have TO
pay rs or IS cents for anywhere In town,
fer IS cents, but not after 8 O'Clock Wednes-
day night Do you want rug or two? Go
the carpets and rugs. and then come to us
and satisfy yourself as to quality and price.
You'll get the biggest surprise In this de-
partment you ever got
Draperies the same as carpets are being
sacrificed. WhyP We. don't want single
finding something they want. Everything Is
marked down. The finest goods as we'll as
the cheapest This is everybody's picnic
When Turcoman Draperies are zoing for
$2.75 and the best Chenille for So so to 800
!. Is time fer folks wanting Draperies to note
the hour when this sale closes. Wednesday
at Q p. m. we shut off the power that enables
the statesmen to give these excessively low
prices.
A sewing machine equal to any, "The
$25. After that they will bring S2s. $50 or
$685. Otherwise they stay with us. Don't
neglect such opportunities.
Maybe a silver tea set Of five pieces for
SI2, worth $3.50. might be just what you
want to give AS wedding present; $3.50 is
q
customer on one purchase. See the silver
room! Too many things to make list Of,
but handsome presents In eases are to be had
for 81. Think Of 1t! Come!
Odd chairs 10 plush, odd chairs In hair
cloth, willow, leather. cane, odds aud ends,
hundreds Of them at come and get 'em prices.
You can't make mistake In attending this
sale for the bargains are so numerous that
you can walk over them as soon as you enter
the door.
1t don't take practised shot to hit the
bargain bulls eye every time.
IL takes but about oDe-half The usual
amount Of wealth to get the height Of your
ambition. 81
You can see more in five minutes than you
can forget In five days aud likely have a
longing for till you get it,
When dollars are being given away don't
let the crowd keep you back, but press for
ward for your share. Every purchaser of
carpet for an ordinary room, say 20 to 25
Yards, gets $3.50 to $3.50 of our money. L.
Is astonishing how hard 1t Is to make the
public understand how business men will
sometimes sell at a loss. They positively
won't believe 1t.
The people in this tewn who KNOW 1T
are the dealers. A real Ballelujah shout
will 60 up from them on Wednesday at 8
p. m. It's no wonder for our special prices
are desperate. We are on the best If terms
with all Of them. but business Is business.
We wanted more room and less goods, and
we've got 1t thanks to our generosity aud
the public's patronage. The continuance Of
the sale was the result Of circumstances.
Everybody has as good right as their neigh
Dor TO the bargains going and as we could
not serve all on Saturday we offered one
more opportunity.
Everyone who has not attended and ey-
eryone who has. il they want a second
edition Of ten dollars for five. will kindly
make their plans so as to reach the corner
of Middle and Pearl streets tonight, before
8: or any time from 8 a. m. to OPP. m. on
Wednesday, when will end
The Greatest Clearance Sale
EVER HELD IN MAINE,