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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1897
Page
3
New York on August 11 reports Dan's Review four years since its start in 1893. Failures for the month dropped to 7,117,727 dollars, the lowest since 1892, while wheat and cotton prices and yields show favorable trends. The article notes rising stocks, higher railway securities, and improving demand across industries though overall activity remains cautious.
Advertising rates list clearances for daily and weekly spaces by inch and time periods. Locals priced per word with extra charges for repeated insertions. Special local advertising contracts offered for large volumes.
The notice suggests Columbus faces stronger wind threats than a recent storm and promotes Kinney & Kinney tornado and windstorm coverage. The plan is presented as affordable protection against such events.
Druggist M GC Dunnington offers refunds if the pills fail to cure headaches. The ad urges refusing inferior articles and choosing trusted remedies directly from the buyer.
THE STAR announces a fixed price program offering Twice a Week Corner Journal Twice a Week Courier Journal and the Weekly Star at 1.25 for one year. Special clubbing arrangement with the Courier Journal available to renewals or new subscribers paying in advance. Sample copies of the Courier Journal sent free on application. Subscriptions sent to the Columbus Morning Star, Columbus, Ind. Kinney & Purein.
John W. Rusk of Belport North Carolina writes to the New York Sun about buffalo gnats. He recalls encountering them in Arkansas on the St Francis river bottom lands and notes they crawl into mouths nostrils and ears to lay eggs. The larvae harm stock and game, while farmers burn logs to create smoke to drive them off, with wildlife seeking the smudge.
A playfully satirical dialogue follows Mazie and her lover after a theater supper. He skirts truth with a poetry line about walking and car fare, she derides sham sentiment and demands honesty. He pays with a dime and muses on future clever women as they ride a cable car.
Nashville area chatter highlights May Islatre as a key route to the great southern city for the exposition. The Bia Four offers through service from New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland Columbus to Cincinnati with direct links to L and C Route and L and N Ry. Health officials in Bartholomew county monitor typhoid fever with Dr Harry investigating. Columbus plans brick street improvements amid optimism. Iran adds ten names to a subscription list. Ed Everroad announces a gold watch raffle soon.
A duck shooter recalls paddling through flood waters near Jeanette's creek where the ditch vanished and a vast plain resembled a dusty lake. The marshes held hundreds of thousands of waterfowl including Mabard, black duck, pintail, redhead, bluebill, widgeon, and teal, with geese in the thousands, mostly big Canada geese, and occasional brant or slow goose.
The article explains how royal travelers, including Queen Victoria’s household, carry beds and bedding for movement. It notes two tapissiers in service, one with the queen and one at Windsor, who oversee packing, timing, and communications for transfers between palaces and routes by rail or sea.
A fragmentary timetable lists trains on the Big Four and C& G lines, noting westbound and mixed service from Greensburg to Columbus and other stops with arrival and departure times. It includes station names such as Greensburg Jn Ewington Hartsville and Miller's Lambert's Ar. and indicates daily service with exceptions.
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