The Newtown bee., 1896-03-27
A, (. BAKERS AID

We invite y~u this Week to compare two methods of selling turoiture. The city meth od and ours, which we claim are radically different. All city houses as you know put out alluring sidewalk leaders cheaply gotten up chair or table marked 43c and 9Sc. Articles tha cost at wholesale by the dozen or 100, l5c and $I each. Now then leaders are always articles that you and every body else know the value of within few cents. Mind you that no $75 Paror suits or $2S chairs are used as leaders. on the contrary they are used 'o mab C the money on. Now any leader is q mislcader but that's just what they are 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 "FakIrs' and wheel Of Fortune man" tol'O when he distributes a few si1- yer dollars at 30 cents each to deceive and
 end on his victims. We know from person
 u observation dealer that city prices on fine grades Otturniture al Q extraordinarily high And ridiculOusly low On cheap goods Know
 ing this to bs a tact we started the turnitu @ business here at Hawleyville conscious and positive that with our small expenses and "neXcelled facilities for handling we could sell a fine grade ut goods at a big re.
 luction from city prices and still make a liv ing commission. Four years of experience has proved that we were right. We are also are'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 -urniture marked less than cost for the pur l pose ot giving false impression as to our prices. Travelling salesman and others told \ Is we l"could not do business successfully without these leaders, that the impI essions ot the masses were formed by small things" Int ,9y,E
 on thts line to the sttistactlon Of ourselves ! and we think of those who have bought of us | and we shall continue on the same line, al l though we are almost alone in 1t. The time l we think is nearly past when sensible buy 1 CTS will continue to think that one concerns 8 prices are better than anothers just because 1 they nre selling kitchen chair for 39 cents ! hat is known 10 be worth 45 or 50. Now we | furnished up house after house in the differ. | enC cities in Connecticut in direct competition ! with the largest furniture concerns in those ! cities, just because people are looking at the 1 sum total ot bill of furniture selected at ! Hawleyville compared with the sum | total of about the same bill in their city | They could buy few ot the cheaper articles ! tt Q less price at home but ythey are not go ! tng to allow 50 cent loss to make total 1 eclipse of a $lO saving. We have in mind ] Iow a mahogany Bedroom suit that we sell at l s56. An exact duplicate of that suit stands in
 certain city store marked S75 and has been
 sold and duplicated time after time, and yet
 hat same store will sell you a Rocker for
 J7 cents that we will not sell less than &l s5. ! What we claim most emph tically Is that our
 prices are consistent one with another and
 tt you buy ot us a Turkish Rocker or any
 dne piece of furniture which no one but a
 lea CT can know the actual value of you are
 not paying or 10 dollars more than legiti. mate commission on it. We have positive
 proof almost every day that our prices on
 dne .pieces are much low than the city only yesterday visitor pointi lg to desk and fancy rocker says "T just paid Tn the city for exact duplic 4tes of those two pieces
 nine dollars more than you have them
 marked" Now we are cracking no jokes this
 weak. When it gets right down to business
 and business principles we leave joking : aside. We have made statements that we
 can substantiate by stern facts. We can re
 cal scores ot In stances whore customers have : come back from the oity aud told us that our
 sum total ot the bill of furniture they want
 is much the lowest, but they Csn beat us il the city on q few of the cheap articles. We
 have big stock in all lines and if you caa
 not hnd what you want in your own towr
 don't buy in New York until you have looked us oyer thoroughly.