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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1897
Page
3
Voters are instructed to mark a cross or X inside the large circle surrounding the eagle on the Republican ticket using a blue pencil provided by election officials. A mixed ticket is still possible with a pencil, but straight tickets require the X in the circle and no other marks.
Instructions cover obtaining a ballot and pencil, marking with a single cross inside designated areas, avoiding erasures or marks, folding to reveal clerk initials, and returning for a new ballot if mis marked. Also warnings against collecting ballots, speaking about votes, and assistance for non readers with clerks marking ballots.
Rates list for daily and weekly ads including inch depth terms and durations. Local classifieds charged per word with first insertion at one cent and additional insertions at half cent, black letter locals, special rates on large contracts, and monthly charges for contracts not carried to expiration.
Columbus may face strong winds as a storm looms. Kinney & Kinney advertise windstorm and tornado policies promising coverage at a trifling cost. The ad also urges consumer discernment against inferior articles and promotes StarJou Printing Co services with guaranteed high quality.
The West Side Bohemian volunteers presented Antonio Maceo or the Fight for Cuban Freedom in Chicago to promote Cuban liberty. J V Matejka wrote it. scenes span Maceo's youth in Havana Moro Castle and camp life with the insurgents ending in a betrayal and battle. Box office neared 300 dollars, split between the Cuban fund and Bohemian relief.
A crowd narrative follows a late night confrontation between Beemer and Deemer as they fear footpads and vow to avoid late hours. The page also reports on a German farmer in Mahoning valley employing four daughters to drive a coal mine, plus a Bristol church incident with a cat that ascends to the pulpit and is removed by the usher.
An advertisement promotes a split subscription deal offering the Twice a Week Courier Journal the Courier Journal and the Weekly Star for one year at a total price of 1.25 dollars.
We offer a Twice-a-week Courier-Journal clubbing arrangement with prepaid renewals or new subscriptions. The Columbus Morning Star in Columbus Indiana handles sample copies and advance payments. Send AM subscriptions to Kinneyd Torpin in Columbus.
Nashville residents note the Great Southern Exposition attracting national interest and advise on routes to reach the city. The Bia Four offers through service to Cincinnati from New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland and Columbus and via connections from Detroit Toledo Sandusky Chicago Benton Harbor to Cincinnati. Voters are reminded the law now requires a pencil ballot with a cross in the eagle circle and no marks outside it.
Rail schedule shows Big Four and C H G lines with mixed trains between Wy and Ar Columbus Ly. listing stop times at Greensburg Ewington Burney’s Hartsville Crossing Hope Miller’s Lambert’s and Ar Columbus Ly. Trains operate am and pm times with Sunday off. Agent J. Sanrou of Columbus Indiana oversees service.
In a dawn scene in Washington a weather map informs senators about the day’s climate. A New York Sun report quotes Senator Kyle on Dakota weather driving farmers to part with land, with a tale of a stranger trading 200 acres for land deeds later found to be 400 acres, leading to a futile dispute.
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