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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1898
Page
2
A local notice assures customers that the shop will deliver top notch fit and workmanship with guaranteed quality. The statement emphasizes confidence in the craftsman’s ability and stands behind repairs and installations.
E H Kinney and Turpin proprietors are noted in a brief local item with scant details, emphasizing ownership and business association alongside a short, unclear descriptor.
Several candidates announce for county and city offices including Lambert for Joint Senator Ulrich for County Clerk Burk for County Clerk Owens for Recorder Baily and Eliba for Sheriff Also more candidates and a brief editorial note criticizing proclamations and Bryanite campaign rhetoric from the Indianapolis Journal.
The piece argues the Bryanite, Populist, and former Republicans act as a single bloc in 1896 and 1899 politics. It contends the so called new proclamations echo an established alliance across the Bryanite, Populist, and silver mine lobby groups, with references to Bailes and Simpson in Congress and to Warner. An agricultural report notes rising farm animal prices postwar.
The text notes Republicans welcome the manifesto from Bryan democrats populists and silver Republicans as a unified front for free trade and free silver. It argues voters seeking good government sound money fair wages and good farm prices will recognize the enemy and choose sides in the coming political contest.
The Democratic and Times papers clash over party patronage and reform while the Herald faces scrutiny as a party organ. Observers note rival organs push for higher salaries and more legal printing, urging readers to judge by merit and let the best paper win.
Mrs Vera Mollymaux of Cambridge City and Mrs T A Garretson along with Miss Bertha Smith of Noblesville visited North Vernon this morning while Howard Lee also travelled to North Vernon.
Dubis Burns aged 35 was found on the banks of Clifty near Faral Ford after a probable accident last Saturday. He drove off the river bank into seven feet of water while returning home, cut harness and left knife in the river, suggesting an attempt to free the horse. Burns lay on the bank chilled and intoxicated, and was brought to Emmons morgue then to his father's home near Burnsville. Funeral set for tomorrow at 2:30 pm in Burnsville with Rev Talkington.
An assortment of ads touts T.G. Quick coal wood and feed, Fremont Davis blacksmith at 335 Franklin St, M&S H. Peul Gold Mine manager, J A Hugaeses fashion livery and Stable, Prall Dennison dentists promoting crown bridge work and dental services.
Notice warns that throwing ashes and rubbish in alleys and streets is prohibited by city ordinance. Prosecutions will follow if not stopped. By order street and alley committee.
A colored woman who traveled to Nashville with Durall back is using counsel to contest Miser Wilson’s estate in Brown County. She holds Wilson’s marriage certificate and letters postmarked Pike’s Peak, and claims a marriage at Algiers Mississippi producing a son now twenty one. The case opens tomorrow in Brown County court as the Virginia man seeks legal rights to the property. local interest is high.
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