Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Scan 5

Amherst directory including Hadley and Belchertown, 1916

14 lines. Read by computer on 17 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

1A Straightforward Business
3Making a bid for popular patronage needs no Diplomacy, Finesse or Sharpness in its management. Plain, clean, honest methods are what the public tie to nowadays.
5These methods you will find in force here at all times. We attribute our success in a great measure to their strict adherence and practice.
7We are here to serve you faithfully. We want this establishment to be known and spoken of as the place where all classes of the communities may come and feel that they are being dealt with in absolute fairness.
9Our affiliation with Six other large and progressive Steiger Stores enables us to offer dependable merchandise at prices that cannot be equaled by other houses in this vicinity.
11A. STEIGER & CO.
12DEPARTMENT STORE, HOLYOKE
13"STEIGER SYSTEM"—SEVEN STORES.

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