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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1897
Page
2
The column lists advertising rates per inch for various time spans and notes local word rates for first insertions. It mentions a proposed 75 percent rebate for city outlying farm land and a Thursday council discussion about jail prisoner labor on a stone pile for health and board.
The councilmen at Thursday night meeting urged delaying the initial city tax payment until May, arguing the move would ease residents' financial burden and aid local budgeting.
The text predicts Dr Hunter will win a U.S. Senate seat this week and asserts any indictment against him will be proved groundless, claiming the charges were designed to harm him and will reflect in his favor.
The article states that in June a school trustee and city officers will be selected along with salary regulations and printing contracts. It asserts the Sva k has no advice to offer and that the current council is competent to handle city business, with a good man expected for trustee.
The council will consider a 75 percent rebate for farming ground on city outskirts. The senior editor previously pushed for the measure, arguing outskirts owners deserve protection and that the council should approve the rebate rather than delay a decision.
United States board of ordnance experimenters have captured photographic records of a projectile’s motion inside a cannon bore. The device uses a wooden rod with copper contacts at intervals forming electric contacts as the rod advances. A chart records each contact instant, with the shortest gap between records about 3.7 cm of travel and intervals occasionally as small as two thousandths of a second.
Indianapolis Hoosiers and Cincinnati Buckeyes contest drawn rough game at Cincinnati on Sunday. Cincinnati led 5 to 4 after nine innings as Indianapolis posted a late push but fell short. Hoosiers credit a solid showing against strong opponent and steady offense.
My misguided friend, said the fgt an with the puffs under his eyes, I will admit that Tam 3 capitalist. That part of your assertion shall go unchallenged. But when you say that I am not a producer you are wrong. I have been backing a comic opera company for two months.
A couple and their daughters rent a furnished Irish home for six months. An old lady in a shawl appears in a locked unused room and later at the doorway, frightening a daughter. A visitor later identifies two elderly sisters tied to the house and corroborates the sighting.
A naked young man was found asleep on a Deauville seat and taken to Pont-l'Eveque Hospital. For three weeks he remained in a cataleptic state before waking and claiming to be in Paris. He provided a Paris address, but his return failed to resolve the mystery surrounding his disappearance.
The Amber fish, a swift tropical traveler linked to the crevalles, pom panoes, banded pilot, horsefish and threadfish families, is rarely seen here. Resembling pilots in shape and bluefish in form, they are strong, fast swimmers found in the Mediterranean, West Indies, Gulf of Mexico and Pacific. Some are prized as food. large specimens exceed four feet and weigh over 100 pounds. The New Sun notes the coast of California hosts many celebrated Amber fishes.
In Cuba common land snails flood cavern floors each dry season. Water dripping from cave roofs leaves lime that cements shells together, gradually filling caves. Millions of snails never depart, and experts warn caves may eventually be entirely closed.
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