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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1897
Page
2
Columbus Ind July 19 1897 ad rates page lists daily and weekly pricing for one inch ads with yearly, half year and monthly terms. Localized notes cover daily locals pricing, black letter runs, and contract terms for five hundred lines or more.
The coal mine strike is spreading with immense scale and prospects for quick settlement look dim. Wheat prices rise by 10 to 15 cents per bushel, thousands more dollars circulate from a better harvest, factories restart, and overall business improves. Confidence returns as home products gain value.
Discussion on hard times cites poor crops and weak demand, asserts tariff passage restores confidence, and urges support for or against Griffith or Lee based on House majority. Critiques coal mining strikes as harming day laborers and calls for remedies amid ongoing political divides.
On the face of it clearly plainly visibly and undeniably we are headquarters for men's furnishings. Our stock is immense in the variety and brilliancy of its contents with all styles at their best. Colored shirts underwear bicycle and outing goods offer wide choice with no imposition by cheap counterfeits of first class goods.
Opinion on fair wages for coal miners and owner practices. Criticizes walkouts and price manipulation. Calls Congress to investigate labor issues. Notes tariff bill progress with conferees and anticipated House debate.
Wm H Foster action attested by Gavra is filed with Marsiat Hacker as attorney and Weerer as clerk. The record lists officers and counsel in the matter.
Daily totals show 28 457 visitors for the week excluding Saturday and about 8 000 on Saturday for a weekly run over 36 000. Rain at night kept the numbers lower than potential with strong plans for Baptist, press, and preacher gatherings and mentions of new groups and sales notices amid varied local items.
John L Brown a Sweetwater Tennessee merchant, visiting with Epword Leaguers, entered the Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls in a rubber suit without a guide. He was last seen alone and is believed to have slipped and fallen into the cataract. Kinney and Kinney, Columbus's oldest insurance agency, is mentioned.
A humorous exchange features Parker admitting many mice in his house and Wicks asking how to handle them. Parker replies he already provides shelter and food, prompting the comic remark about their expectations. The snippet ends with a product plug for Stahlhuth's Clarofate as a remedy for hot days.
A camp was set Sunday at Sieberts Bend on White River about four miles south of the city. Attending are Wil McEwen John Trautman Mike Pickens Billy Adams Frank Smitha with George Nitsinger and Will Schooler due to visit soon.
Prof. L. Wink of Knightstown and Dayton Burgess of Westfield bicycle across the United States to promote Self Teaching Music Sstem Co. They rode through the city yesterday toward Nashville Brown County. The note adds a local police incident about “the boys who killed Raynard at the Sanitarium” feeling proud, and previews an upcoming bicycle contest in the city.
An old advertisement touts a tobacco cessation remedy named 1l -To- Bac, claiming to make users magnetic and full of vigor. It pledges cure guarantee, offers a booklet and sample free, and lists the address of Sterling Remedy Co. in Chicago or New York.
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