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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1897
Page
2
Our store offers elegantly tailored suits and overcoats at prices 25 to 50 percent lower than elsewhere. Boys and children’s suits reefers and ulsters are especially elegant and designed by artists and made by skilled tailors for good looks and fit.
J. S. Dopee of Elkhart Indiana, department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, is a possible candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Indiana.
Washington reports President McKinley will sit for a bronze bust by Fred Leimer. Maj. George M. Barbour arranged the sittings, one hour each morning, with the President reading and smoking during the process. The casts will head to the White House General Alger Canton Ohio City Council and the Ohio State House.
Chris Wolf and sister recover from a severe diphtheria attack. Wm Burnett and wife visit relatives in Edinburg. John L Drake of Hawcreek township and William Wauhtel of Elizabethtown are in town. Joshua Tipton trustee of Van Buren township conducts city business. Nathan Newsom Sr in Indianapolis. Mrs Richard Tirtel west of city improving after weeks of illness. Many country people in town. Mrs Lon Kebble improving from fever. Rev Swift and wife visit Franklin yesterday and return tonight. Mrs Joe Dickey with typhoid fever shows slow improvement.
Tickets resold at high prices. expected crowd of at least 5000 may be turned away. Yale Foot Ball Association president David A Twitchell warns gates open at noon and game starts at 2 pm with reserved seating only. Counterfeit tickets reported amid anticipated trouble. Princeton odds floated at 2101 for the Tigers.
The fragment lists ticket prices 25 35 50 75 and seats on sale at Otto's starting Monday evening. Includes names such as Walter Waltman George Schooler Leonard Lay Miss Ethel Beaty Lloyd Smith Mrs Gill Mollie Blessing Nellie Long Charles Clark Joseph Hoelke Maggie Christian Will Wolf and various unreadable strings.
An obituary writer records a farmer's quixotic tale as John Jones owes $10 and wants it noted on his tombstone that he died debt free. Others named include William Brown $15 Rufus Smith $320 Amos Williams $30 and Richard Scott $100. The farmer asks only a brief line about John dying happy.
A large crowd watched Dora Ogden fly kites in the railroad square this afternoon. He kept six to eighteen kites aloft at once, tying tan strings and guiding them as they rose like large birds. The display offered little practical success.
The WCTU will meet Sunday at 3 PM in the Presbyterian church to discuss the topic Inconsistency. John Sparks trustee Harrison township is in town today. Frank Flanigan of German town ship was in the city today. "Devil" George Winston, colored, was hanged at Paducah yesterday for the murder of his mistress Vina Stubblefield April 22 last. The Secretary of Agriculture issued a circular soliciting essays on cultivation of export tobaccos of Kentucky and Tennessee. Rennselaer council contracted for waterworks and bought new fire apparatus without consulting the firemen, who resigned in protest. Much feeling over the firemen’s conduct.
An advertisement touts Utah Kidney Beans as a cure for kidney trouble backache and fatigue. It claims relief of congestion and bladder irritation and credits The Turners of Philadelphia with discovery. The text also notes Tarzina ointment and Turners pills with a jab about city education officers.
An old advertisement promises a one day cure for colds using Laxative Bromo Quizine tablets. It claims refunds if the remedy fails and notes the genuine product bears I. B. Q. on each tablet priced at 25 cents.
In a quiet scene, Carlee gently rebuffs John who asks to hold hands. She reminds him he is not in a hand laundry now and cannot proceed, speaking softly with restrained humor.
A Washington Post note claims a single Ohio vote hurts the administration more than the entire South Republican party. The piece mocks Texas factionalism and political fatigue amid internal party conflicts.
A humorous column on marriage calling it a prize, noting eyes as windows of the soul and joking about men wearing blanks around their necks. The piece quips that marriage is a lottery and jokes about business health partnerships with a doctor.
Mr. Bryan tells a story about a Missouri train passenger making quick party judgments. A traveling man claims to identify each rider’s politics by sight, labeling several travelers as Republican Democrat Populist and gold standard Democrat. One man protests he simply looks unwell from illness.
The Courier Journal notes J. 8. Sovereign has retired from Knights of Labor leadership to run for president against William Jennings Bryan. The item likens this to John Rhea and Bill Ellis challenging Blackburn, a point the Carlisle Mercury echoes.
In Brooklyn the board of canvassers completed the count for the Tenth assembly district. Samuel E. Hubbard Democrat defeats John E. Thorne Republican by a single vote with Hubbard at 4 350 to Thorne's 4 349.
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