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Newspaper
Washington Star
Location
Washington, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1904
Page
4
The advertisement touts honest shopkeeping and close margins to win customer trust. It claims line after line that Spring goods are the best of their kind with low prices on stockings hats and assorted fabrics. Items listed include Black Velours and Colored Dress Goods with prices from fifty cents to one dollar and thirty four cents.
The store touts its gloves with reasons for activity. It emphasizes buying quality, a complete size and color range, and low prices. Highlighted items include gloves at 1.00, 0.75 for misses, and silk and lisle gloves as a high line, with a bold claim of best on earth.
A local retailer touts a white goods sale with new stock and complete style ranges. Prices advertised from 5 cents to 492 include mercerized linens and silk quality items. Three special lots will be sold, featuring 1.25 dollar and 49 pence quality fabrics and silk skirts priced at 4.98 and 5.98.
Spring coats return in abundance with light fabrics and bright tones. Exquisite exclusiveness and low prices highlight the season as shoppers explore the new jackets priced at 5.08 to 0.08 in catalogs and store displays.
Local millinery advertises a large northern New Jersey selection with hats offered at personal prices. Encourages customers to call and inspect the department before purchasing, promising profit for buyers.
The New Dress and Walking Skirts features style stamps on garments with prices read as beautiful line items starting at 198 dollars for select pieces.
A shoe store proclaims truthful advertising and a full spring stock. It promises reasonable prices, exchangeable merchandise, and a money back guarantee if value is not met. The copy emphasizes fresh spring season readiness and helpful service for buyers.
Vicinity notes report a Stanhope bank opening with deposits over 100000 dollars. The item mentions Pattonburg shooting event planned for tomorrow, Stroudsburg council debating a broad water bill, church and community activities, a reunion in New York, factory and business developments, and local figures including Hartung and Abrams amid regional changes.
Trenton reports population and tax data, with a state appropriation of 100000 for voting machines to be installed before fall elections. Governor endorses 25000 for World's Fair expenses. James B Duke seeks GOP delegate seat in Fourth District. Woolen manufacturing dominates, 110 thousand plus workers, value over 11.69 million. Massachusetts road commissioners to inspect New Jersey macadam roads May 9 under State Road Commissioner Henry J Badd.
The Sunterdon county court convenes this week as the grand jury finds two indictments. Local properties change hands including Shieldy hotel in Port Morris. Notables like George L Bonn and Dr Charlon F Huluted appear in town news. Several crimes, transfers, and civic updates fill the page, from a death in Jotland to a bakery theft and a reform school placement. The St Louis fair exhibit and local industry reports dominate county interest.
A fragmentary 19th century letter jokes about painting the Episcopal parsonage in Lancaster New York. It notes Mr Dooley and Mr Liz Moore, mentions gallons of paint and a misread job claim, and ends with a mock closing from F W & Devor Co and Godfrey paint ads in the Tribune.
The piece notes a Lackawanna agent promotion in Orange. J N Pidcock of Whitehouse named president of Georgia Northern Railroad, succeeding OC W Pidsegk. Lackawanna awards 65 bridge contracts to American Bridge Co totaling about 1 million dollars. Samuel and Mrs Allen celebrated their wedding anniversary in New York. James Maryey, 87, former Lackawanna president, is cited with a $1,900 insurance claim payout after car coupling injury. A whitehouse Central road rear-end collision injures three dozen coal cars. trainmen escape by jumping. Lackawanna president Enaonr says modest improvement ahead. coal market stable with continued orders. Pennsylvania Railroad rumored to lease Lehigh and Hudson for 99 years. Lehigh route to New England freight used for past months. new agent Kerry Yoast begins at Andover Junction.
A dubious advertisement touts Dr David Kennedy's net redteine Culture Bolyont as a fast acting cleansing remedy. It claims relief from skin eruptions and blood conditions and invites readers to write to the Calcura Company in Rondout New York for information and a sample.
General news notes report speculation that Governor Murphy of New Jersey will succeed the late Senator Hannana as chair of the Republican National Committee. Also noted is the New York Legislature voting a pension to Hiram Cronk, last surviving war enlistment from 1812, who turns 101 April 29 and lives with his daughter in Oneida County. Other items mention a massive weapon weighing 26 tons, local social visits, illnesses, and community events.
The St Paul and Union Pacific Line plans daily service from Chicago to the Pacific coast and to many intermediate points during March and April. Prospective travelers are advised to write for full information on route options and train schedules.
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