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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1900
Page
1
The silk department showcases Foulard silks with late designs and colorings at 85c, Taffata silks at 75c per yard, and Japanese silks in all colors at 59c. Exclusive waist silks feature unique patterns and strong quality with prices around $1.25 to $1.00.
A local store advertises an unusual, pretty wash goods selection including lawns bastistes organdies dimities and tissues priced at 12 46 and 15 cents. Silk muslins in plain dotted and lace varieties are offered at sec per yard. The message promises high quality fabrics at exceptional value and urges an inspection.
Advertising copy touts lace and embroidery selections in town. Describes wide laces from 5 to 8 inches, allover laces in white ecru and black priced 79c to 1.90 per yard. Spencist nets offered from 1.75 to 3.00 per yard, noted as beautiful and elegant.
An ad-style notice extols a range of items described as superb and wonderful. It touts high quality choices and mentions prices from five cents to two dollars, inviting readers to see the new offerings. The phrasing suggests a shop or vendor marketing several distinctive products.
Migotern gloves in spring shades with fine quality priced at $1.00 each. Large assortment of 6d¢ grade gloves in all colors and sizes. Dancy silk gloves described as the newest style, priced at 75¢.
Black Dress Goods sale touts a full, beautiful assortment. Highlights include elegant lustres at 75 cents and 1.00, satin Duchess cloth at 1.50 per yard, silk and wool crepons valued at 3.00 now 2.00, pebble cloth shrink resistant at 1.75, and imported storm serge at 75 cents per yard. The ad promises superb quality and unmatched selection.
Retail promo notes a red color assortment priced at 1.00 with a few items at 1.98 each. It mentions Jene Haveler's sample line and encourages customers to browse for a wrapper. Limited quantities and sizes offered.
A fragmented advertisement lists typical soap and hygiene items with prices: Packer's tar soap 15¢, Pears unscented soap gc, Lyons tooth powder 1 enen, Listerated tooth powder 19¢, Coke's dandruff cure 69¢, Vaseline cold cream 12¢, Vaseline camphorice 7¢, Woodburry facial soap 15¢, Frostella 19¢, Pompadour comb 10 to 25¢, New Whee choice 25¢, New Ziastic belts 75¢.
New, chic and pretty items arrive from New York. Prices range from 25c to $1.00. Persian patterns and Soc items up to $1.00. Four in hand ties are very new and secure. Handkerchief squares, the latest for waists, at $1.25 each.
Miss Pearl Pitzer and Mrs Trueblood Thompson head a sales staff at a millinery shop offering trimmed hats in the new New York style. Prices run 2 50, 3, and 5 dollars with a grand opening promotion next week.
Activities in Galveston and nearby towns include Keifer from Elwood visiting his mother, Lee Green from Walton visiting Galveston friends, and J P Bevington adding to his hardware store. Notices of lodges, a creamery, medical ads, and local travel sausage up a busy page full of community happenings.
City shoppers flock to the new Bakery for a festival offering bread pies buns and cakes of all kinds. Local ads boast deals from furniture dealers and a $20 bicycle bargain at Loop's. News notes include marriages visits and assorted town updates from Kokomo to Walcott and Pressonville with brief local business moves and health product endorsements.
Walton Correspondent reports W S Kepner resigns as principal elected unanimously by the board. He cultivated attendance at Marion Normal College with fifteen sent by him, ten now teaching, and twenty common-branch graduates. May he prosper wherever he goes. Also, Ex constable Oscar Welty clashed with Sam Taylor outside a Kokomo saloon. Welty fired, hitting bystander Andy Helmick in the hip. Welty arrested and later released, Deck Moore to guarantee appearance.
Principal season event held at the home of Mr and Mrs Harvey Gray with Epworth League guests. The house was well lit and guests were warmly welcomed. A musical and literary program featured solos recitations and violin and piano pieces by Mrs Bell Burrows Miss Mabel Campbell Miss Minnie Galbreath Miss Edna Hiller Mrs Quie King Miss Ida Galbreath Mrs Harvey Gray and Miss Edna Symons followed by a three course supper.
Galveston readers are urged to visit City Bakery run by Fred Paulus. The ad touts full measure and weight, oysters sold with minimal water, and claims of the best bread cookies and bake goods in the area, highlighting a ham sandwich with abundant meat.
Queensware glassware and stoneware at Loop's F R Morrison were doing business in Kokomo Monday. The Galveston Cash Lumber Company now has a good supply of hard coal. Leave your orders now.
An ad promotes Foley's Kidney Cure as a remedy for various illnesses claiming most serious diseases originate in the kidneys. It urges readers to try the product today if they feel unwell and promises guaranteed results.
British claims of poor generalship for their Spion Kop setback clash with Boer sympathy arguments. The town’s mud holes dry up, threatening fish ponds, while local notes mock a devine healer and celebrate Oscar Welty’s rising public profile amid a history of sensational incidents.
Eugene J. Hall, renowned poet and publisher, credits Foley's Honey and Tar with restoring his voice just before a scheduled lecture at Central Music Hall in Chicago after hoarseness threatened to derail the event. FP. H. Brant.
A brief advert claims Dr King’s New Life Pills quickly relieve sick and nervous headaches by purifying blood strengthening nerves and boosting health. Easy to take and offered with a money back guarantee if not cured, sold by Z U Loop druggist.
P. H. Beare promotes Banner Salve as a healing salve derived from a prescription by a renowned specialist. Marketed as effective for piles, burns, scalds, ulcers, abscesses, and various skin diseases.
The Dimnaiog Company in Chicago seeks several bright and honest persons to serve as managers in end close by counties. Salary $900 plus expenses. Position permanent. Send references and self addressed stamped envelope.
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