Macon · 27 September 1912
Sam Lum advertises laundry services
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Macon Beacon, 1912-09-27, page sequence 4. Library of Congress, Chronicling America. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83016943/1912-09-27/ed-1/?sp=4
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SAM LUM Chinese Hand Laundry Opposite Court House. Does all kinds of Laundry work and guarantees work to be as goods as Steam Laundry. Shirts; each 10cts, Collars 1 1-2cts, Two Collars 5cts. A Share of Your Patronage Solicited.
An advertisement in Macon presents services under the name Sam Lum.
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Source-ledger reading; no independent human or community review.
A selected advertisement, not a business census or a complete biography. Repeated insertions and cross-record identities are not independently validated here.
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Source guide
What does “shirts, each 10cts” cover?
The advertisement does not say. It gives one price for shirts without naming a kind, so it cannot be equated with a priced plain-bosom or stiff-bosom shirt elsewhere. Compare like with like, or say that you cannot.
What is the laundry comparing itself to?
A steam laundry, the mechanised competition. The claim is that hand work is as good, which is an argument about quality made to people who had a choice.
Not from this source: The excerpt's line about guaranteeing work “as goods as Steam Laundry” is the basis for this reading; the marked passage here is the location line.