Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

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Now let's read and relax.

Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly and off we go. Tonight we're relaxing with one of your all-time favorite works and mine.

The Sears Robek and Co-incorporated Consumers Guide, Number 104, issued in 1897.

This time let's pick up a basket and go shopping through the grocery department.

Let's begin.

Sears, Roebuck and Co. begin. In no other line of merchandise can you save so much money in a year.

Groceries are used three times every day in every family. We cannot save you very much on one meal, but on 1, 1995 meals, the number

you and your family eat every year.

We can surprise you on the amount of money we can save you.

Your local dealer buys it wholesale

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