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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1897
Page
3
The Weekly Courier-Journal becomes the Twice-a-Week Courier Journal with Wednesday and Saturday issues. Each issue will be six or twelve pages weekly, totaling 104 pages or 832 columns a year. The price remains $1 a year and editorials by Henry Watterson will feature.
The notice advertises a clubbing arrangement with the Courier-Journal enabling subscribers who renew or new subscribers who pay in advance to receive the paper at a special price. Sample copies of the Courier-Journal are sent free on application.
The list shows numerous fire alarm boxes with street intersections and landmarks such as Mooney’s tannery Starch Works and Pulley Works. Several errors appear in street names and numbers, including Franklin Jackson Washington Pearl Sycamore Chestnut and Mechanic avenues.
Fragmentary timetable lists several train departures from Pennsylvania to Indianapolis and Chicago with varied times. Mentions Sun departures and multiple stations, including Goocheepan Crpy and San lines, plus agent note.
A New York Journal report warns watches are affected by night placement near cold surfaces and by proximity to dynamos. It cites electricity in the body, position changes, and jolts during movement as causes of alterations in timepieces, noting variance by gender and complexion.
Notices detail J. D. Emmons & Co moving to new quarters on January first and a demand for agents at every county post office for a weekly paper. Also reports layoffs at Mooney & Sons tannery for a few days and the new Culmbain Sur daily edition starting February 4 1897.
A Yale student once bribed printers to obtain exam papers but when officials shut the scheme a clever peer hired a printer to wear white trousers and sit on the form containing the questions. The ink from the trousers fetched more than the original garment’s value.
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