Identifier: cangrocerjanmar1918toro (find matches)
Title: Canadian grocer January-March 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
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Subjects: Supermarkets Grocery trade Food industry and trade
Publisher: Toronto : Maclean-Hunter Pub. Co. (1887)-
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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mid from the floor of the windowdisplayed a conventional pattern worked out in colored candies, nuts,fruit and similar lines. At the side of the window were rows of Christ-mas stockings, while the whole was framed with an arch of colored tissuepaper; the lights striking this display from an angle set it out in sharprelief, and made it a most effective selling argument. THE WINNERS IN THE CHRISTMAS WINDOW CONTEST CLASS A 1. Island & Bamford, Toronto, Ont. 2. Marks, Clavet & Dobie Co., Port Arthur, Ont. 3. Harold Crone, The McLean Grocery, Moose Jaw, Sask. CLASS B 1. Ernest Lawley, of J. F. Fumerton & Co., Kelowna, B.C. 2. MacEwen Grocery, Cobalt, Ont. There was only a limited representation in Class B, and consequently onlytwo awards were made. The windows illustrated herewith, along withother windows, will appear in the Fall Number, in time to be of serviceto the merchant in planning his Christmas window. January 18, 1918 CANADIAN GROCER 25 Winners of the Christmas Contest
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THE window of J. F. Fumerton <& Co., Kelowna, B.C., winners offirst prize in Class B, was dressed by Ernest Lawley. It was trimmedwith bunting with three bells hanging from top. First, a row of packagedates, then a row of currants with compliments of season printed in withpeppermints, then a row of bulk figs, a row of nuts of all kinds in theshell separated with Xmas crackers and a row of oranges at the back.i\l ext, a row of assorted candies separated with a spray of holly and a rowof Xmas stockings. At the back a pyramid was built of empty boxes forthe centre of the background and trimmed with two glass jars of shellednuts and a jar of cranberries in the centre. The rest of pyramid was offancy boxes of chocolates of assorted sizes. Attheiopwas a small decor-ated Xmas tree. The sides of pyramid were. Xmas crackers, jars andcomb honey and bottles of maple syrup and two cases of oranges, and ontop were Xmas crackers and a fern in the centre, and at the back a pyra-mid of canned

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