Call on A.C. Joseph (1872)
Having recently enlarged my house and increased my stock, I respectfully ask my numerous friends and customers to call and examine my stock. Mr. J.J. KELLEY, well known to this community as a polite and accommodating salesman, is still with me, ever ready to wait upon and in a substantial way, minister to the wants of the inner man. I keep everything in my line. Remember, I sell a high grade coffee at 30 cents a pound, while you pay others 33 ⅓ cents for no better article. It has been asserted that my coffee is inferior– I challenge comparison with any in his or any other market. Call and see and judge for yourselves. I sell other articles in my line in like proportion with my coffee. Come on and get your canvassed hams, canned corn, peaches, peas, &c., sugars, syrups, meal, flour, &c,.
A.C. JOSEPH, Family Grocer (page 3, col 1)
Source: Cleveland Banner (Cleveland, TN); 17 May 1872. Available online at Google News Archive