Homer City News Roundup and Local Notices
Homer City area news covers visitors to Leechburg and Blairsville, church services, typhoid fever cases, and farm activity including J A Campbell’s sheep shipment. Also reported are railroad excursion plans to Rhododendron Park with special trains, tolls and schedules, and local property transfers and sheriff sales notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer City
Fred Stull
Leechburg
M. E
Frank Rowan
Apollo
Messrs
Hilbon and
Dean
Pinkerton
Blairsville
Lyman Gilbert
Fresh oysters and bargains dominate McMaster Hood era ad
A long list of local shop promotions and items for sale fills the page. Fresh tub oysters appear at McMaster Hood J B Hinds and Friday and Saturday runs. Ovals include hats caps yarn shoes and clothing from Fleming Thomas Stumpf Cunningham and others with prices like 19 cents for ice wool and 1.25 for boys boots. Various services noted from druggists Empfield Nesbit watchmaker to Crawford’s restaurant. A running pitch touts bargains and low prices across departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McMaster & Hood’s
Stumpf’s
F. T. Empfield
S. McMaster & Hood
J. B. Hinds
Mack & Ray's
Fleming & Thomas's
V. M. Cunningham’s
American House
James A. White
Indiana
Fleming & Thomas
W. M. Cunningham’s
Court House
Times
Sue E. Smith’s
Goto V. M. Cunningham
R. M. Crawford
Kline
Maj. J. B. Hinds
Empfield
A. T. Lowry & Co
Church Street
J. R. Stumpf & Son
Crawford’s
Frank Path
Dees Wattchucaker
Nesbit’s
Central Hotel
W. M.cunningham’s
West Indiana
McMaster & Hood
Major Hinds
Philadelphia
Church Streets
J. M. St.Clair
Homer City
Queensware
Buckwheat Flour Promised as Luxurious, King-Grade
An advertisement extols buckwheat as a native Asian herb, recounting its varied uses from Europe to Asia and praising a local U S mill for producing buckwheat flour now labeled fit for a king. It invites farmers to bring buckwheat grist for flour and offers to buy 10,000 bushels at 50 cents per bushel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asia
Great Britain
Europe
United States
David Ellis & Sons Store Offerings
All wool and half wool blankets in colors knee robes horse blankets and 75¢ to 1.25 each. A large stock of boots shoes hats caps groceries grain and produce at low prices. Full value promised in every purchase with easy showing of goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindsey
Lawrence
Wholesale sale at Lowry and Co by assignee Findley
An assignee, J A Findley, will sell the entire stock of A T Lowry & Co on Church Street at wholesale. Local retailers and customers are invited to view offerings as the store prepares for the transfer. The notice also advertises various bargains from other merchants including Butterick patterns, clothing, groceries, and dry goods across the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. T. Lowry & Co
Church Street
J. A. Findley
F. J. Johnson
J. A
A W Wilson & Son Carpet Sale Promises Low Prices
A W Wilson and Son advertise a fall sale with a wide carpet range and prices cut to “levels” from 10c for hemp to 56c for all wool, featuring Ingrains, cotton chain, body Brussels, tapestries, Roxburys, new rugs, and velvet samples, inviting customers to inspect the window displays and shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Roxburys
Brussels
A Wonderful Instrument Enables Precise Eye Measurements
Professor C. S. Apple introduces a Paris made optical instrument that measures the eye to one thousandth of a metre. A patient sits and views a disc while the examiner observes through a telescope to detect defects and fit corrective glasses. Eye exams are free and glasses offered at competitive prices in the Hall Building on Philadelphia street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. S. Apple
Paris
France
Hall Building
Philadelphia Street
Fair price store showcases wraps and capes sale
A rising enthusiasm for a store in Indiana highlights fair pricing with plain figures. Sale items include 165 ladies and misses wraps, fur capes from 5 to 28.50, cloth capes 42 inches at 15, 40 inch options at 9.50 and 8.50, and coats for toddlers 2 to 4 years from 1.25 to 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hery
Indiana
Misa
Specials This Week at Clarks on Fabrics and Crochet
This week offers fine dresses fibers including capes or wraps with blue or black cravenette at 56 inches. Yardage prices: ack $1.50, blue $1.60. Broadcloths in black and colors, covert cloths in new shades, and crochet cotton line. O N T crochet cotton on 200 yard spools diagonally wound in cream and shaded colors. An artis tic economical crochet option for the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarks
New Stock of Fall and Winter Goods Arrives
A shop announces new fall and winter goods and invites customers to bring butter eggs and produce for the highest market price.
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Presbyterian
United — Presbyterian
Trade City
Robert Jordan
Crissman
Burkett
Samuel Barrett
Josiah Neal
North Point
James Honey
Edith
Francis Elkin
Smicksburg
Martha Brown
This Place
Heshrox
Mr. Jack
Dubois
G. Wallack
Free Methodists
J. A. Campbell
J. A. Wagner
New Florence
Rhododendron Park
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Lloydsville
Pennsylvania
Pittsburge
Cresson
Altoona
Wittsburg
Greensburg
Johnstown
E. B. Ross
Buffington Township
Janet Ritchie
Thos. Mckee
Saltsburg
RB. J. Irwin
C. Mack
Blacklick
Elliott Ferguson
M.E. Brown
T. C. Watson
Alex. K. Stewart
Washington Township
R. S. Stewart
Facus Great Et al
Burrell Township
J. M. Guthrie
Wi. Stewart, Jr
West Wheatfield
West Penn R. R. Co
Whi. Alexander,Jr
Henry Fulcomer
D. €. Mack
Sheriff
Jacksonville
R. J. Cunningham
Baker
East Wheatfield
Cramer Coal, Coke and Stone Company
John C. Fisher
Pine Township
J. RB. Caldwell
Ketomer
Saltsburg Extension Co
Julia A. McClellan
Sieh
A. G. McGaughey
Holy Land
F Presbyterian
Presbyterian Banner
Jesus
Jerusalem
Bank of Commerce
Pittsburg, Pa
T. W. Asrn
Ren. B. Heme
Papitat Personage
Chae
Thuseday
Mr. W. F. Tee Parkwood
Dolly Grissase
Grinsme
Sipring Church
WH. Gibson
Lillian Ferguson
Clw. Horner
Bellwood
Lorence E. Ling
G. Rowland
Laura Lukehart
South Mahoning
Joseph Franne
Westmoreland Co
Mary E. Conrath
Leid Derres
Allegheny
Mary Hoadenhammer
Ind
Jamies A. Gompers
Joanna M. Gibson
White Township
G.N. Hildebrand
Cordelia L. Campbell
F. J. Weamer
Pearl McHenry
Marion Center
Walter S
Hood
C. J. Hood & Co
Lowell
Mass
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Dward Scollin
Ogden Street
Nesbit
Edward Scollin
David Ellis & Sons
Saxony
Germantown
Vv. M. Cunningham
Second ST. West
A. W. Wilson & Son
Cunningham’s
ONE Price Cash Stores
Cunninghasys
Frank Douglass
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