An advertisement appearing in the Elizabethville Echo, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 7 February 1895:
Ed. L. Bergstresser
We Don’t Intend to Give Shoes Away.
We buy for Cash, in the closest markets, and are all the time looking for the Nicest and Best Goods for the Least Money.
Good Shoes cannot be sold without a fair legitimate profit. We are not pretending to sell you goods at cost, but we are satisfied with the smallest possible profits, and are aiming to make these smaller by making our business larger. You understand our point when we say that it is only the large business to-day that is a profitable business. To make it large, then, is our object. For this we are hustling and toiling – NICE, NATTY SHOES, AT A MODERATE COST, IS WHAT WE ARE SELLING. By the way, have you seen that last BEAUTY AT OUR STORE? GENUINE DONGOLA W. B. H. SOLID SHOE FOR CHILDREN – A beauty, at only 40 cts. It is well worth 65 cents. Call at our store. Don’t forget the place.
Ed. L. Bergstresser
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