24 May 1897
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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1897
Page
1
Roy Blythe pursues Pearl Meyers a stenographer while his mother and social circle react with shock at a romance between wealth and a working girl. After a near drowning, Pearl learns Roy’s true feelings. he abandons his social pretense and proposes a life with Pearl, marrying for love rather than money.
Wheat at 84c per bushel corn 22c per bushel oats prime 20c per bushel Timothy hay baled 9.50 per ton loose 9.00 per ton Clover baled 8.00 per ton loose 7.50 per ton Clover seed English 325 per bushel red 9.25 per bushel Livestock cattle 2.50 to 4 per hundred hogs 3.10 to 3.50 per hundred horses 5 to 100 per head Spring chickens 12 cs per qb hens 5c per lb roosters young 2c per lb ducks 1c per lb turkeys 5c per lb butter 5c per lb eggs 7c per dozen lard 5c per lb flour 2.60 per 00 pounds brand 65c per 100 pounds
A mixed fragmentary page features a medicinal ad praising a laxative and other remedies with claims of cures and prices, plus a list of local visits and social notes from Indianapolis and surrounding towns. Names include Juth’s Rainbow Buggy Paints and Sterling Remedy Co. Contact points Chicago or New York.
Misses Libbie Englebach and Eliza beth Ruddick travel from Columbus to Indianapolis for the May Musical Festival. Indiana inventors list M O Reeves granted an exhaust muffler patent. state medical society names Evansville as next meeting site with Wishard, Stewart, Heath, and Bulston in key roles. The Fashion Restorant attracts diners with 25 cent meals or a 21 meal for $3.00. Bicycle contest nears July 4th, with about 9,000 votes cast and 21,000 remaining, fueling anticipation over the winner.
The Supreme Court yesterday overruled a petition for a rehearing in the Shea case of Muncie, testing the Moore law which prohibits drinking intoxicating liquors on residence premises. The petitioner contended the law’s validity, but the court declined further review.
At 3 oclock yesterday afternoon at the bride’s parents home Miss Jennie Winterberg daughter of Mr and Mrs A W Winterberg married Mr John L Williams formerly of this city now of Seymour Rev GW Cohagan performed the ceremony with relatives present Mrs Winterberg well and favorably known in this city friends unite in good wishes. Yesterday afternoon at the M Schuc Rev Sweeney preached a powerful sermon to the old boys in blue and wives a crowded church and satisfied congregation. Mail train from the north yesterday evening was over an hour late H E Wells on the sick list.
In Columbus the Star's prize wheel election lists votes cast for leading ladies as of 5 o'clock. Top contenders include Lou Stadler 165 Susie Coons 240 Emma Moore 116 Dot Matthews 158 Jessie McLeod 70 Hattie May 53 Kate Rubbottom 29 Hazel Gysie 35 Ivy Dunlap 49 Maud Belle 13 Jessie Mead 0. Withdrawals noted with totals 8857.
The Star announces a special edition Thursday morning featuring space for businesses and a line of advertisers including T E Otte Herman Vonstrohe Owens William J E Ferguson Lee Loy S W Daugherty Co Ernest Stahlhuth Meyer Feigenbaum Bowlen Feigenbaum Robert Lienberger Author Cuningsby Metropolitan Life Funkhouser Wilson Dora Ogden Columbus Monumental Works Geo Werner Benjamin Patterson Jones Lambert Caldwell Drake. Early applications urged to secure space in this Grand Army Post distribution in Indiana.
Hobson the old soldier was laid to rest yesterday afternoon. He enlisted for the Union at war’s outbreak and spent part of his youth in service so others could enjoy a free country. The Columbus Red Stockings defeated the Columbus Sons of Rest 16 to 13 yesterday.
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