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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1901
Page
8
Local column lists residents visiting relatives in Pittsburg Blairsville Curry Run and Clearfield county plus families moving Thompson town and Elders Ridge academy term ends. Public school exam schedule released across multiple townships with names of supervisors and locations.
Empfield's Grocery lists coffee three pounds, three pounds of raisins, ten cakes of Dome Soap, and a free baking powder can with every fifty cent purchase. It promotes fancy confectionery, Pepsin, Vienna and other flour brands, tropical fruits, fresh cakes, garden vegetables, pickles, and free townwide delivery with telephone number 185.
Mrs Ruth Empfield advertises two newly furnished rooms suitable for students for rent at reasonable rates Located next door to the post office at 117 Railroad Ave Indiana Pa Moziaiz Lowry contact 13 Progress Office heavy paper sold for lining stables chicken coops and other outbuildings at 5 cents a sheet The ad mentions the Progress office as a sale point for the paper
An infant son of A. H. Bowser of West Mahoning township died Wednesday from diphtheria at 1 year 6 months. The mother died of the same disease weeks earlier. Interment was at Mahoning Baptist church cemetery Thursday. Hazel Lowman of Pittsburg dies of spinal meningitis at age 5. Parents formerly lived near Jacksonville. Remains brought to Oakland cemetery for burial. Mrs. William Rhodes dies near Johnstown from a complication of diseases. Daughter of William Stephens of Strongstown interred at Strongstown on Sabbath. Johnnie W. Fairbanks son of S. S. and Mrs. E. E. Fairbanks of Smathern dies aged 11 months 1 week 2 days. Interment at Bethel on Thursday Easter. Millinery on Display. Mrs. D. R. Hare announces spring stock arrival. Trimmer Miss Margaret Anderson visited city last week. Store to stay open every evening next week before Easter.
The ad highlights numerous carpet arrivals from top mills, a broad range of designs and colors, and asserts the store offers the most desirable selection in Indiana. It promises competitive prices, free making and lining of carpets, and notes the use of the best carpet sewing machines for quality work.
Velvet Hall and Stairway patterns priced at 1.25 and 0.98, parlor and bedroom patterns at 1.10 and 1.25 with 0.85 0.90 0.93 discounts. Wire Tapestry Brussels 0.75, 9 wires tapestries at 0.58. Higgin and Smith tapestries 0.50. Fibre chain mattings 0.10 to 0.15. Best cotton chain mattings 0.20 0.22 to 0.28.
Ingram Carpets offers a wide range from cotton at 25¢ to all wool at 69c 75c and 80c. Linoleums 50¢ quality 40c per sq yd. Floor oil cloth 25¢ per sq yd. Lace curtains 35¢ a pair up to 200 a pair. Oil cloth window shades 25¢. Curtain poles 10 12 and 16c. Carpet sweepers 1.90.
Fragmentary OCR shows a grocery ad listing items such as peaches pears apples evaporated peaches sugar corn fancy prunes Lenox and Toilet Soap Red Seal Lye Merry War Lye Arbuckle's Coffee and granulated sugar priced from 25 cents to one dollar.
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