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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1898
Page
3
Local ad lists McCormick mowers and reapers and farm implements from J. B. Cook & Son. The notice promotes choices at Second and Jackson, with contact via Citizens’ phone 167 and mentions Schatfer Co and White Lilly brand items available.
Old P. 0. Building advertises a candy kitchen by E. C. Becht and a grocery shop by F. M. Watt on Third Street offering fresh candies daily and farm produce plus fruits cigars and tobacco.
John M Newcomb at 3835 Jackson street promotes four feed coal lime and wood with motto Always the Best always the cheapest and offers phone 143 for orders. Jos Stobo the blacksmith specializes in horse care with careful shoeing for sore feet and reliable hoof work.
Henry Meier offers coal wood feed grain and lime at 516 4th Street Tooby. Bruning and Vonstrohe advertise fresh fruit vegetables oysters and country meat with full value traded. Contact Tel 194 720 Sycamore Street for guarantees and service.
F Donner at 420 Washington St leads in watches clocks jewelry and optical goods with fine repair service. Will R Carman at 6th St between Franklin and Mechanic offers boarding and sale stable with weekly or monthly rates. John Hughes at 523 Washington St promotes staple and fancy groceries with quality butter and fresh produce.
A compact ad promotes air tight heaters by Fred Wolland, steel ranges, skates for boys and girls, groceries from H. T. Burnett Co, and home made mince meat with Baltimore oysters. T. G. Quick offers coal, wood and feed, asserting best and cheapest prices.
A Madrid dispatch reports Spain’s cab inet resist endorsing U S demands while French German Russian and Italian ambassadors seek peace. In Montana Marcus Daly’s racing stable heads to Wheaton track for grand circuit prep with Ben Kinney in charge. Local notices tout republican tax cuts and upcoming ads as new building and boarding house planned. marriage news and travel rail promos appear amid newspaper life weathering politics.
An advertisement proclaims BICOLA PILLS feed the nerves strengthen the mind and build flesh for men and women. Testimony from J E Buckey chief clerk National Hotel Washington DC says he recovered from near collapse after using the pills and gained over twenty pounds with Columbus agents Hauser & Parker. Also promotes Turns Liver Pills for liver cure and relief from headache biliousness and indigestion.
By order of the county committee the Republicans of Bartholomew County are called to meet in their precincts on Friday June 3 1898 at 7 30 p m in Columbus precincts to select delegates for a county convention in Columbus June 4 1898 to nominate state representative clerk of the court county offices and district commissioners. Each precinct gets one delegate per 10 votes cast for McKinley in 1896 with totals listed and a grand delegate count of 829 and 165 needed for a choice. The convention will convene at 10 a m.
Two through sleeping car routes to Michigan resorts will operate over Pennsylvania Lines next season. One route via Indianapolis and Richmond goes to Fort Wayne Grand Rapids Petoskey Mackinaw City and Northern Michigan resorts. A new line to Detroit and Eastern Michigan resorts will start about May 30 via Indianapolis Richmond Dayton and C H D Ry through Toledo and Michigan Central Ry to Detroit. Passengers can reach Detroit from Louisville Indianapolis Richmond and intermediate stations without change, then continue to resorts on the St. Clair River or in Canada by next morning. Contact W. W. Richandson D P Agt Indianapolis for details.
From New Orleans May 10 to 13 1898 one fare round trip via the Big Four Route tickets on sale May 6 7 and 8 returning tickets valid fifteen days from sale date for full information contact J S Smith Big Four Route agent or the undersigned E O McCormick Pass Traf Mgr Warren J Lynu Asst Gent Pass and Tkt Agt Cincinnati O mention this paper when you write
Sadie Holmes of San Francisco rises from eight weeks as a telephone girl to Lady Bretherton, owner of a $1,000,000 estate in Wales. She inherits via English entail on Lady Jane Bretherton’s death, and the Wales portion passes to the heir’s eldest daughter. Lady Bretherton, 21, inherits the title and fortune. she and her father plan immediate travel to England.
Chas Danforth advertises a full line of brakes and related items. It highlights prompt mail order service and efficient fulfillment for customers seeking parts.
The author rails against the modern sandwich girls in pantomime costumes parading gutters to promote cocoa brands. He predicts a future eroding old street promotions as ad contractors advance, likening prejudice against new trends to railways and Wagner.
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