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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1906
Page
3
The ad lists deep discounts across suspenders, hose, fancy hose, waists, wash suits, union suits, trousers, belts, caps, and neckwear. Items are marked at fractions and round dollars with percentage discounts for remaining stock. Several lines note 10 to 20 percent reductions on assorted goods including blue and black caps and black and white fabrics.
The listing shows suits priced from 25.00 down to 6.00 with multiple cut prices. A note mentions boys' blue black and staple suits discounted 20 percent, yielding an $18.00 black suit at 14.40.
The listing shows prices for top coats for boys with discounts. Top coats priced at 20, 15, 12, and 10 dollars are offered, while all other top coats are 10 percent off.
Advertisement notes half price handkerchiefs with prices around 19 cents and 5 cents. Claims bold sale items like bordered designs priced down to low figures. Includes multiple price points and bold promotional language.
Railroad and shopmen are offered the best $1.00 overall in the world. The garment is cut wider through hips and thighs, features reinforcements and unique pockets. During the sale each overall is 75 cents or $1.50 per suit, with a limit of three suits per person, aiming to supply at least one suit per worker.
Advertised sale lists trunks and travel cases discounted from 40.00 to 4.00 with multiple price points. The yardage shows items labeled as trunks suitcases and travel bags offered at 39.00 30.00 25.00 20.00 12.00 6.00 4.00.
The advertisement lists various vests with half price discounts. Plain white vests are also discounted, with multiple price points shown for different colored or styled vests.
A paper classified item advertises children knee pant suits in multiple price points from 1.25 to 5.00, with quantities including 2.50 to 10.00 and a final note of 25 percent discount on plain black blue and staple knee pant suits making a 5.00 blue serge suit cost 3.75.
All shirts for white collars except plain white will be sold at half price. Negligee shirts with attached collar receive a 20 percent discount. Units shown include prices 235e 50¢ 7de 1.00 1.25.
A fragment lists multiple suit prices from $30.00 down to $4.00 with notes about blue black and staple fabrics. The text contains garbled numbers and punctuation, making exact items and quantities hard to determine.
A period sale lists pants at 50c and 25c with further reductions to 4.00 and 3.00 for trousers. Other trousers drop 20 percent, making staples like a 5.00 item down to 4.00. Children's straw hats are half price with selected hats priced at 2.00 1.00 and 0.50.
The notice shows discounted raincoats with various prices for men and boys. Items include men and boys raincoats with price reductions from 30.00 to 14.40 and 12.00 in a clearance style listing.
A late edition price list shows discounts on underwear caps knee pants and top coats. Prices are cut to 50c 25c and 75c ranges with blue black and corduroy knee pants discounted 20 percent. Top coats and overcoats reduced with remaining items slashed at 1 to 10 dollars.
The ledger shows pairs including Burge Sheafer age 22 and Martha Shaffer 19, Alfred Haddon 33 with Clara Vergens 22, William Bradtmiller 24 with Emma Hitzeman 23, Otto Wennerland 27 with Maude Holdsworth 31, Edward Weirman 21 with Anna Metzger 19, Charles Meyers 33 with Felicia White 37, William Hilburt 23 with Nellie Huntsman 20, Marion Alrey 24 with Nora Feaser 18, Thomas Hazelett 24 with Anna Butler 18, Emil Roy 21 with Luella Odem 19, Charles Dodane 24 with Alma Corneille 24, and George Pound 21 with Jessie Bradley 20.
A series of birth announcements lists newborns in the area with parental names and street addresses. Entries include Sherman Keener in West Main Street, Alph A Jacobs on Howell Street, Joseph Shoemaker on West Main, William Marfienke on East Jefferson, and O C Brune of Terre Haute with a son.
A series of birth announcements lists new arrivals to families including Mr. and Mrs. J J Andre at 736 West Superior Street with a daughter, Mr. and Mrs Henry J Schmidt at 607 Walnut Street with a son, Mr. and Mrs J P Lennert at 922 East Jefferson Street with a son, Mr. and Mrs C G Wallace on South Hanna Street with a daughter, and Mr. and Mrs H K Tandy on Montgomery Street with a son.
A compressed list of real estate transfers in Wayne Adams Monroe and other townships with buyers and sellers names. Colonel Hunt from Ashley wins fifty seventh homestead drawing on Shoshone Indian reservation in Wyoming. Fitch & Sons advertise more bargains and farm labor opportunities in daily papers.
The Chicago market opened lower as Liverpool wheat declined and northern harvests improved. September wheat fell from 72% to around 71% after a weak close. corn eased with favorable crop prospects. oats and hogs showed mixed moves. Local receipts and futures showed a soft, cautious tone across grains and pork, lard, and ribs.
The fragment references a lower numbered No. 2 red cash elevator and a Wipe No. 2 cash item with a nominal price near 70 cents and 48 4c, alongside weak mention of a No. 2 red cash item at 3lc nominal.
Chicago market report shows cattle receipts at 5000 with steady prices: beeves 3.90 to 6.75, cows and heifers 1.15 to 5.20, stockers 2.25 to 4.15, Texans 5.75 to 4.60, calves 5.00 to 7.00. Hogs receipts 13000, sales mostly 5.70 to 6.20, heavy 5.80 to 6.15, light 5.75 to 6.26, pigs 5.20 to 6.00, bulk 5.90 to 6.15. Sheep receipts 18000 with 10c pope sheep 3.14 to 5.30 and lambs 4.60 to 7.75.
Hogs and cattle prices move lower at Cincinnati with steady cattle and mixed sheep. Pittsburg shows steady cattle with hogs ranging from 6.25 to 6.50 and sheep down to 5.80. East Buffalo notes steady cattle and hogs around 6.35 to 6.50 and lambs at 8.00.
Market prices listed for cheese, butter, eggs, lard and produce. State full cream and western creamery goods noted with per unit costs. wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley and flour quotations from multiple firms. Livestock and packing butter prices also included with regional variations.
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