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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1903
Page
6
April silk sale offers deep discounts on varieties including fancy silks at 50 cents a yard, embroidered Pongees at 65 cents, printed Foulards 75 cents, check summer silks 65 cents to $1.25, brocaded wide Pongee $1, wash silks 25 to 42 1/2 cents, and 27 inch black taffeta 75 cents. Inspecting the assortment could pay.
George Wyman & Co presents an April hosiery and underwear sale with low prices. Children's ribbed stockings 10c, sizes 5 to 10. boys ribbed 15c. ladies black cotton hose 10c to 25c. ladies two thread black hose 25c pair, $2.75 dozen. men's black soft foot hose and varied colors.
Ladies' low neck summer vests priced at 10c down from 15c to 25c. Knit lace trimmed drawers size 4 at 10c pair from 25c. High neck vests long and short sleeves at 15c to 25c quality 15c. Mays 15c quality summer shirts and drawers 15c. Misses' union suits 15c. Men's random summer shirts and drawers 37 1 2c for 50c quality.
Ringling Brothers World’s greatest shows expand with new trains hundreds of horses and personnel. Jerusalem and the Crusades spectacle features 1200 characters 15 carloads of scenery and a grand cathedral organ in a vast canvas arena. A three mile free street parade with country floats and exotic animals highlights the premiere along with 375 performers in aerial acts and trained animal displays.
Mrs Ellen Harrison of Kansas City Missouri reports her two children suffered a severe bout of whooping cough with fainting and nosebleeds. After trying various remedies a family doctor prescribed Foley’s Honey and Tar and their condition improved immediately, which they credit with saving their lives. Refuse substitutes. Fenton's drugstore
A humorous exchange shows Johnny Bumpernickle asking what a bore is and an elder replying that a bore is someone who insists on talking about himself when others want to discuss their own matters.
An anecdote asserts real experience teaches more than hearsay about Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It describes a man’s severe attack and relief after using the product, noting Houseworth Bros. sells it.
Fragmentary OCR note describes detectives scrubbing the country last week. It mentions a hubbub and a bright, clean landscape as observers remark on conditions and activity in the field.
Washington April 20 detectives pursue a vast post office scandal with Beavers resigning and Machen rumors of departure. Charges include graft inflation of supplies, overpriced mail boxes, and favoritism in promotions tied to a syndicate, with investigations touching multiple states and officials.
Philadelphia April. Through successful negotiation of a $6,000,000 loan the William Cramp & Sons ship and engine building company avoids receivership. The plant is valued at about $12,500,000. the firm holds major naval contracts, but needs more working capital to cover $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 in outstanding notes.
Mrs Elizabeth Milbank Anderson has given 1 000 000 to Barnard College the trustees announced. Her identity as donor was kept secret until land title transfer, and she is the wife of painter A A Anderson and daughter of Jeremias Milbank of New York. Her total Barnard gifts exceed 3 000 000.
In Newcastle Wyoming on April 20 Slim Clifton, a ranchman arrested for suspected murder, confessed to killing J. W. Church and his wife, formerly Omaha residents and ranch owners near town. He also disclosed burial locations after Lew Jenny of Gillette produced new evidence.
President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers returned to Indianapolis after a brief family visit at Spring Valley Illinois and left for the anthracite field to explain the award of the anthracite commission for the miners. Secretary Wilson seeks to adjust differences in Clearfield district while Vice President Lewis attends the miners convention at Huntington West Virginia.
Flora Indiana April 20 John Lane a farmer near the city slept five hours Saturday night the first sleep in fourteen weeks following a nervous prostration during a neighbor’s fire Doctors could not help him and he lost 63 pounds dropping from 180 to 117 pounds in three months
New York April 20. William Foy a Dixie employee at the Brooklyn navy yard reportedly coughed up a six inch snake. Physicians declare him a human incubator and believe the reptile hatched in his stomach from eggs swallowed in cistern water while serving in the Philippines.
Miss Beatrice Henthorne who runs the Postal Telegraph business at Niles has learned of her grandfather’s death in Kansas City and her $75,008 share in his will. She will travel west to claim mining property interests in Colorado.
George Trainer of Waterloo was killed by a Rock Island train in Iowa Falls on April 20. The coroner's jury ruled he died while attempting to board a moving train while intoxicated.
Peoria Illinois April 20 Mrs Hulda Silverstone dies from a burglar shot years ago the bullet lodged in her hip and could not be removed by surgeons she was prominent in state turnverein affairs.
A warship docked at Galre as Cairo reports tense times in the Nile region. April records show United forces coordinating in the area with cautious security measures underway.
Charles Jackson pawnbroker and his wife were found unconscious in their Benton Harbor Michigan store upstairs room with gas turned on. Police and firemen reported the incident on April 20 as a possible suicide pact or accidental asphyxiation.
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