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| Title | Sectional Come-Packt Furniture |
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| Publisher | Come-Packt Furniture Company |
| Date | 1912 |
| Description | A 68-page catalog published in 1912 called “Sectional Come-Packt Furniture” by the Come-Packt Furniture Company based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio. Content includes assorted and illustrated listings of chairs, beds, desks, dressers, clocks, china closets, highboys, and lighting fixtures. |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | NK2265 .C64 1910 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b4500249~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Architecture Retail Catalog Collection |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/aapamphlets |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
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| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | This is too important to be overlooked by you |
| Description | Diagram and text revisits "Our Selling Plan" and discusses the benefits and cost savings of direct shipment from producer to use. |
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| Transcript | This Is Too Important to Be Overlooked by You PROFITS ADVERTISING TRAVELING MEI OFFICE FORCE IIGH FREIGI PENSIVE. PACKING THESE ARE THE PROFITS AND EXPENSES YOU SAVE BY BUYING PROFITS ERTISING OFFICE FORCE tomer and an effeel : shipment of goods from the producer to •r saves so many expenses and profits that It give a few suggestions as to why we offer greater valu< for our prices than is humanly possible under any olhei scheme of distribution. of 1 illu- ■ brought i The price the farmer gets for potatoes looks small compared with Ihe price you pay the grocer for them. Several hundred per cent is hardly the difference between the cost of beef on the hoof and the price of a good steak The difference between the first cost and the price you pay is not all profit —some of it is legitimate expense— the cost of doing business. Rut if you could buy your vegetables from the farmer direct at the price the wholesaler would pay—your coal from the mine in the same way—wool cloth from the mill hats and tri lings from Ihe manufacturer -couldn't you easily double the buy ing power of your money —couldn't you buy more goods for the same money, or get greater value for the price? Look at the diagram of our selling plan above and see what it means to your pocketbook. Everyone that has his or her own interests clearly in mind, quality and all other conditions being equal, should buy furniture, food, clothing or the luxuries wherever they can be bought for Ihe least money. The national advertising campaign that we carry on in the best of the general magazines does not, in itself, make Come-Packt Fnrnilure heller (linn unadvertised furniture, but it is a bond lo you that no misrepresentation will be made of its quality—that you will be protected absolutely, not only by the letter of our guarantee, but by the spirit of the guarantee thai the furniture may be returned at our expense if it is not as represented and satisfactory that no attempt al evasion of the guarantee will be made, and that the goods must be delivered in your home free from accidents due to negligence of the railroads or express companies. All orders are accepted with this understanding. A trial order will show you Ihe saving I ha I can be made by our methods of sale and delivery. Send us your order to-day while you have the inclination. Save the extra id expenses now. This is the best time to get star We ■ady to |