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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1900
Page
5
Come in and hear the Edison phonograph with latest vocal and instrumental records at Packard Music House located on 120 Calhoun Street.
The city notes Dr WH Myers made a professional trip to Chicago yesterday. The Order of Chosen Friends will hold Tuesday meetings. Mr Way and Mr Mannix are homebound with rheumatism. Frank Dendel returns from Michigan visit. Women’s Home Missionary Society meets this afternoon. Judge Baker declares Mary Walters bankrupt. Superintendent Johnson attends a state conference in New Albany. Van ity Company’s John Cook recovers and returns to Brooklyn. Veterinarian Langtry treats a cow with a bound leg repair. Fire Department Engine House No 3 seeks a bell via subscription. T S Ulmer suffers concussion after bicycle fall.
An old ad lists Fancy Cups and Saucers 5e and 20¢ to 5e for T5e, plates and salad dishes 10¢ to 1.75, chocolate pots and tea sets 1.00 and up, pressed and blown drinking glasses per dozen 35e and up, tea sets and glassware 50¢ and up, water sets in twenty styles at low prices. WHITE FRUIT HOUSE advertises job printers needed with two printers and a cylinder press feeder. Also Loesch's Drug Store promotes perfumes and toilet articles and Seavey’s showroom features Christmas gift furnishings with evening hours.
Wayne Dry Goods at 6 Calhoun St announces restocked handkerchiefs from Convent made styles and a new line of golf gloves and kid gloves. Linen department highlights hemstitched towels napkins and damask with seasonal pricing. Store open every evening until Christmas to serve shoppers.
Dr Parrs class of young ladies presents a social and entertainment in the parlors of Wayne Street M E church tonight Miss Maud Weingardners class renders an elocution program assisted by local musicians musical numbers include mandolin and violin solos and several readings recitations and pantomimes by Misses Cowdrey Foster Pipenbrink Strass and Welsheimer with Mr Mulford and Mr Morris providing selections
Large selection of men's mufflers in latest styles and patterns priced 50¢ 75¢ 1.00 and 1.25. White Fruit House Jones' Kodak Store stays open every night until Jan 1 at 12 W Wayne St. There is no better Christmas gift than two photographs by 5 Studio 2 Fort Wayne.
Advertises underwear at Patterson's with styles from 50 cents to 1 dollar and selections up to 10 dollars per suit, emphasizing money savings and best choices.
Keystone Flour priced at 4.80 per barrel and all city flour at 4.00 per barrel. Buckwheat flour, Michigan potatoes, California oranges, raisins, currants, citron, peel, figs, dates, nuts. Fresh meats, baked goods, and daily baking advertised at 228 and 240 Calhoun St.
A local grocery ad lists prices for smoked white fish and wailbul t fish, boneless herring, Alaska salmon, oysters, celery, cranberries, lettuce, and cauliflower. It shows contact numbers 315 and 378 for Greatest Grocery Co. and notes a Bash Block address.
A compiled list of property conveyances with buyers and locations in Wayne Pleasant Madison townships. Notable entries include Adam and Mary E. Collis to AmeHa Darby in Wayne for 2500 and Nelson H Youse to Walpole Colerick in Madison for 1.00, with other tract and lot transfers in various townships.
Thing & Co.'s Shoe House at 32 Calhoun Street will stay open every evening through New Years with the greatest line of Xmas shoes and slippers in the city. Violins are advertised as the largest city selection. George Jacobs at 117 Calhoun Street promotes pajama and night robe outfits in heavy outing flannel at Pattersons for Christmas.
A gathering of strawboard manufacturers from Indiana, Ohio and Illinois met yesterday at the Paragon company's office in the city. Representatives included E. C. Poster of Peoria. J. S. Cline and C. W. Bell of Chicago. W. C. Staley of Urbana. C. D. Jay of Kokomo and others. They discussed industry matters but gave no definite information.
The ad lists flour meats butter eggs and more with prices per unit including flour 4.00 per barrel and 3.78 per barrel for Rock Creek Favorite, buckwheat flour 3 cents per pound, maple syrup 25 cents per quart, pork shoulders te per pound, fresh eggs 25 cents per dozen, and other items. It also notes stockanett coats and cardigans and a new line of Warmback overcoats at Patterson's with price 25 dollars.
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