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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1897
Page
2
The fragment mentions H. Kinney A Turpin as city editor, J. Sherman heading the State Department, and Lyan J. Gace of Chicago named to the cabinet of president elect McKinley. It notes Gace as a Chicago resident for forty years and a respected businessman who never held office but supported Cleveland initially.
The legislature tightens effort against cigarette nuisance. Anti Cigarette AHS aims to clear both chambers and become law, with strong support and little opposition expected.
The item notes that Lassel A. Alger of Michigan, associated with veterans in the late campaign, will serve as secretary of war under Mechinley, a fact likely to please old soldiers.
The speaker urges lawmakers to kill unfounded bills in committee and pass laws with merit. He says the current Republican legislature can make a positive record, unlike two years ago, and expects a better performance this session.
A bill allowing indigent patients to choose their doctor and have the county pay the fee is discussed. Critics note current practice lets low bids drive down physician payments, harming poor residents. The article argues for clearer fee regulation to ensure adequate care.
The committee of courts recommends postponing Senator Duncan bill No. 122 that would create separate judicial circuits for Shelby and Bartholomew counties and place Johnson and Brown in another. The group argues Bartholomew alone would cost taxpayers unnecessarily and provide no clear benefit.
The article argues that many cities host soup houses offering five cent meals of soup bread and vegetables for the poor and working class. It suggests a citizen start such a house using the city building basement to create a profitable social venture.
Legislators focus on Building and Loan Associations with thorough investigations into the interest and public welfare. The article voices confidence that representatives will protect the associations as friends of the poor since their adoption of the system.
The speaker notes it would be beneficial for banks to see building and loan associations dissolved yet expects legislators to protect those who hold small stock and those slowly paying for homes. Iris praises Bartholomew county’s best looking man in the House of Representatives Dr W. T.Newton.
Fair weather today as Munsey visits Cummins book store in Columbus and shops display new styles. Local updates mention Harry McCormick’s business trip to Terre Haute for the Catholic church project, funeral attendance for William Copeland, and a death rush from Lewis Creek prompting a Maple Grove call. Residents plan car trips to see Shore Acres later in the month.
Indiana and Texas visitors headline a busy day of transients and town news. From council and court to church, charitable groups and sales, the week opens with autos and a weekly paper set to mail 2000 copies.
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A fashionable woman now tends feet with a footbox containing dress fluids to remove satin stains brushes spools silk waxed thread cobbler’s needle thimble scissors laces buttons and for the feet instruments for amateur surgery soaps salves and bandages to correct disfigurements from ill fitting shoes from the St. Louis Republic.
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