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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1897
Page
3
Instructions urge Republicans to use a blue pencil to mark a cross inside the large circle on the ticket head and to vote the straight Republican ticket with two crosses. The notice covers how marks count, handling at the polls, and penalties for incorrect or improper markings, with historical references to tariff debates and party positions.
Money saving sale now on at the White Horse. Every article in the house a positive bargain. For ice and telephone service contact Columbus eel Te Co. Millenary goods nearly gone at the White House.
Advertising rates shown for daily and weekly editions with per inch pricing. Local ads charge one cent per word for first insertion plus additional words at half a cent each. special rates offered for long contracts and renewal terms.
Kinney and Kinney face windstorm and tornado policy costs amid concerns of worsening Columbus weather. The note flags wind risk and financial impact for property coverage in the area.
Fragmentary ad text touts Sick Headache cures and Carters Cascara pills. Mentions refunds if unsatisfied and cheap pricing. Brand references include ARC and STAR. Appears to position store as providing reliable, satisfactory products with guaranteed quality.
An offer to renew or subscribe to the Columbus Morning Journal and the Twice-a-Week Courier Journal at a combined price. Subscriptions must be prepaid, sample copies available on request, and all orders sent to Columbus Morning News, Columbus, Indiana. Signed by Kooney & Turpin.
Read like a mid century rail and voting guide. It notes routes to Cincinnati via the East and Midwest lines and mentions train services, connections, and a new pencil ballot method. Voters are told to mark only inside the designated circle and not to leave identifying marks.
Trains run daily except Sunday on the Big Four RB route from Greensburg to Columbus via Cinta Ar and Hartsville Crossing. Schedule shows mixed stations with arrival and departure times throughout the day, operated by J. Saucy agent in Columbus Indiana.
A visitor describes Matanzas and surrounding western provinces as ash heaps from widespread fires and reconcentration. He notes a collapse of organization, with families starving and individuals unable to unite for relief, facing looming famine, plague, and ruin.
A Yale Divinity Hall student fired a toy rifle at a lamp and the ball pierced a professor of science window. The professor retraced the ball’s path with precise calculation to identify an innocent colleague. The guilty student confessed and the matter was dropped.
A Paris dispatch describes Madagascar Hovas and Queen Marie Antoinette as the subject of a diplomatic tale. Diplomat Mie Myre de Vilers returns from a soft soap mission claiming some progress while an old Hova observer cites too much starch and mockery at the court.
The piece profiles several women including Miss Saral MtcCurdy and Miss Gla Hilton, noting education and household economics studies. It references Hira Cratmio’s presidency of the Association of Woman Journalists and praises American visits and achievements as a classical scholar and accomplished woman.
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