This ad appeared in the Elizabethville Echo, 30 May 1929. It pictures three men, two in business or street clothing standing arm in arm with a Civil War veteran in a G.A.R. uniform. The advertisers, Sidney Goldman (1893-1965) and Irvin Spessler, were the owner/operators of the G. & S. Department Store of Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, that advertised itself as “Elizabethville‘s largest clothing store and only tailors.” Men of the G.A.R. wore a standard uniform which was sold and fitted at the G. & S. Department Store.
The ad appeared on Memorial Day and included the following tribute:
TO MEMORIAL DAY AND ITS HEROES
It’s for only a day that we pause from the hurry of business to pay homage to our comrades who made the great sacrifice for their country.
But in our hearts we cherish year in and year out, the heroes both with us and absent.,
They shall never be forgotten.
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This ad was previously featured in the Civil War Blog, 26 October 2018.
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