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Show LI10El,IBn0i mmmimm Hundreds of Buyers From Northwestern Towns in Bargain Rush. CHANCE UNTIL JUNE 15 The biggest "bargain day" sale in the history of the northwest is in progress at the jobbing and manufacturing manu-facturing establishment of Lindeke, Warner & Sons, Fourth street and Broadway, St. Paul. Dry goods valued at $600,000, from the bankrupt stock of Tibbs, iiutching's & Co., Minneapolis, is being disposeil of at special prices. The sale will continue until June 15, if the stock is not exhausted sooner. Buyers from retail stores all over the northwest and from points as far distant as Denver. Portland. Sail. Lake City. Tacoma, Seattle. Butte, Helena, Boise. Great Falls and Milwaukee are present. The doors of Lindeke Warner & Sons did not open until 7 o'clock this mornine, but the buyers were on ha ml as early as 6:30 o'clock waiting for the opening, and a regular "bargain counter" rush took place when admission admis-sion was allowed. The big wholesale house was well Ercpared for the rush, however. One undred salesmen had been called oil" the road to assist the regular house forco in taking care of tho buyers, and they will remain in until tho sale is over. Unique Sale, The sale is unique not only in its size, but in the methods employed in making it a success. For the first time in the northwest a jobbing house has used the department store style of advertising in calling attention to its offerings, and conducting such a sale. Goods and prices were advertised in forty-three leading daily newspapers, froiii St. Paul to the Pacific coast. Last week telegrams began to pour u announcing an-nouncing that buyers would be on hand from tho cities mentioned, and from hundreds of smaller cities and villages throughout the northwest. |