Salesmen Parade New Styles At Cooling Prices
Local shop showcases hats negligee shirts underwear and hosiery in a display of new and smart apparel priced to entice customers with cool savings.
01 Jul 1909
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Newspaper
Greensburg New Era
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1909
Page
1
Local shop showcases hats negligee shirts underwear and hosiery in a display of new and smart apparel priced to entice customers with cool savings.
A working woman presents anti-suffrage arguments citing lack of convincing rationale for the vote. She asserts women belong in the home, not politics, and condemns suffragists Florence Kelley and Leonora O’Reilly as emotional extremists.
Jeannette L. Gilder argues in the New York Times that extending the ballot to women would not help her or smooth society and could backfire, calling it a calamity and boomerang. Her critique frames voting rights as ineffective for personal improvement and damaging to moral order.
The text argues against indiscriminate praise but promotes timely encouragement. It claims praise boosts effort and experience, improving business success and efficiency as workers respond to positive feedback. A smile from management plants a seed that grows into a tree of efficiency bearing fruit for the employer.
Rushville Republican notes Dora Betker needs another clerk as J. W. Tompkins buys a new motor car. Apply by phone, person or letter. Tompkins may speed his car this way and has friends in the city who would enjoy an up to date spin.
An eccentric column describes Angkor’s preserved Khmer ruins and Cambodians as peaceful, contrasts village porches with narrow farm houses, and urges broad verandas. It mentions Clancy Cook returning from Indianapolis with his wife, Miss Beasie Grant, a former local high school student, and notes exits at Crooks West provision.
The text appears garbled with misspellings and unclear meaning. It mentions poultry house, a leak, putty, and advice to paddle one's own canoe while warning against others' familiarity. The overall message is not coherent.
A traveling salesman named Ben Adair supposedly soaked shoes in paper to keep damp, then a Redmond home burned to ashes with only charred remains of some items found. no cause of the fire is known and no suspects are identified.
The ceremony last evening at Centenary Church joined Frank Gras and Mise Arle Rowe with music by Mita Ruth Edwards. Ercil Vandgrent wore an oak gown. bridesmaids followed, carrying roses. Flower girls Mildred Owens and Margeret Turner attended Louis Clark as hog bearer. the church was decorated with green in celebration.
A report from Thursday afternoon notes Sherman Ros Sell of a local delivery firm at No. 8 Wargen took time off to wed Miss Mary Webb, daughter of Rev. Webb of nearby St. Paul, in a quiet ceremony.
Mias Etta Boicourt traveled to Indianapolis to see her brother Freak. She will attend the Rowe and Gray wedding in Greensburg tonight. Mrs Barthena Burk and granddaughters Mildred and Madge Harding went to Greensburg to see Frank Harding. Chris Wiles and wife returned to Greensburg after a visit with Chris’s state. Mrs Ger Lugenbelt and Mrs Will Earbarat with Mrs Jas Rendall of Greensburg visited the Shilo Rebekah Lodge where degree work was conferred on Mrs Dr John Love before refreshments. The ladies left in time to miss the 10:81 train.
The article cites recent cases linking drink to crime and divorce in New York and Indiana. It notes a deputy’s arrest for embezzlement, a suicide after a drinking spree, and a divorce suit reflects the wife’s drinking. The piece condemns liquor as a social vice and calls for ending saloons.
Mrs. Fred Fertig has secured her girl from the I.O.O.F. home at Greensburg. The family is hopeful and pleased with the progress and feel a flag home is secured if continued good conduct.
Wool growers in Chicago consider storage options at the National Wool Warehouse and Storage Company as prices rise. They refuse advanced prices as dealers push for a break in the wool combine and seek profits through speculative schemes.
A Pearsons Weekly anecdote recalls a prison vad driver nicknamed Black Maris who fends off a bold taunt by offering a single seat and quoting a stark fare bread and water. The exchange ends with the witty challenger silenced.
Mrs. M. E. Rucker Dr. Jamee Bracken Ray Hamilton and family and Mies Patience Rucker began a Thursday morning excursion through Southern Indiana toward Madison and likely into Kentucky. They traveled by epauking team in a large three seated wagon from the Big Four barn and plan to return mid next week after several boat trips on the Ohio and Kentucky rivers.
A Thursday evening gathering at Hilladele featured Miss Florence Haselrigg Daley Landrum and May Lanham im Messie VU. Dd. Biking Arthur Hazel ragana Frank McConnell attended, providing themselves with eatables and hiring a frog orchestra to play during refreshments near volcanic areas.
A discussion of stenographers' education and training highlighting the need for better writing standards. A mail order firm employs over fifty typists paid about twelve dollars weekly, with a yearly program including talks on English and punctation, abbreviations, and capitalization. Prizes motivate the group to improve spelling and accuracy.
Citizens are urged to back three home papers through subscriptions and ad patronage. The piece argues newspapers boost town development without direct pay, relying on readers and advertisers, and warns some refuse to support while others pay willingly. It stresses universal civic benefit from newspaper funding.
Historians debate a faded Jeffersonville Court House record claiming slavery existed in Indiana. It notes Governor Thomas Posey, territorial governor, ordered three enslaved people in 1816 to work ten years with livestock and land rights, then emancipated them.
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