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Challange Sale of Fine
On Bond Street Near the Occident Hotel, Astoria
MY FAME HAS PRECEDED ME. Astorians know mo as King of the Small 1 Wit, Lmv-Priue Clothing Merchants of tlu United States. I am here and will remain in A.storia
and sell clothing to Astoria men at about one quarter what they have heeii paying heretofore.
I won't be bulldozed by any set of men on earth, and will now give the dealers of Astoria a touch of hisjh life, if I ever did that thing in all my existence, and will xell men' Kimiicnto
to the citizens of this city at prices so small that this combination which sought to prevent my opening here, will speedily FIND TIIKlIi 1IKADS KKKLi.(l WITH A.MAZK.MKNT! They shall
have their clothing at honest prices despite the infamous methods and tactics of these Astoria clothing men who fear to see their lield invaded by a merchant whom thev know HAS I'KOVKN HIM
SELF THE FRIEND OF THE COMMON PEOPLE, and has sold these men and youths their wearing apparel at such modest prices that THE UK) PER CENT PROFIT RINGSTKHS 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 all the way from TWO to
FOUR PRICES for their goods, and this will end the deal with these old timers.
BEAD THESE PRICES and see what is in store for you. a; well as the merchants of this town. It will make the latter wince, tint 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
$12.50 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 117.50.
$9.95
For a range of this season's sweliest
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. Bells'.
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 Spekje
field worsteds, trimmed with the best
two-year guaranteed Skinner silk satin.
There is no suit to equal tose in Ast
oria. The antique germs of .hi' cloth
ing ring would not have the nirve to
buy such suits, and if they ha1 'em
they'd ask you $40.00 for 'em. The
Hub's price is $14.95.
$30.00 TOP COATS
$12.50
, Buys the sweliest line of silk-lined
top coats in homespuns, tricots, bally
ho, whipcords, covert cloths, overplaids,
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
these prices if 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 paris of the famous California
Cassimere Pants that are sold by every
first-class house for $2.50. 100 per ceut
fossils ask $4.00 for 'em. I sell 'em at
$1.39
$5.00 Pants
1884 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 Shylocks 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, $J.00 and $3.25 values in the
world. Challenge sale price
hoes and Gents Furnishing Goods
Why was Strain arrested?
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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
A r For men's strong, serviceable, double reinforced work
v 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.
that are sold today
75c.
shirts, Imperial $2.00
$1.50 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.
Clothing,
Extra Special
Shirt Defience
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 Brm.' $2.25
shirts, Cold $1.75 shirts, Cluett
$1.50 shirts, all for
75c
Hats,
More Shoes
$4.00 Shoes $1.99
1642 pairs of Packard's fool -form
shoes, In vl l, nilf uml velour, In line
bluchor, congress uml oxford, all new
1905 shapes; shoes that I chiilli'iiKi- the
100 per cut ring to imitcli for I.nn Hum
$4.00, Hub prices.
$5 and $0. Shoes at
$2.99
Thousands of pull's of Packard
finest kid. colt, enamel, vie I, vHour, nil
the new makes of last and shapes of
toe; style newer than you have ever
before seen In thin city. Hhi... (hut I
defy the 100 per cent ring to match
less than $5,00 and $6.00 per pair.
FREE
A pair of men's velour velvet slip
pers, solid soles, beautiful designs,
value $1.00, will go free with every pair
of Packard whom.
Sox
I will not sock It to you on sox, same
us the sox man on Commercial street
sin ks It to you with his fancy 100 per
cent profit for his shclf-worn sox.
5c
For black and tan sox that I defy any
merchant In town to sell less than 10c.
lOc
For black and fancy sox that the 100
per cent ring ask yon 20c for.
15c
2 for a quarter, buys the 100 per cent
inun s 23e values.
25c
For best Imjiorted 50c mid 75c black
and fancy hand embroidered sox.
Oo like this during the great Defiance
Sale:
SUSPENDERS
For good, strong 15c suspenders.
5c
The best 25c suspender In Astoria,
15c
For all grades of 50c and 75c silk web
suspenders.
25c
Sweaters
All prices that will make the 100 ner
cent clothing man sweat tears of sor
row, because Strain's In town.
$1.00
For a fine all-wool sweater, that I
challenge any 100 per cent store In As
toria to equal for less than $2.50.
$2.00
For lamb's wool sweaters In plain
and fancy colors, that I challenge the
clique that closed the press against me,
and tried their darndest to keep me out
of Astoria, to equal for a cent less than
$3.75.
$2.50 NECKWEAR FOR 25c
This may sound like an exaggeration,
but It's solid fact, Just the same. I re
cently purchased from Elsensteadt &
Co., New York, biggest neckwear house
10,000 doaen of neckwear that ranged
Jn value from 60c to $4.00, in all shapes,
shades styles, all fall goods. All go
Umbrellas
Tou need umbrellas, us I am told It
rains once or twice a year In Astoria
(beautiful Astoria). Compare these
prices with the prices you have been
paying the 100 per cent man:
39c
Buy an umbrella from the Hub that
no 100 per cent profit man in this mon.
opoly-rldden Astoria will ask you less
than $1.00 for,
75c
Buys the 100 per cent man's $1.50
umbrella; and so on up to $10.00. We
will sell 'em at one-half every time.
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