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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1900
Page
1
A complete new line of carpets offered with unexcelled color varieties. Local showroom promotes rich textures and durable fibers to enhance home interiors with a broad palette appealing to varied decor styles.
Kokomo Dry Goods Co declares a reputation built on exclusive styles and high class novelties. The firm vows to continuously display the latest ideas and prettiest designs in the market to attract discerning customers.
Beautiful Japanese silk in popular colors for dresses and confirmations priced to attract customers. Foulard silks feature late era colorings at 85 per yard, while Padate silke offers extra fine quality in all colors at 75 cents. Waist silks show exclusive designs and strong value with patterns valued at $1.25 now offered at $1.00.
Our unusual pretty assortment has created a sensation with the daintiest fabrics. Beautiful bourrages bastiste organdies dimities and tissues offered at 12 percent 1 cent. Silk mulls in all shades worth 75 cents, special 37 cents per yard. Silk muslins in plain dotted and lace trim, worth 75 cents, now 50 cents per yard.
Advertises beautiful lace selections in widths from five to eight inches in white ecru or black. Yard prices claim up to $8. Offers all over laces described as beautiful and elegant.
A brief ad touts new elegant and superb items described as wonderful and very choice. It notes that the latest stock sells from age to 2.00 dollars and invites readers to see them.
Restern gloves in all the spring shades, beautiful quality and fitted on the hand. One dollar. Another large assortment of the 69c pair grade, silk colors, all sizes. Fancy bell gloves, the newest, 79 cents.
A retailer touts an extensive dress goods collection described as beautiful and complete. Featured items include elegant lustres at low prices, Duchess cloth, crepe fabrics, pebble cloth, and storm serge with mentions of shrinkage resistance and value comparisons.
A traveler's sample line features a beautiful assortment priced at one dollar for all sizes, with items up to 1.98 dollars each. The deal highlights wrapping options and emphasizes value as a one dollar offer for the 1.98 range.
A list of assorted grocery and drugstore goods with prices: Packer's tar soap, Pears unscented soap, Lyons tooth powder, Listerated tooth powder 19c, Coke dandruff cure 69c, Vaseline cold cream 12c and camphor ice 7c, Woodberry facial soap, Frostella 19c, Pompadour combs 10 to 25c, new buckles 25c, belts priced at 7s5c.
New, stylish neckwear selection with patterns from Persian motifs priced from 5 cents to 1 dollar. Also offers four in hand ties, very new designs, and handkerchiefs for waists at 1.25 dollars each.
A new millinery shop announces a grand opening next week offering untrimmed hats at $2.50. The store promotes honest service and upright values as it welcomes customers to its debut.
Local notes report Harry Elliott in Logansport, Sem Speece visiting relatives, and Wm Ballard with son Eber in Kokomo. Cough remedy claims relief, a bachelor’s club formed in Muncie with a vow of celibacy, and a newborn girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fickle. Road-bid awards listed for Jackson township.
At 1 o clock on Thursday March 15 at the Baptist parsonage Kokonw the marriage of Miss Mellie Bell and Emerson Kitchel was performed by Rev E G Shouse. Attendants were Miss Ida Galbreath and Rev R J Semans. A supper followed at the bride’s parents home then the S of W lodge members paid their fee to the couple. They plan to keep house on a Walton area farm after March 25 and friends and children’s affection were noted.
Local ads boast a new bakery offering bread pies buns and cakes, with oyster prices at 30 cents a quart and various bargains. Other notices mention a prize fight at Bevington s, doctors visiting from Logansport, and a Farm Journal subscription promotion tied to the LEADER newspaper.
Miss Pearl Doran hosted a Friday birthday party with a large crowd of school pupils despite stormy weather. They played parlor games, enjoyed ice cream cake and apples, and declared the gathering delightful.
The notice advertises the City Bakery offering full measures and weights, oysters by the quart with minimal water, and declares their bread cookies and bake goods the best in Galveston. It also highlights ham sandwiches with ample meat.
Will Bennett is on the sick list this week. Queensware Glassware and Stoneware at Loor s J C Barron. A business trip to Logansport Tuesday. Comments by Yargo in another column. The Galveston Cash Lumber Company reports a good supply of hard coal. Leave your orders now.
The ad promotes Foley's Kidney Cure claiming kidney disorder causes many serious diseases. It also features testimonials about an eye disease cured by Dr. Alford in Kokomo and endorses Biggle Poultry Book as a money making guide for poultry keepers with author Wilmer Atkinson Co. Philadelphia offering free mail, see price.
Eugene J. Hall the poet and publisher says a single dose of Foley's Honey and Tar restored his voice just before his Central Music Hall lecture in Chicago. FP H. Beare.
An old style advertisement claims Dr King s New Life Pills relieve sick and nervous headaches by purifying blood and strengthening nerves. It promises quick relief and health improvement for 25 cents with a money back guarantee.
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