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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
4
Packard Music House at 120 Calhoun Street invites readers to come in and hear The Edison Phonograph with the latest vocal and instrumental records on display.
The forecast calls for generally clear days Thursday and Friday with fresh westerly winds in Lower Michigan and Illinois. Washington area sees similar pattern with Thursday and Friday partly cloudy conditions and fresh westerly to variable winds later.
Ed M L Wilson and Dr A L J Boswell visited Chicago and Elkhart on business. John C Abel headed to Minneapolis. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs John B Prinke. D C Ford of Auburn and W L Somers to Danville on legal matters. Rev BE W Allen back from the county. Capt A H Dougall attended Loyal Legion meeting in Indianapolis. George Goeglein of Goeglein made a Fort Wayne business call. Joe Bell bought a refined gray horse team in Decatur. W J Magle of Columbia City on business. A J Kessler and daughter Alina visiting Huntington. Miss Edit Morey returns to Plymouth for holidays with family in Lakeside. City cashiering note appears in closing line.
An advertisement showcases toys, dolls, and games at low prices with bulk buying discounts and a large assortment. It lists Kid Body Tolls, Fahey Knit Dolls, dolls’ accessories, toy vehicles, children’s dinner sets, and climbing engines, plus various novelties and silverware. The text also promotes optical services, frames, and holiday book sales at local stores.
At 117 A housing street George Jacobs markets large stocks of pianos by Chickering Krahnich Bach Regent and others on monthly payments. The shop also offers a wide selection of small instruments Shawn guitars violins mandolins and a full range of sheet music and musical supplies for northern Indiana shoppers.
The advertisement from GREATEST GROCERY CO promotes fruits and oysters with prices: Tangerines 40e per dozen, Valencia and other oranges at 25 to 40c per dozen, wax lemons 20e per dozen, Malaga grapes 17c a pound, fancy New York apples and Grenning pears by the peck, Baldwins 25-80c per neck, oysters 25c per can, Cape Cod cranberries 10c per quart, plus bleached celery and fresh meats.
Advertisement listing infant soft sole shoes sizes 0 to 4 offered at 25 cents a pair from B Thing & Co 32 Calhoun Street with manager HB Tobey. Also Christmas candies specials from The New Keystone 288 240 Calhoun Street featuring assorted candies, fruit and seafood items and dressed poultry in city.
William Bosselman a carpenter for Henry working on the Root Memorial building occupied by the People’s store fell twenty five feet from a plank across the shaft on the third floor. The plank broke as the elevator started, dropping him onto the ascending cage. He suffered several severe scalp wounds and was treated by Dr. Barnett.
A vintage ad listing fancy cans and saucers, plates and salad dishes, chocolate pots and tea sets, pressed and blown drinking glasses, tea sets in various styles, and water sets. Prices range from a few cents to a dollar, highlighting twenty styles of water sets and latest glassware fashions.
Last night Journal Gazette reported a window display “Christmas Bells” at New People’s Store, photographed for posterity. The exhibit, titled by proprietors as a fine work of art, took about an hour to photograph, promising a faithful reproduction.
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