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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1898
Page
4
A collection of literary musings contrasts aging with youth and poverty, cites Pope and Payn, and recalls a Pitman shorthand anecdote. It includes notes on New Mexico thunder snakes, Leighton's Cimabue, and Orpheus, with a Strand Magazine anecdote about Leighton's lost painting.
A talkative friend notes the escaped criminal seems to have the best of it, while the detective states they have him frightened and won't show his face where they are. The exchange appears in the Washington Star.
Excerpts touch on property disputes in Plankington with a boastful line about a smart lawyer, Vienna building height rules, a linguistic note on the word fie, a soapbox quote from Pick Me Up, and a Naples church mice anecdote highlighting pastors keeping cats.
A tender Eastern legend from an old volume describes Christ-child walking with children in a garden. A bird with a broken pinion is mocked and harmed, then the Christ-child gently revives it with a single soothing touch, and the bird sings again as the children bow in reverence to the Master-Lord Grace Durrienp Goopwin.
The Epworth League Reading Circle will hold its regular meeting Tuesday evening at the home of Dwight Wetzcorner Fifteenth and Pearl Sis full attendance is desired.
Horace L. Brown gains pension from 30 to 50 dollars Newt Spurgin from 12 to 17 Peter Gratehouse in Brown County now receives 17 dollars Ollie Roe leaves for Milwaukee for vacation Special Salvation Army meeting led by Ensign Mc Dowell of Chicago Sherm Remy visiting parents then to Kentucky Seph Huffer returns home after illness Weather notes report heavy rain and rising creeks Hawcreek and Driftwood crests with no serious damage river declines afterward.
Olvie Lewellen returns from Kansas City where he has been with Reeves & Co. He re signs his position with that firm and will depart Thursday for Indianapolis to accept a role with the J I Case Manufacturing Co.
Rev. GC Wheeler of LaPorte Indiana arrives this evening to assist Rev Swift in a Baptist church meeting series. Successful services yesterday morning and evening drew large congregations with one accession reported.
A detailed notice invites Republicans to a delegate convention in Greensburg on February 1 1898 to elect a district committeeman. Delegates are apportioned by votes for Henry G. Thayer, with county by county allocations and calls for county committees to select delegates and organize on January 22 and 29 1898.
Kinney Kinney offers fire and lightning loss adjustments and loan on real estate with quick benefits for accident and sickness. They promise loans on good property and note upcoming real estate bargains and rental property interest. Office at Corner Washington and Fifth Streets.
In the Bartholomew Circuit Court December term 1897 the estate of Ellen L Wallace is set for final settlement. Administrator Wm B Treadway presented accounts and vouchers to be examined January 28 1898. Heirs creditors legatees must appear to show cause or prove heirship. Clerk George Werner issued the notice. STANSIFER Kaxer, Attorneys.
Advertisement for Romanza Agency at 719 Sycamore St Cincinnati offering a free sample and subscription circulars. Mentions sand 10 cents postage, height 18 inches weight 6 lbs regular price 1.0 and agents commission 60 percent. Claims 40 other items and appeals to men and women.
The Sentinel, Indiana's largest circulation paper, pledges a year of rich coverage of McKinley era cabinet policy and state capital happenings. Republican state government is noted, with dispatches from abroad and comprehensive state news for readers.
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