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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1908
Page
5
Table Silverware at Clearance Prices. Now is the time to buy a dainty piece of silver for a gift or to add to your collection. The offerings are Rogers 1847 Ware, noted for neat pretty designs. Prices listed follow.
The advertorial note claims electric bitters cure climate ailments like fever malaria jaundice biliousness and general debility. It promotes the product as a great alterative and blood purifier for nervousness insomnia and bodily weakness, sold under guarantee at Dreier & Brn's drug store for 50 cents.
Albion Ind July 17 Wolf Lake prepares for the third annual onion day carnival under the Wolf Lake band with Lumley Surface as manager. The opera house hosts a home talent show The Only Girl at 7 PM on the 14th as rehearsals begin for a hoped for crowd pleasing performance.
Mr Charles Feil former tm of Fulk Chaska Co opens a suite of attire in the Behm building. A case against Mrs LeVine is noted. A door closed on the band of Lie Neama, daughter of Abrs Bernice Lane, severing a finger. Dr Van Buskirk assisted. Five hundred stars expected at the Modern Woodmen meeting in Decatur on August 3. Gas lines on Wallace Masterson Laselle Lafayette St Martins Clay and Monroy streets to be cut.
Read like a late 19th or early 20th century ad announcing bargain prices in fruits vegetables and groceries. It lists Alberta peaches oranges grapes and pineapples with low per unit prices, discounts on cucumbers tomatoes and onions, plus spring chickens and old hens, cereals and candies, and a large ready to wear sale on ladies waists and graniteware. It urges restaurants hotels and boarding houses to call in before supply runs out.
The superior court dismissed the case of £ 1 et al. Acting Iange Yaple filed judgments for $63.95 for Ida Cluius against Wabash railroad, 32.7 for Emmet V Emrick against Emma Boedeker, and $40 for Cudahy Packing Co against John A Gans. A remonstrance against the Biesiada dictatorship in Jackson Township was led as unnecessary. Fort Wayne Outfitte Company sues John Platt for an account. William Kaough sues McBride Estate Co for $3,000 after a runaway injury. Kaough and his attorney are noted and the incident involved his buggy being overturned. Henry and Guy Oolenick are named as attorneys.
Children’s wash suits half price with several price points listed. Sale begins this morning with wash suits at $1.50 $3.00 and $8.00. Patterson-Fletcher Co urges readers to attend upcoming race days next Wednesday Thursday and Friday with admission reduced to 25 cents.
Fred Creagal and a companion attempted a landscape stunt at a Bloomingdale yard near Dr Goheen s residence. Patrolman Dickson stopped them and the pair fled. Cran, a former knitting mill worker, was noted as having been unemployed. Frank Caley, repeatedly jailed for drunkenness, was picked up on the same day and sent to the county jail for thirty days. Rev G I Cooper failed to reform him with the Rescue Mission. An excursion via Nickel Plate Road to Niagara Falls and various Ontario destinations is advertised for August with train departs 5:00 pm. booklet available from J C Melenbacker in Fort Wayne.
The advertisement lists assorted grocery items with prices including Best Country Creamery Butter at 230 I b, Avilla Cloverleaf Creamery at 28¢ per lb, Strictly Fresh Eggs at 18¢ per dozen, and various produce and canned goods. Also shown are coffees, teas, cheeses, honeys, and dressed poultry, reflecting a broad mid century market catalog with per unit and per sack pricing and multiple brand names.
A fragmented grocery list shows items like tomatoes, cucumbers, celery, peaches, lemons with odd spellings and misplaced punctuation. The readable parts indicate a market or catalog line detailing produce varieties and grades without coherent context.
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