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Newspaper
Russiaville Observer
Location
Russiaville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1909
Page
5
A summer shoe clearance offers steep price cuts on ladies, misses, men, and boys footwear to make room for upcoming fall shipments. Catalog highlights include various Kelly and Oxford styles in calf, kid, patent leather, and fabric uppers with prices from 1.15 to 2.25, noting the goods are current styles, not old stock.
A brief list shows numerous cut prices in the Nation Department including bolts of feather stitch braid at 2c, hose supporters at 2d, dress shields at 0c, tooth brushes at 2c to 1d, buttons at 10d a dozen, pins and nursery pins, ladies vests, porcelain jars, fly papers, wash boiler, Jap Rose Soap, lamp, lunch box, lemonade straws, fruit jars, and other items offered at notably low prices while supplies last.
Fragmentary text lists quality metrics and closing prices with values such as 65c 1.00 and 68c 1.00, plus further figures like 1.00 1.75 and 1.15 2.00 and 1.25 2.50 and 1.65. No clear event, entities, or dates.
Shop cuts make history with final prices on Wash Suits at 6.00, Fancy Sick Suits at 7.50, and White Wool Serge Suits at 8.75. Limited stock in white and color, tailored or trimmed styles, all in one lot. Act now to save on suits offered in a public sale setting.
In September clearance offers 30.00 and 27.50 tailored suits in plain and fancy weaves with final cut prices. Lawn waists 1.00, Ladies muslin gowns 1.25, mustin drawers 35c, all at reduced final cut prices, with stock lots and sizes advertised.
Jess Caldwell of Frankfort visited Russiaville Sunday while Emmons Webb and Curtis Riggs went to Kokomo for a Sunday night visit. Clint Cooper and Ross Runk returned from Tangier where they had been playing baseball. S P Hollingsworth and family attended Indianapolis automobile races last week. Burt Maggart and wife of Monticello are visiting friends here this week.
Tonight reports confirm Mitch McDaniel lost a horse to a lightning strike this afternoon. Clarence Kemp, Bill Cox and Morrie Cochran joined an excursion to Michigan City on Wednesday. Residents attended Frankfort last Friday to watch Stephen A. race the 2:15 Pace but finished thirteenth in heat one and were distanced in heat two. Comrade John B. Sims joined the annual reunion of Company G 189th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry near Forest Thursday and marked his seventy fifth birthday. Lightning struck Carl Wadman’s east Main street dwelling causing chimney damage and brick fire debris though no one was there. Mrs Wadman and her sister were in Indianapolis filing.
A clutteredOCR page lists names and addresses with drug ads for Pink Pain Tablets and Kennedy’s Laxative Cane rap. Mentions Suave Tires and Drau Co in Kokomo with local visitors like Middleton and Karl Sims, plus scattered stray text and garbled lines.
A Swiss cave yields a bone from a man living 100000 years ago amid wild-beast danger. An 19th century letter by A W Brown of Alexander Maine cites Dr. King's New Discovery as curing lung trouble and coughs, offered with a free trial bottle.
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