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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1902
Page
1
The advertisement highlights a broad holiday merchandise assortment including umbrellas ties and suspenders in boxed gifts for Christmas. It promotes slippers gloves handkerchiefs perfumes and cosmetics with a variety of colors and fabrics plus toys games and silverware. It notes doubled clerical staff for prompt service and mentions fresh confectionery items and special Christmas trade.
Cold wave alerts shoppers to Thompson & Co. at 26 South Main Street offering socks caps and coats from $5.00 to $7.50. The store features a children’s department with suits 75c to $6.00 and 25c underwear touted as equal to en 50c rivals.
A long column of brief items lists varied notices of social visits, sales, promotions, and events. References include Mrs. Jas Brown in Logansport, J A Rodibaugh in Kokomo, Darbys store hours, Christmas entertainments, parcels like the Little Red Box, a Masons dinner in Young America, land sale near Logansport, and local trades in hardware, fur garments, and millinery.
Featured holiday assortments showcase walking skirts for ladies and misses, Shetland shawls, and square patterns in new fabrics. The Suite department presents updated wardrobe options ideal for festive seasons and formal events.
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