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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1897
Page
2
The text proclaims the store has secured markets and gathered top science and skilled workmen to offer the newest and brightest fashion in men’s and boys’ clothing and furnishings. It claims tariff changes won’t raise prices due to prior purchases and advantages, inviting critical inspection by shoppers.
The ad urges readers to stock up in advance for a coming cold spell with Wittsburg or Jackson lump coal anthracite coke dry beech block and stove wood. It promotes high grade fuel for grates furnaces and stoves and claims nut coal and wood will ensure a warm morning.
A public notice requests payment from customers of Dr Miles nerve plasters for rheumatism. It emphasizes that the payment obligation applies to the reader as well as others and asks to have funds ready when approached.
In the Klondike district the value of supply and demand is illustrated by a kitchen range poll. Readings show high prices for goods despite gold abundance, suggesting money supply alone cannot ease scarcity as demand drives prices up.
The Star presents vote totals for the gold watch contest with listed candidates including Leonard Say Emma Ping Susie Wilson Walter Waltman George Schooler Mary May J He Nasser Ed Everroad Ethel Beaty Lloyd Smith Ollie Smith Mrs Gill Mollie Blessing Chas Crabb Nellie Long and others showing varied tallies as ballots counted to date.
Offer incentives for the Weekly Star and Courier Journal at $1.25 per year and the Weekly Star and Sentinel at $1.20. While in Seymour, attend the Free Street Fair and dance nights run by the uniform rank boys at Armory Hall Tuesday through Friday.
The clippings announce Vincent Thompson as a Republican primary candidate for city marshal. The page also includes assorted ads for hats and millinery, shoe store prices, printing services, insurance, dances, and various local promotions.
A dated roster lists numerous intersections including Fifth and Brown Fifth and Washington Seventh and Jackson Third and Washington Mooney's Tannery Stared Works Second and Franklin Eighth and Franklin Eleventh and Franklin Fourteenth and Franklin Sixth and Mechanic Seventh and Chestnut Fifth and Wilson Eighth and Union Rheeves Pulley Works Tenth and Hutchins Avenue Sixteenth and California Seventeenth and Orinoco Ave detailing locations across metro.
Interchangeable one thousand mile tickets of the Big Four issue will be honored for exchange. Includes many lines such as Ann Arbor, Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago and St Louis, Michigan Central, Louisville Nashville, New York Chicago and St Louis, and others. Covers routes between major hubs including Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Grand Rapids, and St Louis with several regional connections.
Three room house on ninth street with cement walk iron fence good well and some fruit lot 30 by 120, sale willing buy at once cash preferred or best reasonable terms inquire at STAR office for details.
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