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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1897
Page
4
Owens and Williams offer home ownership and loan options with low rates and liberal terms. They promote real estate, loans, and insurance in the New South with calls to invest in productive farms or homes and mention excursions and low rates.
Varied real estate listings on Cottage avenue Hutchins avenue Maple Grove and nearby townships. Properties include six room houses cottages with wells cisterns barns and a saw mill with access from main RB track and multiple acreage tracts in Brown Clifty Jackson Harrison townships. Prices range from 1 200 to 4 250 with cash or trade options and January 1 deadlines.
Special display at the White House features ladies suits capes and skirts this week. Stahlthuths varnish stain claims furniture renewal. Niagara bicycles advertised at J A Georges. Frank Griffith enhances his residence with a veranda. Haw Creek high water halts Reeves Furniture Co operations briefly. Frank Williams recovering after hospital surgery. George's bicycle store promotes the Nobby pattern pneumatic seat and bicycle clothing from 5 50 to 9 75.
Frank Lacy versus Emma Lacy for assault and battery was dismissed before Justice Palmer. Daily auctions of books, jewelry, and notions planned in the G. A. R. building with ladies invited. Local notices include Bartholomew Jackson county ditch viewing delays, new carpet lines at the White House, and Kinney’s lunch stand promotions.
A local notice promotes new and cheap bicycles available immediately at the Star Office. It urges buyers to act fast to secure these deals and highlights the affordability of the items.
An old advertisement promoting a tobacco quit aid named Bont Tobacco with promises of easy cessation and renewed vigor. It claims a money back guarantee and offers a free sample from a New York office, noting druggists carry the product.
Mike Devaney borrows a steel trap to catch rats and achieves success on the first try by trapping his setting hen. Frank Merrit sells a horse for 35 dollars and buys another that balks in the buggy. Louis Haske is adding a thousand tiles to his farm as frost and ice damage crops and oats. Doug Merryman starts an egg delivery by going door to door with a three to four dozen basket. Sherman Stader sells a goat for an air gun. Thomas Merritt improves his place with a wire fence and Willard Ault installs a picket fence. New Star subscriptions grow weekly and readers praise the paper.
Advertises stove wood by the cord with delivery across the city. Mentions J Arthur Meeks and price emphasis. Also includes shoe listings, buggy paints, millinery sale, floor paints, business cards, and Cascarets candy promotion.
In Columbus yesterday the drum beat announced three speakers on the silver issue at the city courthouse. Due to crowded rooms the meeting moved from the north to the south room where Phillips addressed a fair sized crowd, presenting views aligned with the free silver idea of the last campaign.
The Louvre failed to meet £20,000 for a splendid Italian Greek vase collection as the Italian minister of education enforces the Pacca law against Sig. di Prisco owner of the antiquities. Di Prisco allegedly smuggled 28 silver vases out of Bosco Reale and sold them to Paris dealers. The minister warns officials may be criminally prosecuted for aiding illicit export.
The North American Review discusses an alliance between a Phrygian city and the knout to cast Russia’s exile communities into insecurity abroad. It notes the presence of proscribed Russians in Zurich Geneva and Lausanne and observes England’s relatively freer stance and evolving liberal sentiment among its cultured classes toward autocracy and reform.
Switzerland uses mountain streams and small ponds to light towns and run electric trams from Montreux to Vevey and Chillon. The rising value of long distance transmission boosts mountain stream development, with high headwater sites delivering power despite low volume. Separately, London collectors report Lord Mayor’s 15 servants in sapphire blue livery with gold lace, whose uniforms later go to African kings via the supplying firm.
Dr William A Hammond argues that body ganglia form a second brain racing through the heart and other organs. He cites nerves of gray matter causing heart throbs and emotional sensing, claiming fear can halt the heart as a sign of mental activity throughout the body.
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