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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1897
Page
3
A brief notice references travel information on tickets for the Big Four Route and directs readers to contact a ticket agent or address. Mentions E. O. McCormick and a Warren Lynch in Cincinnati with related traffic details.
In the Bartholomew Circuit Court September Term 1897 Gen L Beels as Guardian of the estate of Sarah Beels deceased has filed final settlement papers. The exam and action will occur December 13 1897 requiring heirs creditors and interested parties to appear show cause and present proof of heirship or claim. Witness the Clerk and seal Columbus Indiana November 1 1897. The notice includes unrelated bids for gravel road construction and various local notices and ads.
For sale or trade two story dwelling with ten acres in Hartsville at 600 dollars with 100 down and 100 yearly payments. Orinoco dwelling with 100 down and 450 yearly. A 16th street house near a streetcar stable for 350 with half cash and half in one year. Ninth street house barn and lot at 450 with purchaser friendly terms. Kinney & Kinney offer fire and accident policies with monthly sick benefit.
A catalog of streets and cross streets includes 12-Second and Jackson through 46-Eighth and Union with notes like 1?-Mooney's Tannery and 18-Starch Works. The list enumerates 24th Eleventh and Franklin via 86-Thirteenth and Sycamore and Reeves Pulley Works at 52.
A long list of historic railroad names is presented including Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Chicago Eastern Winds Cleveland Columbus and others. The passage states books sell for 30 dollars and are non transferable with a $10 rebate if ticket is used wholly by the original purchaser and cover certified and returned within eighteen months. E. O. Mccomick and Warren J. Lynch are named.
A fragmented OCR fragment lists several names including Mrs. Fred Ulrich, George Habig, Mrs. Fred Kollemeyer, Mrs. Tom Hull, Mrs. Chas. Jones, and Albert Owens along with odd letters and garbled text suggesting a steel range or similar ad item. The readable names imply a local notices style, though the rest is indecipherable.
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