Local Dress Goods and Clothing Sale Listing
A catalog of items including dress goods underwear flannels muslins can tons clothing hats caps and men furnishing goods appears in the advertisement section detailing available varieties and prices.
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Newspaper
New Ross Mail
Location
New Ross, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1898
Page
2
A catalog of items including dress goods underwear flannels muslins can tons clothing hats caps and men furnishing goods appears in the advertisement section detailing available varieties and prices.
A newspaper reveals plans for an editor's corner to explain the work behind printing and editing. It promises not to overtake news space and invites reader feedback while stressing community service and openness.
A visitor laments seat hogs at a Jamestown church lecture by Rev. Gross. He recalls three men occupying a four seat row, forcing him to scramble for space and disturb others, calling for courtesy from all ages.
A broad cloth presenter occupies the pulpit while congregations at preaching are largely women. The choir is mainly young ladies and prayer services see few male attendees. Church aid societies are female dominated, yet prayer meetings draw many men and a male choir. A woman in bloomers occupies the pulpit in a breezy scene.
A playful poem lists odd jobs and grand tasks such as a dentist for gale teeth a cook for mountain meals artificial teeth for a river mouth a crown for a hill a shoe for a mountain foot and hundreds of women to scour the country an energetic barber to shave the earth a lady to wear the cape of drood Hope lochs for Florida Keys and a nice man to teach the Scilly Islanders attributed to Anglo American.
The article notes frequent equipment failures and track roughness on the Midland line with trucks detaching from a baggage coach and a boiler bursting on an engine at Lebanon. It warns that repairs are sparse and the line may deteriorate beyond operation within months.
The Lebanon Reporter states a bank will be organized at Advance soon with stockholders including J. M. Sandy J. A. Sandy T. M. Sherra James Bowman and Mat Martin. Capital stock about 25000. Martin likely president and J. M. Sandy cashier with plans to build a brick bank.
A businessman hiring a boy rejects fifty letters of recommendation and chooses the candidate who shows courtesy, punctuality, cleanliness, and respect. A witness notes that observable conduct reveals more about character than formal endorsements. The anecdote praises everyday acts as true commendations.
Rumor says American Tin Plate Co plans or has acquired the C. and S. K. E. Midland Railway and will extend to Elwood to secure a coal line if natural gas supplies decline, a move the public hopes will happen.
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