The Newtown bee., 1896-04-17
A. (, BAKERS AID

Wrinyite yru this Week to compare two methods of selling furniture. The city meth od and ours, which we claim are radically litlerput. All city houses as you know put tut au1riug sidewalk leaders. A cheaply gotten up chair or table marked 43c and 98c. Nitlrlrs tha' cost ut wholesale by the dozen car IuJ i5Caud f eacu. Now these leaders are itwuy~ articles that you and every body else
 know tue yauo ut within a few cents. Mind you that no @15 Purior suits or 825 chairs are used }o- leaders, on the contrary they are
 a~cd 10 mitlt,. the money on. Now any leader l- d uli-lraJer but that's just what they are put Uut for. No honorable house ought to have them, yet custom has legtimized it. IT is following out the same line of policy that the "FakIr" and "wheel Of Fortune tutn" follows when he distributes few sil- yer dollars at 50 cents each to deceive and lead on his victims. We know from person
 il observation dealer, that city prices on line grades Of furniture aI c extraordinarily high and rIdiculousIy low Oh cheap goods. Know
 ing this to be tact we started the furniture business helc al IIawleyville conscious and positive that with our small expenses and uneNcclIed facilities for handling we could sell fine grade ot goods at a big re- duction from city prices and still make Iiv
 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 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 false impression as to our prices. Travelling salesman and others told us we I"could not do business successfully without these leaders, that the impI essions of the masses were formed by small things" ! But we have been doing business tour years on this line to the setistachon Of ourselves and we think Ot those who have bought of 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 concern 8 prices are better than anOther's just because l they are selling a kitchen chair tor 39 cents l that is known to be worth 45 or 50. We have | furnished up house after house in the differ
 ent cities ot Connecticut in direct competition with the largest furniture concerns in those ! cities, just because people are looking at the sum total .ot 8 bill of furniture selected al 1 Hawleyviue as compared with the sum | total of about the same bill in their city 1 They could buy few of the cheaper articles l at less price at home but athey are not go- ] ing to allow a 50 cent loss to make a total ] eclipse of a $lO saving. We have in mtnC now a mahogany Bedroom suit that we sell a S56. An exact duplicate of that suit stands il l a certain city store marked $75 and has been sold and duplicated time after time, and yet
 that same store will sell you 8 Rocker tO g cents that we will not sell less than $1 9 What we claim most emphatically is that oul prices are consistent one with another anC if you buy ot us 8 Turkish Rocker or an! fine piece ot furniture which no one but
 dealer can know the actual value of you arr not paying or 10 dollars more than al legiti
 mate commission on it. We Ghave positiv, proof almost every day that our prices oI , fine pieces are much lOwsr than the city : Only yesterday 8 visitor pointing to & dest ] and fancy rocker says 'I just paid Ill tn city tor exact duplicates of those two piece , nine dollars more than you have ther
 marked" Now we are cracking no jokes thi
 week. When 1t gets right down to busines
 and business iprinciples we leave jokin
 1 aside. We have made statements that "
 can substantiate by stern facts. We can re
 cal scores of instances where customers hay
 come back from the city and told us that ou sum total ot the bill of furniture they wan
 is much the lowest, but they csn beat us i
 the city on 8 few of the cheap articles. " - have @ big stock in all lines and if you cal not find what you want in your own tow 1- don't buy in New York until you have locke '' us oyer thoroughly.