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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1909
Page
4
Galveston Indiana announces advertising rates including local notices at five cents per line and card notices, with extra charges for longer cards and obituaries if poetry is attached. Resolutions of respect priced per line, church notices three cents per line, display rates available on request.
A note instructs that for any item or job work, contact No 24 during the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Each call should be placed within the stated daily window. The message emphasizes the available service times and the contact number.
John Thomas starts a big bargain sale with opening day on Saturday, August 28. A large Galveston crowd attended the Old Settlers Meeting in Miami on Saturday and families from Kokomo and Galveston joined social visits across several days.
An advertising line touts Bucklen's Arnica salve as earths supreme healer for boils ulcers fever sores eczema piles and general pain relief with a price of 25c at Galveston Drug. The notice lists various injuries such as cuts burns and gunshot wounds and claims the salve can subdue inflammation and kill pain.
Clarence Emerick and wife spent Sunday with T. W. Logan and family. Glen Loop visits Prof. Harry Bean in Butler. Various townsfolk travel and host, including editor remarks on Brown county farming and land values. John Thomas Big Bargain Sale opens August 28. Universalists basket meeting at Noel grove Sunday. Mixed social events, shifts to real estate and millinery openings.
Rejoicing in Fedora Ten as C V Pepper survives dangerous lung hemorrhages. Pepper credits Dr King’s New Discovery after three weeks of use, saying he can work again. The remedy claims to cure weak or diseased lungs, coughs, colds, hay fever, lagrippe, asthma. Price 50¢ and $1.00. trial bottle free. Galveston Drug Co. sells and guarantees.
The weekly notice reports a well attended Sunday service and announces Pastor Fouts will preach next Sunday both morning and evening. It notes a Daguerreotype social by the Y P C U at the parsonage requiring a baby picture for entry and mentions the upcoming Township Sunday School Convention in Lincoln.
Fruit cans for the canning season at Yearling’s. Mrs. Alice Meek returns from Chicago. A baby boy born to C N Hyatt and wife Wednesday. G W McCoy represents The Kahn Tailoring Co of Indianapolis. James Crockett and family attend a Logansport reunion. Twenty seven round trip circus tickets sold to Logansport. Mabel and Fthel Devlin visit Maud Smoker at Bennett’s Switch. Goldie Sperry and Bean wed at U parsonage by Rev Sickafoose. M E church reports a summer dinner at Settlers’ picnic Miami August 21 1809. receipts 92.13, expenses 36.35. thanks to Association and John Todd. Committee: Mrs Maggie Stauffer and Mrs Lida Zehring.
Unclear fragment promotes Dr. King's New Life Pills as a cure for liver trouble and general health issues. Claims include constipation headache jaundice and pimples with a price of 25c at Galveston Drug Co.
A burlesque piece spoofing a new code by the Farmers Anti Auto Society. It jokes about penalties for speeding and near-morse rules, including tarpaulins to blend cars with scenery and absurd signals when approaching corners.
The YMCA movement in Kokomo unites town and rural communities through business and social ties. With over one hundred Kokomo high school students from rural homes, and many country residents employed in city factories, the association aims to uplift boys and men physically intellectually and socially as a central hub for the surrounding area.
Mrs Maud Whisman visited Ko komo Monday. Mrs Fanny Haynes spent Sunday with Logansport friends. The Finscott reunion will be held at the Kokomo park Thursday. The ladies of the M E church are serving lunch today at the A L Garrison sale.
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