Bargain Hardware and Home Goods Sale List
A catalog style listing offers assorted home and hardware items with prices: tacks, tack puller, tacks and brushes, wire beaters, scrub brushes, stove polish and brushes, galvanized scrub buckets, clothes lines and pins, sponges, wash brushes, paint brushes, lace curtains, brass curtain rods, shelf brackets, dust pans, dusters, feather dusters, wardrobe hooks, hangers, Ivory Soap, shelf and shelf paper. Prices range from 5c to 50c with notes of savings for curtain purchases.
Local notes from Martinsville and surrounding townships
A roundup of area social ties and events includes visits by Casey, Denver, and Westfield residents. Ohio Oil Co activity on the Bruce Reed farm. a power house fire on Hollis lease. Sunday school at Butternutt. Democratic and Republican primary ticket details. various health, obituaries, and personal milestones. and local farm, trade, and social updates across Martinsville, Kickapoo, Cleone, and nearby communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Jacobs
Casey
W. Connelly
C. H & DD Bridge Gang
Geo Troughton
Glen Beasley
Elmer Tyler
Riley Connelly
Denver
Colo
Sam James
John Parker
Westfield
John Neely
Indiana
Mary Beavers
Lillian Hollis
Ohio Oil Co
Bruce Reed
Geo. Stanton
Frank Sewall
Tuscola
C. W Connelly
Chas Newlin
E A. Tyler
Chas. Jackley
Cleone
Jane Connelly
Oklahoma
Willard Underwood
Underwood
Terrell
Linn
Kelley
Briscoe
Geo Thompson
Chas Beasley
Kickapoo
Chas
Newlin
D I Beasley
A Connelly
CC W. Connelly
Parker Township
Elmer Anderson
N. P Daughetee
Wm. Downey
John A Turner
Ed Cowan
A. Connelly
H. S. Aken
What Can Irrigation Farmers Teach the East
An essay contrasts the East and West on water use in farming. The author argues irrigation lessons from the West could boost East farming values, noting years of East drought and the potential for reservoirs versus the East’s natural water abundance and limited irrigation adoption. The piece frames a reciprocal obligation between regions and calls for reclamation ideas from the West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Review of Reviews
Dieting and warmth tips from a 19th century physician
A physician advised a young woman to eat a lean diet to slim down, favoring bread and meat moderation along with avoiding butter rich sauces and desserts. He suggested a daily small candy portion, no pies, white bread, or heavy starches, and emphasized regular movement and no corset loosening. For sleep he proposed a warm bed with a hot water bottle or warmed pillows to ease insomnia, noting warm bed aids winter rest while cooling aids summer sleep.
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Sentle
Photographers. client jokes about grindstone portrait pose
A photographer muses that some prominent men prefer distinctive poses. The subject retorts with humor asking to be photographed with his nose against a grindstone, jokingly requesting a grindstone for the shot.
Tornado and Fire Insurance Offerings Highlighted
The notice promotes farm and city property insurance with emphasis on large companies and low rates. It mentions coverage types and available policies for both rural and urban properties.
New York Suits and Curtains Offer Bargains at Local Store
The Corker Overalls and work clothes section lists price cuts on women suits from ten to fifteen dollars, new wash suits for misses and women, embroidered waists from 49 cents, and a large stock of lace curtains and portieres. Also Ederheimer Stein Co offers boys and young men clothes to age twenty and children's wash suits from fifty cents, with work pants at fifty cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ederheimer Stein Co
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Also Mentioned on This Page
J. E. Hardesty
Foley
All Drug
Eheran
Hardyarg
Cole
Martinsville
Jerry Ishler
Dick Graham
Frank Berger
W. N Rondon
John Stout
Wm. Richardson
Annapolis
John Conover
Kansas
Jack Watson
Golden Buckie
Jos. Buckle
Bob Watson
Alex Shelton
Mattoon
Wolfden
John Cook
Henry Randall
Wm. Connelly
Parker
Geo. Trout
Joseph Redman
Vern Wier
Whiting
Ind
F I. Shinkle
Muncie
Hill Benes
Otto Snyder
International Harvester
George Arney
Wednesday
California
Lawrence Hurst and
Walnut Prairie
Fairground Road
Sile Weber
Byram Co
Sile
A. D. Haase
Lindsay
Art
Linsay
Poor
John Elmore
Peter
J. N. Cook
John
William Cunningham
Mt. Pleasant
Mr. Cunningham
Cunningham
The
Herald
Milady's
New York City
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Kingsbury
Hughes
Beatly
Westheld Township
L. A. Weeden
Newton Lowry
C. D. Barbee
Burley Bennett
D. Parker
Melford Strader
Edgar and
Clark Counties
Clark County
Illinois
Marshall
W.H. Marvin
West Union
York Township
Fred Buckner
Ransom Goodwin
Elias Haddix
Charles Williamson
Gravee-Orard Reings
Democratic
Melam
Apor
John Taggarty
Collector
Harrison
Anne
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