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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1897
Page
2
The Columbus Star reports E. H. Kinney and A Turpin as proprietors and City Editor Chag Turpin. It notes delivery by Senator Cannon and J A Frear, with Gettysburg address read by Capt. W Pretaingar. Orations at St Elizabeth's, Oak Hill, and Harmony cemeteries were given by Mr Yo 7 Putman, W Eb King, and Rev Geo W Lee.
Advert rates listed for various insertions including one inch ads in daily and weekly papers. Prices cover one year six months three months and one month options. Locals priced per word with discounted contract rates for large volumes and renewal terms noted.
The Republicans plan to send the Tariff Bill to the President by the last week of July, criticizing delays since taking office. President McKinley attended Memorial Day ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery with speeches by Representative Dolliver and Hon. Webster Davis. Tracy L. Jeffords spoke at the Soldier's Home Cemetery, with Dr. J.48. Raub delivering the Tomb of Gen. John A. Logan address.
Li Hung Chang appoints Marguerite Wang and Dr Hy King Eng to represent Chinese women at the upcoming Congress. The American based Foo-Chow mission notes Wang sought education before betrothal. She and Hartford meet the viceroy who approves Wang as China’s second female delegate.
A Cornhill Magazine writer recalls visiting a grand Paris newspaper office with a friend seeking a correction. They are invited to a well furnished room where editors listen but the scene focuses on the power of print and the tension between pens and swords.
In a Chicago museum a monkey named Cudge suffers from consumption. His cage mates, led by Pet the mate and a woodchuck, nurse him with touching devotion as keeper Reed notes the common fatality of consumption among imported monkeys.
A Milwaukee committee of 160 abandons the project to hold a semicentennial exposition in 1898 to mark Wisconsin’s statehood. Despite raises of about 225000, opposition outside Milwaukee blocks state funding, and the panel pivots to a historical Madison celebration with a proposal to fund published records.
Two young women at a Wichita courthouse offered shoe polishing to officials and visitors, drawing curious crowds as County Superintendent Mackey and County Clerk Beacon Wilson watched. The scene featured intimate polish of county leaders’ shoes and described the attendants with vivid, humorous detail.
Workmen Roys and Decker uncovered an old coffee pot in a stump north of Marshfield Wisconsin containing a copper coin from 1850 of the Upper Bank of Canada a Spanish coin dated 181% a document claiming nine patents for land in Georgia dated 1780 a claim for £25 for services as a member of assembly a note on Georgia and counterfeit shin plasters and four proof sheets of engravings of counterfeit US currency from one to twenty dollars
A centuries old key weighing seven pounds and 18 inches long hangs on the door of Temple church in London. Experts say the lock was made for the key, not the other way around, and both items date from the Knights Templar era with the church itself tied to that period.
A dialogue reveals a broken engagement as the beautiful girl laments her partner’s intolerance. The friend notes devotion, while she cites giving in before his insistence she abandon her bicycle and ride the make he favored. The piece touches on restraint, pride, and personal choice in a strained relationship.
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