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Newspaper
New Ross Mail
Location
New Ross, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1900
Page
3
The Cincinnati Store reports a stronger spring business thanks to a large assortment of Dry Goods Carpets Millinery Draperies and Window Shades bought before wholesale price increases. Read the Nod on Pon Boy for summer skirts at 2.00 and up men s underwear at 1%c ladies vests 10c tic velvet Brussels carpet 65c yard heavy tapestry Brussels 50c yard and rat in grain carpet 39c and up.
Local items report moves and visits from Pete Fudge and others, church events, an ice cream supper, and ongoing well drilling. Obituaries note George McClintick and the Widow Brown. Advertisements promote Gem steam laundry and The Robbing House in Crawfordsville.
A roundup of Advance area items notes sickness travel visits and business activity. Figures include Jennie Erskine of The Press Annie Jane Meek Jeff Hudson Arthur Yager Milton Hedge and family J P Servies Jake Watters and several others with building farm and wind pump projects. Local socials and shop moves pepper the list.
John Threldkeld tried to haul a breaking plow in a buggy last week and caused a tumble while turning around. Elder A. Carney filled his Shiloh appointment last Sunday with a well attended evening sermon, drawing many from Union and Pleasant View.
Local items from Union township recount births, repairs, and home tasks. Elza Fleetwood and family celebrate a daughter. Elmer Brown’s buggy purchase. farming notes predict a large corn crop and oats prospects. The second Union township high school commencement at the Christian church in Lizton on May 1 lists graduates Fred Robbins, Homer Higgins, Howard Prichett, and Chas Plummer with Rev Z F Sweeney delivering the class address.
Several farmers will plant worn this week. Mrs. Broderick is having her house repapered. James Wood drove over to Georgetown Sunday. Sam Dale and wife visited at Harley Dale. Sunday Dr. Dale of Illinois circulated in our town last week. Marion Dinsmore and wife visited her father's Sunday. Miss Clydie Rogers visited Miss Sylvia Elder at Georgetown Sunday.
Rule list for a weekly cash prize awarded to the reporter sending the most acceptable news items. Winners cut their name from the page, cash prize fifteen cents weekly, restrictions include weekly submissions, second-letter eligibility for new correspondents, first-come reporting priority, tie-breaks by tenure, and exclusions for non-local items, weather notes, jokes, ads, and general notices.
The store showcases a wide array of domestics and personal adornments including muslin underwear corsets knit wear hosiery lace curtains portieres linens and sheets. Early purchases secured reasonable prices before recent advances and a larger assortment is on offer this season.
The piece extols American manufacturing over foreign rivals in hosiery and knit underwear. Wayne Knit of Ft Wayne, Indiana, is highlighted as a leading example with superior finish and wear, while overall American goods are praised for better quality and lower prices despite higher wages.
This store invites buyers of muslin underwear to appreciate the quality materials correct shaping and careful workmanship offered. It urges customers to learn the store better and see the excellent values available for a small price and decide to buy ready made.
The store reports a large stock of linens bought last fall and offers them at near cost to last through spring. It highlights pattern cloths with borders at the same price as yard goods and emphasizes no price advances while stock lasts. Damask options, matching napkins, and a range of bleached and unbleached linens by the yard are featured with varied prices.
This advertisement highlights a retailer’s pride in its curtains and draperies collection. It touts more patterns, lower prices, expanded store space, and better lighting to showcase lace curtains and draperies for homes of all sizes with careful selection of beauty and quality.
A store highlights its domestic section offering staple goods from top brands and many unknown makes, claiming fair pricing and honesty. It invites customers to judge by its domestics, arguing if prices are too high there they would overcharge in other departments.
A local store advertises about 300 silk waist lengths at special discount prices. The selection features stripes plaids and fancy woven shades with prices reduced from the yard rate to encourage silk business and larger purchases.
All patterns priced at 10c each with no variation. New Idea paper patterns offered as sole agency for Yountsville flannels yarns and blankets line.
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