Local shoppers await Christmas gifts in Melville and Lockwood ads
A flood of notices highlights Melville's furniture and Lockwood's department store offerings as Christmas arrives. Readers are encouraged to inspect dot contest entries, sample wares from fine bookcases to rocking chairs, and consider gifts like lap robes and fur collars while W E Lewis hawks groceries and candies. The town markets feature dolls, books, dress goods, and metalware through local merchants with multiple visiting relatives noted.
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Ed Walton
Albia
W. E. Lewis
F. A. P. Tatham
Jewell
Wm. Baldwin
A. C. Riebel
East Side
E. G. Gayle
May
Fiukee
Claude Younkin
W. H. Brown
Melville
J. W. Lyon
Lacona
Edith Burns
Norman
Oklahoma
Ream
N. B. Hollinger
Des Moines
Lydia Welch
Flake’s
Cora Smith
Humeston
Maud
Theo Bentley
Morris
Wm. Case
Grant City
Missouri
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G. N. Thompson
Earl Allen
Cedar Township
M. H. Allen
Lockwood’s
Ida Brandrup
Webster City
Frederick Hellyer
Teonium
F.C. Wood
Anna Anderson
C. F. of
Hiteman
Augusta Anderson
Thie City
Fluke’s
Wm. Boxdale
Cleveland
Rose
Ft. Madison
Sheuerman’s
C. W. Hunley
Will Eikenberry
Dis Moines
Lockwood & Son
Sanford
Creaton
Nellie Price
Mira Maud Rogers of
Chariton
Mise Stella Squire
G. A. Montgomery
J. L. Galloway
Sheverman’s
Laura McNeer of
Milo
W. J. Hastie
Episcopal
Effie Dungan
WBH
Lewis
P.E. D. Society
Lizzie D. Smythe
Sec’y
Emmett Galloway
Parsons
Kansas
K.C. Loomis
Chester
Geo. Sage
J. E. Brooke
Greenfield
Masonic Lodge
Eva Gardner of
Oakley
Howard Brightwell
Rachel Darlington
Woodburn
Laurel Boss
Chas. R. Kirk
J. W. Tarlton
Creston
the Baptist Church
Lockwood & Son’s
Paulline
Geo. Jeffrey
Osceola
W. H. Smyth
Willa Anderson
Geo, Hadden
Marion Whitfield
Lucas
Gwyneth Sampson
Cheshire Beaman
Rogers Bros
Joe Neal
Castorville
California
Ann Newell
A. A. Woods of
Fred Powell
Smith
Opera House
A. J. Stump of
Lulu B. Shearer
Rose Case
Wm. Pickler
Pla. Harper
Wallace, Nebraska
G.J. Stewart
Matthew Lyons
Pueblo
Colorado
Timothy Lyons
Pejoubet
D S Myers
Russell
Harvey Meane
BE. Murphy
Corydon
David Murphy
Riebel’s Harness Shop
Sarah Parker
Tyrone
Whitebrenat Township
J. R. Dewitt
Cottingham
Leroy
W. M. Cottingham
Bessie Wetzel
St. Paul
Minnesota
8. D. Hickman
Ida G. Rhoades
Evan Lewin
Nan Wilson
Pico
Alliance
Nebraska
Webb Hultz
W.E. Lewis
Tinues
Sadie
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Children’s Furs
Kin and Golf
Petti Coats
Coney, Martin
Sable Fox
Isabella Fox
Capes
Monte Carlos
Brussels
Iowa
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S. H. Mallory
F.R. Crocker
W.P. Beem
Ass’t Cashier
Otwell
John H. Clark
Brewer & Paton’s
Will Clark & Co’s
JH. Robbins & Co
Wm. Retherford
Sas
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Chariton National Bank
W.C. Penick
Calvin Manning
H. O. Penick
G. EF. Trotter
Sam Mellveen
O. H. Evans
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Frank Perarsoy
E-Lewin’s
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