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"Now, it is possible for a man to mark his samples in characters and to do a one-price business, but you can bet your life that the stranger will be leery of you if your goods are marked in characters.
He was very much interested, though, when she told him that Iky Morgenroth, whose father kept the One-Price Clothing House down on Main Street, had joined, and how he didn't know enough to take his hat off when he came into church.
When the 200th left Indiana all the boys had, of course, brand-new outfits right from Uncle Sam's great one-price clothing house. Their garments were nice and clean, their faces well washed, and their hair yet showed marks of the comb.
And such is the effect of a suggestion given under certain circumstances by a man of authority, that Priam Farll went straight along Victoria Street and at Sowter's famous one-price hat-shop did in fact buy himself a new hat. He then hailed a taximeter from the stand opposite the Army and Navy Stores, and curtly gave the address of the Grand Babylon Hotel.
V.V. was to purchase on the morrow. Kern's endeavor was to convey the idea that, in cases such as this, many men ever made it a practice to keep the old suit by, like for rainy days, and under no circumstances to give it away to the first person comes along and asts them for it. V.V.'s derby down many a sunny lane. "And the shirts they got at the One-Price Company!" cooed Kern.
He counted her fifty dollars off his own roll, all the more suave. "You will find you have made a mistake, my dear young woman. This is a strictly one-price office. Now I will take out that temporary filling and finish you up." She was loath to mount the chair, except that the nerve was jumping again.
So he turned to stock-raising and with his own slaves cut the present roadway from Pall Mall to Jamestown, there to join with the old Kentucky Stock road which ran from Atlanta and Chattanooga, along the Cumberland plateau by Jamestown on to the north through Frankfort and Cincinnati. Old Coonrod was not a one-price man on the realty he owned.
It was a matter, it will be remembered, which he had always meant to take up some day. "Did you say the One-Price," he inquired, not without an inner sense of cleverness and enterprise, "or was it the Globe?" Kern's heart thrilled. She was a woman, and hence the mother of all men.
Support Home Manufactures. Another placard was even more vehement in its appeal. 'Why curse England, it asked, 'and support her manufactures? Try O'Reilly, the one-price man. The sentiments were so admirable that Hyacinth followed the advice and tried O'Reilly. The shop was crowded when he entered, for it was market day in Clogher.
The One-Price System all goods marked in plain figures, and money back if not satisfied these things were to revolutionize the retail trade of the world. John Wanamaker, of all men in America, seems to know that to stand still is to retreat. For more than forty years he has led the vanguard of the business world. He has been a teacher of merchants.