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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1897
Page
3
An old newspaper fragment argues against stimulants for tiredness, endorsing rest and Peruna as a tonic. It promotes Columbus Ohio Peruna Drug Manufacturing Co advertising and urges readers to pay debts to the office, while listing various patent remedies and a drugstore promotion.
Local advertisements push Leinberger and Newton shoe stores with price claims and substitutions concerns. Community notices mention the Christian Church Ladies Aid meeting and a notice about newspaper bundles offering weekly Star relations for one year at $1.25.
A fragmented ad style notice cautions readers to ignore inferior substitutions and to prefer Kinney & Kinney for windstorm and accident policies. It promotes various products, guarantees, and refunds, urging customers to shop elsewhere if shown inferior offers. The piece references Cincinnati, Ohio and New York firms.
Practical domestic guidance covers trimming dark bread crusts after cooling, preserving green peppers in cold dark storage, avoiding overcooking custards, making horseradish sauce with lemon juice and minimal sugar, keeping flavor after storage, lemon juice versus vinegar in color retention, and cleaning stove windows with vinegar and water for lasting shine.
A stray black cat wandered into Bristol Methodist Episcopal church before services. It roamed the choir loft and pulpit, ignored worshippers, sat on the Bible, and purred at the pastor who then took it from the pulpit. The pastor called it a good omen before continuing the sermon.
An advertising snippet promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine and Cascarets laxatives with money-back refunds. It also pleads for printing work by Kinney & Turpin in Nashville, offering new type and presses. The piece mentions the Southern Exposition traffic and rail routes to Cincinnati and connections via Big Four, Q and C, L and N, inviting inquiries for routes and schedules.
Columbus Morning Star promotes a combined subscription deal with the Courier Journal and the Weekly Star, offering one year for $1.25 with advanced payment. New or renewing subscribers get sample copies on request, mailed from Columbus Indiana. The ad contrasts a sleepy merchant with a proactive neighbor who stocks in-demand goods.
The notice lists a round trip fare of one dollar plus two dollars for travel to numerous states and territories including Alabama Arizona Arkansas Colorado Florida Georgia Indian Territory Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska New Mexico North Dakota South Dakota North Carolina Oklahoma Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Wisconsin and Wyoming with contact through ticket agents or the Big Four Route office.
The Southern Railway announces daily Louisville to Chattanooga one way tickets at 6.10 and round trips 6.55 for seven days or 9.10 for fifteen days, with a 12.20 limit to November 7. Trains depart Louisville at 7:45 a.m. and 7:35 p.m., arriving Chattanooga 7:00 p.m. and 7:40 a.m. Through sleepers are on the evening train. Contact William H. Tayloe for details.
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