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Columbus Democrat

Location

Columbus, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Aug 31, 1877

Page

3

Forty two teachers on examination and various local items

A thirty line jumble notes 42 teachers on exam last Saturday. It mentions a shooting match beginning Monday, several excursions to St Louis and Cincinnati, mills running day and night, local editors, horsemen attending fairs, a man nearly harmed by a machine, and party politics. It also cites marriage licenses, stock-breed interests, and a Greenwood canning plant employing hundreds.

Funeral services and local notices in a small town

Mrs Lucky's funeral is planned for Tuesday with services by Rev Speers. Sunday School meets at Bear Creek each Sabbath led by Wallace Smith, with S H Thompson teaching at Gregg's school house. The piece also describes local personalities, a pumpkin acreage, a playful exchange about a "Deal," and a curious zoological note about a massive sea creature nicknamed the white whale and two oversized tank-dwelling monsters observed by Mr. Coup at the aquarium.

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Weather forecasts and civic notes from August Cleveland paper

Predictions from Prof Tice for September outline storms and fair spells with dates and tropical cyclone hints. The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes a critical telegraph to Senator Grover denouncing W B Higbee, plus a Trenton Swamp Angel pedestal inscription and notes on lightning dangers during storms.

Tice South Atlantic Gulf Coast Cleveland Cleveland Plain Dealer Grover Portland Oregon Bar of W. B. Higbee United States Senate Higbee Bar Association Clinton Perry Streets Trenton Mars Morris Island South Carolina City of Charleston

Washburne Family Steps Down and Plans Ohio Emigration

The solemn announcement declares the Washburne family are out of office and should emigrate to Ohio.

Washburne Offie Ohio

Indiana Items of Local Interest and Tragedies

Bedford hosts five weekly papers as distant rivers run low while Cass county yields a wool crop worth a quarter million pounds. Drowning, factory fires, arsenic suicides, train crashes, and a river death mark a string of incidents across Indiana with political notes on suffrage conventions and local reform efforts.

Bedford Ohio River Tipnoe County Evansville Red Cloud Logansport Cass County Montgomery County Vigo Plymouth Clinton James Delphi McAdams Crawfordsville Knightstown Misa Rosa Neff Jno F. Neff Hot Springs Arkansas Elkhart John Paulus Wm. Rodgers Scipio Fred Nosh George Clendenning Monticello Philip Mikesell Michael Moran S. C L. Road Clark’s Hill Jesse Babcock Alexander Bain North Vernon Babcock Elston S. C. L. Road Lawrenceburg George Hogle Covington Fillmore Fegley Lykens

Old World music and dreams in a Spokane tale

A Chicago husband who slept through a night with Wagner and a resigned wife who contemplates wrecking her piano with curl papers is contrasted with notes from Washington on exam questions for future office holders. Hippos are priced low at five thousand dollars, then said to remain a luxury unless they fall to eighty four fifty for poor families and dogs.

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