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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1897
Page
3
Instructions detail voting with a blue pencil inside the large circle around the Republican eagle head for straight-ticket voting on August 10. The new method replaces a rubber stamp and prohibits marks outside the circle, with a single name per ticket on the August special election.
This text instructs voters on ballot procedures including obtaining a ballot with a blue pencil, marking inside the designated circle, avoiding marks that invalidate the ballot, folding the ballot with clerk initials showing, returning or replacing damaged ballots, and prohibitions on taking or sharing ballots or discussing voting in the room. It also includes a dated political commentary on tariff policy from 1892 and scattered local notices and ads.
Rates printed for daily and weekly editions show prices for various line lengths and durations. Local ads incur per word and line charges with discounts for monthly and yearly contracts, and special terms for large contracts.
A local note urges securing a tornado and windstorm policy with Kinney & Kinney as Columbus faces expected severe winds. The advertisement cites low cost and willingness to refund money if remedies fail, and promotes Starrow Prine Co as a trusted local provider.
The Columbus Morning Star announces a one year clubbing deal with the Twice a Week Courier Journal and the Weekly Stat for $1.25. Renewing or new subscribers paying in advance receive the combined papers, with sample issues of the Morning Star sent on request. Subscriptions must be sent to Columbus Morning Star, Columbus, Ind. Kinney and Torpin.
Nashville notices describe the Great Southern Exposition stirring interest nationwide. It lists the Big Four and connections to Cincinnati from New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland Columbus Detroit Toledo Sandusky Chicago Benton Harbor and Louisville with through trains and with the C and L N Ry. Voters are reminded to use a pencil and cross within the eagle circle on ballots.
A plant once placed in a window bowl thrived and then adapted as it was moved into a boiler and a deep crock. Split and replanted, it grew upward with air bulbs forming long stems and oversized leaves. The Pontedria Crassipes proves striking as a low maintenance house plant with glassy waxy foliage.
A 85 foot high brick chimney weighing nearly 100 tons was moved 950 feet over rough ground at Manhauset Shelter Island Suffolk county New York with two greased skids and a grain capstan. Four men accomplished loading in nine days without damage or accident. A prior 52 foot chimney at Bridgehampton had similar success.
United States coast and geodetic survey observers work with international partners to re measure the earth. They note that Mount Shasta to Mount Helena signals reach 190 miles with limited response. Uncompahgre peak in Colorado to Mount Ellen in Utah registers 14 300 and 13 400 feet heights, while earlier eye estimates peaked at 168 miles between Algiers and Spain.
Big Four R. R. trains run daily except Sunday with listed westbound and eastbound times at Greensburg Hartsville Crossing Hope Miller's Lambert's Ar. Columbus and other stations. Schedule shows morning and evening departures with arrivals to Columbus and Indy through July.
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