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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1898
Page
4
The speaker asserts leadership among traders with a claim of offering the most complete line of merchandise, highlighting a strong position over competitors. The statement emphasizes breadth of stock and readiness to serve customers with extensive options.
The Becks Grove school closed last Friday as rain caused bad roads that are drying slowly. Community notes report attendance at events, church meetings, family news, and local weather affecting travel.
A letter complains of delayed mail delivery from Columbus to Houston affecting the Columbus Weekly Star and other papers. It warns editors and post offices to fix irregularities and ensure promptness in future service.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a political group planning a gathering with garbled phrases and possible month references. No clear names, places, or outcomes are identifiable from the readable lines.
A mixed page lists wheat and oats prices, animal prices by cwt and per lb, and household goods from Hustler store, J E Ferguson photographer, Sanders Taylor druggists, and M J Hirth bakery. Also offers for musical instruments at cost and Big Four Two Step promotion with mailed copies. Headline vendors include Pruitt, Washington St locations and Cincinnati transit staff.
Aday house in the land is referenced while JOHN G. LAY, a barber near the post office, advertises the best place in the city for a good easy shave and a first class haircut. The notice urges readers to try his Sunday dinners and services.
Charlie McCord returns from gas belt and considers heading west. Ray Anthony passes through town en route to Becks Grove and Davey Wagoner joins John Bowman on a Seymour trip for a contract. George Noe suffers a light pneumonia attack. Mollie Wadsworth enters portrait painting with evident talent. C W Spurgeon travels to Seymour Columbus and other points for Cyclonette Orchard Co. Rev Thomas Jones of Seymour conducts a meeting at Becks Grove using charts to illustrate and discuss reasoning.
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