SALT RIVER TICKET. THIS TICKET ENTITLES THE HOLDER TO ONE FIRST CLASS PASSAGE UP SALT RIVER, ON THE PACKET TAFT DE MOOSE. LEAVING FOURTH STREET WARF, SOUTH SIDE JEANNETTE VIA BRUSH CREEK FOR SALT RIVER, THIS TRIP WILL BE MADE WITHOUT STOPS OR LAYOVER'S UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF CAPT JOHN H. TRESCHER, PURSER WM. ELKIN, EX. POST MASTER. . . TAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY BOARD FOR FOUR YEARS OF LONGER.
[Westmoreland County, PA: 1912]. 4to broadside, in bold type faces and fonts. A rather clumsy repair on blank verso to a horizontal fold split. Else Very Good.
This broadside is a Who's Who of Jeanette, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, citizenry. They apparently backed the losers in the three-way 1912 presidential election [President Taft; former President Roosevelt, who ran on the Bull Moose Ticket].
John H. Trescher, Proprietor and co-founder of Jeannette Dispatch. William Elkin, postmaster. S. Clark Daugherty, Drugs and Books. George H. Trimble, Proprietor of Hotel Marian. Peter W. Carney, occupation listed as "lab". John "Jack" Smith, occupation listed as lab. Lowry A. Reese, Shoes. Joseph M. Hart, Bartender at Hotel Kramer. Jacob Cotter, Bartender at the Miller House. John H. Young, Bartender at the Hotel Jeannette. Elias Adolph, Proprietor of New McKee. William C. Koerbel of Koerbel Brothers, florists and sheet metal workers. Charles S. Shumaker of Shumaker, Ringer & Foster. Henry Levy, Levy Brothers Clothing and Men's Furnishings. Albert Vogel, baker. William Euwer, Furniture and Carpets. Edward M. Gaughen, barber. Eleazer Katz, clerk at Union Clothing Store. John W. Keltz, cashier at First National Bank. H. Homer Miller, Insurance and Real Estate, Funeral Director and Embalmer. [Taken from R.L. Polk & Co.'s Greensburg (Derry, Jeannette and Latrobe) Directory for 1913, accessed at Ancestry website August 2024.]
Not located on OCLC as of August 2024. Item #40330
Price: $250.00