The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-19
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 Prominent Market Men and Grocer s.
By JOHN c, MOSES


 Read over the plan and save your sales slips.
 great combination is this Saturday marketing proposition and Sundays din- ner. Any old thing is good enough for dinner during the week. But Sunday that's a problem. It has been solved through The Age-Herald Saturday mar ket page. The man of the house is no longer bothered at the breakfast table. It's up to the good wife to pick out what she wants from this page
 This Saturday market page today shows how the market men are begin ming to realize that the housewife looks for this page every Saturday morning. If | merchant fails to take space he is out just that much. as tho9ands of readers scan this page for bargains.
 It became my part yesterday to take stroll and visit all these live merchants and see what they had te say. All were busy for Friday and were getting things in shape for this morning. * < <
 ''No Flies Allowed.
 This sign on the door greeted me at the first place I visited. It was Holzers market. Cleanliness is the hobby of my friend Holzer. He keeps in behind his help and sees that everything is abso- lutely clean. About his meat market are signs asking the public to kindly refrain from handling all articles of food. l In the delcatessen department every thing was spotless. All preserves. fruits | and other edibles liable to catch par ticles of dust were in glass jars with | tight covers. All perishable stuff was on ice, and a better display of sausages. cooked meats, cheese, smoked fish and other delicacies for Sunday meals is hard to find, even in larger cities. k * *
 Stepping outside of the front door I shook the hand of James A. Norriss, who has a general market in front of the IIolzer market. MT. Norriss brides him. | self on keeping everything fresh and clean. His fruit display contained some of the choicest varieties I ran across dur ing the day. He has the first shipment 1 Of peaches in the city.
 Tell your readers to get ready for waternnel elons Saturday morning, for I will have them on sale. When it comes to 1 keeping up with the times, I'm there Y said Mr. Norriss as he stepped up to wait on a customer
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 l One door up and was at Catanzano Bros, a bunch of live wires sure. They are always glad to see newspaper men, as they claim they can't get along with out them "Say, tell the people who read your market page to drop around and see the fine telephone peas, fresh mush- rooms. sugar corn and any other good things eat. We have our own cold stor- age plant and kill all our own poultry. We always sell the best, and that is why we sell so much"
 Dropping into Tanner Bros, witnessed great team work It takes team work to win baseball games, and these Tanner brothers work this proposition to the limit They all work all the time, and l that is the cause of their success. Their meats are of the best grades and their profits small, but the large amount of stuff they handle bring their business up to a large volume. Satisfied GUS toners is their hobby. And all are treat ed alike The vegetable display here was as good as could be gotten together, the berries being especially fine. In the deli catessen department all hands were busy waiting on the trade. This department is | open on Sunday.
 Up at Buehler Bros I met Harry H. Rich, the joval manager. Business is al ways good here," said MT. Rich. The se- cret is small profits and large turnovers. We have no delivery service and give this expense money to the trade. Satur- | day we will sell white meat at 24 cents and sliced bacon at B cents. Sure, it pays us we'll to advertise on the Satur- day morning market page. We want the housewives to know what we have on sale"
 Who said ice cream? Well, ice cream time is here, and in looking about in | front of the hundreds of small stores 1 that handle cones and sell cream by the dish I noticed three Reinhart Ice Cream company signs to every other one of other makes It is good cream. else the little merchants who handle this del- icacy would not use Reinhart's. Their plant is absolutely sanitary-no typhoid fever germs there.
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 Over on Twentieth street, about half way between the depot and Five Points, called on Duncan Bros, who run a | first-class and cleanly grocery and mar ket. Business is good considering the high prices" said MT. Duncan. Tell the l Age-Herald readers to drop in and see l for themselves the bargains we are of fering. We aim to please, and that is the reason we hold our trade so well. This little up-to- date grocery is located at Twentieth street and Avenue G. !. *
 The Pure Food Grocery company 10. North Twenty-second street. claim they can undersell many others because they pay cheap rent, and give the benefit of this saving to the customers. They have | cut out the delivery service. and thus can make still another cut in everything. The place was very clean and tidy. A special with them today is pure coffee l at 20 cents.
 | The Sanitary Market brides itself on being absolutely sanitary. Harry Norriss, manager of the market, said Saturday ad- vertising paid him well. Why shouldn't Fit, when thousands read what he has to sell every Saturday morning His dis play of vegetables and fish was first-class and no old stuff was to be seen about tha market Harry always has hiy