Local notices and ads mix in city brief
A sprawling list of coupons, sales, and arrivals appears with farm and shop notices. The items mention Red Cross stamps, holiday buys, jewelry, hardware, and grocers, plus local personnel changes and events.
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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1908
Page
8
A sprawling list of coupons, sales, and arrivals appears with farm and shop notices. The items mention Red Cross stamps, holiday buys, jewelry, hardware, and grocers, plus local personnel changes and events.
Deventer halter and furnisher advertises a Christmas surprise package offer. The message promises the recipient will have the jolliest Christmas ever upon receiving one of their traveling bags suitcases or trunks.
Murdock Wise offers linen handkerchiefs for men and women priced at 1.46 dollars per box in the city. The ad emphasizes fine quality for the price.
An advertisement notes special prices on candies for teachers and school personnel including superintendents and Sunday school teachers. It claims the products are pure and wholesome and gives a business address at 3 Kitchen, 308 Market Street in New York.
Etnire's Specials offers all market eatables with prompt delivery from 301 Market Street. Contact by phone at 216 for quick service.
Boys invited to visit 324 Broadway to view electric flash lights at 50 cents, elegraph instruments 1.50, electric motors 1.25, electric bell outfit 1.00, and other electrical articles advertised by George W. Cann & Co.
Leather novelties of many types offered as useful and attractive presents for men and women. Priced from 25 cents to 5 dollars. Sold by Murdock & Wise.
Bridget Quinn died this morning at her home 706 Canal street with funeral plans at Kroeger Strain's morgue. Frank Dempsey to be buried tomorrow at 3 from his mother’s Clifton avenue home, Mt. Hope interment. Mrs Catherine Vance shipped to Peru for burial after noon. William Newcomb’s remains sent to Kansas City for burial.
The advertisement offers a range of gloves for men and women in various grades and styles, lined or unlined, priced up to $2.50. It emphasizes practicality and usefulness of gloves.
George W. Cann & Co offers a sale of electric irons electric stand lamps electric curling irons electric shaving cups toy motors chandeliers dining room domes and related items all described in the catalog for bidders seeking practical household electric devices and decorative pieces.
The Simplex is a folding umbrella designed for travel and storage in a bag. It is advertised as reliable and new for holiday gifting. Deventer, a hatter and furnisher, endorses its quality and implies it will not easily fail.
A town shop on Fourth Street, Palace of Sweets, emphasizes fresh Christmas chocolates and bon bons as the season’s must have confection. Local shoppers flock for guaranteed freshness and holiday appeal.
Quote from John M. Etnire of Stettiner block noting that the ad itself serves as its own promotion and that he does not say much in response.
The column lists local prices and ads for coal, china, electricity bills, and holiday goods from stores like Carter's and Trade Palace. It notes civic notices and several short items about railroad staff, travel, and residents visiting or returning home for holidays. A chair fell from a wagon causing damage, and Grace Penfield spoke to students on taxation and representation.
An old styled advertisement urges readers to thank a friend by giving a gift such as a Dunlap or Stetson hat a traveling bag a suitcase or an umbrella from Deventer the hatter.
Our Christmas stand lamps have arrived and are now on display. To dispose of them we are offering attractive prices at George W. Cann & Co. 324 Broadway.
The Reporter Carrier Boys request timely prepared change as they make the regular monthly collection tomorrow and Monday to receive pay before Christmas. They will call and endeavor to complete collections by Tuesday evening.
A jumble of local notices and advertisements lists prices on fountain pens and jewelry, trainmen and enginemen names with duties and locations, holiday meals and lunches, hairpins and chains, and upcoming meetings at the Logansport and Jewell Rebekah lodge. It notes residents visiting South Bend, returning home, or preparing for holidays in Walton, Vandalia, Young America and nearby towns.
A new all iron wire popper arrives at C A Eberlein 508 Broadway. It holds four pints of popped corn and reduces fire risk with a safety lid. Priced at 25 cents, the lifelike durable device promises long use for delicious buttered popcorn on cold nights.
A local tailoring house Murphy and Fleming urges customers to value well made clothes. They advertise moderate prices and high quality materials and workmanship for suits, saying the difference between proper and cheap garments is significant.
Our Vernis Martin and brass beds plus steel ranges are excellent bargains for practical gifts. Reduced prices at Cline Bros closing cut sale.
A local shop features a stylish assortment of fancy vests from J. Herz promoted as ideal Christmas gifts for husbands and sweethearts. The display stresses thoughtful holiday fashion choices for men.
Toy sets stationery candies pipes cigars perfumes and safety razors offered by Kim Lbrough a druggist at 1228 Broadway as holiday gift ideas.
In the Rauch display window the city stores showcase rubber boots for Christmas sale with prices for ladies from two to twenty five dollars. The text urges shoppers to see the stock aboard and visit the shop.
A local retailer slashes prices on leather bags, offering all new shapes at 49 cents after a 75 cent tag. Shoppers flock to the display to grab the discounted handbags and limited stock is noted.
The Powell Concert and Vaudeville company with a father and six children is stranded in the city and seeks passage to New York City. Local authorities assist with transit options as the troupe awaits onward travel.
A storefront ad from George W. Cann & Co. at 324 Broadway promotes in home improvement terms. It urges buyers to purchase an electric iron a chandelier or a pretty stand lamp to see a happy woman at home.
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