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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1897
Page
4
Classified rental notice lists multiple 3 to 5 room cottages and flats with monthly rents from $1 to $9. It covers addresses on Washington Chestnut Franklin Wilson Seventh and 640 Wilson, among others, describing features like summer kitchens wells cisterns and outbuildings. Also mentions a long travel excursion ad and political commentary mixed in.
The notice advertises Standard American Grain Sugar 21 pounds for 1.60 and Coffee A Sugar 21 pounds for 1.00. It lists candy at 5 cents per pound, 2 pounds stick candy at 5 cents per pound, caramels at 8 cents per pound and chocolates at 11 cents per pound.
The listing shows crackers at four cents per pound for Butter Crackers and four cents for Lunch Crackers plus one cent for Soda Crackers. Spring wheat flour offered in 25 pound sacks at sixty cents, 50 pound sacks at one dollar twenty, and 100 pound sacks at two dollars forty. Also fruit and vegetable items with Country Glasses Jelly Glassee priced at twenty cents per dozen.
Home markets list farmer receiving prices for commodities with Wheat at 74 cents per bushel Corn 22 cents per bushel Oats prime 20 cents per bushel Timothy baled 9 dollars 50 cents per ton Timothy loose 9 dollars per ton.
The store proclaims a vast stock of men s wear with extensive ranges in shirts underwear bicycle and outing goods. It promises genuine first class goods and stresses a broad choice with no imposition by cheap counterfeits.
A mix of agricultural rates for Clover and Clover seed with livestock and poultry values, followed by humorous rural folklore and a visit report. Notes include a quip about a county corner and a tale from the Atlanta Constitution, plus Brown County visitors, including Mr. Joseph Wendershot and family and Rev. James Headen visiting relatives.
The note praises the Star and its latest items while reporting Clover cutting, a wheat harvest near July 4, and Brown County residents urging better roads with abundant materials. D Cumming of Houston visited Mrs Wiley Philips of Becks Grove, who remains quite ill, and A A Manuel of Beck's Grove is starting a new hardware and implements rental business.
Brooklyn 2 St Louis 1 Cineai mati 6 Louisville 1 Cleveland 18 Chicago 5 Philadelphia 2 Washington 12 Detroit 13 St Paul 11 Kansas City 13 Minneapolis Milwaukee rain affected several games as listed.
Miss Lillian Bell, noted author, proposes a college for lovers with a postgraduate course for husbands. She argues women can guide love but men need training to avoid being swayed by cunning rivals, insisting on practical teaching over idle talk about romance.
A group of seven Asian exiles once rescued in San Francisco by Californians ended up punished by US law with 21 years for burglary and executions for murders. Investigations show each was sent to Siberia for crimes earning exile or harsher penalties elsewhere.
The piece recounts Quanah Parker’s lineage and upbringing after his mother Cynthia Ann Parker, a white captive, was located in Jackson County Texas. It notes her reunion with family, Parker’s education, and his return to lead the Comanches, with mention of his wives accompanying him.
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