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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1916
Page
4
A fragment of a classified advertisement mentions a Maple Street address and a yearly rate of 115 W&t Maple St. Telephone 166. The text references a paid ad and a notice entered at the post office as second-class matter.
A bank affiliated memo discusses a controversial health product. The note praises a remedy named Kidnes Pills while claiming it relieves aches pains soreness and various disorders. Names and terms are garbled, but the item appears to be marketed as a medicinal treatment with strong customer confidence.
Mixed ad copy lists products and services for sale or hire including blood bitters auto switches and trial packages. Mentions a light horsekeeping rooming house location and two dwelling houses for rent with street references and contact details.
An article recalls a lively Christmas at the Pevender Woman’s Home with gifts, decorations, and family scenes. Children choose items, stories mention Mary and mothers, and a box of gifts is noted. The piece captures a communal holiday mood and simple pleasures.
Three reader notices describe parents giving Bates's Honey and Tar to children with croup and reporting relief. The page also carries ads for Foley's Honey and Tar, a salesmen job offer from Fairbay Mfg. Co. in Cleveland, and a Yanoco Ivory Co. Christmas gift promotion in Leominster Massachusetts seeking distributorship requests.
Bedford residents and visitors are pictured in a stream of social notes. Miss Watherine Allen and Miss Kfithe Reach of Bedford save feet visiting Dr and Mrs tapgha. Numerous relatives and guests from Milton, Scottsboro, Dayton, Indianapolis, Louisville, and Sellersburg hosted and attended dinners, sewing clubs, and weekend visits, with several ill or recovering individuals mentioned.
A Singer 20 sewing machine marketed as perfect for a child, priced at $5.00, operable safely and capable of sewing any material. Displayed at Singer Sewing Machine Co. 419 Spring Street and Swartz Dry Goods Co. Also advertising a cottage for sale or trade and a health tonic Burdock Blood Bitters.
An upbeat sales notice promotes the Dolce Raby Grand Phonograph as a full cabinet machine offered at the lowest price in history. A. Schumann of the Bodman Blag sales department in Cincinnati plus C. Ady advertise a holiday profit opportunity.
An advertisement from White Mfg. Co. Dept. 50 Cincinnati promotes Gaso-Tonic as automobile gasoline at 3e per gallon. The pitch claims sales would cap owners and guarantee profits. Ad dated 11-25.
A brief vintage ad notes a Singer Sewing Machine offer with contact at 419 Spring St and phone number 1206y. The banner suggests giving a Singer Sewing Machine as a Christmas present.
A committee meeting is set for this evening at Mrs W A Dorseys home on Chestnut Street. Members listed on the committee are urged to attend.
Public notices advertise sales positions and business offers from Stanford Crowell Co Ithaca New York and Duval County Commissioners Jacksonville Florida plus a Singer Sewing Machine Co offer. The text seeks salesmen with road experience references and pays travel expenses to Palm Beach County Florida. It also promotes farming prospects in Duval County and presents a Christmas gift pitch for a Singer sewing machine.
Doan's Kidney Pills promote relief from kidney ills and are sold at all drug stores. Doan's Ointment treats skin itching and Doan's Regulats offer a mild laxative. Adv.
A collection of wry maxims on trouble seeking fault and social behavior. It quips about widows posing as misses, washwomen with harelip, and a bore with idle hours. It notes a flirt good only as a counterfeit coin and warns to load a gun before teaching youth to shoot.
An old newspaper fragment touts Dr Thomas Ec lectic Oil for cuts burns and household use. It also advertises ambitious men to earn $200 monthly with special salesman training from Power Lubricating Co Detroit. Separate note offers Amalgamated Oil Co stock 60 million dollar firm with 100 percent dividends in 99 days and ground floor price promoting 1 cent per share, Oklahoma City.
A garbled OCR page blends stray philosophical monologues with scattered prices for books and items. The text drifts between social commentary on men and women and fleeting references to sales, poems, and unidentified lists, all jumbled on a damaged sheet.
A fragment refers to a vendor or pharmacy offering fever remedy with unclear details. No clear events or names are legible.
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