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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1897
Page
3
The notice outlines railroad connections to the great southern exposition with schedules and routes. It highlights the Big Four Route offering one fare for round trip from all points and through connections to Cincinnati, Buffalo, and Louisville. Officials provide full information on application.
An advertisement offers a free sample with 10 cents postage, height 18 inches and weight 6 pounds, regular price $1.00 with 60 percent commission to agents. It claims 40 other items nearly as good and urges sending for a descriptive circular from Romanza Agency at 719 Sycamore St, Cincinnati.
Y P and GOE announce a San Francisco convention July 7 to 12 for the Big Four Route. Special low rates will be offered from all points via Chicago St Louis or Peoria. The Big Four runs through trains from New York and other cities to St Louis Peoria and from Cincinnati and Louisville to Chicago. Information available from nearest agent.
The Big Four Route announces an annual meeting trip for teachers and heads to Milwaukee. The route covers Cincinnati Indianapolis Dayton Springfield Columbus and intermediate points to Chicago. Full information is available from any Dre Pour Rourkg agent.
Notes announce a July 6 to 10 gathering of this benevolent society with Special Low Rates to accommodate all members and friends. Officials claim the route between Cincinnati Louisville Indianapolis and surrounding territory to Chicago is widely conceded. National Educational Association Convention, Milwaukee, Wis., July 6 9.
Kinney and Turpin announce a limited time offer tying a year of their Columbus Morning Star with the Twice-a-Week Courier Journal. New or renewing subscribers pay in advance and receive both papers at a reduced combined rate. Sample copies provided on request. Offer valid until July 1, 1807.
One Way and Round Trip tickets to the South offered for June to October 1897 on the First and Third Tuesdays each month from Ohio and Mississippi River points. One way at two cents per mile, round trip at one fare plus no dollars. Timely travel south. schedules and special rates available on application. Wmn H. Tayloe Asst. Gent. loss Agent Louisville Ky. The Southern Railway penetrates eight Great South States. 1055t.
The Big Four announces special fare rates for the LPWORTH League Convention to be held in Toronto from July 14 to 18. The route covers St. Louis to Toronto via Cleveland and Niagara Falls, with alternative connecting points through Toledo Detroit and other cities. full particulars are available.
A Patrie writer describes the sultan of Turkey from six in the morning to noon work with secretaries, a noon breakfast, park walk, palace audiences until eight, dining mostly alone, and evening piano play with his child. He favors La Fille de Mme Augot. Clients Dislike Being Told That Their Cases Are Poor.
A Washington Star report recounts a treasury clerk who previously managed a lumber firm in North Carolina. When an emergency needed a worker, a nearby river gang member suggested Jeemes Martin, who was said to be related by marriage through the gang member’s sister in law.
Robert Gardhire, a laborer at Interstate Cotton Oil in Augusta, astonishes observers with instant correct answers to complex multiplication and fractions. He claims he sees the result immediately when numbers are presented and cannot explain how he does it.
The Chautauquan notes French cuisine is undermined by modern anxiety and rush. Club life rises and home life shrinks as Parisian chefs seek patrons in clubs. Noblestown Maine reports 37 old bachelors cooking their own meals amid social change.
A large lighthouse replica stands within St Mary’s Whitkirk church near Leeds as a monument to civil engineer John Smeaton, famed for the Eddystone lighthouse. The rock base bears the inscription In memory of John Smeaton, echoing echoes of Ely cathedral’s 1821 octagonal lantern preserved during restorations.
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