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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1902
Page
5
A fragment notes cardinal percales priced at five cents per yard. The readable text mentions fabric details and a sale context, indicating a department store or market listing with low-cost fabric options. The itemized price points imply a bargain section in the era's textile trade.
Remnants of wool dress goods French flannels and satin stripe challies offered at about half price. Fancy silks at 75 cents a yard. Special sale on wash dress goods continues through February. New lines of wool dress goods cloths plains and fancy silks and white goods are now on display.
The Cloak Department advertises silk waists at 2.50, flannel waists 0.75, flannelette wrappers sizes 32 to 44 at 0.39, worth 0.75, children white aprons 0.25 to 2.00, children flannelette and wool dresses 0.39 and up for ages 2 to 14, ladies black satteen petticoats 0.25, black and colored mercerized petticoats 0.50. some items marked as worth higher.
Retail notice highlights low prices on val laces at 1c per yard and other lots at 20c 25c and 30c per dozen yards. Hamburg embroideries Swiss and Nainsook inserts new curtain goods 36 in wide 10c yard Silkolines 36 in 10c and dress trimmings from a new importation praised as finest yet.
We offer gents' heavy half hose at 5c pair. Ladies and children's hose 5c 10c and 15c. Closing our line of $1.00 undershirts and drawers for men at 50c. Ladies and children's fleeced underwear 15c each.
A local dealer promotes 100 dozen ladies corsets in several styles priced at 50 cents each along with Pears Soap at 10 cents Cuticura Soap 19 cents and Dr Graves Tooth Powder 19 cents. The ad promises reliable fulfillment of advertised goods.
Elias Rinehart misplaced forty five dollars Thursday after a pocket rip in Elkhart. The money vanished by Friday morning with unclear whether in town or countryside. Typhoid fever patient EE A Fisher remains in very critical condition. Beverly Hollister and Leona Hollister of Vandalia visited friends. Local visits and illness notes include Miss Maud Krouse's illness and several social calls.
Soldiers aboard the US transport Hancock arrive in San Francisco after returning from the Philippines. The ship carries the 31st Infantry and other units as part of postwar demobilization.
Plaintiff sued after an agent of the defendant restaurant took his change and a dispute arose. Later, after leaving, the plaintiff insulted the agent who then fired, wounding him as he boarded a car. The court ruled the shooting was not within the agent’s duty and the defendant wasn’t responsible.
A Mississippi judge ruled that a confession given to an arresting officer who claimed friendship and bond support, and who suggested the deceased might be dead and unheard from, was not free or voluntary beyond reasonable doubt. The officer pressed the defendant to explain how the homicide occurred, raising issues of coercion and reliability.
The Vermont Supreme Court rules the governor may attach a condition to a conditional pardon or parole. If the convict fails to comply, he may be reimprisoned for the full original term under the governor's warrant. Acceptance of discharge binds the convict to the condition.
A Greek letter college fraternity organized for moral and educational aims, with no officer or member paid, and where during the college year rooms were furnished to active members by a hired janitor, is exempt from taxation. The ruling appears in 73 N. Y. Supplement, 1082.
Mrs. W Watkins of Pleasant City Ohio credits Dr King S New Discovery for Consumption with saving her chubby three week old son from pneumonia turning him from a skeleton to a healthy child after a terrible cough and weeks of treatment. The ad claims it as the only sure cure for coughs colds and all lung diseases with a Houseworth Bros guarantee and trial bottle free.
Former banker and proprietor of Lienlokken's State Bank in La Crosse Wisconsin seeks bankruptcy in U S district court. Liabilities scheduled at 28 621 with assets of 250 claimed exempt.
In Pittsburgh on February 26, four workers at Jones and Laughlin Steel were loading billets when the furnace door chain broke. The heavy door dropped, trapping all four. their bodies were found inside the furnace and parts remained inside.
London Feb 26 The War Office denies rumors that General Louis Botha commander in chief of the Boer forces has surrendered or abdicated in the ongoing war. Officials emphasize no confirmation of any capitulation or peace terms.
Senate讨论提案处理南卡罗来纳参议员的暂停事宜。参议员 Burrows 主席的特权与选举委员会拟定暂时暂停两位参议员的决议草案，向参院提交审议。民进党参议员普遍反对剥夺他们发言投票权的方案，主张需通过两大多数票方可开除。
Washington February 26 The United States government proposes to the powers in the Chinese treaty a pro rata reduction of claims to maintain the total within 450000000 taels as full indemnity for the Boxer outrages. Germany reports its claim was set too low and seeks an increase of 10000000 taels.
Mrs Kate Soffel wife of the Pittburg jail warden has recovered from wounds and been removed from Butler hospital to Pittsburgh by County Detective Robinson. She faces three charges including aiding in the escape of murderers and two counts of felonious assault and battery.
Chicago report notes John Alexander Dowie watched a blaze consume a deacon’s house in Zion City after a gasoline lamp incident. Fire department and water system absent as two Crane children caused the ignition and an explosion badly burned one child.
Birmingham February 26. E T and George H Schuler directors and major stockholders of the Alabama Steel and Wire company begin a five day sentence for contempt in the county jail. They will not occupy a cell, a room has been allotted, they will furnish it themselves, install a telephone and order meals from a leading cafe.
Springfield Illinois February 26 Rollo C Pearson formerly postmaster at Louisville Clay county pleaded guilty in federal court in California on embezzling postal order funds He was fined 1074 15 on one count 2373 74 on the second and given a two year penitentiary term
Two hours before his death George H. Carter of Vienna received notice from the pension office in Washington that he had been granted a pension. Carter, an orphan, served in the Thirty Fourth Volunteer Regiment under Brigadier General Funston and returned a physical wreck from climate and hard service. He applied in July.
Attorney General Douglass of Minnesota will file a complaint against the Northern Securities Company in the New Jersey state court at Trenton. Acting on orders from Governor Van Sant, he will not wait for the U S court to rule on the merger under the Sherman anti trust law of 1890.
The National Council of Women ended its triennial session in Washington on February 26. Mrs. Tha Dusenberry was elected as a delegate to the Mothers organization.
A space training program in the Washington area lists Antica as a trainee gaining early exposure. Officials describe the initiative as part of ongoing astronaut development.
Dr King's New Life Pills praised for curing constipation sick headache biliousness and stomach liver or kidney troubles. Sold for 25 cents at Houseworth Bros drug store in this advertisement.
Mrs. Theodore Birney headlined the sixth National Congress of Mothers as delegates gathered in Washington. Mrs. P.L. McKinnie of Evansville led the area committee to press child welfare measures, urging tougher factory safety, treatment of defective children, and reform of mental asylums and prisons.
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