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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1898
Page
3
The firm advertises fire, lightning and tornado loss adjustments paid and offers real estate loans on solid property. It promotes accident or sickness coverage, upcoming real estate offers, and rental property acquisitions with offices at Corner Washington and Fifth Streets.
Four rail lines listed with mixed westbound and eastbound services. Timetable shows station stops including Greensburg Hartsville Hope Miller's Tivs Lambert's and Burneys with multiple daily times from early morning to late evening. The note states trains run daily except Sunday.
In a notice from New Snns John Heels and George Beels about selling land to unknown heirs of Walter Ping. Also mentions claim agent Murry traveling north this morning. Other items note Royal Arcanum officers installed last night, and Indianapolis travelers George Caldwell and Lester Drake. A Butler Mandolin Club practice session, Mrs. Thornton visiting Walesboro and a police call on East Fifth street to quell drunken youths.
Thomas Hopper of Franklin is staying with his sister Mrs Edgar Vandergriff while ill and weakened. Grant Carey, drummer with Grand Opera House Orchestra, received a telegraphic offer of 15 dollars a week to join Deadwood 8 D. The tip came from Prof Henry Williams, a violinist and former Columbus boy now in Anderson.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recounts Mr. Files who distrusts many while amassing property. He orders his new hire Spriggs to fetch a key, a tin box, and stationery from several men, praising him as his most trusted employee despite little knowledge of the business.
A New Hampshire village story features a kind old lady who among others speaks of compassion for the ragged and intoxicated on the street. A granddaughter misreads the tale while a clock, tired and broken, is revived by a child’s tinkering, ending with ticking anew.
The Queen hosts a great man who recalls a “copper horse” at the end of the long walk. A servant explains it is actually her grandfather. Lord R geopoliticizes at a French exhibit, urging drinkers to sample eau de vie. UK fisheries value cited at $82.5 million, England $21.25 million.
The New York Ledger describes a blast furnace operation consuming about 2000 tons of ore coke and limestone daily. It details burden delivery through trestles top temperatures from 500 to 1700 degrees and the tapping of 700 tons of iron each day into edge molds as molten metal flows to fill ovens.
A humorous Washington Star anecdote about a government official who challenges his son on pronouncing a word, illustrating pride in language. It then shifts to Mr. Howard Sill, a draftsman in Baltimore, detailing his 2500 piece book plate collection spanning Jacobean to modern engravers and famed colonial engravers like Paul Revere and Nathaniel Hurd.
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