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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
8
An assortment of small ads lists items for sale and services. Fresh fish weekly at Alkire & Son, spring wheat flour at Clark’s, new salt barrels at Jentz’ and harness makers offering hand crafted gear. Also a long moralizing note on honest journalism and readers’ trust.
In Greenwich a reader and an editor discuss a love story in a New Fiction Magazine office. Henrietta debates ending, the editor argues for readers' impact, and they finally embrace both views as they navigate romance and artistic integrity.
A store owner boasts of having everything from carpet tacks to mausoleums under the motto If Man Wishes It and It Is Made to Have It. He tells a green clerk to push sales and never let a customer leave empty handed. A leisurely first customer declines post cards and the clerk offers stretchers.
The article describes a wall display of large photographs swaying with office breeze on a twenty second floor and the humorous misreading by visitors. It then contrasts rifle and smooth bore guns noting grooves in rifles create spin and improved accuracy per gyroscopic principle.
Wours F L Sharrer holds morning hours 8 10 a m and evening 1 2 and 7 9 p m J C Sharrer available 11 a m to 12 p m and 4 6 and 7 p m Office on Main Street.
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