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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1916
Page
1
The New Restaurant expresses gratitude to the public for their generous patronage during the past week. It notes meals priced at 25 cents and short orders at 15 cents and invites patrons to try the ice cream.
The notice highlights the Advance Bakery known for bread cakes cookies and buns with home style flavor and cleanliness as twin aims. It also details local business moves farm sales and personnel changes including Chas Thompson leasing land near Providence for C C Ewen and auctions set for August 19 and August 26 along with various resale and meat market updates.
A motivational promotional piece highlights that disciplined saving leads from humble beginnings to high offices like senator and chief justice, urging deposits to secure education, family, and future security. It stresses regular deposits to grow wealth and seize opportunities, ending with bank promotion.
A historical calendar lists events from January to December detailing residents like Herbert Epperson, Otis Stanley’s boy, and Amos Freestone, notable deaths, marriages, store transactions, and fires. It notes community milestones, a murder trial, a solar year’s social and civic notes, and ends with a commentary on Newt Meek’s yearlong history series and a Boone County Sunday School Association meeting preview.
Community notes cover food ads for fresh meats kept cold, a Ladies Neighborhood Club picnic at Glen Bratton’s near Mechanicsburg with fried chicken and swimming antics, a 60th birthday gathering for Mrs. Martha Graves with relatives from New Ross to Chicago, and W. P. Kibbey witnessing a two‑car wreck near Christian Liberty Church as he preached.
An ice cream supper is planned at Ward Church on August 16 drawing large crowds. Many local residents and relatives visited with friends and family across town including the Higgs and Sparks families and others from Thorntown Beckville and Martinsville. The Advance Telephone Co. implements a new bookkeeping system per the state utility commission, and Postmaster McCabe announces the release of Olin Brown from rural carrier route 21 on August 10 with Earl Brown stepping in.
An old advertisement promotes Nyal Teething Lotion as safe prompt relief for teething pain. It urges mothers to apply the lotion to a baby’s inflamed gums and touts the product as a reliable prescription, priced at 25 cents per bottle.
A dense advertisement urges customers to come to the store for furniture jewelry watches spectacles clocks timepieces pianos musical instruments travel trunks bags carpets linoleum wallpaper and more. The notice emphasizes broad product range and diverse items under one retailer.
Trustee Wm Joseph of Jackson Township announces weekly Tuesday hours at the State Bank of Advance Advance for township business and states all other days are at Jamestown for transactions. The notice serves as official guidance on where residents may conduct township affairs.
The Faithful Followers held a Monday meeting with Florence Sylva and Verna Proffitt. They will issue a 20 page souvenir church directory at 10c each and run a conference stand near the church. Dorothy Lucile, a four year old girl, has been placed with Mr and Mrs C V Gough of Gary Indiana after a search for a home for their childless family.
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