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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1897
Page
3
The article outlines new voting rules urging Republicans to mark ballots with a blue pencil inside the large circle around the eagle, not with a stamp or other marks. Details cover how to obtain and return the pencil, how to vote straight tickets, and penalties for improper marks, plus notes on illegibility and handling.
A stray straw hat is reported missing with a call to return it to Stan at the office. The notice teases a warm remark and promotes money saving sales at the White Horse and White House stores, urging customers to phone Columbus Fuel & Ice Co. for ice.
The notice lists advertising rates for daily and weekly editions. Rates cover one inch ads for various durations from one month to one year, plus combined daily and weekly options. Locals incur per word charges with discounted repeats and special rates for large five hundred line contracts.
A reader notes a Pontedria crassipes plant adaptively growing in varied containers from a kitchen bowl to a boiler and crock. As the plant spread, it shifted from horizontal spreading to tall upward growth, producing leaves twice as large, while the waxy foliage remained attractive and easy to care for with simple watering.
The 85 foot high brick chimney weighing about 100 tons was moved 950 feet at Mannahuset Shelter Island Suffolk County N Y without damage using a grain capstan cradle two skids and a horse loaded in nine days by four men. This second such move followed a smaller Bridgehampton chimney.
Nashville May 1 to Nov 1 the great southern exposition draws interest as travelers seek routes to reach Nashville. The Bic Four offers best east line to Cincinnati from New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland and Columbus and connections from Detroit Toledo Sandusky to Cincinnati and from Chicago Benton Harbor to Cincinnati and Louisville. Voters must use a pencil and cross within the eagle circle on ballots.
Parisian millionaire Mr Menier, owner of Anticosti in the Gulf of St Lawrence, reports bear populations on the island are so abundant that he grants a concession for a curing plant for bear meat. Bear ham becomes a fashionable delicacy.
Citizens of Hennessey Oklahoma approve $2,000 in bonds to erect a memorial for Pat Hennessey, government freighter killed during the 1874 Indian outbreak. He commanded a Wichita to Fort Reno wagon train and died defending his post as Indians attacked the line. His grave near the trail was cared for by freighters and is marked with a stone and slab.
The timetable lists mixed trains on the Big Four R R C H and G branches with daily service except Sunday. It shows departure and arrival times at Greensburg Ewington Hartsville and other stops between Cincinnati and Columbus and notes agent Sauiru at Columbus Indiana.
Fragmentary passage describes an inventor living among wanderers and assistants at an inventions' farm. It suggests access to willing hands and fertile ideas to overcome nature and build a mechanical bird, reducing costs and enabling life’s object through collaborative effort.
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