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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
2
Gee, Wyman & Co announce a August sale of 2000 pairs of road sample Wool Bed Blankets shown from New York to San Francisco. They visited first class hotels along the route and praise South Bend as the best town. Blankets come in white grey red and plain with sizes 10 4 1 4 and 12 4 and prices vary.
Advertisement notes price reductions from $1.50 to $10.00 with claims that the discount brings prices about one third below the regular rate. Read as a sale promo, no specific dates or brands provided.
Holy Joe Dennett, Chicago restaurant man now running multiple New York eateries, will take down his Watch Your Hat signs. He will keep biblical quotations but yield the point after a Supreme Court ruling relieves proprietors of responsibility. Many Chicagoans know him as Holy Joe.
Missouri state building nearly three quarters complete. U S Fisheries Building roofed with interior work advancing. Woman's Building rapidly pushed. Exterior work due by September 1. Kentucky's state pavilion contract let for New Kentucky Home. A 2000 room hotel plans near the southeastern entrance nearly finished. U S Government Building advancing in steel construction for exhibits by late November.
The Palace machinery at the World's fair nears completion as two massive towers mark the main entrance in the north facade, reaching 265 feet into the sky.
The Iowa State Building framework is complete and the exterior fully enclosed. Staff are being applied and interior construction is progressing rapidly as the project moves toward completion.
Asphalt roadways will surround the electricity and Education Palaces. By September 1 the main buildings will be ringed by asphalt roads forming a continuous belt around the precincts.
The two wings of the art palaces are under roof. The central structures rise rapidly and will be permanent. The contractor says the entire building will be completed before winter.
The boat landing framework at the north end of the main lagoon is completed and staff work for revertments is being installed. Practically all excavations for the lagoon system have been finished.
Work on the Forestry Fish and Game Building advances rapidly as crews install framing and utilities. Project milestones include structural completion and readiness for interior fitout within the coming weeks.
The article notes rapid progress on the great palace of Agriculture with construction advancing toward a near completion of the exposition buildings within a week. Staff work is already in place.
The Physical Culture Building in the western grounds is nearing completion. The granite and sandstone structure is permanent as part of the Washington University complex. The track for races and athletic events has already been finished.
The pavilion near the Fisheries Building is rapidly rising and nearly half complete. During the World's Fair it will serve as headquarters for commercial travelers with a cafe buffet billiards and first class club house facilities.
The stone towers marking the Hall of Congresses are completed, finishing a Washington University structure planned as a library after the World's Fair. The building will host the International Congresses in September 1904 and serve as a convention hall at other times.
Cincinnati plans a Hall of All Nations at the September Festival in the Great Music Hall. Booths will represent England France Spain Germany Russia Ireland America with decor booths and exhibits of each country’s products. Attendants wear national costumes to enhance the colorful display.
A periodical note blends recipes and practical career advice for women. It describes a baked corn pudding using corn pulp eggs flour milk salt pepper and butter with serving ideas. It also urges women to pursue handy trades like carpentry, painting, and engraving to gain steady income and flexible hours.
A historical notice describes a headache caused by sun exposure or exhaustion and claims a simple cure within half an hour using very hot water not lukewarm. It advises heat until the flesh endures to relieve the pain.
The passage notes hot water helps during an erysipelas attack and describes soothing measures. It emphasizes treating the back of the ears neck and base of the brain to relax nerves and ease agony as part of the regimen.
In the library tables there are scarfs and counterpieces in heavy linens with tinted designs. The girl who loves to embroider can enhance them with her needlework. Patterns are worked in the conters where the designs are tinted, producing a wonderfully rich effect.
Jewel boxes of burned wood appear in plain outlines and graceful curves. The long narrow boxes are lined with satin and make a pretty addition to a dainty toilet table.
A comical puffy rabbit with solemn look and long ears comes in bronze or brass as a desk paper weight. Brier Rabbit costs only half a dollar and adds whimsy to any desk space.
A stylish mercerized batiste nightgown with blue bands and pin tuck details is the latest kimono inspired fashion. Prices show the gown at 50 cents and children's gingham dresses available for 69 and 98 cents, with notable reductions for sizes one to four years.
A kimono nightgown style highlights a dainty tucked muslin gown with bands of either blue or black dotted lawns. The description emphasizes delicate fabric and decorative dotted lawn trim in two color options.
Foley's Honey and Tar offers immediate relief to asthma sufferers in severe stages and claims to effect a cure when taken promptly. Sold at Fenton's Drug Store.
The discoverer, Prof. Sormani of the University of Pavia, christens the hydro phobia microbe as Coccus babyllus polymorphus lis sae.
S. L. Sutton, 66, longtime Big Four engineer and employee since age eighteen, died at his Muncie home. A Greene County Ohio native, he belonged to the Masonic order in Muncie.
Marie recalls baking bread for her father until his doctor advised against it. the exchange appears in a Chicago American feature reflecting family cooking and nostalgia.
A fragment captures a rural exchange where visitors arrive for a vacation and offer to assist on the farm, as Uncle Silas notes his hired man left that morning. The informal tone reflects a community scene.
A farmer notes his master’s neglect and far lessen status as a horseless automobile speeds by. He learns the shifts in value and laments his lost prestige. The tale ends with the moral that the cart is before the horse.
Poem excerpt celebrating Ise fields and prairie sights. The speaker lauds long grasses West wind and vast plains. Gulls glitter above silver clouds and the crow’s foot swirls like dancers amid cricket song.
Church White of Atchison recalls merchants of Hainesville Missouri who settled accounts once a year on January 1. He recalls his father visiting McCrory’s store and being asked to “pay what you think is right, I ain't kept no account.”
Rev. Earl Wilfley of New Castle Christian church pitched in a local clubs game last week. He promotes clean athletic sports and supports positive participation by the community.
Estimated 30,000,000 feet of Minnesota pine timber now growing will be cut and marketed within the next fifteen years, signaling a major depletion of regional timber resources.
An advertisement touts Dean’s Ointment as a reliable remedy for itching piles. It claims success when other treatments fail and sells for 50 cents at drug stores.
An advertisement touts Dr Thomas Electric Oil as a quick healer for burns cuts bruises and sprains with instant relief and easy use for household medicine chests.
The Greenlandic Bible project begun by Danish pastor Hans Egede in 1721 has been finished and published by the Bible Society of Denmark after 160 years of work.
An advertisement asserts that Kodol Dyspepsia Cure lets persons eat all they want by preparing the stomach for reception digestion and assimilation of food and aiding transformation into healthy blood. Sold by Houseworth Bros.
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