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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1897
Page
2
Fragment from the Columbus Star dated June 11 1897 identifies E H Kinney Co A Turpin proprietors and Chas A Turpin city editor with Columbus Indiana post office listing and second class matter notice.
One cent a word for first insertion and half a cent for each additional insertion. Local ads run in black letters at two cents per word for each insertion. Special rates offered on local advertising contracts of 500 lines or more. Yearly contracts not carried to expiration billed monthly at the stated rates.
The article reports votes cast for the most popular lady in Columbus for a star prize wheel as of 4 pm. An excursion train from Columbus to Cincinnati is offered Sunday June 1 with a round trip at one dollar. The trip includes river boat rides to Coney Island Lagoon Zoo Chester Park and other attractions. J O Smith is the agent.
The deceased man and officials outline the apportionment plan for delegates. One delegate per hundred votes or fraction over fifty for Gov. Mount in 1896 determines precinct representation. Precincts listed include West Harrison and Wayne North Rockcreek East Sandcreek North South West, with Strickland as County Chairman and F C Ulrion as Secretary.
The daughter of Mrs. E. B. Gibson in Greelyville South Carolina was near hopeless illness with poor appetite, constipation, and night sweats. After trying many medicines, the mother found relief with Peruna following a physician’s advice and now reports a complete recovery and gratitude to the company for saving her daughter’s life.
The Republicans of Bartholomew county Indiana will meet at the usual election places in each precinct at 2 30 p m Saturday June 19 1897 to elect delegates for a convention in Columbus to nominate a candidate for Congress to succeed the late Hon Wm S Hoi
Excursion tickets from Louisville to Chattanooga and return for the trip at less than a full fare. Pickets sold July 13-15 with return validity to July 21. Tickets may be extended to August 16 by deposit with the Joint Agent in Chattanooga before July 21. Through service via Southern Railway. Apply to local agents or Wat H Tayloe, Asst Gen Pass Agent, Louisville KY.
Mrs. Nansen at Christiania welcomed a long absent carrier pigeon after 30 months away. The bird, trained by the Arctic explorer, brought a note confirming his expedition progresses. The homeward voyage spanned miles of ice and ocean before the messenger returned to its awaiting mistress.
In Biddenden Kent an Easter feast endures through 900 years with vicarage cakes of gingerbread and bread and cheese for visitors. The two 12th century founders Eliza and Mary Chulkhurst linked by fate left land yielding about 200 dollars yearly for a charity. Doles bear their likeness and birth and death dates, attracting visitors who preserve a cake as a curiosity.
A Cassier's Magazine note surveys global differences in steering ships. It cites American ferries using bell tinging to signal the engine room, Thames boats with voice calls and a boy translating, Seine steamers with a funnel mouthpiece, and Rhine giants using a central vertical wheel with crew shifting handles.
A full size lighthouse model stands inside St Marys Whitkirk parish church near Leeds as a monument to engineer John Smeaton, famed for building the Eddystone lighthouse. The rock base bears the inscription In memory of John Smeaton.
A Detroit Free Press account describes a saloon scene where Dick explains why he did not kill the barkeeper who had accused him. The barkeeper planned life insurance for 10 000 dollars, and Dick plans to confront him after the policy is finalized before speaking to the widow.
English dramatist Colman, questioned by a house committee on theatrical matters, admits he includes many oaths in plays like Heir at Law and John Bull. He says omitting them would improve humor, yet he remains glad to have produced his work despite some “bad plums” within.
C K Perry of Herzick Pa reports a 20 pound snapping turtle captured a fox in his yard after a month of henhouse raids. The fox tried to cross a fence but the turtle held on. Perry shot the fox after it freed its nose in a struggle. The turtle returned home with the fox nose as a trophy.
The New Orleans Times Democrat reports high winds damaged Algiers shore levees. At Morgan railroad wharf a four foot alligator reportedly bored a hole through the bank under the wharf to reach water and dry land, with guards quickly repairing washouts.
A Bagley family anecdote frames a boy’s clever guess at his father’s near death as a cautionary tale for a dinner party. The second item recounts an American traveler in Jericho describing a dinner with Butter from Norway Cheese from Switzerland Marmalade from London wine from Jerusalem and other imports.
A hotel proprietor near Paris died after his pocket handgun powder from a cartridge mixed with tobacco caused his pipe to explode. The blast drove a fragment into his eye, piercing the brain and killing him.
The piece describes a Spain tale where a coachman swore near a bishop in Corrales Zamora. Mayor Sig. Tome fined the coachman four pesetas for blasphemy, and the bishop was driven back to his residence. The incident gave the event its name the blue blazes confirmation of Corrales.
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