Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1916 — Piano That Was Heirloom. [ARTICLE]

Piano That Was Heirloom.

St. Louis—A piano sixty years old, which orglnally cost $5,000, has been sold by Mrs. Steinrauf, wife of Dr. William Steinrauf of St. Charles. Mo., to Miss Ada Campbell of Chicago, whose father had thelnstrument built before the Civil war and who, after trying to locate It for ten years, finally found it in St. Charles. The piano has strings of solid gold wire, its key? are of solid pearl, and it is hand-painted throughout. Its history started when Miss Campbell’s fftthpr had >Jhe Instrument built in 1850. He suffered financial reverses end the piano was placed in storage in St. Louis. Years later the proprietor of the store put it In the window, and a Clerk, while the proprietor was away, sold it to Mrs. Steinrauf