30 Jul 1903
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Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1903
Page
1
The Boston Store announces a ten day clearance starting Wednesday morning July 29 1903 with $70,000 of stock offered at values as low as one half and one third, featuring choice and seasonable merchandise in a historic sale.
One case calico at 3c per yard and seersucker dress ginghams at 5c per yard lead a storewide clearance. Savings aim to move old stock, raise cash for new goods, and please customers with strong bargains. Doors open at 7 o'clock on Wednesday July 29.
Readable sale list from a domestic department store features reduced prices on linens garments and notions. Includes bleached and unbleached muslin sheeting damask towels corsets nets and handkerchiefs with discounts from 5c to 50c and wholesale bulk items.
Large size violet talcum bottle nine cents. Lot of bead chains priced at 25, 35 and 50 cents. Kayser’s silk gloves reduced to nineteen cents. Deals highlight low prices on a range of small goods.
Dress goods sale highlights deep cuts across wool vest patterns printed pongee and silk stripe pongee fabrics. Includes nine pieces of wool vests 75 cents per pattern 10 pieces pongee 38 cents per piece 27 inch cloth 13 cents to 59 cents per yard and multiple wash silks and fabrics offered at reduced prices.
Fragmented sale notice lists 36 in embroidered Pongee at 1.95 per piece and 27 in Mercerized Silk at 0.50, plus 28 in Diagonal Wool Dress Goods at 0.15 and 36 in Novelty Suitings at 0.50. Includes scattered prices and stock counts with unclear quantities.
Retail ad announces ladies and misses suits at one third and one fourth off, $18 to $25 buite on sale, silk jackets and blouses, cloth jackets, walking skirts, new fall walking skirt, white goods and wash goods heavily reduced, ginghams per yard as low as 5 to 12 cents, mercerized white oxfords and madrases discounted, embroideries and white goods on sale, and a large line of petticoats all reduced.
Rugs Mattings Oilcloth Linoleum advertised with Chinese and Japanese mats and Crex grass carpets. Sale hinges on low prices with linoleum at ten cents or fifty cents and invites customers to view the best linoleum and related floor coverings at the store headquarters.
Advertising copy notes a sale with reduced prices on curtains and a Marion carpet sweeper. Mentions Nottingham as the location and offers a sweeping bargain at 2.25 dollars. Tone resembles early 20th century sale blitz.
Richmond agents announce sale of Roy al and Excelsior shirt waists with discounts. Special lots priced from 0 9c to 1.35 dollars, inviting shoppers to see the offerings.
An advertorial style notice touts endless lines of lawn calico and percale fabrics with a special Percale featuring deep flounce and capes. It highlights prices at 90c, $1.35 and $1.58, and notes reductions on umbrellas and parasols.
A survey of famed composers notes their eccentric habits and working moods. Haydn wore full dress to compose, Mozart wrote in varied settings, and Beethoven walked daily to spark ideas. The piece details each artist's favored environment, instruments, and rhythms that shaped their creations.
Dr. A. T. Bristow contrasts the true fisherman with the mere catch hunter. The piece extols wandering pools, wildflowers, and noon meals by the stream, noting the pleasure of contemplation, nature’s scenes, and a tranquil rural cadence away from city life and corporate anxieties.
A bank officer defends tellers against the view they resist correcting mistakes in cash handling. The piece questions teller vanity and recalls a New York Post anecdote. A London Chronicle note traces phrenology to a sixteenth century text with head profiles and emplaced faculties, arguing phrenologists deny novelty.
The text discusses Justus von Liebig correcting popular delusions in science notably the overthrow of spontaneous combustion. It notes the modern error dates from 1725 and recalls Lavoisier's explanations of combustion and Dickensian support, contrasting with Kepler's era when witches faced danger. It reflects on civilization's progress in scientific understanding.
In business offices men show little hat courtesy amid rush and work. When entering a private office, observe the occupant and adjust your own hat accordingly. If he wears a hat, keep yours on. if he has removed it, do likewise. Removing your hat is a polite gesture, not a sign of subservience.
In court the judge demands the witness reveal her age. She says she was born in the same year as the judge, leaving the court momentarily at a loss. The judge cuts the exchange short and ends the questioning, asking if the panel has any further use for the witness.
Professor Longhunter greets Henry Peck and muses on his son’s future as a lecturer. The schoolmaster notes the boy’s sincere taste for teaching, saying he inherits from his mother as the remark frames potential career paths.
A tale from ancient Rome recounts Polycrates of Samos casting a priceless emerald ring into the sea to test luck. He fished the next day and found the gem inside a fish, restoring fortune. The event, dated to year 230 AUC, led to the ring becoming a royal treasure in the Temple of Concord.
The largest American serpent is the anaconda which may reach thirty feet. It lives in tropical America and is a handsome creature with dark round spots on a rich brown body. It loves water and stays along river and lake banks waiting for deer or peccary arriving to drink.
The article notes that some flowers alter their scents during bloom. Jasmine opens with a delicate fresh perfume that later turns grosser and attracts bluebottle flies. Odontoglossum hebraicum orchids emit a cinnamon fragrance at one stage and a hawthorn scent at another.
A brief exchange on social flaws contrasts a man who endlessly indulges in final talk with another who constantly talks big. Philadelphia Presa provides the snippet of banter in a local wit tone.
A Yonkers Statesman fragment shows a tense exchange where a boy asks to be sent to an electricians' school and his father questions the idea as the boy fiddles with a switch. The dialogue hints at caution and responsibility within a family moment.
A Chicago Post remark notes that the term nerves describes a cranky wealthy patient. The line frames nerves as a label for stress or irritability tied to affluence. It reflects the era’s tongue in cheek humor about medical jargon and social class.
A brief item notes that people who complain about cloudy weather often wear vella when the sun shines. No specific persons or organizations are cited. The statement reads as a general fashion adage without verifiable details.
Dr Theodore T Munger argues that book titles should capture the book’s soul or keynote rather than merely naming a leading character. He contrasts Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice with Emma and discusses how titles like The Scarlet Letter or The House of the Seven Gables shaped literary perception and enduring influence.
A London paper notes English farmers use ridges twenty eight inches apart yielding ninety ridges per acre. By weighing a measured yard of turnips and assuming ten or eleven pounds per turnip, the crop averages about twenty eight to thirty one tons per acre depending on weight assumptions.
A fragment from the Chicago Post quotes a boy recalling a strange remark about a wedding said to be held in a church steeple. The exchange hints at secrecy and curiosity amid a provincial rumor mill, with lingering questions about the ceremony and witnesses.
A reflective quote contrasts two types of unhappy people the first sad for obscurity the second miserable under the glare of recognition. The remark weighs the burden of being unseen versus the pain of being too clearly seen.
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