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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1897
Page
3
Public guidance explains the new voting method under the law. Voters should place a cross or X inside the large circle around the eagle to vote the straight Republican ticket, using the blue pencil provided by election officials, and not mark elsewhere.
Instructions outline ballot handling, marking rules, and penalties for improper voting practices. The piece then contrasts 1890s tariff arguments, noting free traders and protectionists, with references to Harrison and McKinley, and a late Senate vote showing limited Democratic support for restoring protective tariffs.
A report from Mantes notes a disturbance near a hotel where the proprietor and a party of sportsmen were involved. The details are incomplete but indicate an incident affecting local hospitality.
The notice lists rates for daily and weekly advertising including one inch space costs for different durations from one month to one year. It also states combined daily and weekly rates, local word charges, and special rates on contracts.
A public notice urges Columbus residents to secure Kinney and Kinney wind and tornado insurance before a feared storm. The ad promotes coverage as a minor cost with emphasis on protection against wind damage and financial loss.
Subscription notice advertises one year for both the Twice A Week Courier Journal and the Weekly S Tank at a combined price of 1.25 dollars. It markets a bundled annual deal likely in a local newspaper context.
Kinney and Turpen announce a twice weekly clubbing arrangement with the Courier-Journal. Subscriptions paid in advance receive the combined paper at the named price for renewing and new subscribers. Sample copies are available free on application. All orders go to Columbus Morning Star, Columbus, Indiana.
Nashville notices urge visitors to use the Big Four line for through service to Cincinnati from New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland and Columbus and from Detroit Toledo Sandusky Benton Harbor to Cincinnati and Louisville. Direct connections exist with the Q&C Route and L&N Ry with full information on request. The text also explains a pencil voting method requiring a cross in the eagle circle and prohibition of marked clues.
A travel column describes Chinese hotels in Canton seeking flashy names like The Fortune Star and The Happiness. It notes cramped rooms with smoke from opium. tea saloons with singers and elocutionists. and a dog and cat stew restaurant where black cats or dogs are said to be more nutritious, reflecting traveler myths.
Mrs Barbara Curran of East Orrington Maine preserves a two quart stone crock of yeast that came from Ireland in 1846. The yeast was renewed with scraped potatoes during the voyage and kept alive through many generations, dating back to Cromwell era times with a great great grandmother who baked for King Charles I's troops.
The Chautauquan notes that French imitations of India cashmere shawls are now highly exact, making detection difficult. Experts point to uneven weft, brighter colors, and borders sewn from multiple pieces as clues to genuine India shawls, which are softer due to thread quality and Tibetan goat fibers.
A French missionary in China witnessed two bitten carriers and heard locals claim a curative method. Centuries earlier Plinius is cited for raw liver as preventive, with cooked broth for those who cannot swallow it. The article notes uncertainty but merits further study as an early form of hydrophobia treatment linked to Pasteur and Lechn.
A timetable fragment lists Big Four R R and C H G branch arrivals and departures. It shows mixed stations Greensburg Ewington Burney's Hartsville Hope Miller's Lambert's and Columbus with morning and evening times and changes between westbound and eastbound services.
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