The Honesdale citizen. [volume] (Honesdale, Pa.) 1873-1908, 1908-07-02

"Alpaeas, alum, arrow-root,
Beans, buttons boots and brushes
Combs, candies, cotton-h hose,
DUCK, diaper and dishes.
Elastics. edginRs, essences,
Flour well worth your money,
Ginger and CATERS, glasses gimp,
Hops. handkerchiefs aud honey.
Iron, insertion, inkhOrns, INK,
Jars and jugs together,
Anives. knitting-needles, ketcbup, kod,
Lamps. linen, lawn and leather.
nolAes6s, muslin, maps and null,
Nails, needles. nuts and notions;
Onions oysters, orenges, oil,
Paints, putty and sleeping potIons.
Qulmne, ounces, quoits and quills
tibbons, rat-traps, rubber-gaiters;
shoes and shad and sugared pills,
Teas and teapots, tin and 'teters.
Underwear, umbrellas, urns,
Wells and vinegar, strong or placid;
Whalebones, whips and waistcoats fine,
4ylOphones and xanthic acid.
Youth and age alike we treat
Zig-zag bum and brainless zsny;
d II you eend your child, you'll find
She can buy as cheap as any.
with stock 80 rare and goods 30 fair,
Well sell them as we may;
They're cheap at twice our selling price
The terms are-Ready Pay.
Good people all, pray you. call
And see before they go;
Wen act our part to please each heart
Ii. A. w. CO."
When Thomas g. Brown came back
from California as successful "49sr, "
he invested his money in a store, and,
hoisting sign bearing the coat Of arms
Of the Golden State, he thus announced
his new enterprise In the Honesdale pa
pers
mistake not in calling whenever you come
to town,
'Tis written California on the flag of T. s.
Brown;
Dry Goods and Groceries, the choicest OF the
kind
The very best assortment OF any you can
find.
Let all from town and country call in with
out delay,
And see what we are selling. then take your
share away;
We hope TO see the ladies-sure none will
pass us by,
Our motto 10 Eur eka. our goo ds will take
your eye"
Every body knows BILLY" Sill verstone,
of course, but it is q nearly forgotten
fact that his father, joshua Sllverstone,
was one Of our leading tailors half cen
tury ago, and philosopher and poet as
well. His establishment was in Charley
5chlager's then new store, where what
is known az the Wefferling building
now stands. His advertisement Is dated
December II, 1856
"Dress marks the man-we all admire
A person clad in good attire;
A well dressed person finds his way
Where Others have to Keep at bay;
And try TO argue all you can,
fouIl hnd tbs dress that marks the man.
Though strange the sentiment may 80 em.
Good clothing leads 10 good esteem
And daily, hourly, We may view
What fashionable dress can do.
Now persons anxious 10 be drest
In clothes the cheapest aud the best
bilversLone TO them would say
study yourselves and come this way.
The choicest clothing ever made
lie at SllVeIstOng's house OF trade;
In cloth and Workmanship rs well,
The various articles excel,
And all who buy his clothes admit:
su- pc ri-or-i-ty OF 1T"
William A. Carriers muse put him
on short rations. He hourished as one
Of our town photographers in 1868. This
was his bid for custom
Come hers and get your likeusss.
Hlll be bright and true;
be kept century
good Rs newl"
n. who started a tobacco
lGO, but eventually went
johanna county, where
Il, eater success, was also
Efficacy OF rhyme as a
~ y. and got of the follow
kpapers
eo We give him this pun,