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Newspaper
Russiaville Observer
Location
Russiaville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1907
Page
8
Five fur coats listed with sale prices 25 dollars each from an original 40 dollars. Near seal coats priced at 50 dollars reduced to 32.50. A sable squirrel jacket marked down from 60 to 32.50. A wool seal cape remains 15 dollars. Caracal coats offered at a liberal discount.
Print ad lists assorted domestics and blankets with prices and items such as muslin, comforters, wool blankets, and cotton prints. Entries include Hope muslin 1.00, Outing fabrics 93c, blankets priced from 3c to 4.00, and comfort items ranging up to 2.50.
Silk and dress goods pricing includes Black Taffeta at 75c to $1.50 per yard and assorted suitings priced at 50c to $1.50. Items listed show yardage costs such as 9S8c and 68c for various suitings and silks.
Out of sight and mind phrase applies to a burn or wound treated with Bucklen's Arnica Salve which also cures piles and chillblains. Swayzee Bros. guarantees the product and advertises its healing influence.
Table linen prices include Turkey Red Damask at 40c to 69c and napkins at 1.19 to 1.50. Linen crash items priced around 94c to 124c with various discounts.
Multiple lots of tailor made suits priced originally from 12.50 to 30.00 are marked down to 6.83 9.98 and 14.98 respectively. A 43 unit group of suits valued up to 50.00 goes at one third off. Mohair items and silk waists are discounted to 2.00 and 4.85 respectively. All other items at a general discount.
A list of sale items includes men's wool fleece shirts and drawers at 1.00 or 0.75 each, ladies fleeced vests and pants 0.43 each, ladies union suits 0.50, men's negligee shirts 0.39, neckwear 0.39, hose 0.15, kitchenware such as granite dish pans 0.14 and kettles 0.25 to 0.45, universal meat chopper 1.00, and teddy bears 0.69.
Local retailer advertises women skirts in best material priced at 3.75 for a five dollar range item and 3.85 for higher grade selections with a 12.50 price point listed as fifty cents in the material.
Advertising brief lists petticoats and tops with prices including 1.50 for a black petticoat 93e 2.50 for another black petticoat Jersey top 1.35 and a 5.85 total for black and colored silk petticoats 4.98. Includes fabric notes and discount formatting in a compact catalog entry.
A sale lists waists in wool batiste at 2.98 each, plain or embroidered, with bulk value noted as 3.75.
Multiple ladies coats priced originally at 9.50 10.85 and 13.50 are reduced to 5.55 7.50 and 9.50 respectively. The sale highlights coats priced at 15 20 and 25. Shoppers view special pricing across several styles.
The text recalls Alma Ball of the Fight Club with friends Sunday at Ko komo. faculty spent the day together.
A Kentucky resident recounts 33 years of sore eyes, blindness for 13 years, then recovery after using Chamberlains Salve recommended by a neighbor. The salve was sold at a local drug store in Cynthiana.
Eisenberry brothers completed the purchase of a hardware and implement store in Jonesboro. A 1901 testimonial from Otterburn Michigan touts Chamberlain’s Pain Balm for quinsy and sprains, noting relief in two days. Joe R. Myers of Kokomo advertises as a major monument dealer with large stock and per cent cheaper pricing.
My dear old mother, now eighty three, thrives on Elec Bitters. W. B. Brunson of Iblin Ga reports she has used them two years with excellent appetite, strength, and sleep. The tonic is claimed to aid female weakness and debility, and is guaranteed for stomach, liver and kidney troubles.
A dated advertisement promotes Pineules claiming 30 days treatment for $1.00. It asserts fast relief for backache lumbago and rheumatism with a money back guarantee. The copy emphasizes quick benefit from the first dose and urges purchase through Swayzee Bros.
Miss Ethel Grim, graduate dressmaker, now working from Victor Thompson’s home, offers all types of dressmaking services at reasonable prices and solicits patronage. Also promotion for Heel Laxative Cough Syrup claims gentle bowel action to cure colds, croup, and whooping cough, with satisfaction guarantee. Sold by Swayzee Bros.
Mr and Mrs Omer McCoy of Jonesboro visit Thanksgiving with Mr and Mrs C B McCoy. Dr Shoop's Restorative and Rings Little Liver Pills advertised by Swayzee Brothers claim rapid relief from digestive and liver ailments.
Miss Cora Hitchcock of Bluffton was a guest of her sister Mrs. Robert Fife on Thursday, sharing time with family in their Bluffton home.
An advertisement touts Dr King s New Life Pills to regulate the liver and prevent appendicitis, plus Man Zan Pile Remedy for piles. It promotes Kool for digestion and cites Edison on diet, urging readers to buy these remedies at local drug stores.
Classified listing shows 6 dinner plates at 23 cents per set, blue dinner plates, 45 cents for blue cups and saucers, and a 4 cent item line incomplete for graniteware.
Mr. Arthur Fry of Swayzee visited his aging mother Mrs. Phoebe Fry on Sunday. Meanwhile Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Burres were summoned to Indianapolis on Sunday by the death of their nephew Mr. Hal Byram of that city.
A catalog of home textiles including curtains nets lace ruffle and Battenburg nets silk lines and Brussels carpets. Prices range from a few cents to about a dollar with specific items such as Smyrna rugs yard wide carpets and footstools listed. Unclear dates or brands are not provided.
Local ad copy touts Kennedy's Laxat Cough Syrup as a tasty, effective remedy for colds and coughs for all ages. It references kidney and bladder relief and promotes quick, pleasant tasting relief available at Swayzee Bros. and Sw. stores.
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