Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-04-20
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The item clipped the Chicago
April 18th, and the
gomery WardS teamsters.
publish this item the and other
impression retail mer
catalogue house used
print in their catalogue that catalogue you
find the paid goods
Desiring price the same as
merchant pay.
Another catalogue house prints length
front their catalogue which, while it does
would lead the think bought
their goods from the paid price
pay, customers at an advance
The item publish above they
clearly they receiving goods from these
firms which the fir buys their
goods from.
Marshall Field & Co. and Carson, Pierre Scott all
wholesale dry goods dealers and buy goods
NJ D Wells & Co. and SELF Schwab are wholesalers and
manufacturers of Shoes and have doubt goods
for sale Audubon Ptkn Brooks wholesalers crockery
and know that there dealers here buy
AS Montgomery Ward the local merchants Of Audi
bon buying their goods source how can it
be that Montgomery Ward Co. SELL they
price the local dealers pays?
ehave always commended and still these cata
logue houses and do sell goods for any less
than any wide aawak utodae local merchant
them
We grant that they buy larger quantities than any
small merchant in the county, and their cost of selling
than the local merchant then they possibly
Montgomery Ward Co.'S catalogue delivering them
alone according to their statement published 1902
them nearly two million dollars Their other expenses including
desk hire Advertising freight delivering their
goods to the depot maintenance building etc. accord
million dollars and is probably than two million
Therefore we are unable to in what they
sake that they DO by large purchases 5uy Their
goods some cheaper than the local merchant yet
cost OF selling more than makes the difference price paid
purchases.
Now mind don't want the mentally dispute the
statements we have made the ground that they have
time bought articles from catalogue price
than could be bought from local dealer for
handle you have bought any Dry Goods Carpets OF Millinery
from them at lower prices than sell them providing Of
statements, but not otherwise.
We mention this account of incident related u.s.
about sending of the catalogue for road
something of the kind which he claimed
able less than he could have bought dealer Now
it possible that if this should would nme
diatey think about that saper principle
that some people condemn whole church
condemn all local sellers of merchandise
people than would suppose who their
on that they by sending away just
one thing as this.
Now other point desire impress is
that we are not claiming that the better ones at least of caa
ogue houses dishonest that they substitute
for what order, anything Of the They're just
other sellers OF goods BUT they
cannot if they would sell goods any cheaper
this trading with u.s. OF any local merchant YOU
the goods before buying; they easily exchanged
you desire assisting in building local
erty Who helps pay the expense building roads, bridges
schools and churches: Who YOU part your
local lifes
Weask how much would your worth; good would
be your schools roads churches how desirable would
Audubon county be place to live if every
county would exist:
The foundation of every country stores them
Would the the mechanics the abore
else stay Audubon all the gos How many
people do you imagine the professional would
many jobs would the mechanic have do? How
the aborer get if all the Audubon
But we don't ask penny from anyone that account
Ali we do ask and we believe all merchants ask
buy goods at home you buy cheap good
advantage to YOURSELF you by going sending away
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who think hat by sending
is good deal like the preacher scoding