時報
- Zhonghua Book Company celebrates its fifteenth anniversary
- Daluotian opens today
- Shanghai Chinese Race Club notice
Zhonghua advertises different book-coupon rates and discounts ending this month. Daluotian announces a renovated snack establishment with additional female staff, while the Chinese Race Club gives a Sunday programme starting at 1:15 p.m. with ten races.
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Translation
Zhonghua Book Company celebrates its fifteenth anniversary
Zhonghua Book Company — fifteenth anniversary. Generous gifts and major reductions!
Spend 0.50 silver dollars on primary-school textbooks and receive book vouchers worth 0.60.
Spend 1 silver dollar on secondary-school textbooks and receive book vouchers worth 0.30.
Spend 1 silver dollar on our general publications and receive book vouchers worth 0.20.
Scientific instruments, stationery and toys: a further 10% off the actual selling price.
Original foreign-language books and consigned [unclear] books: a further 5% off the actual selling price.
The offer ends at the close of this calendar month! Only a few days remain. Please buy soon.
Daluotian opens today
The Beibingyang refreshment room has been renovated and reorganized as the Daluotian snack room. We have specially engaged renowned cooks from several cities to prepare a variety of fine pastries and snacks, seeking delicious, palatable food that meets hygienic standards. To promote employment for women, we have added to our existing service staff more than ten respectable women with social accomplishments and experience of preparing snacks at home. They will share responsibility for serving guests and supervising food preparation. We formally open today and warmly invite your patronage.
Daluotian Food Company, corner of Nanjing Road and Yunnan Road.
Shanghai Chinese Race Club notice
On Sunday, September 19, the thirteenth day of the eighth lunar month, the club will hold the second day's racing of its seventh meeting, again at the Far Eastern Racecourse in Yinxiang Township. Racing begins at 1:15 p.m., with ten races. Western meals, tea and refreshments will be available.
Shanghai Chinese Race Club.
Context
Why give book vouchers instead of simply cutting prices?
The publisher separates its own books from goods sold at a discount. Textbook purchases earn vouchers for another purchase, with a particularly large incentive for primary-school books. This rewards families buying school materials while directing their next spending back toward books. The closing date adds urgency to a promotion organized around distinct kinds of household purchases.
A restaurant turns household skills into paid work
Daluotian makes its recruitment of women part of the opening announcement. Experience in domestic cooking becomes a qualification for commercial food supervision, while education and sociability qualify women for customer service. The insistence on respectability shows how the proprietor presents this move into public employment as compatible with accepted ideas about female character and household responsibilities.
An afternoon outing, not just a race card
The racing notice supplies both solar and lunar dates, a precise starting time and refreshments. These details help readers fit a trip to the racecourse into their Sunday. Advertising Western meals alongside ten races presents the venue as a place to spend the afternoon, with the club selling an organized leisure experience as well as the sporting event.
Original
中華書局十五週紀念
中華書局 十五週紀念 大贈品大廉價
購小學教科書滿實洋五角送贈書券實洋六角
購中學教科書滿實洋一元送贈書券實洋三角
購本版一般圖書滿實洋一元送贈書券實洋二角
購儀器文具玩具照原售實價再打九折
購原版西書寄售閩書照原售實價再打九五折
陽曆本月底要截止了！爲日無多 購請從速
大羅天今日開幕
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陽曆九月十九日即夏曆八月十三日星期日本會舉行第七期第二日賽馬仍在引翔鄉遠東賽馬場舉行下午一時十五分起賽共賽十次內備有西菜茶點特此布告
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