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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1905
Page
4
Geo Wyman & Co announces a September sale featuring carpets rugs and draperies with fall arrivals in cloaks dresses and infants wear. Fall dress goods suitings hosiery blankets and muslin are offered at deep discounts with emphasis on low prices and value.
Great Anniersary Sale runs all week at Ziesel Bros with 36 inch pevcales in dark blue red grey and black priced at 7 1 2 yards. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea promoted as a tonic at 35 cents. Turnock's offers House worth Bros fishing tackle and low railway fares to Portland Seattle and more with dates and agents listed. Mosier T P A 115 Adams Chicago provides ticketing and framing discounts.
Statistics warn of high deaths from appendicitis and peritonitis. Dr. King's New Life Pills claimed as a cure for constipation and biliousness by M. Iannery of Chicago. Also advertise Dr. Fowler's Extract Wild Strawberry for dire gastro inaction emergencies.
Visitors to the Kendallville fair are promised more enjoyment than expected as the Dean Millinery Parlors announce a fall opening on Friday and Saturday September 22 and 23. A complete line of headgear for all will be shown and orders taken for ladies suits.
An old note touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a positive cure for cold symptoms and congestion. It advertises the product price at 35 cents and references a household use.
Advertisement notes a ruler blotter and memoranda tablet free with each purchase of school books at Horton and Company located in the opera house block.
Mrs. A J Kneff of 822 Washington St Elk Hart reports two years of kidney pain and backache. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with relief and urges readers to try the product from Houseworth Bros and Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sole US agents. Remember the name Dean's and take no other.
A schoolmaster at Eton breaks news of a grandmother's death to the young Earl of Barrymore with a harsh sequence. The master interleaves shocks with assignments as the pupil learns the harsh truth. The tale ends with the line to “make the best of an irretrievable misfortune.”
The London Standard notes that most civilized countries share a similar salute standard with variations. In Germany a soldier must stand motionless with hand raised twelve to twenty paces before and after the emperor. Belgium requires similar respect for the king and generals, with generals needing ten paces. Soldiers with full hands salute by eye movement, while French officers lift caps to each other.
A. F. E. Tyler advertises lots in Allendale for sale at 413 South Main Street. Buyers can pay time or cash and clear a profit of 100 dollars by purchasing a lot of A. F. Tyler while growth continues.
Dr Thomas Finn of Boonsboro Missouri with 32 years in medicine testifies he has used every prescription known for kidney and bladder diseases and finds Foley's Kidney Cure most effective for chronic and acute kidney and bladder trouble. It stops irregularities and rebuilds the system. Houseworth Bros.
J W McKinnon of Talladega Springs Ala says pneumonia left him after two doctors gave no relief and a single bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery cured him with the first dose. Also touted as a sure cure for sore throat bronchitis and colds with a trial bottle free and priced at 1.00.
The department of the interior Ottawa warns that US land agents promise adjoining quarters under the Homestead Act. No land company can arrange this. only government authorized agents may assist. Contact the Authorized Canadian Government Agent W H Rogers in Indianapolis for homestead inquiries.
Alfred Bartholomew and others transfer two lots in Primley's Willowdale to Freda A and Harriet BE Young for 825 dollars. Sanford D. Mast sells one lot in Allendale to Daniel H. Miller for 50 dollars. Albert BE Adams transfers half of two North Elkhart lots to Perry L. Beck for 1200 dollars. George P. Godfrey sells a Moore's addition lot in Elkhart to Edward Johnson for 473 dollars. Briggsdale Improvement Co transfers a lot in Briggsdale to Willard W. Sterling for 200 dollars. Harden D. Markel sells a lot in Elliston's addition Elk Hart to Charles F. Krumm for 155 dollars. Della M. Beyerle sells part of a Barnes second addition lot in Goshen to Emil Rantman Hart for 1500 dollars. Bar L R Baker sells a Wilden's second East Goshen lot to Lorain H. Baker for 15 dollars and to Warren C. Cline for 10 dollars.
Readable text notes tire fitting on recurts and hapr arriaces for R. Turnock with unspecified details. The fragment implies a service event involving tires and a person named R. Turnock.
The Original Foley & Con Chicago urges customers to beware of imitations of Foley's Honey and Tar, noting many products imitate the name. The genuine remedy comes in a yellow package and is promoted as the best treatment for coughs and colds.
Tickets on sale daily to September 30 with final return by October 31. Rates for 60 percent of South Third Street and routes to St Paul Minneapolis Chicago and return via Chicago Great Western Ry. Also low fares to Minnesota North Dakota Colorado Utah and Wyoming. Inquiries to F R Mosier T P A 115 Adams Street Chicago. San Francisco brick demand cited.
A New York bank operates an electric automatic safety elevator that saves a boy from wages and impudence. With the door open the car cannot move, but closing the door releases the lock and a push button lets him ascend or descend. The piece suggests it would be a fine plaything for a ten year old boy.
An advertisement claims most men over sixty face kidney and bladder issues from enlarged prostate. It touts Foley's Kidney Cure as a cure, citing Rodney Burnett of Rock Port Missouri who at 91 reports relief after two bottles. Houseworth Bros.
Canal Commission seeks carpenters to build housing for officers and staff on the Isthmus of Panama. Provides free transport from New York and medical attendance if sick. For details and application blanks contact S. G. Mathias, Secretary, Civil Service board.
BH Miller, at Main and St Joe streets, advertises Hindipo the new Kidney Cure and Nerve Tonic. He guarantees each 50 cent box will cure all kidney troubles and nervous disorders or provides a refund, with risk on the seller.
Fragmentary text references a home phone number and a bell phone line issue with a hack or cutp. No coherent event or entities can be confirmed from the unreadable source.
Michigan City Indiana September 18 Governor Hanly's new police board has secured the first conviction for liquor law violation since the lid was put on in the county three months ago. It was the only successful prosecution out of fifteen actions. The board is jubilant and promises more prosecutions soon.
In Hammond Indiana on September 18 Harry Homan, 24, killed Mrs Charles Jeanette, a bride three weeks, after she jilted him for another man. He then shot himself, completing a double tragedy at Cedar Lake.
Lawrenceburg Indiana September 18 Carey Jones aged fifty four was killed when a tree limb fell striking his head as he worked near the city. The fatal accident occurred instantly and authorities reported details of the unfortunate incident.
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