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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1904)
'ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1904. 000000000;?Oy03WeOOyO0 r, v ; KnuoiUiBiB80oiBiWAUiw4u w v w vv? u w i m 4 u o i1 u o O u: O O O ss o o a Q o a O w o o O uw o w o w u o w o w o o w w w u u v w wv'ww"wvww v OO CX OO Oo PAGE SIX. A 11 S o t ' Oo s o s Oo oo -;! P6 $ o oo 99 P o A o 00 00 J Inllc. InJUJIlQ) lUJIr IT uliu I LAMP In I Oo Oo o o s po s Oo 99 Oo Po po Oo po p Po Po Op ? 00 00 Oo s 99 Oo s ! S i Oo p 9 s po 9 00 00 po ' l' 5 po s po 4 po Oo 00 i 1 " 0A 1 "o si oi po O op 00 po p0 po ft po po po Po pc Oo Po 9 Oo Po Challange Sale of Fine Clothing, Hats, Shoes and Gents Furnishing Goods On Bond Street Near the Occident Hotel, Astoria MY FAME HAS PUECEDED ME. Astorians know mo as King of the Small Profit, Low-Pri 110 Clothing Merchants of th United States. I am here aiul will remain in Astoria and sell clothing to Astoria men at about one quarter what they have been paying heretofore. I won't be bulldozed by any set of men on earth, and will now rivo the dealers of Astoria a touch of high life, if I ever did that tliiiitf in all inv existence, mid will sell hich'm garmeiitN to the citizens of this city at prices so small that this combination which sought to prevent my opening here, will speetlily FIND Til Kilt 1IKADS KKKUNll WITH AMAZEMENT! They shall have their clothing at honest prices despite the infamous methods and tactics of these Astoria clothing men who fear to see their field invaded by a merchant whom thev know HAS I'UOVKX HIM SELF THE FRIEND OF THE COMMON PEOPLE, ami ha sold these men and youths their wearing apparel at such modest prices that THE Km PEli CENT I'liOFIT KINONTEHS every, where fear him as they may well fear the imp of darkness from the infernal regions of the depths of sin. And well they may fear me. They know that my advent into this city is the signal THAT THEIR GAME IS UP. The people will come to my store, get my figures and then it will dawn upon them that the clothing men of their home town have charged them nil the wav from TWO to FOUR PRICES for their goods, and this will end the deal with these old timers. READ THESE PRICES and see what is in store for you. as well as the merchants of this town. It will make the latter wince, but It will likewise make you smile. Here are prices that I challenge the 100 per cent clothing ring to meet: Suits By the thousand. The union-made, tailor kind. Only the kind that has made the name of Paul Strain famous. $5.00 For your pick of all-wool frock and sack suits that I defy the Astoria cloth ing ring to meet for a cent less than 912.50 or my goods go free. $7.50 For fall and winter suits, made of finest all-wool serges and clay worsteds fancy mixtures, tailored by the best journeymen tailors; lined with finest serges and salines; suits made up by the best tailors In America for the fall and winter season of 1904 and 1905. Suits that I challenge the clothing ring to match for less than $17.50. $9.95 For a range of this season's swellest styles, in finest imported suitings. Over 800 styles to select from. Every weave, every cut and make of gar ments, up to the second cut, lined and trimmed and tailored as only goods are that Paul Strain sells. I defy the foolish virgins of the anti que 100 per cent clothing ring to equal this $9.95 suit for less than $25.00. $14.95 Buys the best suit in the Hub, in cluding single and double-breasted sacks and frocks, In finest broadcloths serges, vicunas, Venetians, fancy mix tures, Martin's famous English Spekle field worsteds, trimmed with the best two-year guaranteed Skinner silk satin. There Is no suit to equal lose in Ast oria, The antique germs of the cloth ing ring would not have the nerve to buy such suits, and if they had 'em they'd ask you $40.00 for 'em. The Hub's price is $14.95. $30.00 TOP COATS $12.50 ;Buys the swellest line of silk-lined top coats In homespuns, tricots, bally ho, whipcords, covert cloths, overplalds, exquisite in every particular. Can't be gotten in Astoria at any price. Worth in any fine clothing house in the world $30.00. Mr, High-Price Man, meet Jhese prices jj you dare, - ; , $25.00 Overcoats $10.00 For a ten dollar bill you can buy a handsome tailormade overcoat in beaver, melton, frieze, unfinished wor steds and boucles, lined in fine serge and wool lining. I challenge the anti que wise clothing clique to equal this coat for less than $25.00. $2.50 Wool Pants 1000 parts of the famous California Cassimere Pants that are sold by every first-class house for $2.60. 100 per cent fossijs ask $4.00 for 'em. I sell 'em at $1.39 - $5.00 Pants 1864 pairs of the finest Worsteds and Cassimere Pants that can be made for money pants that are a bargain at $5.00; pants that the Shy locks of this town would ask you $6.50. Go at $2.49 ' How do you like this, Mr. Boycott Fair Competition Merchant? Shoes 6000 pairs of their famous Packard & Flintstone foot-form, hand-made shoes, that are sold everywhere for $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00, will be sold. Just to hear the shoe ring howl like this. $3.25 Shoes $1.50 860 pairs of solid leather foot-for shoes, in all weights, from the light dress to the heavy working shoes. Every pair guaranteed to give you satisfaction or a new pair free. The best $2.50, $3.00 and $3.25 values In the world. Challenge sale price Shirts - Shirts t the same prices that have made the Hub a terror to the high priced shirt men In Portland. These prices will ring the death knell of high prices in Astoria. 39c For negligee dress and work shirts y every other house In Astoria for yf Q For men's strong, serviceable, double reinforced work "f Jy shirt In twill black sateen and fancy colors. Negligee shirts, outing shirts, white shirts; soul by every 100 per cent Astoria merchant for $1.00 and $1.25. HERE IS WHERE STRAIN BELONGS WATCH FOR HIM 3E In walking on Commercial street one day this week, I' saw In the window of a very high-priced clothier Monarch shirts marked as special at $1.25. Now, here's what Strain Is going to do for the men who wear shirts In Astoria (and I guess you all do): I will sell not only Monarch shirts, but Wilson Bros.' $2.25 that are sold today 75c. shirts, Imperial $2.00 $1.60 shirts, Roosevelt Take as many of 'em as you want, for I want the high-priced shirt man to know that Strain's In town. Extra Special Shirt Defiance shirts, Gold $1.75 shirts, Cluett $1.50 shirts, all for 75c More Shoes $400 Shoes $1.99 1642 pairs of 1'ackarda foot-form shoes, In vlcl, ciilf and velour, In lac blucher, cuiiKreM mid oxford, all new 1906 shapes: shoe (hat I t hulli'iigo the 100 per cut ring in imttrh for lens (hull $4.00. Huh prices. $5 and $6. Shoes at $2.99 Thousand nf palm f I'aikard fluent kid, colt, enamel, vlcl, velour, nil the new makes of (nut and shinies of toe; style newer than you have ever before set'ii In this city, Hlnw thut I defy the 100 per cent ring to match less than 15.00 mid $6.00 per pair. FREE A pair of men's velour velvet slip- MTH, solid sole. Iieuutlflll design, value $1.00, will go free with every pair of Packard shoes. Sox I will not sock It to you on sox, same as the sox man on (,'immierclul street socks It to you with his fancy 100 per cent profit for his shelf. worn sox. 5c For black and Ian sox Hint I defy any merchant In town to sell less than inc. lOc For black and fancy sox that the 100 per cent ring ask yon 20c for. 15c 2 for it quarter, buys the 100 per cent man's 25c values. , 25c For bent ImjK'ited 80c and 75c black and fancy hand embroidered nx. (Jo like this during the great Defiance fctule: SUSPENDERS For good, strong 15c suspenders, 5c The bent 25c suspender III Astoria. I C)(.) 15c For all grades of 60c mid 75c silk web I r," unpenuem. 25c Sweaters All prices that will make the 100 ter cent clothing man sweat tears of sor. row, because Strain's In town. $1.00 Jor a fine all-wool sweater, that I challenge any 100 per cent store In As. torla to equal for less than $2.60. $2.00 I'or lambs wool sweaters In nluln and fancy colors, that I challenge the 8S clique thHt closed the press against me, and tried their darndest to keep me out of Astoria, to eoual for a cent less than Witt Oa $3.76. C.) Oo 2 On $2.50 NECKWEAR FOR 25c This may sound like an exenteration. Oo but It's solid fact, lust the same I re. cently nurchased from Kisenstenili Oo Co., New York, biggest neckwear house (D.tt 10,000 doxen of neckwear that ranged Oo In value from 60c to $4.00. In all shunes shades styles, all fall goods. 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