The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1896-04-24
4, G, BAKERS AD

| We invite II this Week to compare two
methods Of selling furniture. The city meth
| cd and ours, which we claim are radically
( Inherent. All city houses you know put
! out alIuring sidewalk leaders cheaplY
gotten up chair or table marked 43c and CSC.
! Articles tina cost at Wholesale bv the dozen
or 100, l5c and 81 each. Now these leaders are
always articles that you aud eve body else
know the value of within few cents Mind
you that no SIS Pnrlor suits or S25 chairs
are used as leaders, on the contrary they are
used 0 make the money on. Now any leader
| ia "a misIeader but that's just what they are
put out for. No honorable house ought to
| have them, vet custom has legitimized it.
! 1t Is following ont the same line of policy
! that the 'FakIr'' and wheel of Fortune
man" iOl' Ows when he distributes a few sill
| yer dollars at 50 cents each to deceive and
| lead his victims. We know from person.
al observation q dealer, that city prices on
fine grades otturniture extraordinarily high
and ridicuIousIy low ON cheap goods. Know
ing This to b8 a tact started the furniture
business here at Hawleyville conscious
and positive that with oar small expenses
and uuexcelled facilities tor handling we
could sell fine grade OF goods at a big re-
ductiOn from city prices and still make a liv
ing commission. Four years of experience
has proved that 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 false impression to our
prices. Travelling salesman and others told
us we f"cOuld not do business successfully
without these leaders, that the imp essions
OF the masses were formed by small things"
But we have been doing business tour years
on this line to the satisfaction OF ourselves
and we think OF 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 think is nearly past when sensible buy
ers will continue to think that concerns
prices are better than anOther's just because
they are selling kitchen chair tor 80 cents
that is known to be worth As or SO. We have
furnished up house after house in the differ
enU cities OF Connecticut in direct competition
with the largest furniture concerns in those
cities, just because people are looking at the
SUM total OF bill OF furniture selected at
Hawleyville as compared with the sum
total OF about the same bill in their city
They could buy a few OF the cheaper articles
at a less price at home but athey are not go
ing to allow a 80 cent loss to make total
eclipse of a $40 saving. We have in mind
now a mahogany Bedroom suit that we sell at
No.
a certain city store marked $75 and has been
sold and duplicated time after time, and yet
that same store will sell you a Rocker for
81 cents that we will not sell less than 81 25
What we claim most emphatically is that our
prices are consistent one with another and
ii VOu buy OF us Turkish Rocker any
dne piece OF furniture which one but a
dea' er can know the actual value of you are
not paying or 10 dollars more than legiti-
mate commission on it, We Jhave positive
proof almost every day that our prices on
fine :pieces are much loW8r than the city
Only yesterday visitor pointing to desk
and fancy rocker says ''I just paid the
city tor exact duplicates of those two pieces
nine dollars more than you have them
marked" Now are cracking no jokes this
week. When it gets right down to business
ana business principles we leave joking
aside. We have made statements that we
can substantiate by stern facts. We can re-
call scores OF instances where customers have
come back from the city and told us that our
sum total OF the bill OF furniture they want
is much the lowest, but they cen beat US in
the city on few OF the cheap articles. We
have big stock in all lines and If you can
not ind what you want in your own town
don't buy in New York until you have looked
us OYER -thO1 oughly.
A. g. BAKER. Hawlevville. Conn.
Furniture, Carpets & Mating.