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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1897
Page
2
The notice lists Kinne y and Turpin proprietors rates for post office matter and weekly editions, with pricing per inch and duration. It outlines local and daily rates, word charges for locals, black letter run, and special rates for large contracts, plus contract expiration terms.
The note says Tom Watson supports paper money over free silver. It adds that the populists will soon launch their campaign in the Fourth District with some big gins.
Tur Svar long ago predicted a large Fourth of July celebration in Columbus and the city delivered with extensive festivities and community participation.
About 10 000 spectators witnessed the cornerstone ceremony for the New Knox Court House. Caldwell and Drake, the local contractor, receive strong praise from city merchants and residents. The Fourth of July committee thanks subscribers for ensuring a successful event with all organizers praised, especially Walter Coup for posting the bills.
The president may send a special message to Congress urging the creation of a Commission to study currency reform. The aim is to spark national discussion, not immediate action this session, with no other major legislation expected after the tariff bill.
An OCR fragment urges tobacco quitting with a Sterling Remedy Co ad copy promising vitality. The text shifts to anecdotes about royal motherhood and a grand duchess, then shifts again to a hunter named Earl de Gray famed for claiming a huge number of game animals in decades of hunting.
Ledger text shows So-Te-Lac for fifty cent, advertised as guaranteed tobacco cure. Claim notes it makes weak users strong and pure, with price listed as 50c and 81 All dugwists.
Fragmentary text from Crump's Block in Columbus near the east court street area hints at construction activity and location specifics. No additional details are legible to confirm dates or scope.
English painter Mr Frith began the Kaiser’s art experience when the four year old prince of Prussia smeared his face with green blue and vermilion while Frith painted the prince of Wales marriage. The boy cried out and hid under a table as the artist attempted cleanup and the portrait later suffered from the prince’s stubborn sitters.
A fragmented advertisement promises free samples and circulars. It mentions postal costs, a 60 percent commission for agents, a large hummer item, and 40 other goods for men and women. Readers are urged to send for free samples and secret circulars from BomManzA at 719 Sycamore St. Cincinnati.
William George Jordan notes in Ladies' Home Journal the progress of the world since Victoria’s 1837 ascent. Abolitions in flogging and child labor, humane criminal treatment, Red Cross reach, and suppressions of press gangs and public executions mark 60 years of reform and invention.
The Indianapolis Daily Weekly and Sunday Sentinel touts its broad coverage and dispatches from abroad. It urges Indiana readers to subscribe to the state paper with a twelve page Weekly Sentinel edition and mentions a bundled price with the Indiana State Sentinel. The notice blends ad text for shoes and a Dry Handle Factory listing with brief, scattered classifieds.
Men of Lubec Maine organize a hearse fund by voluntary subscriptions to match neighboring towns. Each shareholder pays one dollar with a rebate option if the hearse is unused after years. The plan promises a first class funeral for a subscriber upon death, including plumes and funeral regalia.
A San Francisco Examiner report links recent maritime disasters to ships ending with the letter a. Notable losses include Androsa, Oreatia damaged, Villanta lost near Fremantle, Wallapa wrecked, Dora beached in Alaska, Colima horror, Coluanbis, and Umatilla narrowly escaped.
The writer portrays Matanzas and surrounding western provinces as a vast ash heap after reconcentration, noting widespread destruction in January and March decrees. He observes unorganized, starving families, reluctant to form committees, yet describes mutual kindness and pervasive shock at the looming famine and plague.
A Yale Divinity student fired a toy rifle at a lamp. the bullet pierced a professor of science window and embedded in a wall. The professor traced the ball’s path to a colleague’s room and proved the prodigy’s guilt with precise calculations. The student confessed and urged dropping the matter.
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