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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1897
Page
3
Votegas cast for the Star prize wheel shows names like Lou Stadler Susie Coons Anna Tooley and more with scattered figures. Geo Kinney hosts lunch and all night sales at his stand while ladies attend millinery openings and George's bicycle store advertises clothing and seats.
A jumble of late 19th early 20th century ads lists daily auction sales for two weeks at the Gr A RR building offering books jewelry and notions. It mentions carpet and millinery openings at the White House Stahlhuth and Hinney lunch rooms bike sales at J A Georges and a furniture varnish sale with No To Bac promotion and a cash discount. The page also includes a humorous Cleveland Leader quip about a doctor and a widow.
Read about a forthcoming Photozmah Gallery in the city and a Great Auction Sale at the G A R building offering standard works for libraries. Also notes include a printer apprentice wanted and daily ads for roof paints and a health remedy promotion.
Classified items show a stove wood dealer at the Handle Factory on California streets offering cordwood with delivery and low prices. Also advertised are various shoe styles at fixed prices from J Arthur Meeks and J A Newton on Washington Street.
Miss Alice Pierce of Boston, hailed by Richard Mansfield as Bernhardt of America, rose from child actress to acclaimed performer in roles as Jessica in The Merchant of Venice and the prince of Wales in Richard III. Her life and training are shaped by a devoted, emotional mother and a cautious father.
Two young women in Wichita Kansas sold shoe polish at the courthouse and offered free shines to any man with romance in his eye. County officials were amused as the scene drew attention to the idea of “polishing” the county’s leaders.
In Marshfield Wisconsin two boys found an old coffee pot in a stump containing a 1850 Upper Bank of Canada coin, an 18153 Spanish coin, and claims against Georgia from 1786 plus 25 pounds for an assemblyman. Also found were counterfeit shin plasters and engraving proof sheets for US currency. A Fleet Street church key dates to medieval times, weighing seven pounds and used since the Crusades with a 1438 temple church.
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