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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1909
Page
8
A Fort Wayne advertisement announces a special White Sale lasting all week. It offers snowy white garments and white goods, with muslin underwear highlighted as a key feature. Other economy items entice shoppers to visit early in the week.
Advertises a range of full length skirts and gowns with muslin cambric and embroidery, priced from 39c to $10.00 and up to $8.00 for gowns. Highlights include 50c, 75c and $1.00 levels with lace, flounce, hemstitched edges, and hand embroidered chemises. Also offers corset cover and skirt combinations at $1.25 to $4.00.
Full size hemstitched drawers offered at 25c with a 29c value, 25c sale. Ruffies trimmed with lace and embroidery priced at 50c, 65c value for 5c. Trimmings feature fine laces and embroideries at 75c for 89c value. Extra fine material drawers with selected laces tagged at 89c for $1.00. Other superior drawers with wider fullness offered at $1.50 to $3.50.
Advertisements showcase corset covers with lace inserted yokes from 25c to 39c values, 50c items trimmed in lace embroidery and ribbon, and 35c pieces with embroidered yokes. Additional fine material corset covers demand extra values up to 75c and beyond to one dollar.
The notice outlines standard postal charges for Regular 15c quality Regular 18c quality Regular 20c quality and Regular 25c quality services. It specifies pricing tiers and service classes in a concise rate table style.
Readable sale notice highlights white wash skirts for the season. Includes linen Indian Head skirts with button trim at a special price of 1.25. Encourages shoppers to prepare for hot days and choose crisp, white skirts in the collection.
Notre Dame student Igna tus McNamee and Missouri’s J F Fergus Orr were barred after allegations of copying twenty lines from a recent book in the oration on Child Labor. Janet Wennimore Anderson of Barlham College received second place on a technicality, sparking controversy over the final honors.
The Huntington County council flatly rejected paying J. B. Workmen & Co., tax ferrets, for 35 percent of delinquent taxes noted on the treasurer’s books. The contract dated years ago ended before all taxes were entered, and the council says no payment is due after ferrets left town.
Investigation shows furniture sprinkled with gasoline. no other cause evident. House vacant at the time. Total losses amount to about $500.
Two inmates died at the Indiana School for Feeble-Minded Youth on Saturday due to tuberculosis. The report notes pulmonary disease as the cause and lists both victims among state school inmates.
Advertises a deluxe summer weight corset model offered at 3.50 in place of 5.00. Claims latest type and high-grade construction with nationwide availability.
A fragment from Nairobi reports May 22 events tied to the Roosevelt expedition in British East Africa. The note mentions Nairobi as a location with unclear details about the expedition timeline or participants.
Leigh Hunt, wealthy miner, visited Pierceton with relatives and returned to New York last night aboard a special Pennsylvania train ordered to fetch him. The train, consisting of engine and coach, was under conductor W. S. Lepsett and engineer Jane Stewart. The round trip ended around 4:36 yesterday afternoon.
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