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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1897
Page
4
Property listings offer numerous bargains from three room cottages to large farms. Listings include Nos 63 through 110 with varied locations such as Franklin Street and Beasley Avenue, plus several country tracts in Brown Jackson and Union townships. Prices range widely with many parcels advertised as buy now bargains or for trade.
Barton Beiley of Joplin Missouri returns after ten years to visit Amos Bolinger and kin. Oscar Heideer a Indianapolis candy wholesaler calls on trade. Mike Lynch with A Keifer Drug Co Indianapolis calls on local drug trade. Cliff Anthony once Columbus boy now in Chicago visits. John Pohlman of John A Woodford Co Indianapolis whisky dealers visits. Miss Lula Kennedy of Indianapolis visits Mrs B M Boyd.
The Ladies of St Bartholomews church host a lawn social Thursday evening at the home of P H McCormack. Livery one invited. Wares from reputable firms advertised for sale by enterprising dealers. No substitutes or imitations should be accepted. Be firm, and you can get what you want. If
Funeral services for H. D. Trotter will be conducted today at 1 o'clock by Rev. Mullen of Hope. Burial will follow at Sherm Cemetery. The notice also mentions local promotions and a tonic product advertisement appearing with the obituaries.
A notice urges Columbus citizens to attend a benefit lecture for Joseph Critchfield at City Hall next Wednesday evening. The Stanford family orchestra will assist, promising a first class program and strong local support for Critchfield’s honorable future.
The page mixes entertainment tips and local ads. It mentions Critchfield tonight, a Turtle soup item, a Fashion Restaurant lunch, and a Crump's Theatre Aug 23 opening. It urges tax installment payments, cautions against substitutes, and promotes Kinney & Kinney insurance and Clarelate remedies.
For sale Tenacres and a two story dwelling with barn and a large fruit orchard in Baltsville. Trade for property in Columbus considered. Cure constipation forever with Canacarets Cathartic. If not cured, druggists refund.
A Taotai claimed English knowledge before the emperor who pressed him with practical questions. Confused, the official bowed, provoking the emperor to scold him for relying on borrowed reputation and to require him to study English for three years.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt quotes a South Park officer lamenting the loss of songbirds in the parks. He says bicycles and crowds deter nesting birds like orioles thrushes and robins, leaving mainly sparrows and few nests as trees and bushes are overrun.
The long running feud between Duluth Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin over a St Louis river bridge heats up in Congress. Pennsylvania steel sits ready at the site while Senators Quay and Vilas clash over extra legislation delaying the project.
The North American Review cites France using a union of the Phrygian cap and the knout to deter Russian exiles. It notes spies in Zurich Geneva and Lausanne, while England reportedly grants proscribed Russians freedom amid shifts among the educated classes and figures like Stepnick toward calmer opposition.
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