January, 1894. Trade Revivers. Underbuy. Undersell. (Osborne's Shoe Manufactory circular)

Broadsheet folded to 12.5 x 10 inches, creased from being further folded into sixths. (8) pages, uncut. Creasing and short snags to edges, with approx. 2" narrow loss at the outer edge of one fold. One ms correction. Great graphics and plenty of optimism from a company about to be in turmoil. On January 30, 1894, the large shoe factory printed on the circular was destroyed in a fire, alongside the historic Lynn Hotel. (Lowell Daily Sun, 1/30/1894 p.9) In rebuilding, Osborne ran afoul of the labor unions by paying sub-standard wages to construction workers (Daily Item, 7/28/1894, p.5). "After the storm comes the calm," but that does not remove the effects of the storm. It gives the opportunity to repair the damage and devastation wrought by the tempest. So after the panic comes returning confidence; but here again the helping hand must come in and do the work which confidence helps make effective. We congratulate our friends who have weathered the financial tempest, and now, with light ahead, we are ready to help them push onward into the bright sunlight of prosperity again...