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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1897
Page
2
A fragment from the Columbus Indiana Star dated June 11 1897 shows editorial attribution to Chas A Turpin City Editor and notes Second Class Matter at the Columbus Postoffice.
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Citizens appoint themselves to induce strangers to visit on July 6 and support Jay Cooke's hippodrome and the Wild West show at the driving park. The city band seeks financial aid as it promotes the events. A Hawaii annexation treaty is expected to reach the Senate soon after the President returns, described as similar to the Harrison era proposal withdrawn by Cleveland.
The article critiques Columbus factory campaigns, noting repeated efforts failed to mobilize idle labor or attract capital. It laments local naysayers and stagnant loyalties, urging progressives to move past entrenched residents blocking improvements and push for industrial growth.
Columbus to celebrate Independence Day with a mammoth industrial parade by business men and a night fireworks display. Jay Cooks mammoth Wild West Show will be here with affordable admission. Fine bands and patriotic spirit promise a day of pleasure for all on Monday July 5th.
The piece urges a group of wide awake business hustlers to form a commercial club to work for the city's good. It argues such a body would gain solid support from local business and spur factories to hire idle labor, boosting money and prospects for Colum bus and Southern Indiana.
United States Commissioner William A Young held Miss Louisa Hunt of Oakland to the grand jury on a bond of $1 00 She is the daughter of Oakland Postmaster Hunt Brick Werserd reports plans buzzed Juana 14. A fire at the Wilhocick plant caused total destruction of a loading facility and adjoining building with six busy machinery rooms totaling an estimated loss of 4900 no insurance. It is the second time in three years the plant has burned down.
Several New York fashion leaders wear large gold hoops studded with jewels. The earrings, as big as bracelets and encrusted with diamonds, revive antique Urassau hoops once fashionable among ladies.
An unnamed congressman helps a drunken friend home late at night. A violent woman appears and shoves the drunk man outside, then the friend reappears and the congressman assists him. The account ends with questions about what happened to the man involved and hints at a broader tale.
The House should uphold its sugar schedule, seen as too favorable to the trust yet less so than the Senate plan. The piece warns that if sugar favoritism continues, the people may intervene to remove those responsible for perceived malfeasance.
The Louisville Concier Journal notes Harry Baker was bitten twice on the left leg by a tarantula while at Sterling Cash Grocery. Dr J L Ball treated him with large doses of antidotes and Baker regains some feeling. The piece also questions potential crime and quotes a detective line about assassination.
The man associated with the phrase climb to fortune became a conspicuous figure in London and was drowned from the steamship Scot. Reports vary whether he jumped overboard or the death was accidental.
The article advises mothers and older sisters to gently detangle hair, avoid hasty combing, frequent cutting, and harsh tonics. It discourages washing too often and hot hair products, suggesting roseMARY tea as a homemade cleanser and strengthener for growing girls.
Mixed classifieds note a first class Columbia Phaeton under three years old offered at a bargain if sold promptly. Also listing ladies fashion boots and tan oxblood lace cloth tops at sale prices. Additional items include bicycles priced 28 to 75 dollars with guarantees, and a political meeting to elect a delegate to a convention in June 1897. Various ads promote Daily and Weekly Sentinel subscriptions and a pain extractor at Stadthuth’s Drugstore.
In Anderson Indiana on June 14 Judge J P McClure of the Madison Circuit Court ruled a Gily employe case to allow a six hundred dollar legal exemption. The judge held the plea sufficient and said the law applies only to those worth more than two hundred and a single man not a householder.
A memorial sketch recalls a industrious woman named Sue and her cultural pursuits, noting her final sudden death. In Evansville, two drownings occur the same day as Ollie Olsen, 11, drowns near town and William Waters, a Newburg resident, drowns in the river while bathing. Barny Barnato mentioned from South Africa appears in the report.
Jereph Warfel age twenty four brakeman on the Fort Wayne Cincinnati and Louisville division was killed in the Lake Erie Railroad yards while lading to couple cars. A lumber loaded flat car struck him as cars moved and he died at City Hospital a few hours later. Agents wanted_si se 2nd Cin
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