The Spring Remedy Paine's Celery Highlight
A brief note promotes Paine's Celery as the superior spring medicine claiming notable health benefits and urging its use as a remedy for various ailments.
11 Apr 1897
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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1897
Page
1
A brief note promotes Paine's Celery as the superior spring medicine claiming notable health benefits and urging its use as a remedy for various ailments.
A fragment from a Franklin Star column includes moral maxims about church attendance and neighborly conduct. It mentions BE. G. Stucky moving to Illinois and several local residents visiting or engaging in business, with notes on a downtown auction book store and a potential baseball team being organized.
The column notes a larger weekly church list on Saturday and that next Sunday is easier with Monday as the final tax payment day without penalty. It mentions various local items including dental work, phone installations, a shoe dealer receiving goods, and draymen busy in cold wet weather.
Marshal Schooler and James Watts have purchased the May Seward livery stable on Fourth Street and taken possession. The new owners are described as solid, energetic men and are expected to run a thriving trade.
Dunlap and Coats secured the contract to construct a brick bank building in Mitchell Indiana. The bid was $6,000. Mitchell, about forty miles west of Seymour on the B and O and Monon railroads, is a town of about two thousand with two good hotels and is expected to provide work for several Columbus carpenters.
Abner Knight visited Columbus to trade and left his favorite old mare in Joshua Durnall’s stable. The blind mare kicked, hitting Knight on both knees and inflicting bad injuries, forcing him to stay overnight. Knight is seventy four.
Local residents and visitors are listed in a personal notes column. Names include Ada Hawley of Queensville, Mrs. Mary Lipps, Miss Gertrude Crigler of Shelbyville, Mrs. Funkhauser and Mr. Dobbs of Brown county, Ex Sheriff Davis of Petersville, and many others visiting or transacting in Columbus and surrounding towns.
The report of the partition of the Thomas Brown estate near Newbern was filed and approved. Bills of exceptions were filed in Morrison estate partition. Judgments entered in several noted cases including First National Bank v Cook and Coder Grant v Coder Grant. others dismissed or pending. An extra session is needed to finish Hege v Irwin and McCormack. James Pfeifer, 15, suffered a severe scalp wound near a railroad trestle. Dr Butler sewed the injury and he rests easy.
Fred Dahn conducts odourless vault cleaning in the facility, performing careful removal and deodorization tasks to restore the space to a neutral scent. The operation focuses on safety, efficiency, and minimizing disruption to surrounding operations.
The Citizens Telephone Co offers county-wide free phone connections for subscribers and invites inquiries at the manager's office about rates and terms. The ad also seeks a male trainee aged sixteen or older who has passed the fourth grade to learn the printers trade, calling before nine this morning.
Local churches list morning and evening services with sermon topics such as The Eye of Christ, The Power of the Tongue and The Sin of Pride. Holy Communion dates, Sunday School, Epworth League, and Guild activities noted along with a report on Governor Mount criticizing gas-farm rhetoric at a natural gas celebration.
The item offers 112 dry handle wood cards for one dollar available at J A George's, 509 Washington Street. The notice also mentions The Standard Sewing Machine factory in Cleveland Ohio, its twelve years in business, two million dollars invested, and expansion to meet rising demand. Buyers are advised to visit Wm H Buxton's shoe store three doors south of First National Bank to purchase via Geo Werner.
An old advertisement promises relief from constipation with Cascarets Candy Cathartic. The copy touts health benefits and a druggist refund offer if not satisfied, reflecting period marketing language and consumer remedies.
Mrs. J. T. Shaub returns from Columbus after visiting Mrs. F. Donner. George E. Ellis remains headquarters for wall paper and room mouldings per Eclipse Sun report.
Cheap John Gallery advertises cabinet photographs priced at $1.49 per dozen. The copy emphasizes cheap material and cheap labor used in production.
Mrs Emmons hosts the evangelist Rev Scofield who arrived from Indianapolis to preach at the Tabernacle today. J D Emmons, formerly a touring partner and singer with Scofield, will also entertain him during the visit.
The school numerators will begin taking the numeration tomorrow morning and every person is requested to be ready with their answer. George Clutch will take the first ward, Major Strickland the second, C. A. Moore the third, James Sears the fourth, and the fifth ward by the above named after the others are through.
Minnie Heck was taken to the poor asylum by Officers McCalip and Jackson in a buggy last evening and gave birth to twin boys. Dr. Roland reported mother and babies doing well. She accuses Charley Mitchell, former Herald reporter and Silver Democrat editor, of fathering the children, linking to a previous illegitimate birth in Orinoco two years ago.
A reflective piece on how attitudes toward church attendance and Sunday school are influenced by clothing. It argues that faith matters more than appearance, noting many poor but devout people and urging attends despite ragged attire. It cautions against shunning others for dress and emphasizes propriety within means.
An ad promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic 10 cents with a money back guarantee if it fails to cure constipation. It also touts a life time chance to acquire standard library works at a grand auction in the G. A. B building.
The stockholders are notified of the annual election for five directors on Monday April 19 at the office 312 Washington street. Polls open from 2 to 4 p m. C M Keller secretary. April 9 1897.
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