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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1896
Page
4
Notables and locals pass through the city with angles to Seymour Indianapolis Jeffersonville Lebanon Paducah and St Louis including ex mayor J W Link editor Dipboye and Rev Trautman. Students and professionals move on from Culver Stansifer to Indianapolis while others return from trips to Cincinnati and Paducah.
Walter Johnson and Lafe report this morning with George W Caldwell. J J Bryan of Nickel Plate in town for line interests. James Watson resumes as Big Four engineer after Christmas in Indianapolis. Starting January 1 the freight minimum rises to 35 cents from 25 cents, preventing shipments below 35 cents regardless of distance.
The Star notes Brown County pursuit with bloodhounds and warns readers to watch for bargains in the paper. Local letters report Ida Klipsch improving in Colorado and praise Frank Cramps water near his sanitarium. Davidson Henderson tables go on sale. City electric and fire departments answer a Sunday Times attack, defending oversight of lineman and labor bills.
W. F. Allen, recently visiting the Swengel family, returns to Indianapolis with Miss Burnace Swengel. The note offers a $500 loan on good security from Kinney and Kinney. Subscribe to the Star by calling in or giving your name to the carrier.
The article notes a farewell tone yet promises continued fashion for the new year. It highlights the aim of producing fashionable clothing to order from fine materials and stresses that good tailoring alone is not enough without handsome and appropriate suiting. Woolens are valued to reduce mistakes.
Fine onyx tables offered at Davidson and Hendersons priced at 89c on 24 inch mahogany top tables cut from 2.00. Various small ads note loans secured by real estate, a death at Mrs. Slager’s residence, Rev. Tincher’s death in Belleeville Ohio, and a baby named Eleie Dell. Also mentions furniture, rockers, pictures, and a poultry business relocation in Franklin.
John E. Snyder and Will J. Snyder partners as J. F. Snyder and Son sue Vincent Thompson on account for sixty seven dollars and seventy five cents. W. FB. Norton is the plaintiff's attorney.
The I C O F elected officers last night with H Clark as N C and W H Garbit as W H G. Carr served as Secy F H Seward as P Secy H Thompkins as Treas A Kellar D Stobo arastece C A Reeves and Robert Taylor named as representative to Grand Lodge.
Nice furnished room with bay window available for rent on Washington Street. Call Claire E. Turpin at Real Estate Exchange over Lienberger the tailor for details.
A morning incident drew police to a scene at 1 6 oclock when a woman named Lizzie White, claiming Chicago and Edinburgh ties, stood with about six packages in front of Lee Rosenbuebel’s printing office. She was jailed for safekeeping as investigators pursued the case and a separate robbery at the Orlennes store was noted with bloodhounds used to track the thief. A Columbus team from this city was set to play Edinburg, with a lineup listed in detail. An advertisement offers German tickets and local real estate services for renters through Claire Turpin’s office above Lienberger.
The article promotes a public event by Dr Ballentine claiming to demonstrate true Homeopathic cures. It asserts his group has produced genuine remedies and cured hundreds, offering free testing and showing superior relief compared with drugstore medicines.
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