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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1903
Page
2
Racket style storefront advertises prices on brooms and handkerchiefs, ladies gloves and underwear, candy, school supplies, stationery, shoes, overalls, hats, suspenders, and hosiery. Also promotes seeds, flowers, and a shoe repair offer with free sewing. Many items tout low prices and factory freshness to draw customers.
Travel booth announces guided tourist sleeper excursions to California with frequent weekly dates via Denver and Salt Lake City. A separate Evansville horse show fare is quoted at 1.75 dollars round trip from Washington, with tickets on sale June 1 to 4 and by June 5 for return.
We loan cash from small amounts to fifty dollars on personal property. Terms range from one to six months with a weekly payment plan. You pay only for the time you use the loan.
Notice of a called meeting of Charity Lodge No. 30 BK. & A.M. on Saturday May 30 at 8 o'clock pm. Work in the third degree by order of J. W. Chars W M. Also unrelated medic ad mentions instant relief from pain with Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil available at any drug store.
Early 1812 a call went out for volunteers to furnish horses rifles belt tomahawk butcher knife and patch cutter. Enlistees numbered between fifteen and twenty from forts along White river forks. wages were one dollar per day for a year. A key engagement near Wild Creek involved heavy Indian fire and a rout, with notable deaths Samuel Culbertson and Jesse Jones.
The group consistently retreated northward toward hollows leading to the Wabash river. Returning to camp, pursuers reported enemies gathered in a deep ravine upriver. Their numbers and position made any attack highly hazardous, so they abandoned the assault and began marching home.
Notice promotes Ely's Liquid Cream Balm as a sprayable remedy for nasal catarrh. It claims medicinal similarity to the classic Cream Balm and notes availability through druggists or by mail from Ely Brothers in New York for 73 cents including a spraying tube.
A Beall Mississippi man cites Dr King s New Discovery for consumption as life changing for his wife. Testimonials warn against kidney strain from travel and endorse Foley s Kidney Cure. Electric Bitters touted for stomach and kidney health with a money back guarantee.
A miscues of patent medicine ads tout Foley's Kidney Cure and Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup as cures for kidney bladder coughs and consumption. The notes claim quick relief and many testimonials including Miss Julia Filbridge and A A Herren. Also parodic proverbs and advice on health and self care appear among product pitches.
Fragmentary ad style text touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powder for children claiming feverish slagon symptoms, bed stomach and hepcache. It promises cure for worms and mentions sample mailing and an address in LeRoy New York.
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