Special Carpet and Rug Offerings on Short Lengths
A local sale advertises deep discounts on short carpet lengths and rugs. Wool Ingrain carpets from Lowell, Hartford, and Suffolk priced at 65c per yd, other short lengths 50c per yd, Velvets and Axminsters 1 per yd, two styles rugs offered at bargain prices, plus a sample line of Velvet Moquette and Axminster carpets. Also features 27x63 inch Moquette rugs and mentions President Roosevelt's Oyster Bay home with details of the residence and daily routines.
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Lowell's
Hartford
Suffolk
Congress
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Long Island
Texas
Hasting the veteran carriage painter and rail feats noted
Our townsman J H Hasting, aged likely the oldest active carriage painter in the United States, has worked sixty-one years in the trade including forty-one years in six days a week service in this city. Engineer Abe Hull with engine 609 ran No 19 six cars from Coldwater to Elkhart fifty five miles in fifty five minutes, matching a fifty three minute run last Sunday. officials claim fifty minute runs possible with class I engines though schedule time is seventy two minutes.
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J. H. Hasting
United States
Concord
Mass
Boston
Abe Hull
Coldwater
Elkhart
Sturgis
King Edward Dead Rumors Sweep Public Listener
Mr Norman A Lees of Elkhart believes King Edward is dead and that officials hide the truth to avert stock market turmoil. He claims the monarch has been dead since Tuesday morning. The piece also notes scams in Warsaw and Columbia City, Knightstown smallpox crises, a Mishawaka wedding tour hijinks, a tax cut on beer with little price impact, a large donation for a sanitarium, and a Socialist meeting with Fredrick G Strickland speaking in Yellow Ohio.
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Norman A. Lees
Elkhart
King Edward
Lees
Stock Exchange
Socialist Democratic
Fredrick G. Strickland
Yellow Ohio
Boseee Waeyen
Fourth of July Notes and Local Updates in LaGrange Area
The column sketches various town notes including George Lang's trousers patterns, medical prep for Fourth of July emergencies, price hints for potatoes, and casual talk of beef indifference. It reports the LaGrange M. E. church pastor’s wife Mrs R C Jones died, a potential Greens vs Elkhart Nationals game, Bluffton carnival plans, Holzer securing Right Fielder Shimmel, deaths in Whitley county, and a large dinner party for Mr James Bixler with about thirty guests.
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George Lang
R. C. Jones
M. E
LaGrange
Elkhart Nationals
Bluffton
Holzer
Shimmel
Concordia College of Fort Wayne
Jacob Sappington
George Parkington
Samuel Miner
Whitley County
Frank I. Remington
South Whitley
Chicago
Greens
Monroe Gawthrop
James Bixler
Michigan
Blended Patent Flour Gerbel le Bread Advice and Local News
Reported notes include the Blended Patent Flour Ger Belle claim for good bread, a Danville Indiana cattle loss of twenty four head to ho man, and a Lake Shore Employees Insurance Association offering 2000 and 1000 death benefits. Smallpox cases in Indiana reach 692 in May with one death in Sullivan county. An elderly Elkhart county inmate, Jacob Oberholtzer, killed by an inter urban car at Yellow Creek. Local business tax on J W Oyler Steel Range Co of St Louis. Wheat oat and potato crops are promising though wet weather hinders corn and hay. Indiana wheat carload shipment arriving in Indianapolis weighed 60 pounds per bushel from Knox county farms. July weather prospects bleak with storms forecast. Claflin University Jubilee Singers perform July 2 at M E church with no admission, silver offering requested. Kendallville water rents collection notice warns of shut off for nonpayment.
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Lake Shore
Indiana
Sullivan County
Adams County
Mariova
Knox
Allen
la Grange
Noble
Jacob Oberholtzer
Elkhart
Yellow Creek
J. W. Oyler Steel Range Company
St. Louis
Jay County
Indianapolis
Knox County
Local items mention mills, gowns, and court delays
Scraps note Smilivan Studio ads for Kodak supplies and George Lang, tailor, with summer suitings. Flint and Waiting Manufacturing. court house dedication postponed in Fort Wayne. Good Luck flour by Ligonier Milling. bonds by W W Rockhill. base stealing by Gus Shimmel. June 1902 cold, wet. Hugh Rogers sells 147 dollars of strawberries on under half an acre. Rome City club plans cottage season. Indianapolis News to send poor children to Bluffton. W W Steiner to serve 45 days in Indiana polis workhouse. Rocky Mountain Tea ad by G H Lohman & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kodaks
KODAK
Beckman’s
Geo. Lang
Flint and Waiting Manufacturing Company
George Lang
Fort Wayne
Ligonier Milling Company
George Steckley’s
W. W. Rockhill
Gus Shimmel
Hugh Rogers
Knox
Rome City Club
Rome City
Indianapolis News
Bluffton
W. W. Steiner
Indianapolis
G. H. Lohman & Co
Blended Patent Ger belle bread gains praise over spring flour
A mix of Ger bel le bread claims superior taste and appearance versus spring wheat flour bread. The item notes curiosity about railroad kissing rules and medical endorsements, plus brief society items and local concerns.
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Axminster
Dundee
Smyrna
J.keller & CO
Stransky
Gawley & Cawley
A. J. Strauss
Warsaw
Columbia City
Knightstown
Mr. Gard
The
Christian Church
Anderson
Claude Upson
Mishawaka
Dowagiac
Mich
Buffalo
New York
Brewers
Edward
Crusade Against
Joseph B. Homan
Danville
Ind
Hornswoggle
Jubilee Singers
Claflin University Jubilee
Dunton
Freedmen's Aid Society
Freedmen's Aid Society of the Church
Kendallville
Smilivan
Tudio
H. T. McIntyre
St. Paul
Mion
St. Joseph Valley
South Bend
Grange
Fairbanks
Senate
Montpelier
Montgomery County
Crawfordsville
Prudential Insurance Company
John Rinkard
Michigan City
Rinkard
Kibo Patent
Oxford
Abe & Elets
Poverturn
Campbell & Company
H. G Misselhorn
Peninsular
D. H. Stinson
Beckman
Foley
H. C. Cunningham
A. B. Waterhouse
Madison Medicine Co
John Darmana
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