The Newtown bee., 1896-05-01
A, (, BAKERS AD

1 We invite y Il this Week to compare two methods of selling furniture. The city meth 1 cd and ours, which we claim are radically l different. All city houses as you know put 1 out aluring sidewalk leaders. 4 cheaply 1 gotten up chair or table marked 43c and 98c. 1 Articles tha. cost at wholesale bv the dozen
 or 100, l5c and $l each. Now these leaders are
 always articles that you and every body else | know the value of within few cents. Mind
 you that no $75 ParlOr suits or $25 chairs
 are used as leaders. on the contrary they are
 used 70 make the money on. Now any leader l is a misleader but that's just what they are 1 put out for. No honorable house ought to | have them, yet custom has legitimized it. ] IL is following out the same line of policy 1 that the 'FakIr'' and "wheel of Fortune man" tol'Ows when he distributes few sil- yer dollars at 50 cents each to deceive and lead on his victims. We know from person al observation as 8 dealer, that city prices on fine grades Otturniture al e extraordinarily high
 and ridiculOusly low On cheap goods. Know
 ing this to be & fact we started the furniture
 business here at Hawleyville conscious
 and positive that with our small expenses
 and unexcelled facilities for handling we
 could sell fine grade of goods at 8 big re-
 ductiOn from city prices and still make nv
 ing commission. Four years of experience
 has proved that we were right. We are also
 aware that you can go to the city and pick
 up better bargains in cheap leaders than we can give, as we have not a single leader in the store and never expect to have. No article of furniture marked less than cost for the pur. pose Of giving 8 talse impression as to our prices. Travelling salesman and others told us we l"cOuld not do business successfully without these leaders. that the impI essions Ot the masses were formed by small things"
 But we have been doing business tour years on this line to the satisfaction ot ourselves and we think Ot those who have bought Ot us, and we shall continue on the same line, al though we are almost alone in it. The time we thlnk is nearly past when sensible buy 1 CTS will continue to think that one concerns prices are better than another's just because they are selling kitchen chair for 39 cents that is known to be worth 45 or 50 We have furnished up house after house in the differ 1 enJ cities Ot Connecticut in direct competition with the largest furniture concerns in those cities, just because people are looking at the sum total of a bill Of furniture selected at HawleyvilIe as compared with the sum total of about the same .bilI in their city. ! They could buy few O& the cheaper articles at a less price at home but lthey are not gO- ing to allow & 90 cent loss to make a total eclipse of $l0 saving. We have in mind now a mahogany Bedroom suit that we sell at $56. An exact duplicate of that suit stands in ! a certain city store marked $75 and has been sold and duplicated time after time, and yet that same store will sell you & Rocker tor l 37 cents that we will not .sell less than $1 25. What we claim most emphatically Is that our l prices are consistent one with another and 1 if you buy o1 us Turkish Rocker or any fine piece ot furniture which no one but l dealer can know the actual value of you are l not paying or 10 dollars more than 8! legiti- ! mate commission on it. We ihaVe positive 1 proof almost every day that our prices on ! fine pieces are much lower than the city | Only yesterday visitor pointing to desk l and fancy rocker says :'I just paid In the l city tor exact duplicates of those two pieces 1 nine dollars more than you have them l marked" Now we are cracking no jokes this 1 week. When it gets right down to business 1 and business sprinciples we leave joking l aside. We have made statements that we | can substantiate by stern facts. We can re. call scores of instances where customers have l come back from the city and told us that our | sum total of the bill of furniture they want l is much the lowest, but they csn beat us in the city on a few of the cheap articles. We have big stock in all lines and if you can not find what you want in your own town | don't buy in New York until you have looked l us oyer thoroughly.
 A. G. BAKER, Hawlevville, Conn. |
 Furniture, Carpets & Mating.