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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1912
Page
6
A sales list highlights low prices on shirts, pants, caps, overalls, socks, gloves, and belts. It promotes 12 qt and 21 qt Graniteware, wash boards, ironing boards, linen, towels, lace curtains, and glassware with dozens of small items priced to attract shoppers.
The ad promotes a first class furniture store with oil cook stoves Perfection refrigerators gas stoves oil stoves cots mattresses springs and chairs. It urges shoppers to check prices before buying.
A wandering narrator recalls early days in Fairbanks Alaska describing a booming saloon culture with gambling and dance halls, the layout of Front Street, and daily life among miners and riverine commerce. He notes harsh winter closures, ice skating tents, dry cold, and the resilience of residents as crews face extreme cold and dwindling work on the creeks.
A reminiscence describes Norfolk suits sale in town and harsh interior life in Fairbanks and Tanana. The writer recalls night watchman work at Brumbaugh Hamilton and Kellogg, cabin life, rivers freezing, and snowbound routines. He highlights dogsled life, mushers, and hardships of sourdough culture with vivid details.
An advertisement urges women to take Dr. King's Life Pills to gain strength new complexion and pure breath. It claims safe easy and sure benefits and references a price of 25 cents at Joe K Smock and Son.
John Cummings of Sullivan Indiana aged 90 died Tuesday night at his home in Indianapolis after a long illness following a fall. He was a native Hoosier with Illinois years, father of George W. Cummings, vice president of the Associated Press Association, lifelong Republican who voted in seventeen presidential elections, and friend of Abraham Lincoln. He farmed most of his life, retired sixteen years ago, and later lived with his daughter before moving to Irvington.
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