09 Oct 1903
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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1903
Page
1
A garbled excerpt mixes jokes, poetry, crime notes, and social columns. It references a German star Carl Lied, a Georgia railroad, and various local personalities in fragmentary fashion, blending letters, anecdotes, and oblique news items. The piece reads like a collage of board lodging, journalism, and wartime era humor with disjointed names and places.
The Advance column reports community notes including illnesses, social visits, and travel. Residents mentioned include Mrs. R. I. Sharp, Evert Caldwell, Harvey Caldwell, George Stotler, Guy Evans, Wm. Jackson, Louis Watkins, Wine Stump, Ora McDaniel, Pierce Beck, Newton Neale, Della Jackson, J. Miller, Maggie Randel, Orville and Ernest Randel, Ernest Cra, Miss Ethel Nay, Dottie Broshar, Laura Shirrel, Mrs. Rosa Lasley, W. W. Nay, Geo. Lasley, Geo. Broshar, and others. Preaching by Er. Jenkins is noted. Stray animal reported. A new millinery and proposed store openings are announced. The Bank of Advance marks its second anniversary. street improvements are planned. Tomato growers Howard Dayton and Ora Beaver report large yields.
Busy week with trades and visits across Advance Lebanon and nearby towns. Ray Thomas stayed in Danville. Rev Carney and family visited Wingate. Mrs. James Whitecotton added a room and veranda on West Wall Street. Mike Connor moved Indianapolis section duties. Ruby Jackson visiting the Harts of Williamsport.
Unclear readable text notes volumes for a trade event in Halifax and Montbeants. No clear dates or outcomes. Names and specifics are fragmentary. Further readable material needed for a precise card.
A fragmentary report describes a city event with mention of local people and a public venue. Details are unclear due to damaged text but indicates involvement of residents and a local time frame. The piece references a year and a return or resurgence of activity in the area.
A handwritten notice in a post office box invites residents to insert local items for publication. It urges writing for friends and neighbors, signing name, and states that all items for the current week must be in the box by Wednesday noon.
A garbled line notes the name Sulphur and a miswritten reference to sulfur pricing and Sicily as an exporting island, with mentions of the United and annual costs or duties.
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