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Newspaper
Ocala Evening Star
Location
Ocala, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1901
Page
5
A collage of storefront ads and notices includes fresh Cedar Key oysters at Dxuint’s, French Bakery items, AntiMonopoly Drugstore goods, and local eats. Mentions of a deputy marshal, arrivals at a house, lettuce shipments, seed potatoes, and market quotes. Also references to hotel notices, a piano and opera company, remedies for indigestion and coughs, and local merchants selling lace, hats, liniments, and candies.
The Orala House in Central Florida will begin breakfast service on Tuesday January 15. The dining room has been refurbished with new flooring, carpets, suites of rooms, and private baths. Suites are rented at nine dollars per week for several weeks, with porcelain toilets and lavatories installed. Courtesty of Peatmaster Groves. Jacksonville, January 10 forecast fair tonight with rain possible, Friday fair.
A call for a farmers meeting in Malta county Florida on Wednesday January 28 at 11 to discuss growing better and more productive crops, especially cotton, after a season of satisfactory yields. A committee was appointed to assist General Glew, the town buyer, in organizing the gathering.
An 1880s advertising notice offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh cure other than Hall's Catarrh Cure. It presents endorsements from local druggists in Toledo and asserts the remedy works by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces. It promotes Hall's Family Pills as the best remedy and provides a free testimonial.
The called meeting scheduled for Tuesday was postponed due to the funeral of a kind friend. It will be held Friday afternoon at ten o'clock at Mrs Dan Norgan Smith’s hospitable home.
Miss Minnie Butts is available at the Oval House office to provide any typewriting work at reasonable rates. Those needing her services are advised to consult her for reliable, economical typing.
An eclectic newspaper ad lists a fine residence for sale alongside new library books. Authors include Rhen Holden, T Machetler, and Eilen Fowler with titles such as The Rel of law and Bows of the Morning. Also advertised are titles like Red Hook, Alice of Old Vincennes, and Sonia. Terms and contact details accompany the listings.
The Knights of Honor announce a regu war ceesion Friday night and urge all members to attend.
You are invited to call and examine one pamphlet line of mailola of Columbia Crescent and Hartford Bicycles, which we will exhibit on January. The notice lists an exhibition by Jaguary Ovala Music Co. and references a music firm.
J Newton Hathaway of Savannah Georgia offers an electric belt to patients at a nominal charge. Write to N DB 25 Bey 88 street for details.
Advertisement lists wood for sale with prices per foot and load. Four foot lengths of oak and pine stovewood at specific rates, firewood mix of oak and pine, and shorter lengths offered at a special price. Includes contact via phone 25 for Seymour Smith Lumber.
An old Ocala page notes Buggies and Wazuns being moved to W H evel at Ocala Wagon Works by a first rate doctor who can fix horses feet. Mentions Mrs Hy Ricker of South Lake Weir, grape rai and tangerine trees, M Fisher store with new clothing and jackets, and various elixirs and patent medicines sold by Triine & Co. Garrett & Gerry urge caution on patent medicines while offering cheaper goods than “cost” advertisers. The Anti-Manupals Drwsstare runs hot soda and invigorating drinks. A Morris, painter, plans to move to Oak.
For sale thirty eight acres in a tract seven cleared. The plots include several numbered lots and subdivision of the south half of the southwest quarter, section 21, township 14 south, range east. Located in Florida near Yodee, offers invited.
Cheap cash sale of improved land advertised by the office. Inquire at this office for details on the forty acre farm.
Desirable troat office space available for rent in Gary Rice area. Apply to W. T. Gary for details and availability.
An odd advertorial note touts Hall for It as a hub for Green Grocery and Fish and Oyster Kin, urging readers to shop there rather than elsewhere and promising variety and value in a local market setting.
The Olympia Opera Company offers Baie Pacha with elaborate costuming and setting, described as more ornate than any prior stage production. The show arrives at the Marion Opera House on Wednesday evening in January.
An old newspaper snippet advertises a shop near the Hole in the Wall offering a daily teat of protest and vegetables, candies, cigars, and sweet milk.
The Montezuma Hotel, owned by Jacksonville interests, is being remodeled to meet demand for better facilities. Toilets on all floors are being modernized with separate facilities for men and women. The third floor is being reconfigured by merging small rooms into larger ones, and kitchen and servants’ quarters are being rearranged to bring the hotel to first class condition.
Concordia Lodge No 141, Fraternal Union of America, will meet tonight in regular session. Officers elected at the last meeting are to be installed for the ensuing year. Attendance is urged.
A small pumping station at the Seaboard depot caught fire at noon today. Fire brigade arrived promptly and extinguished the blaze with little damage reported.
Reported medical cures, local advertisements, and election notes from Brooksville and nearby towns. Mentions Renick Hamilton facing a severe ailment, Garrett & Gerig druggists, Judge W. S. Ballock, and Orange Lake surveying. Includes promotions for remedies and Plant System travel tickets.
A ladies requested notice describes a refined dining room operated by Dame offering oysters prepared in various styles. The piece promises a neat, cozy, and courteous atmosphere under the host Atlee.
Stop the thief selling you poor garden seeds at high prices. Go or send to J H Sutton Seedman Ovala Fla for exceptionally fine seeds including tomatoes the Rex Mant Eastern Grown Bryans and Ford Grown varieties. Free samples on application to those wishing quantity, state quantity wanted when asking.
BR Wing the traveling representative of Monarch and Wey has been in the city for several days exhibiting sample bikes at the action of RR. Yonge Jr, the total agent, notes the new 1611 models as benefits and represents it that la stood lit bicycles. Mr. Young places an order with the factory for about twenty of the new wheels.
GEO GILES 4 CO announces a full line of high grade fertilizers including Bright Cotton Seed Meal Dark Cotton Seed Meal Kainit Acid Phosphate and Sulphate of Potash. Special formulas mixed and reboxed at small extra charge. Visit for prices good for the next thirty days.
Nicely furnished rooms for rent offered by Mrs TJ Owens, one door from the Catholic church on Nock Street. Rent options include rooms with or without haunting. convenient location in Ocula.
An old advert promotes Faley's Honey and Tar as a remedy to stop coughing and ease phlegm without causing strain. It mentions a Greenhouse telephone No 2 and a J. E. Chace contact.
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