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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1902
Page
5
Advertising trip offers free consultation and examination by renowned specialists. They claim to treat deafness with a new method, cure catarrh, cure nerve and spinal issues via electricity absorbed medicine, and provide guidance on incurable cases to extend life. They promise no charge for medicines and urge visits with a two-ounce urine sample for kidney checks. Married women must be accompanied by husbands.
An 19th century promotion claims Hall’s Catarro Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio contains no mercury and works internally on blood and mucous surfaces. It warns against mercury containing remedies and urges buying genuine Hall’s Catarro Cure with testimonials free and sold by druggists at 74 cents per bottle. Hall’s Family Fills are advertised as best.
Woman suffragists meeting in Charleston South Carolina concludes after speeches by Carrie Chapman Catt Helen Morris Lewis of North Carolina and Maria T Prentiss of Charleston.
Promotes Mrs. Austin’s Famous Wheat Food as delicious breakfast for young and old. The fragment highlights its appeal but lacks additional details or context.
Baltimore Sun Schenectady correspondence describes the giant 989 freight locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company. It measures seventy feet from end of tender to pilot, with ten driving wheels, a 232000 pound weight, vast firebox, and an expansive boiler and cylinder arrangement.
The weekly letter by Henry Clews notes corn crop failure and a surprising lack of impact on railroad earnings. January grain receipts at Chicago halved from 22 million to 11 million bushels, yet rail traffic shows gains vs last year. West yields and farm prosperity sustain demand, while eastern gains may be waning.
A news interview with a renowned architect claims violin vibrations can damage stone brick and iron structures with regular long term playing. The expert cites cases and explains continual sound waves wear masonry and can loosen iron, noting a hypothetical scene inside a Chicago Masonic temple.
A historical ad claims Grip leaves weakness, nervousness, and poor appetite, then promotes Electric Bitters as a tonic for nerves and organs. It urges trials at 50 cents, asserting they purify blood and restore health with guaranteed satisfaction by Houseworth Bros.
Geo Weyman and Company announce special February bargains that are unapproachable in value and quality. Savings span wide ranges across key categories at the downtown location.
The notice lists cotton crash at 2 to 3 cents per yard, linen crash at 5 cents and up, Huckabuck toweling at 10 cents per yard, unbleached sheeting at 12 1/2 cents per yard, a table of cloth at 12 4 cents, standard prints at 3 to 5 cents, one line 10 cent quality, and cardinal percales at 5 cents per yard.
Dress Goods offers hundreds of remnants of wool dress goods French flannels and satin stripe challies one to six yards at about half price. One table fancy silks worth up to 1 50 per yard. Wash dress goods sale continues through February with complete new lines of wool dress goods cloths for Spring and new plain and fancy silks and white goods.
In the cloak department, ladies silk waists are priced at 2.50, flannel waists 75 cents (value 1.50), flannelette wrappers 39 cents, with sizes 32 to 44. New children white aprons from 25 cents to 2 dollars. Children’s flannelette and wool dresses 39 cents and up for ages 2 to 14. Ladies black fatteen petticoats 25 cents, black and colored mercerized petticoats 50 cents.
The store advertises reduced laces priced 1c per yard for a lot and 20c 25c and 30c per dozen yards for others. Hamburg embroidery and insertion from 2c per yard, plus Swiss and Nainsook offerings. Swiss muslin curtain goods 36 in wide 10c per yard. Printed Silkolines 36 in at 10c, with a prior value of 12t¢. New dress trimmings assortment described as finest yet.
We offer gents blue and white heavy half hose at 5c per pair. Ladies and children's hose 5c 10c and 15c. Closing sale on $1.00 undershirts and drawers for men at 50c each. Ladies and children's fleeced underwear 15c each.
A department store advertises 100 dozen ladies corsets in several styles at 50 cents each and lists Pears soap for 10 cents Cuticura Soap for 19 cents and Dr Graves Tooth Powder for 19 cents. The ad promises reliable fulfillment of advertised goods.
The passage argues that drink and tobacco diminish youth capacity, fixing age limits for workers and preventing them from meeting demand for more active and competent wage earners.
The piece urges Republicans to delay action on Crumpacker’s plan to cut southern representation and calls for a careful study of whether southern blacks deserve civil rights. It favors a stringent national election law ensuring universal voting while questioning local implementation by inexperienced or biased authorities. It endorses granting suffrage only after thorough assessment.
The piece argues that all are more or less crazy from a moral standpoint and that punishment is not the primary driver of behavior. It asserts morality blends right living with common sense and urges curbing destructive habits to maintain sane minds and avoid misery.
Telegram from South Bend is viewed as a corporate ploy to sway public opinion in St Joseph Valley against navigation. The writer argues the government may later seek a Chicago to New York waterway via the St Joseph river, Elkhart, Lake Erie, and Toledo, so public agitation should be avoided.
Mrs. W. Watkins of Pleasant City Ohio recalls her three week old son's drastic illness a terrible cough and pneumonia. After using Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption the child recovered fully. The ad claims the medicine is a sure cure for coughs colds and all lung diseases with trial bottle available and Houseworth Bros guarantee.
News of a conspiracy to assassinate the emperor dowager and court members reached Victoria B C via the steamer Glenesk. The plot was uncovered while the court stayed at Kai Feng, with one conspirator confessing under torture that attacks were planned on the imperial train and the empress dowager.
An unclear ad style fragment touts Dr King pills from Houseworth Bros claiming cures for constipation headache and biliousness. It references modern workers and a new century health movement without coherent details.
The California M E church box social last Saturday evening drew a good crowd. Local notes report widespread illness with several residents on the sick list and others convalescent. Revival meetings at Salem church continue with positive results and visitors S P Daugherty and Milo Teeter spent Sunday with their families. The Pleasant Valley grist mill is now in operation under miller B A Meinke. A reported marriage between Mamie Cushing and Mr Bradley of Kalamazoo occurred in Chicago last week.
Mrs Wollinter and family of Sailor Michigan visited Mrs Samuel Hegerreis last Friday. Miss Martha Detwiler visits Harrison and Union townships this week. Verna Carson teacher of district No 6 stayed with the Clark family last Sunday. Snow storm halted Zion services. Robert Artley visited his father in York township last Sunday. Mrs Clara Aurand and daughter visited Dunlap area last week. Mr Norman Hegerreis Harman Stulf and a companion visited Samuel Hegerreis last Sunday. Naomi Detwiler returned home after visiting Union township. Rural mail route praised by farmers. A singing school will soon be organized nearby.
An old advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the world’s best pain fighter. It claims to cure cuts burns bruises inflammations piles boils ulcers felons skin eruptions and guarantees cure or pay. Available for 25 cents at Houseworth Bros. drug store.
Five boys were injured in a coasting accident when a large bobsled struck a street car on Hamilton street hill in Peoria Illinois last evening. Roscoe Coyle sustained internal injuries in serious condition Richard Day aged 21 suffered a crushed head and internal injuries Will Floreth had a broken right leg plus minor wounds Earl Langdon is unconscious with internal injuries and possible death Wallace Markley also has internal injuries and danger of death An unnamed boy was slightly hurt.
In Brazil Indiana on February 5 the Merchants Association met and adopted resolutions stating they would not take action in favor of or against the striking street car men. They denounced boycott methods as counter productive, following efforts by the strikers to persuade merchants to keep the electric lights and power-house supplying the cars.
Edwin D. Miller files for a March 1902 hearing before Elkhart County officials to obtain a license to sell intoxicating liquors by the drink in the Standard Hotel building on Tyler Avenue Goshen Court House in Elkhart County Indiana. He seeks authority to operate a lunch room restaurant and hotel tied to the liquor business.
Danville Illinois reports B. EH. Oppenheim a Hoopeston merchant indicted for arson by the grand jury. He is said to be implicated in the December fire that devastated Hoopeston's business district and has given bond for his appearance at trial in Danville.
Delinquent state and city taxes plus costs for Elkha Concord Cleveland Osolo Bau townships may be paid at the Elkhart Indiana Abstract Office 206 Main Street. Reliable payment point listed for settling taxes and costs.
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