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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1900
Page
5
A fragmented early 20th century ad extols cheap potatoes and rice while promising low prices on prunes and other goods. The note emphasizes penny saving for buyers and suggests the store offers care for customers as they earn. New goods described as arriving at low prices.
The notice lists prices for groceries including coffee sugar flour lard tea oats and oil with per pound and bulk pricing and mentions a washing machine offer priced at 2.00 with galvanized iron bottom removable rubbers and wash boards. It emphasizes market changes and value deals in a small town grocery ad format.
Errors and garbled lines reference several individuals and places such as Evansville Vincennes Petersburg Washington and Princeton. The readable bits mention visits, business trips and social notes including Miss Bertha, Mrs Re Boitmann and Edith Schulte with scattered references to locales and events in a midwestern city and its surroundings.
Readable items record dozens of visitors and residents in Vincennes and area. Names include Colbert from Poss and Hollow Ray, Sparks from Columbus, Royce from Terre Haute, Dr. De Motte of Odon, Ellis and wife Harrison Township, Draper from Evansville, Leban and children at Petersburg, George Parrill and son Frank from Vib cenhes, Alfred Elis of Glendale to Indianapolis, Thomas Donahie now secretary at Shomls, and many others visiting relatives, attending funerals, or conducting business in the region.
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