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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
2
The notice advertises affordable items across toys, glassware, boxes, books, china, lamps, and furniture. It highlights 10 cent rooms, bargain prices, and a humorous testimonial about an Acker Range stove and making biscuits, aiming to lure shoppers with low prices and wide assortments.
The article describes elaborate Christmas centerpieces with Santa Claus motifs intended to decorate tables at Christmas. Central pieces include a sleigh with reindeer and snowball gift boxes, a gilded holly trim, and a miniature gable roof Santa scene, designed to conceal small gifts inside snowballs and include dangling ribbon passes to guests.
A decorative Christmas gift idea features a small bag with an attached needlebook. Instructions cover materials, cutting, folding, French seams, heading, and ribbon threading, plus linen covers, pasteboard, silk linings, flannel, and embroidery colors.
Embroidered Dutch boy and girl calendars in delft blues are popular as gifts. They can be painted on cardboard or bought ready made and affixed with small penny calendars. Secure stamps available at fancy work stores. A sofa pillow and tie rack to match makes a pretty coordinating set.
A note states that payments on accounts are treated the same as cash purchases for the sum of 50.00 dollars. It clarifies how charged balances are applied and recorded in the books.
Mrs. Dock Davis and son Oscar visited Sullivan on Saturday with others traveling to nearby towns. Residents attended church at Claiborne Calvary Caledonia Houck school House and Linton events last week. Several trips to Terre Haute and Carlisle were noted along with local social calls and family visits.
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