Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-03
HUB COMPANy'S
.uP-TO-DATE STORE
Big Display Of Furniture and
a. = Useful Accessories.
FOLLOWS MODERN METHOD
Motto Impressed Is Selling at I'm
derselling Prices.
ESTABLISHED HALF CENTURY
Business Stand Holds Customers
Whoss Ancestors Dealt There.
Favorable Terms Offered.
Motto Impressed Is Selling at I'm
derselling Prices.
ESTABLISHED HALF CENTURY

In its thoughtful regard of the public
the Hub Furniture Company considers
that there are two words in the English
language which are said to excite sweeter
emotions and tenderer memories than
all the rest ,of the words in the dietiOn-
airy. and that those two words are moth
err" and home They doubtless carry
with them more to the human heart the
world over than anything else that men,
DRY can suggest or recall. Associated
with the name of mother is the thought
of home, theme that has inspired the
greatest poets of the world. And in that
happy task of home building the mind
naturally, in the present day, runs to the
setting. for that home. In days gone
by. and yet not SO far away. money
was less plentiful than now. the hours of
labor were longer. the price of goods was
almost unheard of by the average house
holder Articles that were classed among
the luxuries then are common necessities
now, and within the reach of everybody.
More than fifty years ago, In 1855, Wash
r. Williams one of Washington's pro-
gressfve citizens. established on the SOUTH
east corner of 9TH and d streets north
west, furniture store upon a plan de-
signed to, meet the needs of the people of
the District. For forty-five years many
of the parents, perhaps, and even the
grandparents, of Washington bought there
from time. to time. the chairs. the beds
and bureaus. the waShstands and ward
robes that are associated with childish
recollectiOnS and will linger in memory
while life shall last. They were the mon
uments of home, and that is why their
owners loved them and viii never forget
them.
Present Firms Record.
Eight years ago the Hub Furniture Com
pany. with four statesmen, succeeded Mr..
Williams and has since carried on the
same line of business. The company $
method, it is declared. is representative
OF modern thought and progress. There
isn't an article, it is claimed. of luxury
or necessity that goes to make a home
nicer or more comfortable, or indeed 10
build home. from the foundation up, that
own terms. at the great store of the Hub
Furniture Company. There are two
things impressed upon the mind by the
firm The first is its motto: We sell at
epigrammatic assertion. I'VE would rather
sell you on credit than sell you for cash -
There is, no embarrassment TO be expert
. enced in getting what You want on the
most liberal credit terms.
There is another important fact i'm
pressed by the firm. When YOU buy any
thing of the Hub Furniture Company you
are given. without the asking. d certiti-
cate of guarantee which provides that III
case you die all payments will cease, and
the balance which you owe Will be can
ceied. In other words. when purchases
are made of the Hub Furniture Company
IT not only gives the best there is in the
market at the lowest price at which il
can be obtained. but fixes the time of pay
ment to suit the means of the buyer,
however limited. 1t insures also against
liability for whatever may be due at
the time of the purchasers death, so that
the bereaved ones may not be deprived OF
the comforts of their home or burdened
with the duty of further paying for them
The Hub Furniture Company Gains To
be the only credit house i'll the District
of Columbia that does this. And this ex-
plains why persons who were customers
Of the house when it was conducted by
among its customers today-a house that
has held Its customers for forty or nifty