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ESTABLISHED 1887.
SENSATION VERITABLE!
Eighty Thousand Dollars Worth of
Dry Goods, Notions, 'Millinery,
4c., 4c., to Go at Retail At Cost
in Rome!
Every piece and parcel, every
yard and measure, from bottom
to top, from front to rear, every
scrap of merchandise, everything
in the store and several thous
and dollars worth of goods
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(Cloaks, Blankets, Bed Corn*;
fortables, Winter Undervyjear,
Jeans, Domestics, &c.) recently ■
purchased to arrive—all put on
the market at actual cost. Noth
ing excepted but a few contract
gloves and a few dozen contract
corsets and Bntterick's patterns.
Eightv Thousand Dollars worth
of desirable goods At Cost m |
Romel
And wliv? We re going to
make a change in our busi-j
.ness, and to facilitate it we shall |
s-ell a lame portion of the stock ;
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in advance. We can afford to j
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give a little time and make some 1
sacrifice to accomplish the pur- ‘
pose in view, since our gain in ;
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business here, - through the gen-;
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erous patronage of our custo- ]
mers, has been liberal. We do i
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not begrudge the proposed re- |
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turn .to them. The goods shall '
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be sold throughout the house at
c >st. Our pledged word for this.
Is that sufficient? Keeping faith
with the public has built for us
the greatest retail dry goods
business that ever was in Rome.
Keeping faith with the people
has given us achievement in dry
goods circles in Georgia un
equalled by any, and we’ll not
tamper with that faith now.
You’ 11 get the goods at what’
they cost us if you come for
them.
We do not wait till the sun
down of the season to do this.
Verily, it is the opportunity of a
life-time thus to buy from such a
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
stock in mid-season. “Such a have gathered from every land
stock," and that means lots. It’s the commodities for their needs,
the largest stock and the best as- for their comfort and adornment,
sorted stock, and, in point of And our purchase prices (at
detail, the best selected stock in present our selling prices) are
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Rome ; contains more high grade on the very lowest plane possi
goods, bought within the last sible. We barter in the world’s
sixty days, than may be found in greatest markets; we jostle by
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any two stores together in this
city. Our aim has been to ex
cel. The science of modern
merchandizing is the study of
our days and the dream of out
nights. We have watched close
ly the wants of our patrons and
BASS BROS. & CO.
THE ROME TRIBUNE, ROME, GA., SUNDAY, OCTOBE 1 2>, 1896.
th • side of the dry goods kings ;
we demand and receive the same
n ices as are quoted to the larg
est dry goods houses in Ameri
ca. And there’s reason fur it.
The rattle of the gold and the
rustling of the greenbacks. The
knowledge in the mind of the
man who quotes the prices, that
no bill ever knocks twice at our
door for payment, and that the
history of our house has never
witnessed a requirement of ex
tended time, brings to our buyer
offerings and inducements that
are not extended to others. Il’s
to the better-than-usual buying
more than to anything e'se we
trace our leadership in our lines.
Almost every day, from January
ist to December 31st. something
is offered to us below its usual
selling price, and we buy those
things that the trade wants and
reject offerings of questional de
mand. Every little want, as i
is made known, has been sup
plied day by day, invoking the
speedy service of the express
company without regard to the
cost, thus keeping the stock
“jam up,” and it’s jam up now,
tilled to overflowing with the
I newest and prettiest goods in the
| various lines.
In this condition of the stock
we inaugurate
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BASS BROTHERS
& COMPANY.
THE COST SALE
and it is unnecessary to say to
any intelligent people that those
who do not come first will run
the risk of losing the best. We
invite you to come at once to
the low-price clover patch that
the bargain blossoms may turn
to your gathering.
“Kissing goes by favors"—so
said, but in this sale there can
be no favoritism. The result to
you lies in your own hands.
Any and all may have the goods
at cost. It you fail to act prompt
ly, regrets may come to you
when others, by and by, speak
of the values obtained. Your
portion of sorrow should come
to you in some other way. The.
history recounting that
‘‘Seven cities mourned Homer dead
Irf which living Homer begged hisbiead,"’
brings in its train a suggestion
too ignoble to be repeated even
in practical store shopping. If
you want the best come at once.
' As we give the profits to pur
chasers, we cannot.take the ex
pense of a promise-to-pay. Dur
ing this sale, and until otherwise
announced, no goods will be
charged. ( It takes lots of money
to run an office). So everything
will be sold for cash—not an ex
ception. To be right “Clear at
this point, all the wealth of all
the Rothchilds, of the Vander
bilts, and of Li Hung Chang com
bined, offered as collateral,
would be quite insufficient to
accomplish the credit-purchase
of one penny’s worth during this
sale. No periodical tickets will
be received. It’s a sale for cash
of first-class goods at cost un
adorned.
What an opportunity it is to
buy “Gold Medal” Dress Goods
and other fetching frockings at
cost. What* an opportunity it is
to buy Krippendorf s Matchless
Shoes at cost! What an oppor
tunity it is to buy Fashionable
Millinery at cost! And the op
portunity is yours ’
Come and see the pretty goods
where the price - latch - string
pulls easy.