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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1898
Page
4
A note to readers from the Hope News Journal dated February 10, 1838. The missive addresses ladies readers and references ongoing local events and community notices.
Mrs. Lou Davis of Faete le Tennessee recounts la grippe symptoms misdiagnosed as consumption. A severe cough kept her awake until she used Pe-ru-na, taking ten bottles and crediting it with stopping the cough and saving her life. She urges others to try Pe-ru-na and requests a free book on Winter Catarrh from The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company in Columbus Ohio.
A New York press columnist voice complains of apartment bathrooms in city flats. He rails at dark corners near parlors, drafts from air shafts, and tiny washstands in hallways, noting shrinking bathtubs with each move and the toll on a growing figure.
Fehring's city shop offers the nicest line of perfumes and perfum atomizers. An evildoer campaign promises relief with Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a constipation remedy. druggists refund money if not satisfied.
A promotional notice urges sending ten cents for a Big Four Two Step sample and requests twenty five to thirty five cents for full band or orchestration arrangements. It also advertises Southern railway travel to Florida via the Queen & Crescent route with vestibule trains, 25 hour fastest time Louisville or Cincinnati to Jacksonville, and excursion tickets. Contacts Wa H Taylor and C A Barn in Louisville.
The Hot Springs Arkansas resort will have all three major hotels open this winter. The Arlington never closed while the Park starts January 6 and the Fastman January 25. About fifty hotels and three hundred boarding houses offer reasonable rates. The waters are vouched for by the Surgeon General.
In 1863 at Thackeray’s funeral in Kensal Green Dickens recalls meeting George Cruikshank in bright December sun. Cruikshank, his seventieth year, is noted for temperance work, stage roles, and Guild of Literature and Art ties with Dickens. The narrator mentions Lowell’s Boston visit and a father and son returning from a day in the city.
The column contrasts a tactless husband urging his wife to abandon fashionable living for cooking and money making with a sharp retort from the wife. A New York Ledger note laments excessive millinery, praising the head as the crown of beauty while condemning artificial decorations. Nearby market notes from New Orleans and Ohio report minor price shifts and temporary plant closures due to health districts.
Kentucky testimonial for Utah Kidney Beans claims the product cures kidney and bladder trouble. The ad features EE B. Samuels, Clinton Kentucky, who describes years of pain and says the beans cured him. It promotes the Turners of Philadelphia and other pills as laxatives and tonics.
Mrs Will Brown and children visited her father Reverend Perry at Flat Rock last night. Councilman Billie Adams Charley Evans and Sam Storer left for ducking down the river and reported seventy four mallard ducks with more expected. Col Carter, tried in Indianapolis for a Illinois post office robbery, was dismissed after proving an alibi. Shelby Hedrick and wife testified Carter was at their Macon county home on the robbery night, June 15 1895.
Big Four announces Valentine Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans and Meble with special round trip fares. Tickets on sale from February 1 to 21, 1898, good for return until March 19, 1898, via the Big Four Route. Warren J. C. 3.2 Asst. Gen. Pass. & Tk. az. Pass. Traffic Mer. remains in effect.
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