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827 CHESTNUT ST.
2rf Floor. Open -
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DIAMONDS
GOLP& SILVER
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Penn Smelting & Refining Works
"The Old (loid Blwb"
906 Filbert St., Phlla., Pa
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THOS. SAVILL'S SONS
1310 WALLACE SIBEKT
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USED CAR SALE
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Sold on "I.rtliixton llunklne rian,"
rovtrlnr 13 monthly payment.
LEXINGTON MOTOR CO.
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Leilnnton lllilg., H81 833 N. Ilroiid Bt.
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4420 LOCUST ST.
Modern home, in exclusive
neighborhood, at pre-war prico
of $11,000.
WILLIAM E. BORING ,
909 Real Estate Trust Buildinff '
UNEQUALEDIN PURITy
Alleviates disorder of advancing years
and good for tho young
TAIIADISE SPHING COMPANY
Brumwick, Mino Cincinnati, Okio
Mitchell Flbtciibsi Get
Virtue AsKzm Go-
MANY PEOPLE
Tnko a few steps oil
Chestnut Street on 12th
Street simply to see tha
BEAUTIFUL
FLOWERS
We shall be glad po have
you come in. Please don't
feci obliged to purchase.
TH': CENTURY FLOWER SHOP
12lh St. below Chestnut St. '
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foiirteeiif.ast
Sixtieth Street
A luxurloui residential hotel
opposlto tho Metropolitan Club
snei Fifth aVcnuo entrance to
Central l'arlf. Kasy access to
the theatres, cluua ana hIiod.
plus centers.
EAGER & BABCOCK
NEW YOIUC OIXV
ADELPHIA
ROOF GARDEN
Opens Today at
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ANNIVERSARY: SALE
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ANNOUNCEMENT FOft TUESDAY, JUNE FIRST
STORE CLOSED ALL DAY MONDAY, MEMORIAL DAY
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that have passed since the Founders of
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. this business, with their small force of "clerks,"
served their customers in the little dry goods "store on
this good old corner, have been years of great achievement.
The confidence so strongly established in the early days was the price
less'heritage upon which the Sons of the Founders builded. That confidence
has been strengthened each year, and. each year has added thousands to the hosts
of customers we have the honor to regard a.s lifelong friends : : : It is the most nat
ural impulse in the world that prompts us to give expression to our feeling toward our
customers, and we make acknowledgment of our appreciation of the confidence you have in
our goods and our service, by planning for each year, the ANNIVERSARY SALE, which has
become widely known as the MOST IMPORTANT ECONOMY EVENT in this city
And This Year Our Anniversary Sale Comes as the Climax to Various
Price-Reducing Movements, Proving It to Be as Much Greater
Thctn All Sales Elsewhere, as it has Been in Past Years
A PLAIN STATEMENT HOW THE PRICE LOWERING MOVEMENT WAS STARTED
mHE LAST five days of April were Clover
Days here. The Store was crowded.
Some stores were not. During those
five days a movement was debated
elsewhere and action decided upon Saturday
night, May 1st, AFTER 'THE PUBLISH
ING OF OUR FULL-PAGE STATEMENT
of conditions and our promise to continue to
help relieve the situation as we had done in
those five days, by reducing prices on apparel
and many kinds of merchandise most needed,
sacrificing to a very considerable extent, our
fair, legitimate profit. Tlie chairman of the
FAIR PRICE COMMITTEE endorsed our
statement in a letter dated May 1st, from
which we quote:
"You have, by cheerfully complying with every
request of the Committee nnd by your assurances to
use the great resources of your firm to cut down
profits to the narrowest margin, taken the lead In the
kind of patriotic co-operation that this Committee
has endeavored to secure."
What followed all about town has benefited the
public. Some stores helped in one way, some in
another. It Is pretty widely known that pur regular
prices average lower than prices, elsewhere for the
same class of goods. And in stores where higher
prices are the rule, an- inspiration actuating an all
around reduction would appear quite creditable, what
ever the motive.
But all movements were only prelim
inary to THE ONE GREAT ANNUAL
ECONOMY EVENT that Philadelphia looks
forward to the Strawbfidge & Clothier
ANNTVERSARY SALE the one Sale that
tens of thousands know STANDS ALONE
and is never approached by other special
sales of any kind whatsoever.
mN OUR statement of May ls.t we showed that
we are paying more than twice as much as we
paid five years ago for most kinds of goods.
We also stated that our average net percentage
of profit, after deducting Government taxes, was less
In 1919 than in many of the former years in the
history of this Store.
We raid that the retailer of established character
and reputation had "no power to reduce prices, except
in no far as he is willing to help relieve the situation
by sacrificing profits to which he is legitimately entitled."
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But we are very glad to say that many of our
MANUFACTURERS ARE CO-OPERATING with us
to make this ANNIVERSARY SALE a great success
this year, as they have in former years, by coming to
us with substantial lots of desirable merchandise at
a considerable concession in price; sacrificing a part
of their profit as we are doing, sharing losses with
us giving to us in preference to some others, what
ever advantages it is possible to grant.
VERYBODY has an ' opportunity just now to
save on purchases of apparel and other needed
goods. Each year at this time there are re
duction sales, chieflv of sm-incr nnnnrrl: hut
special sales are somewhat more numerous than usual
this season, much to the present advantage of the
public. Some kinds of goods will coat merchants
more than they paid for what they now own, and the
lower prices prevailing may not be available later on.
Therefore, our advice is, shop around
and BUY WHAT YOU NEED now, and
BUY WHERE YOU CAN BUY MOST
ADVANTAGEOUSLY.
N THIS STORE there are thousands of articles
at reduced prices many at no profit, some at less
than we paid for them for we have taken it upon
ourselves to make our ANNIVERSARY SALE the
greatest money-saving event in this city.
ORE important in the long run, however the
fact that will be remembered longest after the
special sales Is the fact so frequently nroven
in the past month, that OUR REGULAR
PRICES ARE LOWER than prices elsewhere-often
ower than reduced prices elsewhere. We have found
this to be true in hundreds of instances in almost
every line of goods, including hosiery and under
wear, millinery, dresses, musjin underwear, men's and
boys' clothing and hats, domestics, dress fabrics,
linens, upholstery goods, glassware, china, house
furnishings. lamps, trunks and other lines.
To cite a typical case: A wide Roman-Btrine ribbon
Mnt w lden"cal wWth quality-at $2.25 a yard, at
which price we had been selling it since January.
H 2sTa lK 0ffca !iUn 8tandard "on domestic was
i clsewh8" th nrrt week of May; the same grade
was 81.00 in our stock. In the second week of May it wa.
$1.50 in the other store, and still being sold by us at S100
Wo have been told of many other Blmilar cases.
But the year's yONE GREAT
EVENT is now uppermost in the
minds of the public, and tens of
thousands of people are saving
money in the Strawbridge &
Clothier Anniversary Sale.
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The Store will be closed on Monday, and the great Sale will continue Tues
day morning, with even greater enthusiasm than at the beginning of the wonderful week
just closed. Read our announcements in Monday's Bulletin and Tuesday morning's
papers. They will be crowded with news of many of the thousands of extraordinary
values in the Sale. ' Some exceptional new features will be announced. You will be
given stronger evidence than ever before of this Store's position of leadership. Mean
while, make your plans to be here bright and early Tuesday morning.
This is assuredly the GREATEST SALE IN FIFTY-TWO YEARS.
STRAWBRIDGE &. CLOTHIER
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