1. "NOT from Martha Stewart"
Posted by njwolfe on Dec-27th-03 at 9:40 AM
But from an ad in the Daily Globe, Friday, August 5, 1892:
"SOME GOOD THINGS:
A good Zinc Trunk $2.75
A good travelling Bag .45
A good Trunk Strap .50
A good Shawl Strap .10
A good Hammock .50
A good pair New Shoes 1.25
A good Alarm Clock .95
A good Blk Walnut Clock l.50
A good pair Spectacles .10
A good 14 K Wedding Ring 3.00
A good set Silver Plated
Tea Spoons .30
A good Silver Plated
Sugar Shell .10
A good Concertina 1.75
A good Gold Baby's Ring .50
A good pair Pliers .15
A good Jack Knife .15
A good bottle Sewing
Machine Oil .05
and 1000 other good things at very low prices.
J.A. FOSTER & CO, 35 Pleasant St, Fall River
F.M. Chace, Manager"
So Martha wasn't the first one to offer "Good Things" !
I wonder if this was a second hand shop?
That stuff sounds kind of pricey -- the prices in the
reproduction Sears catalogs are a good bit less. I guess
Sears was the Sears of its day.
WOW! What ad copy!!! Just makes you want to take the buttonhook to those shoes and hoof it right over so you can grab one of everything.
Why? Because it's GOOD, that's why! (Not like the stuff from the BAD shop down the block.)
--Lyddie