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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1897
Page
3
A long notice details the 1892 election voting method for Republicans, urging use of a blue pencil inside the large circle around the eagle to mark a straight ticket. It covers how to vote, penalties for improper marks, and the need to obtain ballots from officials, plus a historical aside on tariff debates.
A hotel proprietor near Paris joined a party of sportsmen. A cartridge escaped a pocket with tobacco in a pipe, ignited, and exploded, causing a fatal accident of remarkable character.
Rates show daily and weekly ad pricing for one inch columns with terms for durations from one day to one year. Local ads charge per word, with multi-insertion discounts and black letter locals. Special rates available for local advertising contracts. yearly contracts extend to month-by-month charges if not carried to expiration.
Columbus weather warning notes a worse wind storm possible and promotes Kinney & Kinney tornado and windstorm policies. It claims low cost, cites medication pitches by Bid&wtf and Teke Carter’s Cascara Pills, and offers refunds via M. C. Dunnington druggist. Also urges refusing inferior articles and announces fixed job-work prices with guaranteed satisfaction.
The Columbus Morning Star announces a yearlong clubbing deal with the Twice-a-Week Courier Journal and the Weekly Star. Subscriptions must be prepaid and renewed or paid in advance, with samples sent free on application. Offer available through IKINNEY & TURPIN in Columbus, Indiana.
Nashville Tenn Mar Ist stro Nov 1 The great southern exposition has created great interest through the country and applications are being made as to the best route to reach this great southern city. The "Bie Four" has the best line from the East with through train service to Cincinnati from New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland and Columbus from Detroit Toledo and Sandusky to Cincinnati and from Chicago Benton Harbor to Cincinnati and Louisville Direct connections are made with the Q and C Route and the L N Ry Full information will be cheerfully given upon application.
The notice instructs voters to use a pencil and place a cross in the circle with the eagle, instead of a stamp. Voters receive ballot and pencil from the clerk and return the pencil after voting. No marks identifying voter choices are allowed. cross only inside the eagle circle.
The schedule lists departure and arrival times for connecting mixed trains on the C. H. and G. branch. Stations include Greensburg, Ewington, Burney's, Hartsville Crossing, Hope, Miller's, Lambert's, and Colunatras EN with varied pm and am times.
A travel piece describes Chinese hotels clustered within blocks of each other in Canton with grandiose signs like The Fortunate Star The Golden Profits and The Rank-Conferring. Rooms are tiny and noisy with smoke from opium pipes while tea saloons employ singers. One restaurant offers dog and cat stews, often costly if the animal is black, reflecting local beliefs.
Barbara Curran of East Orrington Maine guards a two-quart hand molded crock of yeast brought from Ireland in 1846. The leaven traveled on a sailing packet and survived multiple renewals through decades of poverty, with roots claimed back to Cromwell's soldiers and early King Charles I era bread making.
The piece compares genuine India cashmere shawls with French imitations. It notes differences in weave evenness and color brightness, and explains that authentic borders are often sewn from separate pieces. It warns that many so called real India shawls are made in France.
A French missionary in China reported locals claim raw dog liver eaten after bites prevents hydrophobia. Five men bitten in March of last year were shown to eat the liver and broth, with Plinius cited on the practice. The method’s efficacy is unproven but merits study as an early sopathic approach preceding Pasteur.
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