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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1908
Page
5
The Thalman & Levi store announces a daily fashion page and a royal display of new season fabrics and garments. Express shipments from fashion centers arrive to offer the first glimpse of Dame Fashion sanctioned creations, inviting customers to visit soon for early selections.
The article promotes a fall suit collection with Directoire influence and exclusive trims. It features tailored mannish weaves suitable for street wear, semi-tailored coats, wide reverses, and sheath skirts in shades like Wisteria and Ca tawba. Special price on Nattily made all wool broadcloth suit at $17.50 from $25.00.
The advertisement lists high priced suits in chiffon broadcloth and worsteds with a new Empire back coat, large lapels, Directoire collar, satin braids and lined satin. Skirts feature wide gore, buttoned fronts in new shades at $23.75. Also promoted are lace net waists with satin bands, mo squa sleeves at special $4.95, embroidery linen tailored waists, and a sheath skirt in Atlman voile at $7.50.
The store urges customers to buy warm underwear a week early, highlighting medium weight Merode Harvard Underwear and Union Suits in vests and pants priced 35c to $1.00 with specials at 50c and $1.00. Full lines in all grades and sizes are shown, with sweaters for children, misses, and ladies.
Seeton introduces exclusive fall dress fabrics with a wide color range and low prices. Imported chevron striped suitings priced at 1.50, 50 inch broadcloth at 1.00 to 4.00, 48 to 56 inch suitings from 0.75 to 2.00, Latin Messaline 0.59, self colored patterns 1.00, Chelsea silks 0.75, lining satins 1.00, oil boiled black taffeta 0.69.
Fall Bargains in the Basement advertises cut prices across a wide range of household goods. It highlights Thatman & Levi as a value-focused firm and lists items such as hot water bottles, fountain syringes, soaps, gas mantles, enamelware, wax paper, and school supplies at unusually low prices. The tone emphasizes advertising value over profit.
A dated catalog of cloth and sheetings with prices per yard and per piece. Items include indigo and light blue prints, turkey red, black and white prints, unbleached sheeting, bleached muslin, apron ginghams, ticking, dress ginghams, long cloth, flannelette, cambric, outings, unbleached sheeting, pillow cases, sheets, plaid suiting and mixed trico flannels with per yard and per piece pricing.
Retailer touts broad carpet and rug stock with fashionable colors and patterns not yet represented. Prices claim to be lower than any quoted elsewhere, featuring all wool ingrain at 0.89 to 0.75 dollars, velvet carpets at 0.89, Axminster rugs from 1.45, Brussels rugs from 0.50, hearth rugs and drapery fabrics at notable savings.
Millinery shoppers are drawn to Thulman & Levi for fresh headwear with frequent changes. The store claims fast turnover of exquisite creations from its milliner and displays over 1,000 trimmed hats in Fall designs copied from New York and Paris. Prices range from $1.95 to $6.50.
A brief supplement note from the Galveston Leader edition dated September 16 1908. The item records a local public notice style bulletin with no explicit event details, focusing on community updates and standard notices for residents.
Local notices report Mrs. W. A. Bell ill at her Lincoln residence. The piece lists community social visits including Curt McCoy’s Lagro gathering, Eva Stanford’s Marion trip, and Albert Reece’s 43rd birthday celebration with neighbors and friends.
Sunday School at 9 30 preaching at 10 30 and 7 30 WY P C U at 6 45 Otterbein at 3 this Sunday afternoon. Meet every member and start the conference year with a fresh aim. The pastor invites guidance and goodwill for the coming year.
G W McCoy represents The Kahn Tailoring Co of Indianapolis. Miss Cleo Campbell returned home from Chicago visits. Mrs J J Foster and Miss Maud Rucker of Kokomo were guests of Lon McClain and family. Coal orders invited at Galveston Grain Co with delivery offered. call 22. Edith Philapy and Anna Wampler hosted by G W Gates and wife. Grace Daggett and Everett Daggett, of Indianapolis, visited Dan Daggett and family.
John Stone and family Willard Lawrence and Chas. McCoy attended the funeral services for James Stone in Burlington last Thursday afternoon.
N H Brown of Pittsfield VI endorses Dr King’s New Life Pills for years with satisfaction. They claim to ease stomach liver and bowel kinks without fuss. Galveston Drug Co sells them for 25 cents with guaranteed satisfaction.
Reverend Hicks spoke for the Indiana Anti-Saloon League at a Baptist church union gathering last Sunday evening. He described the church’s past work and urged present efforts, stressing nonpartisanship and backing only candidates pledged to an anti-saloon program. He compared experiences of dry areas and local option, and a temperance offering was taken at the service’s end.
Walter Platt and family visited Kokomo on Tuesday while GALveston Drug Co. showcased new picture molding. A flood of fall suit samples arrived as G W McCoy, Charles Wilson and Ada Chambers visited Dayton Ohio.
P. J. Daly of Chicago shares a testimonial for Electric Bitters praising its health benefits for his feeble mother. He claims notable gains in flesh, relief from insomnia, and overall strength, calling it a tonic for stomach and liver issues. The ad asserts a bold guarantee.
Bourbon Santos coffee 15¢ lb at McCoy's. Piano tuning guaranteed by Dan W. Eth of Logansport. Will be in Galveston every Tuesday at the home of J. F. Eisenbrey. Mrs. Elias Turley and others attended the funeral of Joseph Long west of Walton Sunday.
O M Shirley trustee of Jackson Township lists office days at his residence on Tuesday and at Galveston Drug Co drug store in Galveston Ind on Friday each week. Clarence Deardorff age 20 son of Al Deardorff of Kokomo was killed instantly while working as a lineman on an electric light pole in Kokomo Thursday morning. His funeral and burial details follow with services at home and burial in the local cemetery.
Mr John White of Highland Ave Houston Maine reports a winter cough improved by Dr King’s New Discovery. He bought an 80c bottle last year, saw the cough vanish after a few doses, and again this winter experienced the same relief. He endorses the remedy as the best cough and cold treatment, promoting its use.
Sines and family visited Kokomo friends on Sunday. Grace and Mamie Win terrond were Kokomo visitors Friday. Will Haworth moved to Kokomo for near work. Zartman and Loop families visited relatives over Sunday. Local tailoring offer from Kahn Tailoring Co. G W McCoy, Agent.
R M Cotterman and family were guests of Wm Wampler and family and G W Gates and wife from Friday until Sunday evening.
Sam A. Garber describes tending a sick woman aboard an O R & N R R eastbound train from Pendleton to Le Grande Oregon. He gave Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy from his bottle to ease cramps and restore her, later handing the bottle to the husband for future doses.
Fragmentary text indicates payments were received by us some time ago with statements noted but lacking context or amounts. The incomplete record hints at unsettled accounts and potential reconciliation needs but provides no names dates or totals.
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