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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1897
Page
6
The notice outlines ad pricing for daily and weekly issues including per inch rates for various durations and headings. It also details local insertions at one cent a word first insertion and half cent for each additional, with black letter locals two cents per word per insertion and special rates for contracts of five hundred lines or more. Continuous yearly contracts not carried to expiration incur monthly charges as listed.
A dialogue depicts a merchant pressing a customer for payment arguing the customer promised to pay but failed repeatedly. The merchant complains of overdue bills and says he cannot keep debts unpaid while meeting rent groceries and meat costs. The customer agrees reluctantly but questions the time frame for payment.
Mrs. Porter of Ladies' Home Journal portrays the Empress as tall and patrician with a slender figure, delicate waist, long pale face, and refined features. She notes the Empress’s elegant cherry blossom gown, European-influenced silk, and a parasol matching the attire, amid a refined garden party setting.
The critic lauds a 19th century artist as the era’s greatest draughtsman and colorist. Despite uneven power in later work, his vast range and sincerity define his modern prominence, with Watts noting his enduring quality. The piece asserts his enduring relevance to posterity.
Exhort by machinery reports Salvation Army using graphophones for evangelism in villages. The device projects 400 to 1,000 listeners with 18 records including commander and consul addresses, 16 army songs, and home-record blanks. Meetings feature full band accompaniment and travel cases for 26 records.
Government and private rail interests push a plan to abolish return tickets in Denmark. A direct all-stations rail pass under one price would cover about 300 by 260 miles for third class not exceeding 1.50 dollars, cutting freight and travel costs while bolstering national debt assets.
OCR reads a list of names, places, and street intersections including Nineveh, Taylorsville, Columbus, and Washington. It appears to be a municipal or county street directory with cross streets and landmark pairs such as Second and Jackson, Third and Washington, Eleventh and Franklin, and Fifth and Sycamore.
Citizens of Hennessey Oklahoma vote two thousand dollars in bonds to erect a monument to Pat Hennessey, government freighter killed during the 1874 Indian outbreak. His grave lies by the trail, marked by stones and a slab naming “This grave is consecrated to Hibernian valor.”
An elevated train carriage scene shows a white man attempting conversation with a black woman from a sisterhood. She slaps him, he smiles, and a tall black man intervenes by resting his head on the white man’s shoulder and indicating the opposite car, ending the scene.
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