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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1900
Page
1
GEO W MAGEE CO advertises new styles with 160 corset covers in muslin high neck and long waist sizes 32 to 40, corset covers in V shapes with lace, neat trimmings, and prices from 25 cents to 49 cents. Skirts in muslin with deep flounce, lace trim, and variety priced from 39 cents to 2 dollars plus. Also offers linen lace yokes and embroidery trimmed pieces at 1 cent to 98 cents.
Local items report social events, sales pitches, and arrivals across Decatur County. Mentions Tamilty & Meyers sweets, baby births, church festivals, quality baking powder, and repairs by Tillson the jeweler, with multiple visits by travelers and local officials.
Paderewski sails for Europe May 16 after a peak season in America. He will be editor in chief of the Century Library of Music to be issued in twenty volumes with illustrated articles on great composers and piano music, including his repertoire, newly fingered and pedal marked under his supervision. First volume due in September.
A Wednesday evening program at the Grand Opera House featured songs prayers recitations and solos by local performers including Miss Minnie Ketchum Miss Georgie Griswold and Miss Edna Hatfield. Addresses by Rev F S Tipher and M D Tackett plus a chorus and tableau honored veterans and a memorial fund.
The Quito steamship carries two hundred thousand bushels of corn for India via American missionaries. Readers are urged to raise $20 each from 5,000 volunteers to fund immediate relief and post famine food through September, with donations sent to Springfield Illinois or the Christian Herald in New York.
W A Hines of Manchester Iowa recounts a near death from measles related lung disease and frequent hemorrhages. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption with his complete recovery after doctors predicted death. He praises its power and notes its price and free trial at Grover Bonner’s drug store.
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