Identifier: hardmerchaugoct1912toro (find matches)
Title: Hardware merchandising August-October 1912
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Hardware industry Hardware Implements, utensils, etc Building
Publisher: Toronto :
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
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ysmade a list of the things he would re-quire to take. The list would be so lengthy that Uncle Podger would nextproceed to strike out all those thingswhich he could possibly get along with-out. Having gone thus far he wouldlose the list. Oh, there are many Uncle Podgers,and that bit of cord or string, put socarefully away for a needy occasion, isusually lost. The need, therefore, is fornew cord, or new rope as the case maybe. Not Only a Spring Requirement. Cordage is a line which has, in thepast been regarded largely as a springrequirement. But there has come achange. It is now a proven fact thatthis line sells the year through. Per-haps the spring demand is a little theheavier, for some grades, but cord andrope sells the year through. Hardware-men have hardly recognized this enough.They have not done as much to stimu-late the sale of cordage as they havedone to bring a more rapid turn over insome other lines. At the present time there is a fine de-mind for cordage. In many communiti-
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A Calgary cordage window which could not fail to attract attention, and which did bring sales. The trim hasthe impressiveness which comes from large proportions, and the attractiveness given by an evenly bal-anced design. 43 HARDWARE AND METAL ties people are returning from the coun-try. They are finding the need of ropeand cord. First they need this to tieup their bundles. Did you ever see anyone moving who did not have a bundleor two? Then rope is needed for clotheslines. It is found that the old reliableline has been left out in the wet so longthat it has rotted. Another is needed.Some Other Needs. This, however, is a time when a greatdeal of building is going on. Buildersneed rope. Moreover, they need newrope constantly. Scaffolds are not goingto be trusted to strands which have borna continual strain; neither are suppliesbeing hauled up by ropes which have be-come worn through friction with thepulley. The great demand for cordage,which comes with the opening of navi-gation, is no

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