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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1897
Page
3
The Courier Journal announces a switch to a twice-weekly schedule beginning January 1 1897 with Wednesday and Saturday editions. Each issue will be six or twelve pages weekly totaling 104 pages and 852 columns per year while maintaining Democratic principles and pricing at $1 annually. Henry Watterson editorials to be featured.
The Columbus Star lists farm and grocery prices with wheat 86 cents per bushel, corn 18 cents, hay 10 dollars per ton, various meats and staples, plus fruits and vegetables. It also recounts a claim that czar Paul’s ancestry traces to a Scotswoman named Miss MacGregor via Nicholau L, implying the czar may be her great grandson.
Central Union Telephone Company announces integration with Long Distance lines linking major U.S. cities. Local offices in Columbus report copper circuits and distant equipment ready for subscribers, with rates quoted on request. Train schedules and agent contact details included.
A dated inventory lists intersections and landmarks including Mooney's Cannery Starch Works Reeves Pulley Works Zenith and Hutchinson Avenue and several cross streets such as 12 Second and Jackson 18 Fifth and Brown 14 Fifth and Washington 15 Seventh and Jackson 16 Third and Washington 21 Second and Franklin and multiple Franklin cross streets. The compilation references business names and neighborhood points like Sixteenth and California and Seventh and Orinoco Avenue.
A courtship tale features Reginald proposing to a glorious girl. She demands proof of love, comparing Christmas approaching in under two weeks. Reginald replies with a playful defense, and the couple share a moment as she admonishes him not to muss her hair.
A Chinaman dies leaving 17 elephants to three sons by will: one half to the eldest, one third to the second, and one ninth to the youngest. A neighbor supervises with 18 elephants, giving nine, six, and two to the sons, then takes back his own elephant. The query asks if the division matches the will.
A Cassel's Family Magazine writer praises the Princess of Wales for her fondness of old horses and fearless hound riding. Her bay pony Huffy, now 22, is retired but pampered, while the princess herself often leads the field in hunts and braves bad weather alongside Prince George.
The piece extols how the Chicago World’s Fair inspired post fire rebuilding, a rise of education with colleges in New York and a grand library in Boston, and the value of shared purpose. It notes harmony among architects in the court of honor and traces ancient roots of the negro race to 2300 B C with Egyptian contact.
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