J. & R. Simpson

J. & R. SIMPSON, Booksellers, Stationers, and Newsagents, Anderson Place, Main Street, Largs.

    In recording the commercial successes of this thriving district, we have pleasure in inviting the attention of our readers to the comprehensive business conducted by Messrs. J. & R. Simpson, Booksellers, Stationers, and Newsagents, which has for the past thirty years enjoyed a well-deserved prominence amongst the leading houses in the trade in this locality.

    The business was originally established in 1861 by the joint proprietors, who occupy for this purpose commanding premises situated in Anderson Place, Main Street, comprising handsomely appointed double-fronted shop, with two fine plate-glass windows. The interior is of commodious dimensions, and is fully stocked with a large and varied assortment of plain, commercial, and fancy stationery, works by all the standard and popular authors, and an immense selection of toys and fancy goods suitable for presents, &c. A first-class circulating library is an important feature of the business and is well patronised by the visitors to the town. In the rear are extensive printing works amply equipped with modern type and machinery of improved construction, enabling the firm to undertake with success orders of any magnitude, in the highest style, on the shortest notice.

    Messrs. Simpson are also proprietors of the local weekly organ, which is a thoroughly good advertising medium for this district, and contains the best and latest local intelligence and items of interest. Messrs. Simpson’s business is ably conducted under their strict personal attention, and possessing thoroughly practical experience and sound judgment — qualifications which not only deserve but command success — these gentlemen have firmly established this undertaking in public favour and have achieved a justly merited commercial eminence.

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