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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1893
Page
10
A description of the Commercial Center of Northern Indiana and the Second City of the State highlighting its enterprising dealers. The piece notes splendid public and private buildings, magnificent stores, and large well selected stocks.
A visitor notes Fort Wayne’s energy and enterprise as a commercial center. He praises the city’s welcoming spirit, robust stores, long-established firms, and diverse merchants from dry goods to clothing and shoes, all contributing to a thriving urban economy.
The article lauds Fort Wayne as a premier trading point with vast stocks across multiple sectors. It notes large lines of musical merchandise hardware jewelry furniture crockery drug groceries carriages wagons harness and agricultural implements. Local firms are praised as reliable leaders in the city’s commerce.
A long illustrated feature extols Sam Pete Max at 58 Calhoun street as a retail leader for thirty years. It describes three-floor premises of 25x175 feet, lavish plate glass, and a vast stock from American and foreign producers including Smith Gray & Co. and Butterick patterns. The piece highlights menswear, children’s wear, hats, neckwear, and furnishings, praising integrity and price.
The Bee Hive Dry Goods House of M. Frank & Co 60 Calhoun is praised as one of the most popular and attractive emporiums in Fort Wayne. A Fort Wayne visit is described as a learning experience about larger city business and a nod to Summit City merchants.
The piece extols rapid progress in dentistry and praises skilled management and large patronage. It highlights Dr Thompson’s plate work, materials, and capacity to provide various bases for artificial teeth, plus careful extractions and ready anesthesia. Prices for full and partial sets and common procedures are listed, with assurances of quality and a courteous, knowledgeable practitioner.
Tretousse kid gloves the Crescent hosiery and the Majesty corset illustrate the extensive dry goods assortment. The Bee Hive is hailed as the most popular department store for desirable items and reliable fashion needs.
Bash and Co are leading producers and commission merchants in Northern Indiana handling wool furs hides and seeds along with country produce. They invite buyers and sellers to contact them before arranging purchases or consignments. Mayflower Mills in which S Bush & Co. are heavily involved is a new, highly equipped flouring mill in Indiana. The Western Trade Journal praises their flour and estimates. Over daily bread.
Tests conducted for retail dealers and their patrons on Mayflower Mills Fort Wayne Vienna patent flour show it leads quality. The report commends the flour as thoroughly pure and high grade amid concerns about adulteration in food products.
An advertisement from Jenne Camcraft Mfe Co urges large picture enlargements and dental care. It highlights the harms of poor teeth, the rise of artificial teeth, and praises Dr. J. W. Thompson of Fort Wayne for restoring natural teeth and advancing mechanical dentistry.
Morgan and Beach, a prominent Fort Wayne firm at 19 and 21 East Columbia, showcase an extensive stock of hardware, both retail and wholesale. Their four story block features ornate plate glass, gold finished P and F Corbin Co. and Harvard Lock Co. goods, and custom ornamental stained glass for homes and public buildings.
H N Ward announces a grand display of crockery and queensware. Consignments from France Germany England and America arrive as Ward plans a vast line of costlier goods for Fort Wayne patrons. The store aims to show one of the finest assortments in the West and match any major house in the nation.
The Chicago Furniture Company has moved to 109 Calhoun Street Fort Wayne occupying five floors of 22 by 100 feet each with an elevator. The opening attracted many congratulatory visitors as the stock features parlor suites, dining and bedroom sets, upholsteries, and a vast carpet and rug department.
A Detroit feature extols American home aesthetics and highlights Carter & Son of 29 Clinton Street as a premier supplier of mantels, tiles, and hearth accessories. The firm, with thirty years of experience, offers high art finishes, fire-place apparatus, and Prize furnaces for gas or coal, showcased over three floors of display.
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