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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1897
Page
4
The Weekly Courier-Journal becomes the Twice-a-Week Courier-Journal starting January 1 1897 with Wednesday news and politics and Saturday stories miscellany and poetry. Hinch icave will be six or twelve pages weekly. Price remains 14 per year. Henry Watterson editorials planned.
The Columbus Star announces a clubbing offer with the Courier-Journal enabling subscribers to receive both papers for $1.50 per year if paid in advance. Samples of the Courier-Journal are mailed free on request.
A long catalog of numbered street intersections is shown, including 12 Second and Jackson, 13 Fifth and Brown, 14 Fifth and Washington, 15 Seventh and Jackson, 16 Third and Washington, plus sites like Mooney's Cannery, Starch Works, Reeves Pulley Works and various Franklin and Sycamore junctions.
Central Union and Long Distance Telephone Companies Columbus announce nationwide lines to major cities. Central office and business firms report talks with New York Pittsburgh Philadelphia Columbus Utica Dayton Cincinnati Cleveland Hamilton and Chicago. Copper metallic circuits and long distance equipment now available. rates quoted upon application to the manager.
JAS EF COX is an attorney at law who will practice in all courts. The office is Crump's Block, east of the Court House.
Trains depart from the Pennsylvania passenger depot with daily and Sunday only services to Indianapolis Louisville Madison Cambridge City and other points. Listings include numbers 105 101 3 9 4 6 175 107 and times ranging from 4:20 am to 7:45 pm with Sunday ex sessions and special runs. Agent Wm Downer notes agent duties.
The Chicago Times-Herald notes a new mistletoe trend among city girls. Sprigs on hats are rising, while chandeliers and doors still invite kisses. The custom, dating to Druids, tempts men as Christmas approaches.
A laborer nearly trapped on two railway tracks escapes as a woman at a nearby window yells for help. She calls out, he rushes to safety just as an express train roars by. He thanks her, removes his hat, and hurries away.
A pleasant surprise was tendered to Mrs. M Cahn on her birthday. Wick Prather and Henry Palmer reported rabbits captured yesterday. An interesting Baptist church meeting was held last night with three professions and appeal to attend. The weekly Star and Courier Journal offer subscriptions.
A philanthropic woman met inmates at Sing Sing and argued education can curb crime. A forged case man admitted lack of schooling and quipped that his error in spelling bearer with a double r led to his capture, illustrating the debate on education and crime.
A rich yet unlearned speculator sets a dinner party in pursuit of epigrams. After noting guests dine at a poet's and enjoy clever lines at dessert he discovers his cook cannot prepare epigrams. He fires the cook for failing to cook epigrams.
A bygone southern lady wore decollete gowns at eighty and used strict rituals before balls. She walked, dined, and rested in hot perspiration baths to perfect her elaborate toilet, to the awe and admiration of her household and townspeople.
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