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Newspaper

Russiaville Observer

Location

Russiaville, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Aug 12, 1920

Page

4

Boston Store in Kokomo Offers Modern Dry Goods and Fine Accessories

The Boston Store in Kokomo promotes a metropolitan shopping experience with New York buyer influenced fashion, a wide range of ladies accessories, and up to date styles. Managers praise quality, reasonable prices, courteous service, and plans for a 6000 square foot expansion as a major sale draws attention from miles around.

New York Style Center of America Broadway

Local Motor Sales Promotes Dodge Cars and Moline Tractor

B B Perry of Kokomo highlights value in Dodge Brothers automobiles and the Moline tractor. He touts Dodge as a top five passenger car, used by the U S Army, with instant delivery promised. The Moline tractor is praised for its driver’s visibility and all around utility for farming tasks.

Dodge Brothers Dodge Doctge Bros U.S Dodge Bros

Whitson Tailoring Promises Fit and Style for Men

Geo. L. Whitson pitches a modern tailoring shop offering distinctive suits with careful fit and workmanship. The haberdashery department features quality items at market-appropriate prices. Prominent local businessmen lead the firm and promote public-spirited offerings in the community.

Haberdashery

Carter Electric Co. Acknowledged as Local Electrical Experts

The Carter Electric Co is praised as expert electricians fully versed in electrical theory and practice. The firm offers Metropolitan Stock Service and specializes in complex electrical work with modern fixtures and equipment. The review highlights their efficiency, up-to-date stock, and strong service reputation.

Hollister's Millinery Prominent Local Hat Store Recommends Styles

Hollister's Millinery is a leading local millinery shop praised for competent leadership and fashionable hats. The store updates stock year round with up to date patterns and styles, sources from top national houses, and offers reasonable prices with skilled trimmers ready to create items to customer specs.

G W Gates & Co Kokomo Fur Sale Highlights Quality

G W Gates & Co in Kokomo promotes itself as a leading ladies specialty store offering standard lines at comparable prices to national retailers. The ad emphasizes high quality goods, insurance against poor products, and a mammoth August Fur Sale with vast stock and significant savings on the latest fur fashions.

New York

Ancient Greeks used pots to amplify theater sound

The article notes that ancient Greeks placed earthen pots under sea lamps toward the stage to resonate and reinforce sound, using the pots rather than woodwork to amplify audiences' hearing.

The Wolf Cry Timber Wolves Call to Unite Pack

A fragment describing timber wolves lifting their noses to air and emitting howls that stir humans and animals. Other wolves respond and converge toward each other, forging pack unity.

Local Plumbing Firm Shines In Kokomo Modern Systems

Kokomo’s leading plumbing and heating firm serves the surrounding territory with modern sanitary engineering. They install hot water and steam systems in fine homes and buildings, carry a full stock, display the latest fixtures, and promise reliable work at fair charges.

Chicago Packing House Meat Market Prominent Local Dealer

A respected Chicago meat market earns praise for cleanliness sanitation and modern methods. The firm offers abundant wholesome meats at moderate prices and draws hundreds of daily customers from Chicago and surrounding areas. The writers commend management and predict continued prosperity.

Sanitary Lunch Room Bi al ty review praises Kokomo cafe

The proprietor of a popular Kokomo cafe, a prominent county business man, is delivering value to patrons with high quality food and excellent service. The review notes modern, attractively furnished premises, widespread patronage, and a reputation for satisfactory cuisine and accommodations.

Whither We Are Flying Toward Vega Point

The sun and planets voyage through space toward a point about Vega in the evening sky. The speed is about 2 million miles per day. The exact location isn’t fixed, but lies near Vega. The piece asks readers if they feel they are rising rapidly as if shot upward.

Vega

Boy Corrects Endearing Terms For Baby Brother

A boy objects to being called a darling lamb by a friend and insists his baby brother Leigh is not a lamb. The next day he calls his brother a precious little camel, while his mother overhears his exclamations.

Billy Leigh

Contention and the Foolish Dictator in Discourse

A reflective commentary on contentious fools who presume to rule others. It contrasts ancient wisdom with modern rhetoric, noting how lack of knowledge fuels dictatorial posturing and public nuisance in ongoing discourse.

Israel

Natural Barometer Spider Web Clues Weather

A short piece notes that a spider’s web functions as a natural barometer. When wind or rain is expected the spider tightens the filaments, and in calm weather the web loosens. The passage describes the web’s response as a simple guide to changing weather.

Sue

Also Mentioned on This Page

Boston Kokomo B. B. Perry AGEN Motor Sales Co Geo. L. Whitson The Carter Electric Co Electricians Thor Metropolitan Stock Service and Work Hollister’s Millinery G. W. Gates & Co Indiana Chicago Packing House Meat Market
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