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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1898
Page
3
J B Cook & Son and Schayfer Co advertise McCormick mowers reapers and farming implements at Second and Jackson. Citizens’ Phone 167. Best White Lilly flour urged for buyers.
Candy Kitchen offers fresh daily candies by E C Becht proprietor. F M Wate markets staple and fancy groceries with farm produce. John M Newcomb advertises flour feed coal lime wood at 335 Jackson Street with motto Always the Best always the cheapest. Jos Stobo Blacksmith shod horses with special attention to sore feet.
Henry Meier advertises coal wood feed grain and lime at 515 4th Street promising full value for trades. Bruning and Vonstrohe advertise fresh curry line of fruit and vegetables with Baltimore oysters and country meat and a satisfaction guarantee at Sycamore Street calling Tel 1947206.
F Donner at 420 Washington St. leads in watches clocks jewelry and diamonds with fine repair services. Will R Carman at 6th St between Franklin and Mechanic offers boarding with weekly or monthly rates and emphasizes best care for horses at low cost.
Seed potatoes including Triumphs and Six Weeks second crop at George's Grocery 227 2nd Street with Northern and Eastern varieties. The Hummer Shoe Store advertises affordable footwear and pays in goods if taken to E E Waddington with 95 cents cash.
Frederick Wolland promotes air tight heaters as the best on earth and notes sales of 350 units. The ad also highlights steel ranges leading the market and mentions skates for boys and girls.
An advertisement claims Bicola Pills feed the nerves and boost brain power, muscles, and overall health for both men and women. The copy asserts ordinary food cannot supply vital forces and cites J. E. Buckey of the National Hotel, Washington, D C, who reports rapid weight gain after using the product. It names Columbus agents Havisgr & Parken and lists Liver Turners as a remedy for liver issues and headaches.
Two through sleeping car routes to Michigan resorts will operate over Pennsylvania Lines in the coming season. One route via Indianapolis and Richmond on the R&LB to Fort Wayne Grand Rapids Petoskey Mackinaw City and Northern Michigan resorts. A new line to Detroit and Eastern Michigan will start about May via Indianapolis Richmond Dayton and C H D Ry through Toledo and Michigan Central Ry to Detroit. Passengers may go through to Detroit from Louisville Indianapolis Richmond and intermediate stations without change and reach Detroit or resorts on the St Clair River and in Canada next morning.
In a warm sitting room a mother and her four children share affection as a snowstorm rages outside. The mother reads a letter and assigns tasks while the children express love, courage, and care, with Willie bravely offering to deliver a reply.
A fragmentary excerpt connects a mother’s tale of fishing for dinner with a moral about giving freely. It references Mrs. T and a broader note on generosity, including a quote about rose collecting and a figure in England’s Primrose League.
A weather disrupted market listing shows assorted commodities with prices in Wheat Bran Hay Flour Oats and cattle calves hogs and eggs. It includes per unit costs for sugar molasses syrup maple syrup apples bananas oranges potatoes onions and onions sets, with ranges for several items.
H. T. Burnett & Co promote home made mince meat and Baltimore oysters. L. Rosenbush & Co advertise one price clothiers with plain figure pricing. T. G. Quick offers coal wood and feed. Messages promise best and cheapest goods. customers urged to visit.
Fremont Davis announces a blacksmith and repair shop at 335 Franklin St offering interfering and forging horses as a specialty. All work guaranteed. Claiming to be the best blacksmiths in Columbus.
Classified items promote Chas Danforth brakes, Mrs Peel at the Gold Mine, J A Hughes fashion livery, plus special rates for business customers. Also an eye catching line about We tans pictures and a price of 1 50 per dozen drawing reader attention.
The Bartholomew County Republican committee calls precinct meetings in Columbus areas on Friday June 8 1898 to select delegates for a county convention in Columbus June 4 1898. Delegates allocated per precinct by McKinley vote totals from 1896, with convention to nominate county officials and district commissioners. The text lists precincts and delegate counts amid date and time details.
B. P. O. Ellis New Orleans May 10 13 1898 one fare round trip via Big Four Route. Tickets on sale May 6 7 8 returning tickets good fifteen days from date of sale. For full information contact J. & Smith Big Four Route agent or write to E. OG McCormick Traf Mgr Warren J Lynch Asst Gen Pass and Ticket Agent Cincinnati Mention this paper when you write.
Badie Holmes of San Francisco rises from eight weeks as a telephone girl to become Lady Bretherton with a one million dollar fortune and Welsh estate. She inherits via Lady Jane Bretherton’s title, the estate passing to her father by entail, making her the eldest daughter and heir. The pair plan to travel to England promptly.
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