Sunday, December 9, 2012

Wait For It!

This notice ran in the News of February 19, 1920.

Wait For Our Mill End Sale

Thousands of yards of just such materials as you are looking for. Will announce arrival of same just as soon as we can get it ready for your inspection.

AINSWORTH GENERAL STORE,
Ainsworth, Ind.


And so the thrifty home sewers of town and country set to sharpening their scissors, and oiling their sewing machines, and measuring their children, their husbands and themselves, perhaps buying new patterns — but not fabric; oh, no, that must wait.

Two short weeks, and the waiting was over.

Mill End, News, 3-4-1920
(Click on image to enlarge)


Sources:
♦ Advertisement. Hobart News 4 Mar. 1920.
♦ "Wait For Our Mill End Sale." Hobart News 19 Feb. 1920.

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