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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1897
Page
1
An advertisement for J A Newton's one price cashshoe store promotes plain marked prices and a single price for all customers. It states there is no odd cent trick and emphasizes transparency in pricing.
A local brief reports Sunshine Incubators handling a load of wood associated with J A George's business. Authorities investigate the shipment and confirm the material origin and ownership with refinery and dispatch records.
John L. Peters, once divorced from his wife five years ago, reappears after moving west. His wife and their young daughter are traveling to Santiago, California, where Peters plans to remarry them as they reunite under the terms of his plea to forget the past.
The Indianapolis Journal praises Major McKinley and Senator Sherman for appointing Sherman to lead foreign affairs. It highlights his experience, steadiness, and ability to manage patronage without disruption, urging confidence in his selection and the country’s administration.
A 19th century report details Abdul Hamid IIs vast harem of about 3000 women, noting blondes predominate and explaining annual gifts from the sultans wives to present new odalisques from Constantinople slave markets. It claims child neglect and infant strangulation among male relatives, with eunuchs overseeing the system.
The text describes three thousand women in a harem with thirty guards. It notes half are black and half white, with the chief guard titled Kissar Agha earning high status equal to a Grands Vizier. He is addressed as Your Highness and may precede princes like the Khedive of Egypt and Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria.
Madison county farmers met in Anderson to plant and cultivate sugar beets hoping for capital to build a local manufacturing plant. Beets tested at 14 percent saccharine matter, higher than Purdue samples and over 12 percent in prior tests. The article asserts the EXI river valley can grow sugar beets as rich in sugar as Nebraska, a leading sugar state.
In Louisville Kentucky on February 7 an ice gorge fifteen feet high and twenty miles long collapsed trapping New Orleans and Memphis packets. The Buckeye State ran into Blue River to escape the ice. its pilot house and smockstack were demolished and a total loss is feared with an estimated value of forty thousand dollars.
Prrrspure, Pa, Feb 7. The Allegheny and Monongahela rivers are littered with floating ice and rising, yet no flood danger is seen. A good boating stage is assured and 7 to 10 million bushels of coal will be shipped to Southern ports on Monday and Tuesday. Tows formed today but had to lay up due to ice. the Monongahela above Brownsville and Allegheny above Kittanning remain frozen as cooler weather continues.
Havana dispatch reports Captain General Weyler says he plans to finish Santa Clara province soon. He dismisses Cuban resistance as banditry not war and cites his campaign logic for stopping sugar cane grinding to hinder insurgents. He notes reforms depend on Spanish military victories.
Revenue officers raided a moonshine operation high on Rich Mountain near the North Carolina line. They captured one man and destroyed a 140 gallon still after a day and night trek through snow. Fifteen gallons of rye whiskey were burned, claimed to be the first rye produced by moonshiners. Owners named were Frank Stein, George Stein, Ambrose Morris and James Lunsford, with Lunsford labeled a noted outlaw.
In Muncie Anna Hamilton 89 died after a fall, her husband also died from a fall recently. George Shepp of Indianapolis and Miss Leona Harris of Converse eloped in town, arriving last night in haste, believed to be marriage.
The notice references an annual license requirement for all cigarette dealers and tobacco wrappers, with penalties for persons under twenty one who use them. It also notes obituaries and incidents including Mrs Elizabeth Kelly's will and several local accidents and deaths in Kokomo, Tipton, Velpin, and Frankfort.
In Owingsville Kentucky Judge John E. Cooper a democratic candidate for the Circuit Judgeship joined farmers on a night outing to coon hunt. He climbed a 50 foot tree to retrieve a coon tossed to the ground and gained unanimous support from the party. The judge, about 200 pounds, is described as an athlete.
Thomas Wells, a Summitville-area farmer born in 1794 in Kentucky, lives in Madison county and will celebrate his 103rd birthday on March 8 if he lives that long. A stonemason by trade, he has voted Jacksonian Democratic tickets and Bryan last year, enjoys music, woods work, and recalls Indiana history with strong memory.
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