Voting Changes in Australian Ballot Law and Market Notes
A report explains the new Australian ballot amendments favoring blue lead pencils and simplified marking. It notes reduced loss from ink marks, cost savings, and clearer marking areas around party emblems and candidate names. The article also covers market shifts: wheat up to 73 cents, corn and oats steady, live cattle and hog prices varying, wool higher, and a push for beet sugar factories as tariff protection rises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fsat
Bryan
Classified Rates Table for Local Advertisers
The notice lists pricing for daily and weekly ads by sizes and durations including one inch in various timeframes and rates for locals in daily and black letters. It cites one cent a word for first insertion and half cent a word for repeats, with two cents a word for locals, plus special rates on large contracts and monthly charges for nonexpiring yearly contracts.
Columbus Star promotes insurance and ads in 19th century notice
An early Columbus newspaper ad bundle urges readers to buy Kinney & Kinney windstorm tornado policies and cascara pills by Tike Carter, with refunds offered if cures fail. It promotes Star printing services, job work guarantees, and a clubbed newspaper offer with the Twice-a-Week Courier-Journal and the Weekly Star, all payable in advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tike Carter
M. C. Dunnington
Courier-Journal
ourier-Journal
Great Southern Exposition draws interest. rail routes to Nashville outlined
Nashville announces rail routes to the Great Southern Exposition with through trains from New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland and Columbus via the Big Four to Cincinnati and connections from Detroit Toledo Sandusky and Chicago Benton Harbor to Cincinnati and Louisville. Voter guidance notes a law change requiring pencil marks in the eagle circle on ballots and returning pencils to clerks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville Tenn
Cincinnati
New York
Boston
Buffalo
Cleveland
Columbus
Detroit
Toledo
Sandusky
Chicago Benton Harbor
Louisville
Mixed Train Schedules on the Big Four Lines West and East
A historical timetable lists mixed train pairs on the Big Four routes with station stops including Greensburg Ewington Burney's Hartsville Crossing Hope Miller's Lambert's and Columbus. Times indicate morning and evening departures with pm and am annotations and rowdy trains on Sundays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
Miller's
Lambert's
Columbus Ly
Sunda Ho
Unusual Foreign Courts Offer Odd Tea House Charms
The narrator describes lodging in teahouses with small thin walled rooms and smoking from opium pipes. Tea saloons employ singers and elocutionists to entertain guests while trays of cakes and tea are served. A dog and cat meat restaurant is noted as a costly local delicacy with superstition tied to animal color.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sihen
China
Yeast of Long Descent Traced to Cromwell Era
Barbara Curran of East Orrington Maine preserves a two quart brown crock of yeast brought from Ireland in 1846. She traces its line to Cromwell times when an ancestor baked for King Charles I’s troops and was hanged at the family home. The yeast survived voyage, poverty, and years of migration across generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Cromwell
Barbara Curran
East
Orrington
New York Sun
America
Boston
Medford
East Orrington
India Shawls Could Be Counterfeited in France Says Experts
The Chautauquan notes that since Tibet goats were introduced to France, cashmere shawls imitate the India original so closely that detection is hard. Experts warn genuine India shawls have uneven weave, brighter colors, and borders sewn from small pieces. Some so called real India shawls are made in France and assembled abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
India
Tibet
Chinese remedy for rabies linked to dog liver cure
An American missionary in China reports locals claim raw or cooked mad dog liver eaten after a bite can prevent hydrophobia. Plinius is cited, and the idea is linked to early leopathic practices preceding Pasteur and Loch. The piece also cites an American clergyman who argued Adam and Eve were black and tied to ancient climate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Plinius
Pasteur and
Loch
Africa
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Griffith
Dearborn County
Hovey
Switzerland
Congress
Vevay Reveille
United States
Germany
Brother Griffith
White House
Telephone
Columbus Fuel & Ice. Co
Kinney & Kinney
Starnios Print Co
Courier Journal
Weekly
Star
Columbus Morning Star
Ind
Kiinney & Torpin
BIG Four
R. R
C., H. & G. Branch
Miember
Central—169
Anteed
WH Anderson
Boot and Shoe Maker
Ton and
Franklin
Harrison
Hell
Weather Goods
Fiegenbaum
Jas. F. Cox
Attorney-At-Law
Rogers & Bro
Seth Thomas
H. L. Rost
Washingon St
Alaerdin
Messinger
Veeder
Trump
Morgan & Wright Tires
Brown
Les
D'Ar
Caels
Reeves Seward
Men & Womn
Romanza Agency
Sycamore St
Funkhouser, & Wilson
6Th
Washington Street
Winan
Columb’s
W. C.rolan
OFICE
Fifth St
Western Union Telegraph Office
Citizens
Eighth and
Chestnut Streets
Drake
Bulders
Silverman’s
Ron
Fifth and
Jackson Streets
Hemmemet
W.W. Lambert
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