The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-14
.NOTHNAGLE co. IN
 FINE NEW QUARTERS
Old Established Furniture House With COmmOtliOuS New Home Makes Elaborate Display of Wares.

port, furniture of quality and treat ment resulting in the effect-once a customer always a customer The Curtis building, comprising the block on Main street from Elm to Golden Hill, has also been prominent in the Bridgeport of other days as the site of the Curtis drug store, old Arfon hall and Arlington hotel These land marks have passed into history. the site now being the thoroughly modern and commodious home of the George E. Nothnagle & Sons complete home furnishing store. Both in general ap- pointments and the scope and quality of stock carried, it is credit to its owners, Bridgeport and New England. Its years of constantly increasing sbus- mess is the best proof of the service given and the quality of the goods sold. It's business is not entirely con fined to Bridgeport and the county but upholstery work and furniture of quality, manufactured in the company workrooms on Stratford avenue, ire quently find their way to New Fork and New England cities.
 There may be cries of business cfe- pression, but they are not echoed at the Nothnagle store. Here is re- hectedi a condition of business pros perity, MT. Nothnagle reporting yes terday that, during the 10 months the concern has been at the new location, there has been record, patronage. even exceeding the year previous, when at the old stand, there were un- expected bargains offered at the Re Ynoval Sale" Thousands pa,tronized customers, but many of them visiting the place for the first time.
 The Curtis block has been trans formed into a thoroughly modern bus mess block, stocked from cellar to the fifth floor, site of old Arion hah, with everything that can be desired in the furnishing of a home or replacing of old furniture by more modern. Ev- en with theSvast increase of space over the old location at Main street and Fairfield avenue the increasing pat ronage and varieties of stock is again beginning to result in cramped quar- ters.
 A visit to the store is the only man ner in which a person can fully re- alize the modern provisions for sup ! plying the public and the vast stock carried. There are provisions for supplying everyone from the humble working class to those demanding the most costly. The policy of cash sales has resulted in purchasers. being able | to get equal, if not superior bargains at lower prices than in New York and larger cities than Bridgeport
 The site of the former Curtis drug store has been thoroughly remodeled
 
 1 space for specials, connmodious offices and demonstrations. Here is an ex- l cellent display of hreless cookers and other household aids that will result in envy by the housewife. The in stalIation of large display windows has kresulted in one of the best exhibition areas in the city. These are always i tastefully arranged.
 Owing to increasing demands the i basement has been fitted up sales l rooms for the celebrated GIenwood I ranges, popular for years and with a Ereputation, and the equally popular 1 White Mountain refrigerators. As iL 1 the rest of the building, there Is per feet lighting system here.
 | Installed for passenger service l there is an automatic electric eleva- tor. manufactured by the Eastern Machine Co. of New Haven, which is 1 believed to be the safest and mosd 1 one of it's kind to be used in city i stores. Through the pressing of . l button the car goes to desired floor ] It can not be operated excepting from one floor at a, time and only operated 1 when all gates are closed. There T is claimed to be no posst bility of ac cidept and no operator is needed. 4 large freight elevator, capable of lift 1 ing a. wagon load of furniture at : time has been built in the rear of thu building with entrances from Eln streeet.
 1 The Annex sale,n undoubtedly tn, l most successful ever Conducted by tht concern just closing 8, two weeks run s officially opens the store annex. unti it's rem modelling. the old Arlington ho tel. This addition allows fhree ad ! ditionaI stories with floor space O n large anad varied display of office home and other furniture, includins the famous. Cutler desks, the agenc. I. of which has just been taken. Or the top floor of the Annex there ars arrangements of eight or 10 differen rooms in a. modern. house, showing how various sets of furniture will 1ool in any home. These rooms compris, l sleepfnge rooms. living rooms, nur sery, dining room, kitchen and den This arrangement is well worth 8, visi and Brfdgeporters apparently fail t, realize what they are missing by no paying a visit there. Standard house hold furniture as we'll as new inven tions calculated to tighten the care. Of the housewife and others in tn, showroom are attractively displayed
 On the third floor of the main stor, l is one of the most complete display of carpeting and rugs to be seen il >l this part of New England, provision being for showing those intended fol ordinary homes as well a s for tn, most critical. On the next floor cal be seen dining room furniture chair and other equipment in costly and or dinary- woods.
 The fifth floor, site of old Ario1 hall, has beeen converted into a 1arg display room for bedroom furnitur, of all kinds, mattresses, bureaus, beds chairs, etc. This location, on accoun of the great height of the roof, ha. been really changed over into what i practically two floors. Around tn walls has been built a comm odious balcony extending around three side Of the building. The arrangement in building it have been such that nei ther on the floor or on the balcony i the height such as to be inconvenient
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