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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1905
Page
6
Piano Tuning by Expert Geo. N. Schaff
Geo N. Schaff offers thorough piano tuning correcting tone and mechanism every time. Located at 508 South Third Street contact 511 for appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. N. Schaff
South Third St
Portland and Northwest Route Highlighted for Exposition Travel
Union Pacific advertises a Portland to Lewis and Clark Exposition 1905 route offering 200 miles along the Columbia River. Two daily through trains promise river views and passenger accommodations, promoting the service as a popular link to the exposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Northwest
Union Pacif
Columbia River
Lewis and Mark Exposition
Taquire
G. A
Woodward Ave
Etrait
Alieh
Investments and assistance offer from Livy Chamberlain
A fragment notes an offer of financial help or investment to Joan. It also mentions LIVY CHAMBERLAIN and Turnock's Typewriters available for rent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan
Livy Chamberlain
Turnock’s. Tf
Hollister's Tea Promises Cure for Weak Children
In a brief notice Houseworth Bros. advertises Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a positive cure for weak children and claims it will wake them strong. The product is priced at 35 cents and offered in tea or tablet form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollister
Houseworth Bros
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Advertised Pain Relief
Pain may go by many names rheumatism neuralgia lumbago pleurisy. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will drive them away. 35 cents. Tea or Tablets. Houseworth Bros.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Houseworth Bros
Foley's Honey and Tar touted as cure for coughs
A letter from A. A. Herren of Flinch Arkansas claims Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs colds and lung trouble and has cured consumption in early stages. Houseworth Bros. endorse the remedy in the ad copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A .A. Herren
Flinch
Ark
Foley
Houseworth Bros
Mollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Advertisement
If you are troubled with indigestion constipation sour stomach or any other pain Mollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will make you well and keep you well. 35 cents Tea art Tablets Houseworth Bros.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mollister
Jfouseworth Bros
Sunday Ticket Offer by Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway agents sell round trip tickets at special low rates every Sunday through October for trips between selectable points. Passengers may travel and return the same day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Shore Railway
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry
Burdock Blood Bitters touted for quick stomach relief
A vintage advertisement claims Burdock Blood Bitters regulate the stomach and bowels naturally and quickly, preventing constipation and promoting digestive ease. The claim emphasizes fast results and health benefits for general well being.
Elkhart Gas Co Sets Coke Price for Immediate Delivery
Elkhart Gas Co announces fuel coke at $4.00 per ton delivered. Orders placed for immediate delivery are being accepted, with the current rate in effect until further notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tf Elkhart Gas Co
East High Street
Dr Thomas' Electric Oil Promises Quick Pain Relief
An old advertisement touts Dr Thomas' Electric Oil as a cure for sore throat and pulmonary troubles under a monarchic flourish, claiming immediate relief from various pains and ailments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monarch
Dr. Thomas
Epworth League Meeting Excursion to Lake Shore Ry
Lake Shore railroad offers very low round trip rates from Denver to points over the lake shore route for the Epworth League meeting from June 29 to July 4. Obtain details from the nearest Lake Shore agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Col
Lake Shore Ry
Epworth
Lake Shore
Souvenir Books Offered At Cedar Point Resort
Handful of free souvenir books are advertised by a Lake Shore ticket agent for Cedar Point in Ohio. The ad claims a mammoth volume showcasing the great resort and urges readers to contact a local agent in their city for the free book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Shore
Cedar Point
Putin der Ih
A Fearful Fate and Piles Cure Claim
Henry Colson of Masonville Indiana testifies to a fearful fate from piles and praises Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best cure for piles and other injuries. Sold for 25 cents at Houseworth Bros. druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Colson
Masonville
Houseworth Bros
Bitter battle ends in cure with Electric Bitters
Geo W Hoffman of Harper Washington describes seven years of chronic stomach and liver trouble finally cured by Electric Bitters. He recommends them to all and notes he will keep them in the house. Sold under guarantee by Houseworth Bros druggists at 50 cents a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. W. Hoffman
Harper, Wash
Houseworth Bros
Teachers Excursion to Asbury Park via NYC
News item describes a lake shore excursion for teachers to Asbury Park over the Lake Shore via New York City from June 29 to July inclusive, return fare good until August at $1. Includes New York City stopover and other privileges. Inquire with ticket agent or write to A. J. Smith G P A Cleveland Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury Park
Lake Shore Ry
New York City
A. J. Smith
G P. A
Cleveland
Torture of a Preacher Story of Rev O D Foote
Harpersville pastor Rev O D Foote recounts agonizing coughs from a grip that forced him to sleep upright. He credits Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds with curing his cough and preventing consumption. Houseworth Bros offers the remedy at 50 cents and 1.00 with a free trial bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. D. Foote
Baptist Church
Harpersville
N. Y
Dr. King
Houseworth Bros
Milkins Rushes To Cure With New Life Pills
In Mad Chase Milkins rushes in a health fad, urging better eating and regular bowels with Dr. King's New Life Pills. Promised quick relief for liver and stomach trouble. 25c at Houseworth Bros drug store, guaranteed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Houseworth Bros
A Summer Fairyland in Muskoka District Offer
An advertisement invites readers planning a summer outing to Muskoka’s rocks and lakes about 100 miles north of Toronto. It promises cool, refreshing breezes and primitive nature in Ontario’s Highlands at 1000 feet above sea level, with free illustrated publications available by writing to W Robinson, T P A, Grand Trunk System, Pittsburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskoka
Toronto
Ontario
W. Robinoson
Grand Trunk System
Park Building
Pittsburg
Epworth League Denver Fare Sale by Lake Shore Ry
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway offers round trip tickets to Denver California from June 29 to July 4 at low rates for Epworth League members. Inquire with nearest Lake Shore agent for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
Denver
Cal
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry
Lake Shore
Frank Wickwire Fights Trespass Suit with Gardners
Frank Wickwire says his legal action against Ralph and Orren Gard ner for trespassing on his property is unfriendly. He claims he ordered them to stop encroaching, but the Gardners refused and he had them arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Wickwire
Ralph
Orren Gardner
Wickwire
Japan’s humane treatment of Russian prisoners described
The New York World reports from Himeji Japan that 3000 Russian captives are kept in humane conditions with schools to teach literacy, recreational activities, and special theater. About 144 of 591 illiterate prisoners signed names after three months of instruction. Additional classes for 706 Port Arthur arrivals and 242 Jews and Poles were opened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Russia
New York World
New York
Himeji City
East
Ugai
Himeji
Port Arthur
Danzo Ichikawa
Intercollegiate Socialist Society proposed by notable figures
Ten prominent reformers including J G Phelps Stokes and Upton Sinclair call for forming the Intercollegiate Socialist Society to promote socialist study clubs in colleges and universities. The plan aims to awaken educated men and women to socialist ideas through organized study groups across the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
The
New York Tribune
Intercollegiate Socialist Society
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Oscar Lovell Triggs
Clarence
Darrow
B. O. Flower
William English Walling
Leonard D. Abbott
Jack London
Upton Sinclair
Cleveland inventor unveils cheap new explosive powder
Powder experts witnessed J. H. Briggs of Cleveland, C. debut an explosive that cannot be detonated without a percussion cap. It shows one third greater penetrative force than Japanese powder, can be manufactured in the field with a coffee mill like device, and costs about four cents a pound versus sixteen for the latest powder. It promises use in firearms and blasting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Briggs
Cleveland
New Mineral Thorianite Discovered in Ceylon
A Royal Society report notes thorianite, a mineral from Ceylon with 80 percent thorium oxide and notable commercial value. Its cubical black crystals are harder than silver, contain uranium oxide and rare earths, and release helium when dissolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Society
London
Dunstan
G. L. Blake
London Standard
Ceylon
Penny in the Slot Soda Machine Arrives on Rail Ferries
The Pennsylvania railroad installs a penny-in-the-slot soda wat er vending device at its New York ferry house. Patrons receive ice cooled drink and a tumbler washer ensures sanitary use. Similar machines are being installed at other railroad ferry houses and stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
New York Tribune
Wisconsin chemist creates ultra strong beer extract
A Wisconsin chemist reports a liquid 11,000 times stronger than top beer quality. A single drop in a large beer glass with ice water yields pure beer of finest grade. The extract includes a hop alkaloid 9,500 times stronger than crude hops and the malt active principle far surpassing common malt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
The Land of June and the Return of Ships to Elon
The poem speaks of ships returning home at day’s end their sails reddened by sunset. They bring winter’s cargoes gold silver and silken tapestries to the pleasant land of June and her shining silver moon. weary crews land and rest after their quest and give their bounty to the country of their birth in Elon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
June
Elon
Special June Trunks and Bags Sale with Low Prices
Special June sale lists flat top and painted canvas trunk options with sizes from 24 to 84 inches and prices from 1.50 to 6.00. Imitation alligator, gray leather, and cowhide suit cases offered with small satchels and telescopes, plus lawn wrappers and night dresses priced low. Travel encouraged.
Free June Concerts by Geo. Wyman & Co at 3 PM
Geo Wyman & Co announces daily free 3 PM concerts throughout June to promote their new Crockery business. They list 100 piece Dinner Sets Austrian china at 12.50 and American semi porcelain at 6.30, with 25 patterns in open stock. Also offer cut glass, fancy china and bric a brac for weddings as marriage season begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Wyman & Co
Hdison
Clearing sale on ladies hats at low prices
A millinery notice announces a clearing sale offering ladies fine dress hats at 3.00 and misses street hats at 1.00, highlighting selection and savings for shoppers.
Hosiery and Curtain Dept Offers From Geo Wrman Co
Hosiery dept promotes men light blue baldriggan silk front undershirts and drawers at 1 quality 50c and 25c for plain and fancy 50c quality. Ladies and children's 15c vests. Curtain dept sells lace curtains at 2.50 per pair half price. Ruffled mall curtains 29c pair. Fancy scrim curtains with colored stripes 5c per pair. Vador porch shades range 2 to 5 dollars each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Wrman & Co
Dress Goods Sale Torn from The Store Ledger
A small advertisement lists fabric bargains including Fancy Silks at 49 cents per yard, 10 cent Fancy Lawns at 61 and a quarter cents, and India Linen Remnants in black and colors at 5 cents.
Domestic Fabric Prices in Local Sale
Lawn remnants priced at 10 cents per yard. Lawns at 6 1 4 cents. Ginghams at 6 1 2 cents. Prints offered at 8 1 2, 4, and 5 cents.
Dr Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry Remedy
An instructive old time advertisement extols Dr Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry as nature’s remedy for dysentery diarrhoea and summer complaint, pitched as a universal blessing for all ages.
Mrs Rorer Teaches Cooking With A Story Preface
New York cooking teacher Mrs. Rorer often opens class lessons with a tale. Her habit sometimes teases herself as she explains recipes and techniques to her students.
New Haircut Method Uses Individual Strand Cutting
The latest hairdressing technique cuts each hair separately, a time consuming process but praised for its strong benefits to hair health and appearance.
Elephant at Dun dee Circus Swallows Bank Note
An elephant belonging to a Scotland circus visited Dun dee and inserted a farmer's pocket, pulled out a $100 banknote, and swallowed it. The incident drew attention from local observers and circus staff alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dundee
Scotland
Ex Governor Longino Foresees Record Cotton Famine
Former Mississippi governor Longino, a noted cotton expert, predicts this season will bring the greatest cotton famine in history, signaling severe price pressure and supply constraints for growers and traders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longino
Mississippi
Monks to Work in Kent Hop Fields This Summer
Franciscan monks will labor in the Kent hop fields drying the pick during the summer. The Roman Catholic bishop of Southward is to make an itinerary visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kent
England
Southward
Translation of Homer work published in Cairo by Suleiman-Vistani
An Abrai translation of Homer's Tlad has been published in Cairo by Suleiman-Vistani. Mohammed an student at Khartoum College Moselem circles have received it enthusiastically.
Local Social Roundup Brims with Visits and Weather
Mrs David Clay entertains daughter and her husband the Overholsers of Wak arusa Sunday. Charlie Worthen of Bertrand visits Frank Kelsey Tussay. A A Martin in Elk hart Wednesday. Miss Bessie Light hosts Miss Frances Bailey of Crawfords Ville Ind. George Andrus buys No 83 Oliver typewriter. Tom Atkinson Mason Jr and J H Kingsley trip to Elkhart Wednesday. Snow flurries and a frost noted midweek. Bishop Nicholas Castle and wife of Philamoth Oregon visit Rev E F Light and preach at Adamsville U B church. John Keene in Elkhart Wednesday. Bert Leet moves to Carpenter place Milton after selling farm to Millard Truitt. Henry Andrus editor Ar Bus plans Canada trip to Halifax Nova Scotia. Misses Bessie Light and Frances Bellsy were in Elkhart Tuesday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Clay
Nicholas Castle
Philamoth
Oregon
E. F
U. B
Adamsville
John Keene
Elkhart
Bert Leet
Millard Truitt
Carpenter Place
Milton
Henry Andrus
Canada
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Bessie Light
Frances Bellsy
Proven One Minute Cough Cure Praised By All
An advertisement extols a cough syrup as harmless and pleasant for all ages. It touts quick action against coughs croup and whooping cough and claims it is a favorite choice among druggists.
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Steketer
Guo
G. Steketer
Cherry &J
Gran Rapids
Michigan
Elkhart Riverside
Elkhart Carriage
Harness Mfg. CO
Elkhart, Ind
Y. Yendo
Ichikawa
Socialism For Colleges
Crockery Dept
South Bend, Ind
Una
Fay
America
St. Louis
Lucy Stovall
Tilton
Kodol
Labo
E.c.dewitt & Co
Chicago
U.S
Timothy Hay
Pittsburgh
Daniel McCaffrey’s Sons Co
J Duquesne Nat. Bank
Louis M. Simpson
Main St
Perry Davis
Edwardsburg
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