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Newspaper
Columbus Daily Herald
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1900
Page
4
A local advertiser claims a stock of top perfumes by careful selection, offering the best odors at the community standard price. The message emphasizes quality and value to capture perfume trade, pricing at 50 cents an ounce.
Dr. O H Mennet, noted aeronautics expert, is slated to visit Washington for staged aviation demonstrations. The event aims to showcase early flight innovations and boost local interest in air travel.
The Columbus Herald notes dates of sale November 6 and 20 and December 4 and 18, 1900. J. P. Mapven announces holiday excursion rates via Big Four for Dec 22 to 25 and Jan 1. Round trip tickets to focal stations and Central Passenger Association points, one and one third fare, return by January 2, 1901.
An ex edits exchange reports the editor on his deathbed. The doctor laments his failing circulation as the editor, with his last breath, accuses the city’s largest circulation claim as a lie. The remark ends the paper’s whispered exchange.
An 19th century advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites F J Cheney & Co of Toledo and lists wholesale druggists West Truax Walding Kinnanl Marvin. The cure is described as internal and affecting blood and mucous surfaces. Price five cents per bottle. testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills promoted as best.
A local ad extols steady business success by offering quality goods at right prices and urges customers to visit for Dress Goods Cloaks Furs Underwear Oilcloths and Linoleums to prove the claim.
Mrs. Julia Monroe of New York has been the guest of Mrs. John McNeal and travelled to Indianapolis on Saturday evening. Mrs. Carrie Smith returns to Cambridge City after visiting Mrs. John McCallie at Newburn. H P Wagner from two miles out of town goes to Columbus on business. G A Ferguson from Columbus visited Seymour. Mrs Clair Marion of Columbus visits relatives in Seymour Rep. Miss Mamie Murray's funeral held at Central Christian church with Freshman class pallbearers and Garland Brook burial. Revival at Central Christian church continues strongly with five acquisitions since the start, Rev Widger reports high progress.
Jury verdict in Oliver Reed et al versus Benjamin Reed et al split on estate partition of Christian E. Reed with $2000 advancement claimed by plaintiffs reduced to $1000. New trial motion to be filed, likely path to the supreme court. Crothersville school board versus John Krause case moves forward after venue change, two more days of testimony on storm damaged addition liability.
The Suburban Reading Club met with Mrs. John Jewell on a Saturday evening to discuss a program including quotations on Napoleon and Paris, talks on three views of Paris, a paper on French peasantry and nobility, and music. The adjourned meeting included a six o'clock tea, with papers by Edith Dun can and Mrs. Acre and notes on French history. The Russians Ministry of Communications plans to use petroleum to generate locomotive power on all railways.
The Herald urges readers to study the advertisement columns to discover where to trade and find Christmas presents. It notes The house and buildings of the old Driving Park with about 24 acres land are for rent through agent Wms. Brocemay.
Indianapolis obituary reports William N. Jackson secretary of the Union Railway Co and the oldest man in active railroad service in the United States. He died at Capt. Cephas Huston’s home in Indianapolis at 91 after a long career starting with Indiana’s first railroad. Jackson helped promote a union station and Jackson Place was named in his honor. A separate Lafayette item notes Moses Cole aged 83 gored to death by a vicious bull near Buck Creek.
South Bend Indiana December 10 Jules Levy a noted cornetist and virtuoso has severed his connection with a musical instrument factory over a disagreement He has filed a petition in bankruptcy He has spent $50 000 during his five years residence in Elkhart.
In Waterloo Indiana on December A Byron Darby wife of Senator elect Dr Darby suffered severe burns when a liniment on a stove exploded. The flames caught her clothing and she was terribly burned.
Muncie December 10 Marion Stewart a druggist who shot Dennis Sullivan 73 mistaking him for a robber will not be arrested or prosecuted Sullivan though wounded is not yet out of danger from possible blood poisoning. Petersburg December 10 William Cochran shot and fatally wounded his stepson Chris Ehart at Washington Indiana and was jailed claiming self defense Sister Eudoxia founder of Handmaids of Christ in America and head of St Josephs Hospital St Vincents Orphanage and an Quincy Illinois orphan asylum is dead
South Bend Indiana December 10 Charles Schafer a local meat dealer disappeared. A few hours later his body was recovered from the river race in what authorities term death by own action attributed to despondency over business affairs.
Hartford City and Ft. Wayne report that the Window Glass Cutters' league and the Flatteners' association have declared the strike off at the American Window Glass Co. affecting several thousand men. Meanwhile Marvin Kuhns, recent escapee from Columbus penitentiary, is located at his brother Joseph Kuhns home in Noble county near Ft. Wayne.
Louise Mitchell aged 17 killed herself with poison after her lover refused to visit. She left a note hoping he would meet her in torment. William Riebl 40 died when a rafter fell at the Mes ker fire scene last Wednesday night, the third fire victim alongside two fallen firefighters.
In South Bend Indiana on December 10 Senator Burns announces preparation of a measure for the next state legislature to prohibit cigarette sales. In Shelburn Indiana on December 10 Charles Munnel a salvager was found dying by the railroad track and died shortly afterward.
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