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Newspaper
Roanoke Review
Location
Roanoke, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1921
Page
5
An advertisement touts unusually low prices offered by a county store, promising stronger buying power to beat competitors. It claims cheap staples including sugar potatoes toasties starch soaps lard bananas oranges cabbage and meat. A 1 lb bag of Golden Sun coffee is free with 1 lb of Golden Sun tea at 95 cents per pound.
Fragmentary diary style notes mix domestic life with Civil War era battle imagery. References to a housekeeper, names like Bertha Starbuck Dietz and Hazel Martz mingle with mentions of Indiana service, General Sherman, and Fort Wayne social visits as scattered recollections and notices.
Fragmentary OCR page shows a cluster of shipping line addresses and agents in New York Baltimore and Wall Street. Repeated listings include Matson Navigation Co New York Port of Spain Cuba lines S S Co 1 Broadway New York U S Mail S S Co 45 Broadway and related offices.
Zanesville area social notes report visits from Frank Reed family of Michigan and Mrs Sickafuse of Auburn. Miss Fern Adding of Port Wayne spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Will Jacobs. Bluffton commencement exercises were attended with local graduates Blanche Reed Russel Decy Wave and Goldie Dobbs. A funeral service for Lulela Espich was held at the Church of God with Rev Wm McCorley in charge. A religious pledge discussion followed in which leaders urged a written commitment to future denominational work.
The text shows members of professed Christians who state they are not willing to promise. It questions who they refer to and questions the basis of such reluctance. The fragment hints at internal church debate during a campaign.
Public notice from Moon & Moon Dry Cleaning advertising guaranteed work and garment turnaround on Tuesdays and Fridays. It states no sales agents for magazines and warns against posters claiming to be agents. Also references Purvis Drug Store and a real estate sale notice under Huntington Circuit Court for Sarah E. estate administration.
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