This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1914
Page
8
Red tag sale at Heller's promises savings on home textiles. Cotton blankets priced at $2.00 and wool nap blankets at $2.50, with a sale price around $1.69, offering relief on living costs through discounted bedding options.
Readable catalog text offers blue and black serge skirts at 5.50, black panama skirts at 6.00, sweaters 5.00 value and 2.00 value, knit skirts 50 cents, embroidery lengths 3 to 7 inches wide priced 10 cents per yard. Multiple fabric items promote sale urgency.
A fragment advertising bed spreads highlights savings in a sales line. It suggests beds and linen enhances home comfort and mentions value oriented pricing, though details are incomplete. The ad evokes home decor shopping with emphasis on affordable quality.
Silk remnants advertised at four off across colors for summer use. Sou fancy silks advertised in a bold sale, inviting shoppers to look now for summer use.
The text shows scattered price points for men s clothing range from 10.00 to 25.00 with several $11.50 15.00 16.50 17.00 18.00 20.00 22.00 25.00 values plus misread tokens and stray letters. No coherent sale or item description is discernible in the fragment.
Business locals to advertisers are 6 cents per insertion. Notices of costly events and other money making ventures show 8 lines per insertion with card of hands at 25 cents each. Resolutions of respect charged at one dollar per insertion. Legal ads governed by law. Telephone 49. Thursday Jan 15.
A roundup of short notices lists sick residents Katherine Winters and Susan Hills, travel visits from Eden Ohio to Fremont, farm talks, and a corn show with 600 farmers attending in Winona. Civic notes include church dinner plans and the abolition of the Register of Deeds office, plus many neighborly updates and occasional business trips.
The note lists names on the Booster List and local social snippets. It mentions Mrs George Collins improving after illness, Vern Garn and Edd Carr visiting Coldwater, Berry and Willa Gleason absent due to sickness, and former Fremont band members meeting to discuss reorganizing. It also covers the old Southern Michigan hotel fire, a domestic science supper at the M E church, travel updates for Mrs Abner G Smith and Roy, hospitality for Mrs Bert Isenhower and her sister, a Sorosis supper fundraiser, Newt Ball’s Floridian fruit box with a giant lemon and cum-quats, and C A Paul sending fruit from Florida.
The First State Bank held its annual meeting of stockholders with the old board of directors and officers re-elected. The bank paid a seven percent dividend and added $1000 to its surplus. A banquet at the Hilton House followed the meeting as the bank marks its second anniversary.
Floyd H. Smith Ladhranage 20 Corrine Curtis Angola ok William Smiley Angola 03 Mary L. Tuttle Angola 5 Ray A. Kimball Orland 25 Elsie E. squires Orland 25 Amos Wolf Nava 2 Ida LE. Woodford Salem tw. 47
Real estate records show multiple transfers including Alive V Leininger to Earnest Longland at Lake James for 200 dollars, Victor Gilbert to Harry Snyder Angula for 2100, and several other deeds in Salem Jackson York and Millgrove with prices ranging from 100 to 2823.44 dollars. Names include KF M Vordermark Amanda Lane Stayner Gannon Gil bert Storey and others with lots and land parcels across Oakwood Crooked Lake and Lone Tree Point.
A sleighing party went to Page to church Thursday evening. Paul Richards and Marie Anderson were absent Monday forenoon. Freshman English plans to begin studying texts soon. Many country H. S. students were late due to drifted roads. The Albion program is scheduled for January 16. The school held a fire drill Tuesday afternoon with the building evacuated.
Local notices list lost tools between M. E. church and creamery with reward offered by Elmer Sides. Several sale items appear including mixed hay, a sewing machine, stock bog, and various cows from Fr W. Rowe and Son. Also advertising old papers, safety deposit boxes at Bank of Premont, and contact notes for A C Stokes and Mrs Susan Baloh.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.