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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1897
Page
4
Classified blends bicycle sales and services with staffing requests. Lists 313E and Reeves Seward Cycle as dealers, frames priced 28 to 75, plus a bicycle riding school, a housework job, and local shop promotions. Notes contact points at Columbus Fuel and Ice Co and Jno A Gee, with various offers and assurances.
A superb array of Spring woolens backs tailoring efforts with chic patterns for the season. Customers are urged to choose LIENBERGER for their clothing needs.
The Indianapolis Sentinel pledges ample coverage for readers with a mix of national and foreign news, state government updates under McKinley, and social gossip. ads urge subscriptions for daily weekly and Sunday editions. An embedded appeal promotes Peruna and medical ads targeting women, with free literature from The Veruna Drug Manufacturing Company.
Official W T Stricklanp County Chairman and F C Alricn promote newspaper bundles. Offers include Weekly Star with Indianapolis Journal for 1 year at 1.25 or 1.25 with the Courier Journal or Sentinel. Daily Star with weeklies for 5.00. Also Dr Karem Pain Extractor advertised with 25 and 50 cents at Stahlhuth's. Readers urged to advertise in the Star to keep posted.
The notice highlights fixed prices for work and goods with guaranteed satisfaction from J.A. Newton One Price Cash Shoe Store in Washington Street. It warns of dangers from widespread chemical manufacturing and storage including liquid carbonic acid gas cylinders oxygen hydrogen nitrous oxide and calcium carbide producing acetylene gas and potential shipboard accidents.
The Republicans of Bartholomew county Indiana will meet at the usual election precincts at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday June 1 to elect delegates for a convention in Columbus to nominate a candidate for Congress in the Fourth District to succeed the late T W Holman. The basis of representation is one delegate per hundred votes above fifty cast for Gov J A Mount, with precincts apportioned accordingly.
The article lists marriage age rules in European nations. It notes Austria allows 14 for both genders to marry, Germany requires 18 for men, France 18 for men and 15 for women, Belgium same, Spain 14 for men and 12 for women, Hungary varies by religion, Greece 14 for men and 12 for women, Portugal 14 for boys and 12 for women, Russia and Saxony require 18 for both, Switzerland 14 for men and 12 for women, and Turkey allows marriage for youths who can walk and understand religious service.
Excursion tickets to Chattanooga from Louisville via Southern Railway offered at less than the regular round trip fare. Tickets priced for July 15 to 21 with return by July 21. extensions possible to August 15 by depositing at Chattanooga before July 10. Through rail service limited to Southern Railway. Inquiries to Wim H Tayloe, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent, Louisville.
The North American Review says athletic sports aid health when pursued reasonably but warns against excessive rivalry and overtraining. It notes risks to heart lungs and digestion if pushed beyond human limits, yet most practice remains beneficial. It cites many youths competing publicly, with hundreds entering large city meetings.
A brief notice lists hens and ducks at 5¢ per pound and turkeys at 5¢ per pound. Roosters fetch 2¢ per pound, butter 5¢, eggs 7¢ per dozen, lard 5¢ per pound, and flour at $2.60 per 100 pounds. Tires spare.
Miss Alice A Holmes, a seventy five year old blind heiress, recently inherited over 500000 from a California relative. She has supported herself through poverty by teaching music and plans to spend her fortune educating fellow blind residents, after years of independence and a published volume of verses.
Observers noted glassware from China that appeared to hold a transparent liquid. When poured, the liquid seemed to contain fishes due to the glass itself, a phenomenon the Chinese admitted they did not produce but acquired.
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