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Newspaper
Waynetown Despatch
Location
Waynetown, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1908
Page
4
A Great Store promotes a large spring sale of 1908 rugs and mattings bought in bulk from Eastern markets. The ad touts huge discounts on room size Axminster Velvets Wiltons Smyrna and Crex rugs plus Chinese and Japanese mattings at low per yard prices and special roll deals for large purchases.
A local shop advertises assured fashion with authoritative millinery styles and extremely low prices. The copy emphasizes quality assurance and bargain pricing to entice buyers.
Hendricks and HeEnpricks Bros. advertise a stock of handmade harnesses from heavy oak leather and a range of horse collars up to four dollars. They also promote Troy buggies as high grade and fashionable. A cowhide note claims ten to twenty pairs of solid leather shoes per hide.
A quirky local item notes F. C. Marshall found guilty not of wife beating but of letting his wife beat eggs for angel food. Other blurbs mention Welch's grape juice at Marshall's, Mrs. Sarah Fields ill, Will Doss sharpening tools, Galen Blackford visiting from Greencastle, and visiting Indianapolis visitors. Also notices of Baptist services, Uncle Sam Shular traveling to Yeddo, and political hopes of G. J. Westfall and Joseph Fouts in Coal Creek township.
Local brief items report Doss tire work and shoeing services at the old stand, Miss Ura Shoaf visiting from Wallace, Mrs. M. J. Kelly shopping in Indianapolis for millinery, Paul and Pauline Henderson visiting grandmother Mrs Timeline Hall, Big Four Sunday excursion to Indianapolis, Mrs. W. A. Thomas and daughter Ethel shopping, 8. M. Davis plans a new soda fountain with a grand opening, band reorganized after rain, Easter market by M F E church on the 18th at P M Brown hardware, L. M. Williams moves to Rossville Illinois for work with uncle, H O Huckery to showcase Bureauguard and Gold Bug horses at Elmdale and Alamo with a service fee of 10 dollars.
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