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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1911
Page
7
A garbled sale list offers pineapples oranges butter eggs sugar and flour with prices per unit and per bag. It includes fresh produce like strawberries and potatoes, pantry items such as coffee cocoa jelly and lard, plus various canned fruits and teas. Multiple brands and weights are mentioned with cents per item and per dozen or bag.
Zion's Lutheran school organizes a Fourth of July picnic in Wiesser grove with 980 children 230 Young Men's and Young Ladies from Zion's Walther league. The parade leaves the church at 2 AM reaches the grove by 9 AM. Daylong program includes games athletic events and a baseball game in the afternoon with refreshments available. Boys bathing suits plain blue and white sized 24 to 34 priced 60¢ to $1.30. Patterson Fletcher Co Foster's.
White's Supply House at 825 and 227 Barr Street markets eggs paying top prices and offers one 8S and 4 trading stamp per dozen plus one S and H stamp per 1 cent purchase. Promotes double stamps redemptions at S and H premium day. Announces baby chicks arrival including White Wrandettes and Black Minorcas, with orders welcome.
Alaska salmon, red salmon, canned goods, butter and lard, dried beef and bacon. Fresh fruit and vegetables promised for Saturday with large shipments of home grown strawberries. early cherries, lemons, and Valencia oranges encouraged. Emphasis on quality purity correct weight honest measure and low prices.
Gary, Indiana, ten miles west of Fort Wayne, poised to host the world’s largest industrial day as US Steel expands with eighty million dollars in plants. Major firms like American Bridge Co, American Sheet and Tin Plate Co, Universal Portland Cement, and Cary Screw and Bolt Works hire thousands. Finishing shops at Gary Steel Mills, blast and open hearth furnaces, and rail, ore docks, and hospital facilities already completed or under way. Nearby sites for Locomotive Works, American Car and Foundry, and National Tube Works are reserved, with rail belts linking the industrial zones and hundreds of worker homes rising.
James D Mortimer Receiver announces an official timetable effective April 1911 from Fort Wayne detailing daily departures to Huntertown Garrett Auburn Waterloo Avilla and Wenganville with through trains to Randallville Waterloo and Garrett connections. Trains link west toward Goshen Elkhart Mishawaka South Bend Michigan City Chicago Toledo Cleveland and New York via Kendallville and the L. S. M. to final destinations. For rates and particulars contact Agent Patterson Bandana Ind.
An old time remedy ad promotes Steilhorn's Horehound Honey and Wild Cherry Compound for coughs colds and bronchitis. Describes a “ghort thro” relief and claims proven value. Mentions sale at all drug stores and a 25 cent bottle.
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