Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1916-01-01
HOW THE BUSINESS EXPANDED.

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boy
LOOK mere y, why not start
department OF furniture Tor our Gus
toners, sald !. w e ought 90 ma II
profitable lie spoke TO me-
think were losing money every
day by not handlng furniture, IN
f3'lected L. SuppoS!ns We lei y Try
Gu, MS hanc oy putting a ne" Inc III
our cat&losue-iuIn't ure' carpets rugs
pictures ana that stun.
80 II was decided that ! sAou!d nave
respite from my Office Vorh and put
IN my time Tor lew weeks looking
/ up the possibilities OF furniture &c
/ paTtnent. All this time While we
! were doing an enormous business, sew
eral thousand dollars worth every
week, we carried no stock al all with
the exception OF few cheap Watches
I and other articles OF lewelry-revoi-
vers and half dozen guns. The Gus
/ toners were furnishing the capital Tor
cur business cash IN advance, SO that
all we had to do was to take their
money, go out and buy what the or
ders called fer, for generally less than
onehalf the amount OF the remittance.
and keep the balance, from 81 to %
per cent OF the amount, as our profit.
After visiting several OF the furni'
ture manufacturers in our city, l for
mulated list Of prices and arranged
that we could obtain any OF the arti-
Giles on the list at any time by paying
only for such as we had orders FOR.
or course we got all OF these things
at wholesale prices and had learned
/ that another discount can always be
/ demanded for the payment OF cash.
/ 50 ! secured rom me manufacturers
5 photographs OF the various articles /
/ rae picked out and showed them 10
ana H.
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those chalr IeGs' s&lq l.
mat photograph OF chIHohler
LOOKS IKE a conn stood on eno-It S
so narrow suggested H.
But / picked out only 'he cheaper
grades OF SUM- rephea' Gu 'o'd
me not TO try 10 get awning e%-
] penslFe. II all cheap STUN.
Can we nave II LOOK Detter IN the
'a'alogue thah 1t ooes III 'he pho'o'
crci,A suggested /.
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cooIo not heip put agree WIN NM II
iIlaue an entreiy inherent piece Vi .uI-
hl'ure' II iooAeu nan AGAIN as "iue
ana presented d reallJ oeSiraoie ap-
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