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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1908
Page
4
Special invitation for thrifty shoppers tomorrow or the next day to view floor coverings and learn affordable ways to cover floors. Bargains include rugs 8x10 at 8.15 9x12 12.75 Axminster 16.25 velvet 1.15 curtain sets 0.58 0.63 0.95 and carpeting supplies priced to save dollars and cents.
Prices for children's, misses, ladies and men's footwear drop across many styles. Calfskin box calf and Russia calf options show notable discounts with figures ranging from under a dollar to a few dollars, including men's dress shoes and kid lace styles.
A local sale offers pruning prices on essential sewing items for home use this week. Included are silk spools, mercerized sateen, pearl buttons, metal combs, brass hooks and eyes, brass pins, and paper items priced low to promote frugal household sewing.
A bustling display of dress fabrics offers 36-in wool shepherd checks, 44-in all wool goods, and 27-in silks with deep discounts. Broadcloths, serges, and taffetas promise foreign-quality finishes for about half to two-thirds of regular prices. Pompous trimmings and passementaries complete a refined fall assortment.
Miss Audra Thomas and Mrs. Susie Armstrong visited local towns over the weekend as new fall and winter suit samples arrive. G. W. Conwell Bank advertises selling $50,000 in sale notes while noting visitors Mrs. E A Freeman and Clyde Stewart of Kokomo plan a Los Angeles winter. Pearl Scott, son of A M and Mrs Scott, is ill with pneumonia near town.
A vintage advertisement urges readers to avoid biliousness malaria and jaundice with Dr Kings New Life Pills. The Galveston Drug store sells the 25 cent remedy.
Local snippets detail visits by Mrs Lillie Coucher and others, plus G W McCoy of Indianapolis handles Kahn Tailoring pricing. Galveston Lumber Co promotes goods, with a football game recap against Logansport and a note on Chamberlain stomach tablets. Notable names include Emmer Kitchell, Grace Proctor, Homer in Vincennes, and various Galveston residents.
O. M. Shirley trustee of Jackson Township will hold office days at his residence on Tuesdays and at Galveston Drug Co. drug store in Galveston Indiana on Fridays each week.
A practical guide notes that Chamberlain's Salve applied on a soft cloth relieves pain almost instantly and, for non severe injuries, helps heal without a scar. Sold by Galveston Drug Co.
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