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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1900
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR item lists names and ads for Saantey Press SEED Editor G W Jo and C G Bain agent, references to Lakeside Organ, Sumner park lots, M J Seed, Kipley and Yates club planned at Masomee Hal, and a garbled line about labor and Yates.
Items list sales and prices for shoes clothing and groceries from local merchants. Notes about milk delivery starting August and orders through W. W. E. Brion’s stores. Public sale advertised by T. J. Worstell with farm stock furniture and a horse and cow. A court trial involving Hiram Cooper, Jack Stewart, and Everett Greer over a peach-related incident.
Fragmented OCR lists several names and items for sale including barley seed and grain. Mentions H F Combe and G W McNece & Co along with railroad side access and a few damaged phrases. The text is garbled with misread names and scattered commodity references.
The fragment lists sales of farm equipment and livestock by M J Seed and others, auctions of personal property near Sumner, and ads for goods including organs, coffe, clothes, and seeds. It notes upcoming events at U B church, Epworth League ice cream socials, and a school Teachers Institute in Lawrenceville. A memorial obituary and community updates mention Rev D W Baker and local political meetings for McKinley Yates clubs, with midweek notices from Chauncey and Lawrenceville.
A Colorado Springs Gazette item depicts a humorous exchange about lighting a pipe with wet tobacco. The Boss complains about dryness, while a servant or coworker offers a solution with a bucket and met tobacco. The tone mimics regional rustic speech.
Bound for Michigan and offer for sale two lots with a new six room dwelling, another two lots with an eight room house, and a vacant lot in Sumner Hl. Descriptions include fruit, well, and condition notes. Also a detailed railroad accident report from Hadley area with injuries to several men and follow up notes.
A short trade note outlines various builder’s hardware items including shingles rivets vents and door hardware. The entry names products such as galvanised valley formed valley galvanized ridge roll doctragated iron and steel roofing components and transom lists and door bells.
Prices listed for household wooden ware items including moulds bowls boards pails and half bushel measures. Cedar pails cedar ware and related goods feature prominently with practical household utility emphasis.
Heavy re tinned ware as well as the Beiter eet always in stock. Tin Fruit 19, 3 for n Buckets, sing Comote Tes Kettles Dish Pana Ice Cream Servers Patent Dinner Buckets Ice Shaves os wT
Local ad lists bargains on light brown lager sugar laundry soap starch cornstarch sage sealing wax cocoanut liquid bleaching pare baking powder pare lemon and vanilla extracts with several prices and quantities. Ad emphasizes savings and low prices across staple and fancy items.
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