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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
CAUTION! BEWARE! FRAUD! 
Facts You Should Know About—Read This 
By A. C. Titus & Co. 
It is brought to our attention, now and again, of some one going into Boston and buying 
goods, at the moment, in the belief that they are really buying them at wholesale; only to 
awaken to the fact, later, that they really paid good big retail prices for them. 
This is a deceptive game worked successfully sometimes by a few dealers who ‘‘pose’’ as 
“wholesalers” and quote you a tremendous big discount—often as high as 50 per cent. off. 
Some people do bite at this questionable proposition. It looks, for the time as being all 
right; but, when they come to consider values they find they’ve been buncoed to the Queen’s 
- taste. 
We've investigated these pretending ‘‘ wholesalers’ ’’ claims and unhesitatingly pronounce 
their modes of operation and statements maliciously deceptive and false. Here’s how they do 
it: THEY MARK THEIR LIST FRICES DOUBLE WHAT THE GOODS ARE WORTH. We 
found, for example, a dining table listed at $18.00 and sold at 50 per cent. discount, for $9.00. 
The same identical table we sell daily for $8.75. A dining chair which we sell for $5.00 was 
marked way up to $11.00 and the 50 per cent. discount gave it to the purchaser for $5.50. A 
parlor table was marked by them $22.00, this same table—maker and number—is here today 
for a ten dollar bill—come and see it. A high boy, we sold four of them last summer—at 
$67.50 each—was in another of these pretended ‘‘wholesale’’ places listed at $140.00. We 
could enumerate other pieces, not many though, for these fake wholesalers cannot buy the 
better and honestly made class of goods—because of the questionableness of their selling 
methods. 
Those who go to such places pay spot cash before even the goods are delivered. Then they 
deliver only to your railroad station and you must pay the cost of transportation to your 
home—no small item of expense. Further if goods are damaged when received, which they 
often are— what redress have you? None. If you make a complaint to them you may pos- 
sibly receive a bottle of furniture polish or the consoling Oba remark ‘‘you bought the goods at 
wholesale and that’s what you must expect.”’ 
Now contrast such unprincipled and unsatisfactory methods with those that always have 
been in vogue at A. C. TITUS & CO.’S. Here all transactions are honorable and above board. 
No misrepresentations or misstatements are made about our goods. These house-furnishings 
that we sell are honestly-made and dependable. We have one straightforward uniform price 
to all, which is lower than for what goods of the same character can be purchased in Boston 
or in any other place. Goods delivered and set up in your home free of charge. Mistakes 
(and these are infrequent) cheerfully and savisfactorily made right. Here, cash means in 
thirty days after goods are bought. 
Finally, we say and let this be printed in large type, BEWARE OF THE MAN WHO 
OFFERS TO SELL YOU FURNITURE AT ‘‘WHOLESALE’’ OR AT 30, 40 OR 50 PER 
CENT. DISCOUNT. HE IS A FAKIR AND A FRAUD — PURE AND SIMPLE. 
If you want to prove him so and thereby protect yourself, just come here first and take 
up our time. We gladly offer it for your couvenience. We'll get your business: you'll save 
yourselves money and no end of trouble and inconvenience as well. 
A. C. TITUS & CO. 
SALEM, MASS. 
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