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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1908
Page
4
The ad touts extreme value and low wholesale costs as a store selling spring styles. It promises best quality for money and highlights three items: Princess Silk Dress at 18.50, Prince Chap Jacket at 3.95, and a semi fitting jacket at 5.75, all framed as special offers.
The notice highlights dress items with discounted prices including Panama skirts at 4.39 and black voile skirts at 4.95. It promotes waists in various fabrics and lists white goods and linens with many price points, emphasizing value and ongoing yard goods promotions.
An advertisement from Kokomo Indiana highlights fabric and linen deals. It lists items such as lonsdale muslin at 84c per yard, unbleached muslin 44c, prints, gingham, pillow slips, mercerized satin, ticking, damask, hemmed handkerchiefs, chambray, embroideries, lace, and other textiles with various sale prices. The tone urges readers to view the offerings for economical choices.
A catalog of dress fabrics highlights deep discounts on mohairs serges and taffetas. Import English mohairs, 42-inch French serges, 54-inch black chiffon worsted panama, 48-inch cream ground serges, 56-inch all wool panama, 27-inch silk pongee, novelty silks, and black silks with substantial specials. Includes price cuts from 50c to 59c and 69c to 85c ranges as presented.
A local ad promotes new spring garments including chiffon Panama and shadow stripe worsted suits in Prince Chap and Butterfly styles priced at 15.75, and silk jumper suits with full pleated skirts priced at 10.75, highlighting fit and economy for shoppers.
A Cobble of society items lists FE Ballard from Chicago visiting family, J Wood from Anderson staying with Mrs Stone, and Kokomo visitors I N Holman and Dora Fowler. Others include trips, guests, meadow and farm news, a stone ceremony at Logansport, and Frank Patterson's Bay City life remarks.
A meeting of the Galveston Poultry Association will be held at the elevator office in Galveston on Friday night May 1 1908. All members are requested to attend.
A Georgia reader from Posco endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best medicine for whooping cough in his family calling it safe and sure. Galveston Drug Co. is noted as a safe source.
Women flock to buy waist patterns as white goods muslins and printed fabrics are offered at historically low prices. The store touts dainty color and weave and emphasizes the exceptional value for wash dress materials.
Big values at this store are coming up as thick as the new grass and are everywhere. The banner promises savings on a wide range of items, presenting a buoyant mood for shoppers and urging early purchases.
Listing of carpet scrim crepe drapery lace curtains and net fabrics with special weekly prices. Includes 36 inch art scrim at 25 cents per yard, 14 inch drapery at 20 cents, lace curtains at 59 cents, brussel net 34 yards by 56 inches at 3.65 dollars, and battenberg trimmed bobbinet curtains at 1.25 dollars.
Catalog of rug values with sizes and prices including velvet rugs 27 by 54 and 30 by 60, brussels room size 9 by 11 and 9 by 12, Wilton 6 by 12, and assorted ingrain carpets with various weights and border options. Also notes 25 designs of new patterns with borders and discounted quality marks.
An old timey ad lists poultry and animal care items along with household goods and hardware. Items include stoneware, screen doors, lawn mowers, enameled pots, wire, seeds, cleaners, and small tools with prices like 15c to 88c and many under a dollar.
A Logansport Times digest notes social visits including Miss Ina Burrous of Kokomo with Square Lumber Co. and Tom Davis families. The S P Bevington Jersey Cow sale produced an average of 42 dollars. Drainage commissioners filed a report listing benefitting property owners totaling 1360 dollars with 60.05 dollars in expenses. Others mention house remodeling on California avenue, new Easter clothes, coal orders, and visits between Kokomo, Galveston, Walton, and Logansport communities.
Nine years ago a Mill Creek Ind Ter resident nearly lost his life from extreme weakness. A druggist suggested Electric Bitters, and after a bottle he recovered full strength. He recalls being on the brink, then returning to health. Sold with guarantee at Galveston Drug Co. 50c.
Trustee M Shirley of Jackson Township sets office days at his residence on Tuesday and at the Galveston Drug Co drug store in Galveston Indiana on Fridays each week.
An editor endorses Chamberlaing Stomach and Liver Tablets for biliousness from sedentary life. Claims gentle, effective action clearing the digestive tract and the head. Price 25 cents. Samples free. Galveston Drug Co.
Purifying pill advertised to relieve headache biliousness and jaundice caused by liver and bowel stagnation. Markets Dr King's New Life Pills as reliable purifiers that avoid grinding or griping, priced 25 cents at Galveston Drug Co.
Eb der John T. Ongley of Rootville Pennsylvania reports decades of itching with eczema ended after using chamberlain salve since December 1905. He no longer wakes at night due to itch and says the salve cured his skin disease. Galveston Drug Co. sells the salve.
A fragment shows various numbers such as 3.85 4.95 20.00 and 2.25 along with mixed symbols and letters including 8 I 3c 37 1 2c. The context suggests a catalog or price snippet with inconsistent formatting.
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