The Newtown bee., 1896-04-10
A, (. BAKERS AID

W" invite y-U this woeK to com pare two
 methods of selling furniture. The city meth od uud our5 which we claim are radically dInercnt. All city houses as you know put out alluring sidewalk leaders. A cheaplY gotten up chair or table marked 43c and 0sc. Articles tha' cost at wholesale by the dozen or loo, l5c and bl each. Now these leaders are always articles that you and every body else
 know the value of within a few cents. Mind you that no $75 Parlor suits or $25 chairs are used us leaders, on the contrary they are used 60 make the money on. Now any leader Is a miscadcr but that's just what they put out for. No honorable house ought to have them, yet custom has legitimized it. IL is following out the same line of policy that the "Faklr" and "wheeI Of Fortune
 man" fOlows when he distributes a few sil-
 yer dollars at 50 cents each to deceive and
 lead on his victims. We know from person ul observation as a dealer, that city prices on
 fine grades otturuiture al o extraordinarily high and ridiculOusly low On cheap goods. Know ing this to be fact we started the furniture
 business here at HawleyviIle conscious and positive that with our small expenses and TnoNcelled facilities for handling we could sell fine grade of goods at a big re- luCti0n from city prices and still make a liv 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 l furniture marked less than cost for the pur pose of giving a false impression as to our prices. Travelling salesman and others told
 Us we I"cOuld not do business successfully | without these leaders. that the imp1 essions ! of the masses were formed by small things" i But we have been doing business four years ! on this line to the satisfaction Of ourselves l and we think of those who have bought of us, l and we shall continue on the same line, al l though are almost alone in it. The time l we thlnk is nearly past when sensible buy I CTS will continue to think that one concern s prices are better than anOther's just because | they are selling a kitchen chair for 39 cents
 that Is known to be worth 45 or 50. We have furnished up house after house in the differ. | ent cities of Connecticut in direct competition ! with the largest furniture concerns in those cities, just because people are looking at the
 sum total Sot bill of furniture selected at ! Hawleyville as compared with the sum | total of about the same bill in their city They could buy few ot the cheaper articles l at a less price at home but lthey are not go. ing to allow a 50 cent loss to make total eclipse of a slO saving. We have in mind now a mahogany Bedroom suit that we sell at | S56. An exact duplicate Of that suit stands in
 a certain city store marked s75. and has been
 sold and duplicated time after time, and yet
 that same store will sell you Rocker to1
 97 cents that we will not sell less than $1 e5 What we claim most empha tically Is that our prices are consistent one with another and if you buy Of us a Turkish Rocker or any
 fine piece of furniture which no one but
 dea'er can know the actual value of you are not paying or 10 dollars more than a. legiti mate commission on it. We lhave positive proof almost every day that oDr prices on fine ,pieces are much low ar than the city
 Only yesterday a visitor pointing to desk and fancy rocker says "I just paid tht
 city tor exact duplicates of those two pieces
 nine dollars more than you have then
 marked" Now we are cracking no jokes 'thi
 week. When it gets right down to business
 and business iprineiples we leave joking
 aside. We have made statements that wS
 can substantiate by stern facts, We can re
 call scores of ins stances where customers havt
 come back from the city and told us that ouI
 sum total of the bill of furniture they wan
 Is much the lowest, but they cs beat us il
 the city on few of the cheap articles. w l have a big stock Ill all lines and If you can
 not find what you want in your own tow don't buy in New York until you have locke,
 us oyer thoroughly.