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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1897
Page
2
The text lists postal and newspaper rates for Columbus Indiana and details for daily and weekly editions. It specifies pricing for locals in daily pages, word charges, display formats, and contract conditions for local advertising.
The Supreme Court affirms the circuit court decision ordering an election to decide whether Jackson County’s seat moves from Brownstown to Seymour. The ruling declares the earlier plan unconstitutional and the commissioners must set a vote. Holman dies at 2 05 p m. congressman W S Holman, longtime Baltimore? No. Indiana politician known as Father of the House, dies at 83? The article states he was born Sept 6 1822 near Aurora Indiana and would have been 75. His death creates a vacancy in the Fourth District requiring a governor called special election within thirty days.
J Arthur Meeks advertises stove wood at the Handle Factory corner of 14th and California, selling by the cord with delivery to any city area. Prices are claimed to be right. contact Harrison 173.
Billy Dahn son of Fred Dahn and his wife are active in a Chicago theatrical company. The Dahns are unlikely to travel with the Robison circus this season.
The Rainbow name signals first quality while Rainbow paints offer grades for houses roofs floors barns and buggies. Ernest Stahmuth & Co of Colimuus are named as county agents handling the distribution and promotion of these coatings.
The Citizens Telephone Co offers telephone connections with all towns in the county with free service to subscribers. Call the Manager for rates and terms. Rates are reasonable with guaranteed best service. Also a tobacco habit cure ad appears offering a product for 50 cents or 81 cents at all druggists.
One and one half cards of dry wood are available at the Handle Factory with orders to be left at Winans grocery. The item is described as a simple sale with pickup arrangements at the two locations for customers.
M C Dunnington druggist offers refunds if the pills fail to cure. Ad promotes economizing and saving dollars with wallpaper cloth by J C Bell at 935 Union Street. Write to the above address or leave offers at the post office.
Eyewitness accounts criticize Ottoman statecraft for enabling a massacre of Armenians. Police complicity is alleged as mobs attacked homes and killed Armenians. The text notes repugnance at a fish diet among foreigners amid the Bosphorus killings.
Two young men, leaving town for a Lenox dance, dressed in baggage car luggage to reach on time after the train ran late. The conductor discovered them, laughed, and they still made the dance though they arrived in odd attire with mismatched shoes and no tie.
A consumer reports a faulty candy card product from a company identified as C.C. C and seeks refund of 10 or 25 cents. The note notes dissatisfaction with the cure claim and requests monetary remedy.
A reflective piece on growing older, noting how time changes bodies yet not self-perception. It contrasts married vs single sisters and the satire of aging among social circles. Also reports on W. K. Vanderbilt’s reportedly $15 million alliance with the Marlborough dukes, detailing the proposed settlement and inheritance terms for the duchy marriage.
Beatrice Montgomery in Cleveland gazes at Harold Bentley and confesses love while he reveals a British–American family rift. She asks about his father as a widow mother and sisters travel in Europe. After a swoon and a dramatic rebuke she cries for removal of the man.
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