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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1897
Page
3
The Weekly Courier-Journal will switch to the Swier-2-Weel format with Wednesday news and Saturday stories and pictures. Each issue will be six pages, totaling 104 pages a year, maintaining Democratic principles and pricing at $1 annually. Henry Watterson editorials highlighted for the coming year.
Office location noted as Crump's Block east of Court House for court practice.
A sequence of numbered street intersections and landmarks is listed, including Mooney's Cannery Starch Works Franklin blocks, Pear and Jackson, Franklin and various avenues, plus Reeves Pulley Works and Hutchins Avenue. The items resemble a civic-era street atlas or directory excerpt.
Central Union Telephone Company expands service to include copper circuits and long distance lines linking key cities across the United States. Local firms in Columbus and other cities have discussed nationwide connections with firms in New York Pittsburgh Philadelphia Columbus Ohio Indianapolis Dayton Cincinnati Cleveland Hamilton Cadmore Chicago Detroit South Bend Terre Haute. Rates will be quoted on request as the company prepares to accommodate subscribers.
Starting Nov 15 trains depart from the Pennsylvania passenger depot with No 105 daily except Sunday at 8 50 am continuing at 4 10 25 pm for Indianapolis No 7 4 20 pm and No 101 Sunday only 7 45 am for Louisville and 8 55 am 9 35 am for Sunday service. For Madison No 102 daily except Sunday 9 45 am and No 104 Sunday only 9 40 am and No 106 daily except Sunday 5 20 pm. For Camprweer Orry.
In Smut Creek, a Big Horn valley rancher set a heavy steel trap baited with mutton for panthers suspected of sheep theft. After a pause, he found two panthers near the trap, one with a leg caught and the other tending its mate. The rancher shot the untrapped panther and dispatched the other.
In Paris and Boston commentary, M Jules Clarette cites the Memoirs of Robert Guillemard claiming he fired the fatal shot at Nelson from the Redoubtable. Guillemard, a one armed officer on Victory, said he mistook the target, firing before recognizing the admiral amid chaos on deck.
Local ads announce $1 000 to 10 000 loans at 7 percent and real estate financing. Kinney & Kinney advertise prepared loan work. Hope telegraph notes a mother's deteriorating condition. The Hustler lists shop clearance on china and glassware and a Citizens Building & Loan Association directors meeting on a Thursday evening.
A posted note offers wood at 14 cents per load for one dollar by John A. George. Harry Jones, once a Columbus boy now in Washington DC, visits and plans trips to Madison and Versailles to see his father. Joseph McCormick was arrested in Swengel's addition on an assault and battery warrant and jailed. A seeker from Sterville searched for a horse driven to town by Seball Friday evening but found the rig at Jim Watts' feed stable after an intoxicated wedding outfit mishap.
An American lawyer Joseph Bartlett travels to England after the Revolutionary War. He observes a theater troupe performing a rough, ragged war scene while British players display fine trappings. The British audience laughs at the contrast and Bartlett’s amused sarcasm shines through in this historic festival anecdote.
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