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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1916
Page
4
The fragment lists ERSONVILLE PRINTING CO and Ro SCHIMPFF as editor and publisher at 145 West Maple Street with a subscription rate of 4.50 per year in advance and notes the Star is entered at the post office as second class matter.
A jumble of old time advertisements tout pills for kidney health and digestion, tonics, patent medicines, and household goods. It promotes Foley Kidney Pills, Burdock Blood Bitters, and various patent remedies, with prices, soliciting readers to purchase and use the products.
Classified ad offering sale of tins paints and other specialties. mentions inland works company and advertising services with opportunities requiring age and height details and references. Includes contact names J Anderson Chicago and others with street addresses and dates.
The report outlines a legislative push led by Senator Charles Wo Woos and George Ow Fregans to study dairy pricing and distribution. It notes recommendations for lower prices through economic distribution and dairy industry reforms in Oneida County and surrounding areas.
A brief inert notice from IPIRANIMIEX references a Spring Street work item or street note dated in the text. The fragment suggests an administrative record or street maintenance entry with no event details. No persons or organizations are clearly identified beyond the entities in the fragment.
A list of rental units on Chestnut Street and nearby avenues detailing room counts from 2 to 6, with options featuring gas, stores, and varying prices from 6.00 to 40.00. Properties include 721 FE Chestnut 2 rooms, 506 Broadway 3 rooms, 430 Walnut 3 rooms, and 84 Indiana 6 rooms with gas noted.
A crowded inventory shows properties on several streets with varying room counts and amenities. Listings include 7 and 8 room homes on W. Market Wall and Maple streets with gas, bath, and path features, priced from 3.00 to 48.00, plus a bath furnace note.
Discussion notes the rising importance of living standards and highlights a prior increase in the foods and markets department appropriation. It cites Mr Prergins and Mr Sims as knowledgeable figures for the New York City food problem and transportation matters, with a job prospect for salesmen offered by Fairbax Mig. Co. in Cleveland, Ohio offering $200 to $300 monthly.
An old advertisement from Leominster Massachusetts promotes Yanoco Complexion Squshes Mirrors and other French Ivory Toilet Accessories as Christmas gifts. It invites readers to write for particulars and lists Yanoco Ivory Co. as the seller.
A Singer Sewing Machine offered as a Christmas gift for a young girl. Advertises a $3.00 machine operable by a child with a display at Singer Sewing Machine Co. 419 Spring Street and Swartz Dry Goods Co. Also an ad for a modern collage bath toilet and gas setup at 628 E Market Street with trade for a small country place. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised for digestion and health at $1.00.
Classified blurbs show multiple flat listings on Chestnut Spring Ohio and Ohio addresses with rooms baths gas and water. An advertisement promotes the Dolce Baby Grand Phonograph from A Schumann Sales Dept Bodman Building Cincinnati with a holiday profit angle. Another ad touts gasolene sales to motorists with guaranteed profits from White Mold Co Dept 40 Cincinnati.
For sale listing appears from Pirainia area real estate and general insurance services. The fragment mentions sale items or offerings but lacks full details or context.
An old classified note advertises a Singer Sewing Machine for Christmas gifts. It lists a phone number 1206y and a partial address at 419 Spring St, attributed to Singer Sewing Machine Co.
Mrs A C Pfau hosts Bridge Club at West Riverside. Mrs Robert Martin entertains in Louisville. Numerous regional guests attend gatherings, travels from New York Annapolis to Indianapolis. Events include Embroidery Club meetings and charity committees.
Extra police guarded downtown hotels housing strikebreakers and manned all exchanges of the Ohio State Telephone Company to prevent unlawful acts. Transfer of strikebreakers between hotels and exchanges proceeded without trouble as police kept pickets moving and discouraged epithets. A telecommunication blackout on the Southside hindered fire response when Snyder Dairy barn and stock sheds burned, destroying eighteen horses and cows and grain with an estimated loss of 30000 dollars. The fire’s cause was not yet determined.
Flour prices fell in Louisville yesterday reducing by 50 cents per barrel. The drop brings the weekly decrease to 81 and the retail price to 10 dollars per barrel. A 5 cent bushel step in cash grain lowered prices to 1.60 per bushel, against a month ago high of 1.91 per bushel.
The world’s largest private sequoia forest in Sequoia National Park is near transfer to federal hands. The Interior Department and the National Geographic Society coordinate to complete the purchase after Congress funded 850000. the society covers 20000 for immediate payment to the sellers. The forest contains ancient trees including Gen Sherman, with monumental base circumference and immense height.
Properties valued at about 85.6 million are added to Vincent Astor's holdings after Mrs Madeline Force Astor forfeits a trust on marriage to William T Dick. The John Jacob Astor will let her use the Fifth Avenue home if unmarried, and she loses both residence and income upon marriage. Executors transfer real estate to Vincent Astor. only 5 million remaining to Mrs Astor in cash.
Nearly ten thousand employees at George Keith company shoe factories in Jrackson Mass Middleboro Weymouth North Adams and Rochester NY will receive a ten percent wage increase as a bonus starting yesterday. The move affects workers across multiple plants in the region.
In an engagement at Macoris Santo Domingo on November 29 American marines and natives clashed, with many wounded on both sides. The heaviest losses were on the Dominican side, and the action was reported to the Navy Department by Capt. Knapp, commander in Haiti and Santo Domingo.
Classified rental notice listing a modern six room house with bath at 135 E Front Street. Contact ED Jackson at 123 E Front Street for details and inquiries.
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