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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1897
Page
2
The article notes a needed crossing at a muddy school route in the Northwest with temperatures dropping from 20 to 40 degrees and South Dakota at 30 below. A separate legal note covers Otis Sandifer facing a paternity charge with a hearing set for 2 PM Monday, jurisdiction issues debated, and attorneys J F Cox for Sandifer and W H Shea for the plaintiff.
Winds knocked out a circuit cutting lights at 14th and Sycamore. Meyer and Feigenbaum advertise a white goods opening as a big sale nears. A six day bicycle race is planned in City Hall starting Tuesday the 26th with Geo R Reed as representative. The Star seeks a female reporter paid modestly to start. An anecdote about a coal hauler and a scamper of a tramp closes the page.
H F Ardery brother of Cass Ardery will marry Monday the 25th at Guthrie Oklahoma. He went there at the opening of the territory to settlers and has worked there since. During the late campaign he was secretary of the territorial republican committee.
Alvin Snepp Alf and James Collins from Shelby county pleaded guilty to stealing chickens after appearing before Judge Wm. J. Beck. A Kentuck printer changed a W to U making Mr. Ury into Mr. Wry. An editor, who
A rural edition item notes a clearance sale of winter goods and the first opening of spring goods at a local shop. The brief covers varied town updates from deaths, insurance adjusters, delivery news, a lamplight issue, a possible city officer financial irregularity, a curfew proposal for youths, and opinions on a proposed 6 percent interest cap.
A humorous note explains a surname mix up from Mr. Rye to Rock and Rye after a sarcastic editor. The piece mentions an upcoming auction sale by Wrecking Salvage Co. in Chicago and a local shoe store ads offer plain one price figures. It also covers High school election of officers and a geography project meeting with Professors Caragey and Greensburg Hurshman involved.
Geo EF Spears, renowned pool and billiards champion, will give an exhibition at the St Denis tonight offering to play any challenger 100 balls to 65 in a continuous pool match.
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