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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1898
Page
4
A correspondent urges garments to fit the wearer not the wearer to fit fashion. Tight sleeves garters and corsets harm circulation and organs while footwear often misfits the foot, risking misery and disease. barefoot testing reveals narrow fashionable toes are ill suited to actual feet.
Brass clothes trees appear as late additions in furniture shops offering weight and stability. Brass towel racks accompany them though critics doubt brass for racks as wet towels could damage both towel and rack.
We are authorized to announce John Dinn of German Township as a candidate for sheriff subject to the Republican county nominating convention.
John B Underwood and Cordial E Suddith join Henry A Schoonover to amend the George Dahn Sr estate. heirs include Frederick Dann Amanda Wagner Eliza Love Geo Dahn Jr Caroline Dahn Samuel Dahn John Dahn and Mary Wagner. Wm Norton attorney. Joseph Steenbarger vs Wm J Long Marion Long Wm F Long Drusilla Lewis Wm Lewis. Purchaser Wen ders Lien $1000.06 John Morgan attorney. Rotella Temple vs George F Temple divorce.
A fragmented price list shows grains and produce with unit prices for Wheat Bran Corn Hay Flour Oats Hops Cattle Calves Hens Turkeys Roosters Butter Eggs Sugar Molasses Syrup Maple Syrup Apples Bananas Oranges Potatoes and Onion sets. Values use per bushel per ton per cwt per dozen per pound per gallon and per unit with several entries unclear.
Coal is king for fuel and we offer Pittsburg lamp coal and the best anthracite. For wood burning we recommend beach and provide both block and stove sizes. Nice and dry.
The Seymour levy is 90 cents per hundred, down ten cents from four years ago, with a healthy treasury balance. Nearby cities show higher rates: North Vernon 95 cents, Bedford 1.00, Washington 1.30, Columbus 77 cents, Tipton 1.75, Princeton 1.90, underscoring Seymour’s frugal management. Also notes Columbus has boosted public works by about 50,000 in four years while cutting taxes from 85 to 77 cents on a 3.00 base.
Local notes report Pfeifer Bros. offering hot lunches every morning and evening. Logansport travel for Grand Lodge events, police staffing for encampment, tax office rush, and merchants urging clothing and coffee price changes amid wartime scare.
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