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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1897
Page
2
The notice outlines daily and weekly rate structures for small ads, including one inch ads for various durations from one month to one year, and a local news section with word rates. It notes special rates for long contracts and that yearly contracts not carried to expiration are charged at the given rate schedule.
A rough discussion lists candidates for a school trustee to replace Jos Condor and several names for county superintendent. It notes Kentucky United States Senator ballots, remarks on local paper standings, and asserts support for fair reporting and the golden rule amid town newspaper rivalries.
Jewelers note aluminium marks a glass gem when wet, now applied to a tester device using a wetted stone pressed to a spinning aluminium disk. Alaska marble quality found at St John the Baptist bay Whitestone narrows Rood's bay Mitchell's bay and Marble bluffs will be prospected for opening and marketing. An immense telescope at the Berlin exposition draws attention as a monumental observatory feature.
A fragmented list detailing street intersections, business names such as Mooney's Cannery and Starch Works, and numerous named individuals including Mayor J Beal Clerk John Suverkrup and Treasurer James Sibley. The compendium also names several clerks engineers and council members alongside scattered place names like Columbus and Jonesville, Ohio.
The article discusses new observatory designs and the Berlin instrument built as a long refractor mounted equatorially. It notes glass challenges in large telescopes, praises Alvan Clark for the Lick telescope, and describes lenses, tube length, electrical operation, and expected breakthroughs rivaling California's Lick Observatory.
A Chicago inventor devised a water powered clock that tells time as well as any machine and adds novelty. The device is a small circular box with compartments, suspended in a frame, where water moves between chambers to drive a revolving drum and indicate time along the frame.
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