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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1908
Page
6
Fancy Lean Bacon seven cents a pound and home rendered lard at eleven cents per pound headline a dense ad listing flour lard and cereals with coffee oats prunes raisins and dried fruit. Fresh produce includes lettuce potatoes asparagus beets onions radishes and peas. Also notes extra fine job dressed chickens and customers urged to phone orders early to ensure delivery.
A new Wilt Grocery Company is planned, formed over the stock of the FLP and to be incorporated within days. The company will issue 100 000 dollars in capital stock. Wilt will be sold by Willard & Co of Payne to the new Fort Wayne Grocery Company. Fort Wayne parties anticipate interest in the venture.
Postmaster Ianna notified by Washington that contracts for erecting the new shed at the post office have been awarded. Mr James Hons acknowledged decorations for the project and a preliminary approach to the work was reported.
Local notes report F J Laurent treasurer of Blackford county visiting Fort Wayne. Huntington resident Martin operated on for hernia at St Joseph's Hospital. Loretta Ellert of Summit Street diagnosed with scarlet fever by health authorities. Audubon society to meet at public library focusing on meadowlark and other species. H Walton Clark, ex Purdue staffer, authored a fisheries pamphlet for the Washington bureau.
White Fruit House advertises a big daily bargain sale with low prices on onions lemons raisins figs tea and more. It promotes dry goods china carpet and household items including patterns, dresses, underwear, and a variety of groceries and hardware with names of departments and price points.
Owing to unsettled weather the opening of the Clear Lake hotels has been postponed until Sunday, May 24. A big season is predicted for the resort this summer, and Rickél & Wilcox promise to provide hotel service as good as possible at the popular nests.
Classified notice seeking a loan on a summer cottage property appraised at 1550 dollars with a first mortgage security. Owner seeks 600 dollars, offers to repay 100 dollars yearly or more if needed. Believed safe due to rental income around 150 dollars yearly. Respond to Wioney care Journal-Gazette.
A fragment notes public interest in discounted items such as Saturday Candy and Old Fort Lawn Stationery. It mentions special 25¢ Tooth Brush and 11-row Dupont $1.00 Hair Brush among other bargain items.
Mrs Gun Papke told police her husband Gus Papke disappeared yesterday from their home at 114 Roadway, leaving no note or trouble reported. She fears he may be harmed and notes he runs the Centennial hotel. she requests any information about his whereabouts. Also listed is an ad for a six room modern house at 1118 Rivermet Avenue Lakeside with electric lights and bath.
A mid century style price listing shows per bushel per peck and per pound rates for potatoes cheese tomatoes and other produce. It includes items such as Fine Stock Potatoes Fancy Burr Oaks planting barley red triumphs new white Florida sweet potatoes apples oranges eggs butter hams bacon lard and poultry feed with assorted pack and bulk quantities.
The Porter on Hurd's Private Hotel Car Land invites inspection of the car near the depot on N, C and StL railroad. He will show the car any time before Tuesday when the Fitch party plans to travel to the gulf without change.
Arthur B. Carter and John H. Keiser of Columbia City Indiana received notification they both passed the state pharmacy examination with excellent grades. Carter assists his father in the Carter drug store and once served as an assistant instructor in Purdue's department of pharmacy. Keiser’s background is noted but not completed in the excerpt.
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