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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1905
Page
3
Special June sale features flat top painted canvas trunks with steel bindings and oak slats, Japan clamps, and brass locks. Prices include 30 inch trunks at 4.58, 32 inch at 6.00, suit cases from 1.50 to 5.00, Satchels from 0.35, plus 25c telescopes and 6c lawn wrappers. Also muslin night dresses and related garments offered.
Geo Wyman & Co offers free 3 PM concerts throughout June with an Edison phonograph to advertise their new Crockery business. June specials include 109 piece dinner sets at 12.50 and 104 piece sets at 6.30, plus 25 patterns in open stock. Also featuring cut glass, fine china, bric a brac for weddings and a millinery clearing sale with dress hats and street hats priced around 1.
Geo. Wyman & Co advertises men's undershirts and drawers at 50c with 1 dollar quality items. Ladies and children vests 15c. Curtain dept offers lace curtains 2.50 per pair half price, ruffled mall curtains 29c, scrim curtains 95c, and porch shades from 2 to 5 dollars.
A newspaper ad notes discounts on textiles with a table of items. Fancy silks 49 cents per yard and fancy lawns 61-4 cents. India linen remnants in black and colors priced at 5 cents.
Yardage prices for lawn remnants and fabrics including lawns at 10 cents per yard, lawns at 6 1/4 cents, ginghams 6 1/2 to 2 cents, prints 3 1/2 to 5 cents. Ends indicate a discount sale or stock-clearance in a period-appropriate listing.
The Elkhart County Board of Commissioners will accept sealed bids at the Auditor's Office until 2 p m on Monday July 17 1905 for replacing wooden stringers with steel on the Highland Park bridge over the St Joseph River in Elkhart and for new steel joists and floor on the Jackson Street bridge over the Elkhart River. Bids must include bonds and affidavits as required by law. The board may reject any or all bids.
Public health note cautions about piles in hot weather and impure water. It recommends DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve to relieve pain draw out soreness and aid healing and urges buying the genuine product from E. C. DeWitt & Co. at all druggists.
Milo V. Stark named as trustee under an assignment of Highland Park Amusement Association, qualified as trustee, took possession of all property and credits for creditors under Elkhart Circuit Court order per Indiana voluntary assignment laws. Dated June 19, 1905. 1926-3
The text promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Care claiming the product enables complete digestion and nourishment from all food, regardless of stomach condition. It asserts relief from indigestion dyspepsia belching sour stomach and weak heart and notes it is sold by all druggists.
Union Pacific upgraded the California route with safety innovations to protect passengers. The line is famed for fast trains and superior service with tourist sleepers offered. inquiries directed to F. B. Choate at 20 Woodward Avenue Detroit Michigan.
Ten Times Easier. It is ten times easier to cure coughs croup and bronchial ailments when the bowels are open. Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar is the original laxative cough syrup that gently moves the bowels and expels cold. Best for coughs colds croup whooping cough. Remember the name Kennedy's and look for the red clover in the bottle. Sold by all druggists.
The Lake Shore By. will sell excursion tickets to Ashbury Park N J from June 29 to July 2 at about half fare round trip. Tickets valid return to August 31 with stop overs in New York City Lake Chautauqua Niagara Falls and more. Details in a folder from the ticket agent or write A J Smith Cleveland O for a copy.
A seriously ill woman awoke to find the nurse at the foot of her bed smoking and reading. Startled, she cried out asking what the nurse was doing and the nurse replied she thought the patient was dead.
An 1833 inventory lists the Mohawk and Hudson railroad total stock as three locomotives John Bull De Witt Clinton and Experiment three carriages each for twelve passengers nine carriages for nine passengers two for six and three engs for capacity 183.
Elkhart agent announces daily Big Four departures and arrivals with trains 28 48 34 42 40 30 33 41 25 and 15, noting one Sunday exception and some morning and afternoon times for Elkhart service.
The ticket agent A. J. Smith in Cleveland Ohio offers a copy of the railway book Quiet Summer Retreats with a sequence of numbers 9 12 15 20 23 28. The notice requests contact for purchase or retrieval.
War correspondent reports Tokyo hospitals treating 700 wounded from Port Arthur in a mass operation. German language notes and European standards dominate, while Japanese nurses and civic restraint shape care, revealing low death rates despite brutal conflict.
An American troupe of El Paso baseball players including Brownie Chamberlain fought bulls in Ciudad Juarez under electric lights. Large crowd cheered as Americans excelled with banderillas capes and spears, with no injuries to people. Proceeds benefited the Benito Juarez monument.
Kansas Governor Hoch told Topeka graduates to avoid newspaper fixation and to read widely. He advised scanning papers for current events but reading books with a dictionary and encyclopedia for deeper learning.
A fragmented verso on dainty shirt waists and seasonal fashion. The speaker admires a maiden’s attire yet notes alarming, precarious details in the make and styling. The piece hints at modern dress trends and public gaze.
The Kenwood golf team defeated the Players from St Joe Country Club on Kenwood grounds Saturday in ideal conditions. Nine players per side competed with Elkhart victories led by end scores 7 4 to 0 and 4 3 by others, while a later Mishawaka match and an Interurban cup race were announced. Over 100 spectators and visiting ladies joined postgame supper served by Caterer Jahn.
The Winona Flyers, newly in service on the Big Four, completed a first week of Elkhart to Indianapolis trips. Officials report the Michigan division trains are the best yet and request larger engines. Likely two main line locomotives will be sent to the Michigan division to haul the Flyers. The current Big Four coaches bear New York Central Lines labels indicating Vanderbilt interests unite New York Central Michigan Central Lake Shore Big Four and Lake Erie and Western.
The Barbers defeated the Painters 20 to 15 in the first game and 4 to 0 in the second, a sharp contrast as the Painters were shut out in every inning. Barbers pitchers Cooper and Kent faced Painters Forest and Chandler in a blowout that highlighted the Barbers’ offense.
The East Ends failed Crescents to a 9–0 win in a pickup game yesterday. They face the Noyes team next Sunday morning in a regional clash.
The East Ends announce a name change to the Athletics with Les lie Davis as manager. He states the team is ready to engage in city games and active in the local scene.
Beginning today train No. 47 will stop on signal at Oakwood Crossing at Klinger Lake. Saturdays and Sundays No. 48 will stop at Klinger Lake station and No. 14 will stop there on Saturdays.
Riverside residents are invited by the Ladies Aid Society to a lawn social at Mrs. Douglas home on Wednesday night.
H. E. Bucklen promoter and owner of the St. Joseph Valley Traction Co. was seen in Orland last Friday with chief engineer Swinebart. They surveyed the old Angola route, praised the country between LaGrange and Orland, and Bucklen said an electric road could be built between LaGrange and Angola via Stroh or straight east to Angola once a satisfactory line is established, urging local support.
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