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Newspaper

Columbus Star

Location

Columbus, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Jun 10, 1897

Page

3

Local Street Corner Addresses Listed for Business and Landmarks

A fragment lists intersections and property sites including Franklin and highth, Fourteenth and Franklin, Ninth and Sycamore, Seventh and Chestnut, Fifth and Wilton, Eighth and Union, Reeves Pulley Works, and Hutching Avenue nearby. It resembles a directory of places and business names with street references and cross streets.

Iventh Franklin Siath Sycamore Feventh Fifth Wilton Union Reeves Pulley Works Santh

City Officials and Exposition Routes Noted in Tennessee Notice

A dated local notice lists city officials with multiple names and titles, then describes rail routes to the great southern exposition. It notes the Big Four Route offering one fare round trip for Baptist Young People’s Union convention travel, with connections to Cincinnati and Louisville and details available from route representatives.

Baptist Young People’s Union of America Rig Four Rovurs Cincinnati Central Union Depot Louisville

Four Route Promises Low One Cent Mile Fare for Encampment

Buffalo hosts the National Encampment with the Big Four Route advertised as the preferred line. The Very Low Rate of One Cent per Mile applies for all segments, with superior through service from Peoria St Louis Louisville Indianapolis Cincinnati Dayton Springfield Columbus and intermediates via Cleveland or via Toledo Detroit. Agents offer full information.

Nashville Tenn Mar Bia Wih Cincinnati New York Lesten Jsn Oc Cove Columbus Detroit Toledo Sandusky Chicago Benton Harbor Louisville B.Y . JU Buffalo Peoria St. Louis Indianapolis Dapton Cleveland

Gomanza Agency Ad Offers Free Sample Circulars

An advertisement from Gomanza AGENCY at 710 Sycamore St Cincinnati promotes a free sample offer. It mentions sending 10 cents postage and provides bulleted details about a product sample and a 60 percent commission. The copy targets men and women with an invitation to request the descriptive circulars.

Gomanza Agency Sycamore St Cincinnati

Big Four Route Convention Announces Special Low Rates

San Francisco hosts Y PS CO EB convention July 7 12 with the Big Four Route offering special low rates from all points via Chicago St Louis or Peoria. Through trains operate from New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland Columbus Cincinnati Indianapolis to St Louis and Peoria and from Cincinnati Louisville to Chicago. Information available from local agents.

Y PS CO San Francisco Chicago St. Louis Peoria New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland Columbus Cincinnati Indianapolis Louisville

Big Four Route Named Special Rates for NA Association Meet

The Big Four Route will offer special law rates to cover all members and guests for the National Educational Association Convention in Milwaukee from July 6 to 9. The route’s superiority between Cincinnati Louisville Indianapolis and surrounding territory to Chicago is acknowledged.

Great Benevolent Society Cincinnati Louisville Indianapolis Chicago National Educational Association Milwaukee Wis

Bic Four Route Announces Special Low Rates to Milwaukee

The Big Four Route offers special low rates for teachers and their heads for the annual meeting in Milwaukee. The line runs from Cincinnati through Indianapolis Dayton Springfield Columbus to Chicago with superior facilities. Full trip information is available from any agent of the line.

Milwaukee Cincinnati Indianapolis Dayton Springfield Columbus Chicago

Special Two Paper Offer From Columbus Morning Star

Kisngy and Turrin announce a joint subscription deal with Twice-A-Week Courier Journal. For 1.25 the weekly Star and the Courier Journal will be sent to subscribers who renew or join in advance. Sample copies of Cur iery Journal provided free. Offer valid until July 1 1897. Subscriptions go to Columbus Morning Star, Columbus Indiana.

Courier-Journal Curiery Journal Columbus Morning Star Columbus Ind Kisngy & Turrin

Southern Railway Offers Summer Settler Tickets 1897

Rates on one way and round trip tickets from Ohio and Mississippi River points to the South are announced for June to October with two cents per mile for one ways and one fare plus two dollars for round trips. Tickets valid on the first and third Tuesdays monthly. schedules and special rates available through Wm. H. Tayloe, assistant general agent, Louisville.

Southern Railway Ohio Mississippi River Wm. H. Tayloe Geni Louisville

Big Four Rout Convention for Toronto and allied routes

DPWORTH League Convention announces July 14 to 18 in Toronto with the Big Four Rout highlighting routes from St. Louis, Peoria, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Dayton, Springfield, Columbus, via Cleveland, Buffalo and Niagara Falls to Toronto. Also notes a costly joke incident and Antwerp diamond ring cutting feat by M. Antoine.

Antwerp M. Antoine

Mortuary Chapel Proposal At East End Church Ground

An appeal in the Church Times seeks to use a spare south church ground for a light mortuary chapel to hold three or four coffins. The plan frames a cheerful, compact project connected to church grounds and memorial space.

Church Times East End London West Bromwich Corporation Cemetery

Metamorphosis of a Pontedria Plant in Changing Quarters

A Pontedria crassipes house plant adapts to new containers from a dinner boiler to a deep crock. It shifts growth from horizontal spread to upward growth with air bulbs forming long stems and oversized leaves. Moisture keeps it thriving with little care.

Mechan

Moving a Brick Chimney At Shelter Island N Y

A brick chimney 85 feet high and seven feet square at the base weighing nearly 100 tons was moved 950 feet over rough ground at Manhasset Shelter Island Suffolk County New York without damage. Two greased skids on blocks and a grain capstan with one horse moved the structure in nine days with four men. The second such chimney moved by the same contractors, the first at Bridgehampton, also completed without accident.

Manhauset Shelter Island Suffolk County N.Y Scientific American Bridgehampton

Extinct Animals and the Urgency of Preservation

Dr. C Hart Merriam in Science urges museums sportsmen and naturalists to secure and preserve specimens of large mammals before they vanish. He notes ongoing extermination of buffalo wolves and an elk from the Alleghenies and documents a Parisian plant for bear meat on Anticosti indicating widespread extinction risks.

C. Hart Merriam Theodore Roosevelt Europe California United States North Carolina Adirondacks Mr. Menier Anticosti Gulf of St. Lawrence Paris

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