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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1915
Page
4
A 19th century advertisement offers free Bible tracts and selections. It lists topics like salvation, creeds, baptism, and deathbed repentance and urges readers to send two cents or nine cents for the full 21, nine-cent bundle. Address given as Le and Tract Society, 17 3 St. Brooklyn N.Y. Adv.
An old ad notes fibre products offered by mail order from NE BROOM CO Elmira New York with items like a novelty hair brush and other personal care goods. It claims low prices 30 to 75 cents and emphasizes ease of use without griping or adverse effects. Regulars urged to consider the household items for sale.
Classified fragments show rent offers for a six room cottage at 1128 Spring Street with utilities and contact by phone 1090 Y. Additional ads note commissions for grocery and oyster sales, life insurance and accident policy sales with various offices, and voided or garbled listings for sales positions.
Anderson Indiana advertising note promises top car territory commissions for salesmen with large institutional contacts. Claims include a 2008 ratio and strong references required, listing Emanuel and others.
A jumble of old notices advertises selling Ford care sets through agents, exclusive territories, and big commissions. Other items push lamp promotions, gas tonics, and stock offers with guaranteed profits, plus a mid age housework request and medical tonics.
Thomas F. O Niel has moved his livery barn to 124 East Market Street Ail orders will be promptly filed by phone 99.
An advertisement from White Mfg Co Dept 10 in Cincinnati Ohio markets Gaso-Tonic gasoline at 3 cents a gallon with claims of carbon elimination and a dollar per hour guaranteed profit for sellers.
Employment offer promising 20 to 35 dollars extra per month to employed individuals not interfering with regular work. No selling, no canvassing, no investment required. Unemployed not accepted. Address The Silver Mirror Co Inc 123 W Madison St Chicago IL Adv.
An ad promotes GASO-TONIC offering gasoline at 3 cents per gallon with a claim to eliminate carbon. It also touts a dollar-an-hour profit and places the notice in late 40s Cincinnati Ohio, advertising 17-13.
The Hanukkah festival is described as the festival of dedication with a legend of oil lighting the Temple. It signals Jewish resilience through self respect and loyalty, marks the Maccabean dynasty, and is celebrated as a children’s holiday with home lights, songs, psalms, and community benevolence.
Theo dory Wierzbicki 26, in Philadelphia, shot himself in the rear yard after a feud of love with Amelia Strabowski 24, employed as a maid at 239 Fast Johnson Street Germantown. His wife was in Europe with their two children. Four months of pursuit ended with the fatal act as Wierzbicki urged elopement.
Arthur R. Robinson, Republican, campaigned as floor leader in the 1915 State Senate and argues the party offers honest work for the people. He is a 35 year old lawyer and businessman, married with a family, seen as a rising young force in the race.
Industrial chiefs and executives from major manufacturing firms across the region buy New Mitchell cars. The piece argues high performance and value, noting over a million miles driven in territory and about thirty thousand miles per day with strong after sales service.
Wierzbicki called on a girl at the Earnshaw house on Tuesday morning and seized her. He urged marriage but the girl refused. After bidding her farewell he left and a shot rang out in the yard. Wierzbicki was found dead when the girl reached the rear yard.
The piece touts motorist savings buying at Wood & Company Wholesale Grocery in Jeffersonville Indiana. It highlights discounts for cash and direct buys from Louisville manufacturers, claiming 20 to 33 percent savings and sometimes 50 percent, with emphasis on sales to motorists and local shoppers.
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