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Newspaper
Terre Haute Tribune
Location
Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1957
Page
16
Classified text shows a dining ad for a dinette at 504 mo. Bow URS offering regular meals at 65c and short orders from Hill Restaurant with 24 hour service. Multiple lost and found notices follow including pets parakeets and a puppy with various contact codes and rewards.
Classified notices solicit women and girls for evening care work in Deming Hotel office sales and office assistant positions. Listings include live in elder care, department store sales, Avon money earning, and temporary downtown office roles with training offered. Contact numbers and box references provided.
Various positions listed including practical nurses and elderly care, fry cook, waitresses, housekeeper, babysitter, general restaurant help, cleaning staff, and part time club staff. Employers include Skyway Grill Hulman, 6th Avenue Tavern, Bertha's Diner, Hudson Home Restaurant, Best Haven Motel, Sparks Snack Shop, Hook's Drug Store, Gateway Cafe, and Tribune-Star box ads. Some entries request in person applications with hours or age requirements.
Classified notices list opportunities including a drug sundry store on contract, beer and wine license for sale, a coffee shop for sale, a factory opportunity, a tavern and restaurant with license, a grocery and meat market with beer permit, a 2 bay service station for lease, and an apartment house with potential income. Listings cite contact boxes and prices or lease terms.
Diverse auto listings from dealers and individuals include 1950s 1952 1954 cars such as Buick Chevrolet Oldsmobile Plymouth Nash Studebaker and a Harley Davidson motorcycle. Prices range from 275 to 795 with terms trade and overpayments mentioned. Several contact points include N Fruitridge 601 N Fruitridee 2711 8th 4th Ave 2408 N 27th and 310 Washington.
Used trucks of various makes and sizes including a 1948 Chevrolet 1 ton panel and a 1930 GMC 14 ton pickup with details. Also listed are two wheel trailers, storage rates, and a request to lease tractors for long distance hauling with a contact in Terre Haute Indiana. Nearby listings include paint and tire notes and a coal company mention.
An assortment of building supplies and instruments listed for sale includes white and yellow pine sheets, plywood, concrete blocks and mixes, sand and mortar products, lime, cement, asphalt, and related hardware at Acme Coal & Lime and other locations. The ad also promotes a Kay electric guitar with amplifier, piano tuning services, and piano sales from Paige's Music Store and Henderson Studio Music Store along with instrument instruction and restaurant fixtures from Bertha's Diner.
A collage of gear listings appears, including a James cycle Whizzer motor bike priced at 50 and 60 dollars, an inboard boat and trailer, creek minnows, a 1933 Harley Davidson Model KK, Winchester Model 70 .22 Hornet with scope, a molded plywood runabout, a 12 foot boat with Johnson outboard, and various tackles. Also notes a Paitson store ad offering a complete boat outfit for 895 dollars and several service ads for outboard motors lawn mowers and cleaners. Several buy and trade offers appear for used suits, clocks, scrap metal, and furniture plus a fishing contest by McMillan’s Sports.
A dense classified page lists pets and supplies with prices and seller details, including baby parakeets at 1.98, kittens, puppies, bulldog and rat terrier pups, registered dogs, and various birds. Stores such as Sears Farm Store 120 N 7th, Johnson's House of Pets 101 Ohio, and Downey's Hatchery advertise items along with seed, dog chow, cedar shavings, potting supplies, and garden plants at several local addresses.
The notice announces a June plant sale with bedding plants discounted from May prices. Hardy pot grown rose bushes are 20 percent off. Open weekdays until 7 30 P M and 5 P M next Sunday.
Farmers seek Angus cattle Duroc pigs and heifers with vaccination noted. Pages advertise hog cholera vaccine and poultry stock including chicks and pullets. Local feeds and grain firms offer specials at Graham Grain Co Carter Feed Store and Standard Hatchery with multiple breed listings and farm equipment ads.
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