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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1908
Page
5
An old advertisement lists clearance prices for household goods including soap powder tins ladders stove brushes dish pans ironing boards water coolers and toasters. It highlights reduced prices on market baskets caddies iron rings and waxed paper among other items.
The piece lists city personalities including Theodore vice president of Genoan-American bank as meeting chair, Wallace, Thayer and Oliver from Thayer street, John from Craighton, and Norman Stevens at a cigar stand job. It notes attendance at Chicago and Grant Rapids expositions and Fort Wayne outfitters planning buys, with Manager Hallenstein hopeful for fall business and improved prosperity post politics.
Bulletin announces a weekly price sale across departments including groceries meats and dairy with deep discounts. It highlights cheap flour bacon lard butter coffee olives and canned goods plus fruit vegetables fresh eggs and farm supplies. The ad targets households and hotels offering large discounts and no alteration charges on clothing and garments. It promotes department wide markdowns on suits jackets shirts waistsets and infant wear. The notice ends inviting farmers to sell fresh eggs and mentions Mr. Cramer in wholesale department on the second floor.
G W Boerger at 120 W Berry St advertises selling two houses with a 48 foot lot in the coming days for 2100 dollars. The properties yield about 240 dollars annual rent, better than ten percent return, and the seller emphasizes quick sale.
Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Co announces a Children’s Day event at Robison Park for youths under sixteen. Transportation to the park runs 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and return is 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15, free of charge.
The superior court hears applications of Louis F. Pitz and Irvin G. Detsching for bar admission after referral to the examining committee. Sophia Busse petitions in circuit court alleging Christian Busse is an habitual drunkard and incapable of estate management. a guardian will likely be appointed. Elmer B. Gandy sues Joseph H. Jackson for a note of unspecified amount. Gandy & Filgeman attorneys. Leonard, administrator of Wilmer Leonard estate, granted permission to sell a touring car. Lizzie Mourning seeks divorce from John E. Mourning on grounds of habitual drunkenness and mistreatment. requests alimony, monthly support, and custody of five children. Somers & Kenimerkier attorneys. North side residents urge bridge across St. Marys river at Borthald street. county trustees discuss road lists and land descriptions with County Auditor George Linderauth. some trustees oppose extra cost, others approve. Licenses issued: Charles A. Bowers and Georgia W. Wolford. Michael A Kaehler and Mann Lew.
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