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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1897
Page
3
Buffalo Ohio text outlines route options to National Encampment with Big Four lines. Lists officials, connections to Cincinnati Detroit Toledo and Columbus plus through trains and one cent per mile rate. Mentions L C Route L N Ry connections and Union Depot. Includes dates and places for convention and travel details.
The Epworth League plans its convention in Toronto Ontario from July 1 to 18 with special Love Rates. The Big Four Route covers travel from St Louis Peoria Indianapolis Cincinnati Dayton Springfield Columbus via Cleveland Buffalo Niagara Falls to Toronto or via Toledo Detroit. Apply for full particulars.
The Southern Railway offers one way settlers tickets from Ohio and Mississippi River points to the south at two cents per mile from June through October. Round trip tickets are one fare plus two dollars. Information on schedules and rates available upon application to Wm. H. Tayloe Assistant General Passenger Agent Louisville Kentucky. The line serves eight Great South States.
Kinney and Turpin announce a combined subscription deal with Twice-a-Week Courier-Journal and their paper for 1.25 dollars per year. New or renewing subscribers must pay in advance, with sample copies provided. Offer valid only until July 1, 1897, for Columbus Morning Star readers in Columbus Indiana.
The Big Four Route will name Special Low Rates for teachers and their heads for the annual Milwaukee meeting. Trips are noted as highly pleasurable and the line from Cincinnati through Indianapolis Dayton Springfield Columbus to Chicago offers top facilities. Full trip information available from any Bic Four Route agent.
An advertisement states STARJOB PRINT CO offers fixed work rates and guaranteed quality. It promotes ladies accessories in tan and ox blood lace cloth tops at discounted prices and claims comparable goods from competitors, with J A Newton’s One Price Cash Shoe Store at 313 Washington St offering bargains in footwear.
Odorless vault cleaning by Fred Dahn and job work offered by the Star. copy mentions Columbus Fuel and Ice Go and various garbled phrases about boats and garments, with no clear narrative or events to anchor a concrete summary.
The Big Four announces special low rates on routes to Put in Bay and the Lake Erie islands, Lake Chautauqua, Niagara Falls and Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River, Adirondacks, Lake George, New England resorts, New York and Boston. Also to Great Lakes cities including Cleveland and Detroit with connections via St. Louis and Chicago. For fares and schedules, contact any agent or the Big Four Passenger Traffic Manager O McCormick.
The Big 4 offers a Sunday June 27 excursion from Columbus to Cincinnati at a round trip rate of one fare. Prain leaves Columbus at 9 a.m. Tickets valid for that date and train only. Attractions include baseball at League Park Lagoon Zoological Gardens boat trip to Cowes Island Chester Park and more.
Druggist M. C. Dunnington offers Cascarets pills with refund if they fail to cure. Package claims relief from headaches fever and constipation, promoting cleansing of the entire system and kidney health. Irregular spelling and garbled text suggest an old advertisement for a laxative product.
Elks reunion in Minneapolis from July 6 to 10 offers special low rates on the Four Route to accommodate members and friends. The route linking Cincinnati Louisville Indianapolis and surrounding territory to Chicago is acclaimed as superior. The National Holhigational Association Convention will be held in Milwaukee from July 6 to 9.
The Big Four Route announces special low excursion rates from all points via Chicago St Louis or Peoria for the July 7-18 convention. Through trains run from New York to St Louis and Peoria and from Cincinnati to Chicago with double fare if needed. Information from local agents. July 5 1897.
Miss Alice A Holmes heiress of half a million remains in Jersey City living quietly and blind since age 14. She earned her living as a music teacher guiding both blind and sighted pupils. Her funds now support education for others with disabilities and her poetry volume is noted in the record.
A bargain listing offers a first class Columbia phaeton in fair condition. The phaeton is under three years old and available at this office for sale with a note on its quality and limited wear.
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