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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1905
Page
2
Special June sales advertise flat top trunks with painted canvas covers olive enamelled sheet steel binding hardwood slats and metal hardware. Prices list 80 inch trunks at 4.40 and various suit cases from 1.50 to 5.00 with accessories like satchels and telescopes. Also offers lawn wrappers and women’s undergarments at modest prices concluding with trunk fitting services.
Geo Wyman & Co offers a free daily concert at 3 PM during June to advertise their Crockery store. The sale features 100-piece Dinner Sets in Austrian china at 12.50 and American semi porcelain white at 6.30, with 25 patterns and open stock. Also advertised are cut glass and bric a brac for weddings as well as millinery clearance including dress hats at 3.00 and street hats at 1.00.
The Geo Wyman Co hosiery department offers men s light blue baldrigan silk front undershirts and drawers at 60c with plain and fancy half dollar quality at 25c. Ladies and children 25c vests priced at 15c. Curtain department features novelty net curtains at 2.50 per pair half price and ruffled mall curtains 29c per pair. Fancy scrim curtains with colored stripes 95c per pair. Vador porch shades priced from 2 to 5 each.
A brief advertising item lists fabric bargains including fancy silks at 49a yard and fancy lawns at 6 1 4c, plus Yadia linen remnants in black and colors priced at 5c.
Lawn remnants offered at ten cents per yard while lawns fetch six and a quarter. ginghams priced at six and a half cents or four to six cents, prints at three and a half cents with additional sizes.
A compact promotional note from a South Bend business invites readers to visit the shop for items or services, signaling an on foot outreach in the Indiana city.
Dayton Ohio holds a unique civic celebration for John H Patterson chief industrialist as crowds greet him at Steele High School. Bands play banners fly and a silver loving cup honors his welfare work aiding women and factory conditions worldwide.
Inability to sleep signals an exhausted nervous system and rising danger of mental decline. The piece stresses sleep as essential for health and warns of consequences if rest is neglected, urging readers to address sleep problems.
Overworked brain cells tire without rest and stimulants worsen decline. Dr. A. W. Chase Nerve Pills revitalize and nourish cells to restore sleep and function. Mrs. Fred Whaleden testifies the pills steadied nerves, sharpened mind, and reduced sensitivity to noise. Sold at 50 cents per box through Buffalo and Elkhart druggists.
The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway offers a popular low rate trip July 20 to Atlantic City Cape May Ocean City and Sea Isle City New Jersey with return by July 31. Round trip from Elkhart Indiana is 15.50 with stopovers at Philadelphia Glen Summit Watkins Glen Niagara Falls Lake Chautauqua Cedar Point and Put In Bay.
An enthusiastic southern reader from Cartersville extols Postum Food Coffee as a healthful replacement for coffee. They describe indigestion and nervous trouble improving after trying Postum, noting better sleep and restored strength after using the product for years.
The Japanese and Russian peace commissioners will arrive in Washington for extended negotiations likely to take weeks. The process includes strict ceremonial routines, multilingual sessions, and ciphered dispatches to St Petersburg and Tokyo.
Charles J. Glidden of Boston arrives in New York after a world motor tour that included Fiji, New Zealand, Tasmania, Australia, Java, and the Malay Peninsula. Monkeys in Java pelted the car with coconuts. the Fiji king and princess rode briefly. Glidden notes total travel of 128,899 miles by car and 23,617 by steamer since July.
Mrs. Davis from Carmel Maine recounts years of misery from sick headaches fainting spells and pain. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring strength appetite and spirits after several months and multiple doctors failed to help. The ad notes the pills treat angina chlorosis painful or irregular periods and general weakness and says they are sold by every druggist.
State of Indiana Elkhart County non-resident defendant Henry W Watson is summoned to appear August 21 1905 at 2 PM at 418 S Main St Elkhart Indiana to answer the complaint Clifford R Rowley plaintiff. Proceeding to be heard in absence if no appearance. Official seal dated June 24 1905 Justice John M Brumbaugh.
The London Globe predicts the sultan has ordered a pack of British man tracking dogs to pursue animals in Turkey. It warns the animals will be worked to death within a week.
Four points urge women to seek treatment for uterine and menstrual issues. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is claimed to cure female ailments and regulate menstruation. The Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn Massachusetts cites many testimonials and invites women to write for advice and help.
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