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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1898
Page
3
M Worth crafts four stately gowns in under 15 hours for Marguerite Gautier role at Monte Carlo, sending Parisian artistry to the Riviera. The rush showcases the house of Worth with brocades, gold embroidery, and training of diamonds.
Lucretia Hubbell of Norwich, the first American woman aeronaut, remains alive and recounts a perilous Easton Pa flight from 43 years ago witnessed by thousands. Her silk balloon burst but a parachute formed from the fragments carried her 11 miles to a New Jersey clover field, landing safely and boosting her lecture that night. Miss Exoma Stoddard, a US mail carrier, has driven 18 miles between Canton and Ponkapoag post offices daily for months, delivering evening mail after dark through harsh winter conditions despite skeptics.
Time designations from 12.00 noon to 12.00 midnight for dark faced trains and from 12.00 midnight to 12.00 noon for light faced trains. Sleeping cars Nos 10 and S between Louisville and Chicago and parlor cars Nos 16 and 19 between Chicago and Louisville.(Signatures) L. F. Loree E A. Ford General Manager General Passenger Agent. Request time cards fares through tickets baggage checks and info from any Pennsylvania Line agent. Coal advertisement notes Pittsburg lump coal and Anthracite. Columbus Fuel & Ice Co.
Arnoturé shop at 601 605 Washington Street offers finest line of rockers in the city and advertises savings on all kinds of furniture. The notice highlights value and variety from the local retailer.
A slice of local commerce lists prominent Columbus shops and services along Washington Street and nearby avenues. Mrs E W Ragsdale promotes millinery with Phg Nix Drug Store and M Born Co tailors tout Chicago pedigree. Holmes supplies base balls and bats while Donner offers watches and jewelry. Boarding stables, groceries, shoe sales, hardware, and regional sales round out the ad notes.
An advertisement for John G Lay, barber near the post office, opposite side location promotes easy shaves and first-class haircuts in the city.
An old classified style ad promotes Henry Meir at 515 4th Street selling coal wood feed grain and lime with promise of full value trade. It mentions Bruning and Vonstrohe Curry line of fruit vegetables Baltimore oysters and country meat and provides telephone contact 19472 near Sycamore Street.
An old advertisement for C. Wour Schaefer Co promotes White Lilly flour and asks customers to buy and try the product at their Third Street location.
E C Becht proprietor advertises the Candy Kitchen offering fresh daily candies with a promise of delight to customers.
M J Hirth runs a grocery and bakery at the corner of 10th and Mechanic. It bills itself as headquarters for fruit cakes and invites shoppers to the city’s finest offerings.
John M. Newcomb advertises flour feed coal lime and wood at low prices with the motto Always the Best, always the cheapest. Call 148 for savings and see Perr sperie.
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