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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1897
Page
3
Owens and Williams advertise real estate loans and insurance with agents in Tusurance. They offer to carry buyers on liberal terms and promote productive farm or home investments in the New South.
Advertises multiple properties for sale or trade in Brown County and surrounding townships. Listings include six to seven room houses, cottages with cisterns and barns, 40 acre to 140 acre farms, and a saw mill, with prices ranging from 700 to 4 230. Addresses reference Ninth and Tenth streets, Burnsville Pike, Purcell's addition, and Hayison and Clifty townships.
Help needed for newspaper delivery in our area. Applicants should visit the Star office for details and to apply in person this morning.
The Toledo Blade notes Ben Butterworth will take the position he joked about not accepting. The line shows the joke in the context of his return to the role.
The article urges the Senate to follow Foraker as the only safe plan. It notes bids for an ice place job are to be submitted by ten a.m. on Wednesday April 7, with Low Reppies Ick & Coan Co. 14312.
Advertises ladies genuine dongola lace shoes in solid wood style priced 75 cents with new goods in sizes 2 to 6 at J A Newton’s one price cash shoe store on Washington Street. Senator Hanna found cooperation in Kentucky senate fight ineffective and messy per Evansville Courier.
Despite not delivering his maiden speech in Congress Senator Foraker hints at ideas on the arbitration treaty. The Times notes his cautious approach and early engagement in the policy debate.
Jogin Carlisle stands outside the breastworks and administers medicine he widely used to dose others, a tense moment reported from Salt Lake City with unclear context and motives.
F M Bates was found dead this afternoon on the second floor of A Man ford Bryant’s wagon repair shop at Clark's Hill after apparently taking morphine. Bates, last seen Wednesday, had sought the Keeley cure but resumed drinking. He formerly lived at Linden and Lebanon and leaves a fifteen year old daughter in Lebanon.
A collection of short items notes upcoming Easter Sunday and local activities. Entries mention a bicycle vote, snow appearance yesterday, fishing tackle shop Geo Cummins, carpet cleaning by Geo Lee, Wick Larne of Walker and Smith, a baptism postponement at Walesboro, upcoming spring millinery display at Miss Fowler, and price relations with W D Meyers & Co. Lex Loy Cheap Grocery. Also reports Policeman Pence’s 30th anniversary celebration and Mrs Sven Tuttle’s surprise birthday gathering with social games and refreshments.
Store open Monday April 5 797 inviting customers to browse spring millinery by Mrs A E Gerner on Fifth Street with a call to visit the shop.
Orinoco reports focus on Barber Frank B returning to work and rising trades at Bowman and Patrick. Mobley’s Sunday sermon earns praise while George Benjamin and wife plan to move from town. Frank Brown and wife visit Hartsville. Wilbur Harris and family visit west. Orinoco Furniture Factory employs about seventy workers. Local streets and avenues marked for grading and extension. A neighborhood incident on 17th and Highland Ave prompts calls for quieter behavior. Secretary of State office changes boost finances for Mr Carlisle and the U S Treasury.
A man watches a grizzly bear in the Central menagerie pit as the bear uses both claws to pluck peanuts handed through the bars. Onlookers discuss whether grizzlies have a taste for peanuts and joke about where they grow.
The English Flustrated Magazine reports that authorities aided massacre plans against Armenians rather than stopping them, with police complicity cited. It notes widespread repugnance at a no fish diet reflecting the era's moral rejection of the killings and Bosphorus drownings as part of the violence.
A Danville Advocates report describes a group of local coon hunters startled by a voice from an old tree in the woods. The tale ties the site to a murder of Louis Streat for a hidden fortune, with Henderson once charged but later released and vanished.
The passage stresses that correction should be followed by encouragement like sun after rain. It praises a caregiver who creates pleasures for a child as a seed that may bloom later. It warns against probing a child's visits to neighbors to avoid sowing gossip and mischief.
Two young society men on an afternoon express train to Lenox improvise a dress change in the baggage car to reach a dance on time. The conductor discovers them, but they still make the event, arriving late by 89 minutes on a rough 40 mile journey while changing outfits.
Marriage licenses issued for Charles Roberts and Pearl Reynolds, Charles Meyers and Nellie Nading, George Haislup and Daisy M Chastine. Rev Z T Sweeney of Columbus will lecture at Central Christian Church in Indianapolis Tuesday April 13 on the Golden Age.
The Bartholomew County Medical Society meets at 1:30 PM in the city hall council chamber to elect officers. Police Court notes report Ed and Frank Moyer pleaded guilty to assault and battery on Jerry Pittman and were fined, with the fine stayed. Pittman was acquitted of the charge.
A domestic etiquette note urges avoiding breakfast duties and coffee for lateness, not commenting on morning bills, not questioning the male head about dinner plans or daily expenses, and choosing after dinner to settle finances. It cautions against reading the newspaper so intently that others are ignored.
Classified notice seeks a second hand incubator. Interested seller should contact Wm. H. Ault in Ogilville Indiana with address at Ogilville. The ad requests any available unit for sale.
A London Telegraph report recounts a young courier with evangelical views who smoked in public. A parishioner who witnessed the act was stunned and immediately renounced her commitment to the Thirty Nine Articles.
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