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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1903
Page
4
John Thomas and his daughter from Kokomo spent Tuesday visiting A. H. Thomas and family, sharing time together during a local siting.
The note asks all who owe money to settle with Gero W McCoy and partners Harry Hubler and wife of Young America. It mentions Taylor Hubler and family visiting earlier in the week. Also promotes Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets for appetite and digestion with sale by Z U Loep.
Special sale lists colored dress goods from Toc up to 20 dollars with discounts this week. Men’s summer underwear shirts and drawers cut from 35 cents to 25 cents each or 50 cent suit. Also offers better underwear up to 3.50 per suit.
Notices announce Waltz Sisters Specialty Co will exhibit in Galveston in a commodious tent on June 19 and 20. Other items include a public sale by S. P. Bevington in Galveston June 26 with buggies carriages wagons and stock plus a six month credit. Auctioneers W C Legg and J A Robibaugh listed.
Mr and Mrs George Sharp are visiting relatives in Logansport. Mrs J M Lines stayed with her daughter Mrs Effie Taylor in Miami last week. Mr and Mrs Will Smith of Russiaville were guests of L E Miller and wife Saturday. O1 Stoves upcoming. one dozen of the best just received by S P Bevington.
May 24 1903 schedule shows eastbound and westbound departures from Galveston including No 30 at 7 02 am No 96 at 259 pm No 106 1 12 am with signal stop for south of Kokomo and West Bound No 41 9 35 am No 31 7 40 pm No 101 2 09 with Kokomo stops Agent J A Cunningham notes. Also medical ad for a pleasant remedy for summer diarrhoea in children sold by Z U Loop.
An advertisement urges readers to inspect the Whiteside and Bohman line of plows and implements in Galveston Indiana with promises of good prices. It also includes a testimonial from Mrs. Sarah W Curtis of Lee Massachusetts praising Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for indigestion and sour stomach and notes the product is sold by Z U Loon.
Kokomo will host a six day free street fair and carnival from June 15 to 20 in the city park with the Dixie Carnival Company presenting attractions headlined by Dana Thompson the world champion high diver. The event runs daily with band concerts and moral, clean shows from afternoon to 10 30 at night.
Winona Lake Indiana famed resort hosts Winona Assembly and Summer School attracting visitors nationwide. Beginning May 15 excursion tickets to Winona Lake will go on sale via Pennsylvania Lines. For fares and train times contact Pennsylvania Lines ticket agents or F Van Dusen Pittsburg and for lake attractions inquiries to C Dickey Winona Lake Indiana.
A warning about staying prepared for accidents describes a family in a remote area facing Burns cuts and ulcers and recommends Bucklen’s Salve as the best remedy available at Z Uz Loop’s drug store.
Mrs S H Newson of Decatur Alabama endured three years of stomach and bowel distress with deteriorating health. After doctors and remedies failed she tried Electric Bitters and rapidly recovered. The drug is promoted for liver kidney stomach and bowel problems and guaranteed by Z U Loop, a local druggist.
A list of items with prices including pressed tumblers six for 9 cents, etched Brown tumblers six for 25 cents, glass lamps 25 and 20 cents, lemon juice extractor 8 cents, paraffin refined 1 cent per pound, platform scales 8 cents, stoneware gas size per gallon 5 cents, household ammonia pint 5 cents, cotton map compact size, broom 19 cents, gas lighter 8 cents, wax tapers box 4 cents.
A catalog style item list notes assorted insect aids and hardware. It includes feather dusters ten inch size 1 0c tangle foot sticky fly paper three large sheets five cents envelopes with six sheets two cents daisy fly killer in a decorated tin box thirteen cents roach food Peterman’s per box eight cents bed bug destroyer Peterman’s four pint thirteen cents bed bug destroyer Peterman’s half pint two cents die bugs kills bed bugs and reaches eighteen cents wire clothes lines four cents per eight cents sixty feet for one dollar ninety eight feet for three eighteen screen door springs coil steel four cents porcelain knob for screen door two cents screen door check prevents slamming eight cents.
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