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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1897
Page
4
A crowded local page mixes promotional pitches for cheap shoes and life insurance with community notes. It mentions J. A. Newton's price store, Kinney & Kinney insurance, and Marney & Clark feather services, plus city power outages, a Rev. Conner death, and repair crews after a live wire incident.
A week long gay party at Camp Plenty ends as campers led by George Schooler Wm May and wife Sandy May Milton Bevis and wife John Leidner Winnie Williams depart for the city. A lamp left in a carlig caused a fire at a Taylorsville barn destroying wheat. Hon G W Cooper witnessed the blaze.
Advertisement seeks a reliable person to manage subscription routes with earning potential. Encourages calling immediately and warns readers to insist on genuine goods and not accept substitutes. For fancy job work, visit the Star office and note the storekeeper’s push for low prices.
The article describes a new apparatus enabling two or more subscribers to share a single line without impairing transmission efficiency. It enables central office signaling and prevents mutual interference, offering a high grade yet lower cost option dubbed party-line service for various circuits. It cites existing subscribers using improved devices and notes applicable rates upon request.
The Southern Railway offers one way tickets from Louisville to Chattanooga at 6.10, round trips 8.55 valid seven days, 9.10 valid fifteen days, and 12.23 limited to November 7. Trains depart 7:45 am and 7:35 pm with through sleepers on the evening service. For details contact Willan H. Tayloe, Assistant General Passenger Agent, 216 Fourth Avenue, Louisville.
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