This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1897
Page
3
voters urged to use blue pencil inside the large circle around the eagle on the Republican ticket to vote a straight ticket at the August election. only one name per ticket, no mixed tickets, and marks must be an X inside the circle or square as instructed.
The text outlines election etiquette and ballot handling requirements with emphasis on marking ballots in the correct areas and avoiding invalidations. It also reviews the 1892 Cleveland campaign debate over the tariff, contrasting free traders and protectionists and noting only one Democratic vote for restoring protection.
We extend heartfelt thanks to friends and neighbors who assisted during the illness and death of our darling baby. Their kindness and Christian encouragement helped us bear our great bereavement. Wa. Wright and family.
Advertising rates listed for daily and weekly spaces including one inch ads for durations from one month to one year. Local ads priced per word with initial 1 cent and subsequent 0.5 or 2 cents per word, with special contracts available for 500 lines or more. Continuous yearly contracts prorated monthly if not carried to expiration.
Columbus readers warned of a potentially worse wind storm than Wednesday and urged to obtain a tornado and windstorm policy from Kinney and Kinney. The ad touts low cost, mentions cascara pills from Teke Carter and a refund promise from M Dunnington, and ends with a general consumer claim to refuse inferior goods.
The Star announces fixed rates for all work at competitive prices with an assurance of satisfaction and material quality. The message is signed by Sr Tarios Prinaco.
The item notes two women graduating from Northern Indiana Law School for the first time, Grace Banks Griffith and Lairah McCardy Stimson. mentions Olga Hilton studying household economics. highlights a St Louis family employing a woman coachman. and references Mrs Craigie’s presidency of the Association of Woman Journalists plus her English birth and achievements as a scholar musician and society woman.
A Philadelphia era article describes four daughters of German mine owner Joseph Mans employed at a small Mahoning valley coal mine near Shamokin. Kate 20 runs breakers, Annie 16 operates pumps, Lizzie 18 drives the mule hoist, and Mary 19 sorts slate, amid controversy over foreign customs and family wealth.
The Twice a Week Courier Journal and the Weekly Saran offer a one year package for only $1.25 each, a limited time advertising promotion for readers seeking economical newspaper access.
A special clubbing arrangement offers the Twice-a-week Courier-Journal with our paper for advance subscribers and new subscribers who pay in advance. Sample copies of the Courier-Journal sent free on application. Subscriptions must be sent to Columbus Morning Star in Columbus Indiana, Kinney & Torrin.
The notice details travel routes to the great southern city with through train connections to Cincinnati from New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland and Columbus and from Detroit Toledo Sandusky and Chicago Benton Harbor to Cincinnati and Louisville. Full information available on request. Voter instructions explain a pencil ballot with a cross inside the eagle circle and marks outside are not allowed.
Interest in family history grows as societies require lineage records for membership. The New York Mail and Express notes the movement fosters respect for ancestors, patriotism, and civil virtue, urging individuals to compile and preserve family records for future generations.
Trains run daily except Sunday on the Big Four R R Cc H G branch with listed mixed pm and am departures from Greensburg Ewington Burney's Hartsville Crossing Hope Miller Lambert Columbus and C H G dune stations. Timetable shows morning and evening times with a note by the agent at Columbus Indiana.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.