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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1905
Page
2
Geo Wyman & Co offers a crowning silk sale for April with two lots. Lot 1 features fancy taffetas, Louisines, and embroidered pongees for shirt waist suits at 59c per yard. Lot 2 includes silks originally selling for $1.25 to $1.50 now 85c per yard. Wide variety promised.
The report notes March carpet sales outpaced expectations and announces the ongoing carpet sale into April. The emphasis is on continued promotional activity and strong performance driving the campaign forward.
A sale advertisement lists 500 pieces of fine cotton voiles and assorted fabrics at reduced prices. Yard items include 15c goods cut to 10c, standard prints 4c to 6c, lawns 4c to 7c, ginghams 4c to 7c, 714%4c ginghams at 7.14c, 100 pieces 8c in, best silk lines 8c, cotton crash 24c to 5c yard, linen 72-in double damask 75c, napkins $2.50 per dozen, and pique white grounds at 5c to 10c. Emphasis on reliable low prices and good quality.
Geo Wyman & Co advertises a line of fancy printed warp and ombre wide widths priced at 25c and 35c per yard. Other lines include belts up to $1 per yard. Vallaces offered at 1s 2c and 3c with slight soiling. Embroidery waist patterns with cenffs and fronts at 85c. Embroidered laces for waists range from 25c to $1.50.
We invite you to visit these departments they are filled with new goods for Easter and for early spring wear Come and see us.
Miss Constance Gordon Cumming recalls the duchess asking visitors to write names on a white board in her Dunkeld grounds. The joke backfired as guests erased or cleaned the board by morning. The piece notes a London dealer sourced six thousand bird of paradise skins from India for hats, plus half a million hummingbird skins and many others. A London auction room reported a three year record near a million skins sold, mainly from the East West Indies and Brazil.
Houseworth Bros promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a positive stomach friendly remedy that purifies the entire system and benefits suffering humanity, offered in tea or tablets for 35 cents.
Easter card display at Mennonite book store features colorful postal cards. Customers browse vintage and new designs with seasonal religious and spring imagery.
The advertisement claims Scrofula salt rheum erysipelas and other eruptive diseases yield quickly and permanently to the cleansing purifying power of Burdock Blood Bitters.
An advertisement promises the tea and tablets by Houseworth Bros will “fill the arteries with rich, red blood” and make “healthy men and women,” priced at 25 cents.
Roy Knabenshue the Elkhart aerial navigator plans a double pass under and over the Brooklyn Bridge in the California Arrow. The voyage faces 180 feet of clearance and a 40 foot high craft, with maneuvering to compensate for wind shifts. Accompanied by his brother Leigh, he contemplates further flights and a Toledo season appearance.
Sia Rinehart sues for divorce from James Rinehart alleging three years of separation drunkenness and cruel treatment. Mary Ackley granted divorce from Dell Ackley in a second appearance. Other cases include Minnich v Little verdict 76.95. Bucklen v Brodrick sale report of 2000. Watson v Brodrick real estate devisable. Matsen v Dojl amended complaint. Formosa yields and development notes cite 300000000 yen spent since acquisition with 8000000 yen harbor at Kelung and ongoing modernization of agriculture and fortifications.
James L. Harman named guardian for Mary Paul in the Jacob K. Troyer estate. Edward C. Paul, administrator for the Margaret Murray estate, authorized to sell real estate. Matilda Bamberger, guardian for John J. Bamberger heirs, reports balances for Lydia E K and Oscar. Ida B. Denzig authorized to sell land for Frederick M. Denzig heirs. Moses McCullough, executor of the John McCullough estate, filed current account.
Licensed to Wed entries include Daniel H. Pletcher 24 and Alta M. McBeth 19 of Elkhart plus Leo Greenberger 28 of Chicago Illinois Alta Stutsman 27 Harbor Springs Mich Reuben BE Hartman 23 Rosetta Leedy 24 Elkhart California not specified.
Circuit court finds Floran Stutsman of Elkhart wilfully withholds $500 alimony to ex wife Freda Baumgartner. He is ordered to pay $25 into the court on the 19th of each month until the full amount is settled.
A Virginia woman addicted to laudanum and coffee improved after stopping coffee and using Postum Food Coffee with Grape-Nuts. Her dementia lessened, and she recovered at home, avoiding a sanitarium. The letter urges others to try these products, naming the family and consulting physicians.
A 19th century remedy advises bed rest and warmth to break a cold. It prescribes a foot bath with very hot water and sea salt, plus hot lemonade and quinine pills. If the head is affected, a cold head bath with towels is added, then rest.
Flannel pieces soothe a sore throat and comfort babies when cold weather arrives. The elderly and ill may find relief using flannel to protect the chest back and to wrap feet and knees on cold winter nights.
Describes a simple method for cooking rice. Wash one cup of rice, add five cups of fast boiling water, and salt. Boil fifteen minutes, then uncover and bake in a moderate oven for fifteen more minutes until water evaporates and grains are distinct and fluffy.
Scientific American reports a new floor scrubbing method showing a device with a padded breastplate at the top attached to the operator. A scrubbing brush is linked by a universal joint to a driving shaft that extends upward through the mechanism.
A tubular frame member connects via a universal joint to a sleeve on the brush spindle. A bevel pinion at the top of the driving shaft meshes with a main gear rotated manually by a crank. A handle on the frame directs the brush while body pressure bears on the breastplate.
Prepare six medium onions boiled until tender then drain and place in a buttered dish without breaking. Pour half a cup of thin cream, season, and cover with finely rolled cracker crumbs. Dot with butter and bake until crumbs brown.
Instructions describe resewing a pillow or tick to allow feathers to transfer into a new receptacle. Leave a ten inch gap, rip the former, stitch around, then push and shake to move feathers without loose down escaping.
The article describes a cement made from equal parts litharge and red lead. Mixed with glycerin to a paste, it forms a material suited to repair iron cracks. It resists water alkalis and fire.
Broil steak an inch thick eight to ten minutes or one and a half inches ten to fifteen minutes. Broil mutton chops eight to ten minutes. Broil spring chicken twenty to thirty minutes. Broil quail eight to ten minutes.
A described experiment places a sheet of paper at the grate bottom to block air flow between bars and then builds a fire atop, igniting from above to produce a practically smokeless flame, illustrating a ventilation effect on combustion.
A mouse hole can be blocked permanently by applying a cloth soaked in red pepper powder before pressing it into the wall. The method claims immediate effect and leaves no residue beyond the pepper fragrance.
In Paris Milly learns Mark Leland, the husband’s pseudonym, is a writer and womanizer. Jennie exposes Leland to Milly by confessing a plan to warn his wife, after Milly reveals she has met him and suspects infidelity. The undercover talk ends with the twist that Milly herself has spoken to Mrs Leland, using Leland’s alias.
A witty quip from the Atlanta Constitution portrays the laziest man as passive amid his house fire. The joke asks what he did and answers with him warming his hands at the blaze and thanking God he need not split the wood.
Mr. William Jones of Oxford Michigan describes years of severe rheumatism nine to three years with partial relief from various doctors. After starting Dr Williams Pink Pills in September 1904 he reports a gradual improvement and full recovery by early 1905. Pills cited as acting on the blood to treat the disease and sold by local druggists.
A Cervantes biographer notes the writer married on December 12 1584 to Dona Catalina de Palacios Salazar y Vermedian. The tenth of his fortune was 100 ducats. The bride's inventory lists vineyards six beehives forty five hens and various household items.
Louis Chatham and Harry Clark were fined one dollar each and sent to Jeffersonville reformatory for between one and fourteen years for stealing brass in Elkhart.
The court set aside the dismissal of Elizabeth Leaders and Frederick N. Leaders divorce action and Maggie Beitman and Jesse Beitman case, allowing their proceedings to proceed.
Kenneth California lacks a jail building so installs an iron door at the mouth of a mining tunnel to create a roomy and secure calaboose.
Cambridge obituary notes Miss Caroline S. Orne who recently died, was a friend of James Russell Lowell and Henry W. Longfellow and honored for her poetic talent by the famed writers.
A grocery note mentions Burrell and Morgan oil fashioned stone ground buckwheat flour with a fragmentary plea to ask a grocer for the product. The text is incomplete but centers on a flour item and brand reference.
Attempts in Germany to curb department store growth with special taxes tied to sales have yielded little impact. The article notes over 650 applications recently for a night porter berth at a London warehouse and mentions imported papers at Miller & Co.
R. is 814 Main St Elxhart Ind offerings available at the Driving Park with a display of bargains to shoppers seeking value and variety in local goods.
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