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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1898
Page
3
Sanders and Taylor at 315 Washington street showcase perfum atomizers and a fine holiday gift assortment in a citywide shopping scene. M J Girth runs a grocery and bakery with fruit cakes as a featured item. The notice touts the crowds flocking to the best offerings in town.
Henny Meier at 515 4th street promotes weed coal feed and lime with full value trade. Suits by M. Born Co Chicago advertise $13.50 and pants $3.50 with satisfaction guaranteed. Shoe maker Mac Reynolds offers boots and repairs and price options.
Seed Potatoes Triumphs and Si Weebs earliest known varieties available at George's Grocery 227 2nd Street. The Hummer Shoe Store offers low prices and cash for goods at E E Waddington with Ghee cash. Rosenbush & Co One Price clothiers. Fremont Davis blacksmith at 339 Franklin St. Wayland & Wells groceries with fresh stock and delivery. Candy Kitchen Old P.O. Building manufactures candies daily. E C Becht proprietor.
Best bread in the city and first class lunch. A George & Sun grocers at 227 Second Street sell groceries, produce, glassware and notions. Bustler Queensware and Notion store run by Chas Pruitt at 429 Washington Street. J E Ferguson photographer at 417 Washington Street offers ground hour and low priced work. Ferguson leads in photography claims.
Clara O Riehard, a mail clerk in Dyea Alaska, refuses to deliver mails to more than one person at a time, causing a hundreds foot line and delays for up to 600 to 1 000 names from outlying camps. She omits stamp sales to small amounts, while private speculators profit. Miss Richards notes voluntary help and a fund rise from 500 to 7400 with no pay increase.
An editorial discusses shoplifting as a modern risk in department stores and urges citizen diligence to protect own property. It notes governors of Kentucky North Carolina and Missouri announce colored regiments for the second call and cites War Department orders for an equal split of immunes regiments.
The sea serpent this year features a steel skin and a tail marked with a Spanish flag, as reported by the New York Tribune.
A Baltimore Sun recounts Joseph Chamberlain in Washington 1887. He dined amid American beauties and sat beside Miss Endicott, daughter of William Endicott, Secretary of War. The encounter led to his marriage to the “Puritan maid,” a neighbor at a social event.
An elderly man on Payne Avenue bent to pick a bright pin at the curb near Wilson Street. A streetcar rounded the curve at speed as his grip tightened, sending him sprawling while bystanders rushed to help. The pin remained clutched in his fingers as he was loaded into an ambulance.
A Liverpool Mercury tale recalls a foreman with a bad headache who leaves his cabin door ajar to hear activity. A barrow man jokes about one more round and then another, prompting the wary foreman to rush out, fearing knock off time, only to retreat when faced with the quip.
A New York Sun correspondent recalls a telling exchange among Seaforth Highlanders before the Atbara battle. One Highlander speaks of men who possess unshakable judgment and lead others, while his comrade taunts that many care little for their fate. The quiet moment reflects courage and indifference to impending danger.
In a quoted exchange, a speaker asserts Laxey and Slims are truthful, while another notes both men allegedly called each other liars, highlighting tension over statements and trust.
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