Cresco Corsets Promise Waist Line Comfort
An advertising pitch asserts Cresco Corsets never break at the waist, regardless of price. The claim emphasizes lasting comfort and structural integrity for wearers seeking reliable support.
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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1902
Page
162
An advertising pitch asserts Cresco Corsets never break at the waist, regardless of price. The claim emphasizes lasting comfort and structural integrity for wearers seeking reliable support.
They advertise Corsets that hold the body shapes. The store notes a surge in sales and announces stock of new sizes. A sewing machine model is on display for 18 shillings.
Public notice and community items from Mooreville Indiana including local ads. reports on church and lodge activities, water and electrical work, family updates, meals, and upcoming services with names of residents and local businesses.
Local notes report the Goose Creek bridge construction postponed to next spring while sidewalk plans on west Main Street move forward. The town board met, approving Pettit & Patton for south side concrete at 124 cents per square foot and a north side sidewalk petition to be circulated soon.
The Board of State Charities and County Charities push Prison Sunday on October 26 to inform public sentiment on prison reform crime prevention and care for dependent children. They urge ministers to preach on prevention and offer literature from Room 62 State House Indianapolis.
Community notices include thanks for kindness during illness, upcoming fall open events, births in Belleville and Indianapolis, law student starts in Indianapolis, requests for wood choppers, and grocery ads. Social visits among families Sheets Overton Miles Conduitt Shubert and Rathbone sisters noted. A large crowd heard Congressman Holliday and other candidates at the Opera House.
An advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion as a vital source of nourishment for men women and children. It claims to restore flesh blood and strength for consumptives and those wasting away and promotes it as a sustaining food and tonic for growth and health.
Excursion tickets to Chicago for National Encampment events will be sold via Pennsylvania Lines on October 6. Details available from Pennsylvania Lines Ticket Agent.
Alfred Bee of Wel fare Texas credits Electric Bitters with curing biliousness and back pain, restoring sleep appetite and energy after a period of exhaustion. Advertises 500 bushels of Fultz Mediterranean seed wheat for sale at 75 cents per bushel and seeks to buy hogs via W A Sellars in Rural Route No.1.
A Great Offer announces combined one year subscription to the Daily Indiana Sun and the Guide for 3.00, six months 1.40, and shorter terms with monthly rates. The Sun claims the largest daily circulation in Indianapolis except one, and the deal includes the Sun with the Guide for the price of the Sun alone, postage free, with samples available at the Guide office.
The ad praises Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a cure for eruptions blotches and sores and claims it prevents pimples for beauti es. It says Kezema and salt rheum vanish and touts lip and hand care plus piles relief. Available for 25 cents at G W Bass drug store.
I B Mendenhall announces a private sale on October 16 for lot No 1 in block 36 Town of Mooresville. Terms require one third cash one third in six months and the balance in twelve months. Property is the house and lot on east South street now occupied by Mr and Mrs Ed Carlisle.
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