20th century time capsule

New Business Venture - - - Date Line: 1912

-- Local Advertisement --
hammond mining company

Is Placing 75,000 shares of its capital stock on the market.
First 25,00 at 5 cents
Second 25,000 at 7½ cents
Third and final 25,000 at 10 cents
This stock will positively go to 50 cents by January 1st, 1913

Men are piling ore on the dump.
With every foot the vein is getting wider and better.
Get in on the ground floor and make some money.
hammond mining company
Branch Office
Citizens German National Bank Building
George J. Hornak, President and General Manager
Hours 9 to 12 -- 2 to 4 -- 7 to 9


Above is a recreation of an advertisement that appeared in a local newspaper. It is not known at this time, what type of business the company conducted and where the mines were located at. A brief story line and advertisement appeared in "The Times" on Wednesday, September 4th, 1912.

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Source information and photo from The Times Newspapers located at the Hammond Public Library.

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