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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1897
Page
4
Owes Williams Real Estate offers home ownership help with rent savings and flexible terms. Includes bargains and inquiries for buyers and sellers in a partial war era context. Contact Williams for investments in productive land or homes and loan options.
A column lists numerous property offerings including six room cottages with wells cisterns and barns on Cottage avenue Maple Grove and Highland avenue plus 140 acre plots in Brown and Jackson townships. Prices range from small sums to 4 250 with trade options and mentions of saw mills and tract potential. The section ends with a serialized novel chapter where a detective questions Miss Peabody about a midnight visit to a thief’s house, implying a developing mystery.
A fragmented rental and sale list shows multiple houses and rooms for rent or sale at varied locations and prices. Includes cottages with several rooms on Wanington Street and Union areas, plus a 5 room setup near Cottage Avenue and Maple Grove. Also notes money loan service and office contact for more properties.
Help wanted for two canvassers at the Belvedere Hotel. Experienced applicants only may apply for the newspaper position by calling for Lynch. Salary details available upon contact.
Dr. Corbett of the Surgical Hotel in Columbus Ohio will visit Columbus Indiana on Thursday March 4 1897 at the Belvedere Hotel for one day and return monthly on the same date. He has led a large hospital for three years andsix years with the Surgical Hotel treating thousands. He offers free consultation and examination and promises cures for chronic diseases and deformities using new methods with charges only for surgical and mechanical treatment. The notice also discusses a Chicago editor Dunlap and the free silver controversy.
The Greiff Hill murder trial at Bloomfield ends with a guilty verdict for killing attorney R. R. Taylor in September 1896. The jury fixes the punishment at eight years in the penitentiary.
Braz Inc February 28 report states W D McCullough of this city is a candidate for department commander of the G A R. He leads General Canby Post No 2 and has broad Grand Army backing. He served in Company B Forty first Missouri Infantry, fought at Fort Donelson and Shiloh, and marched with Sherman in Georgia. A ten member Canby Post committee will present his name at the next department encampment.
Dr W C Roland offers nervous diseases treatment as a specialty. Office location is Griffith Stock Lth Street over Western Union Telegraph Office. Residence at W Cor 8th and Chestnut Streets and house 1 to 3, 7108 P.M. Citizens phone 126.
Fragmentary timetable text shows Big Four Railroad and G Branch with scattered numbers and times. A partial note mentions Wes Bus mx and daily train service except Sunday, with references to Martin General Passenger Agent Cincinnati.
Joseph Bishop, eighty, is jailed in the county on a bigamy charge filed by his fourth wife who lives in Ohio. He recently married Rebecca Shaw in this city and took her to a new home north of town. The Ohio wife pursued legal action and Bishop plans to contest the case.
Schedule effective November 15 lists daily and Sunday departures from the Pennsylvania passenger depot to Indianapolis with times such as 8:50 am and 10:25 am, plus additional routes to Camstriper Mary Downs and other locales, showing daily and Sunday variations and specific car services.
A natural gas heater ignited a fire in a Morgan County wholesale establishment, burning several buildings and causing about 150000 dollars in losses with 75000 dollars insured. In Aurora a chair factory and a Cooper Shop lost 20000 and 80000 dollars respectively, with 40000 dollars insured, suspending 500 jobs. Indianapolis saw a Washington Street jewelry store burn with 45000 dollar stock and 28000 dollars insured, main damage from smoke and water awaiting adjustment.
A fragment from the Milwaukee News cites a four room house for rent on Brown Street at five dollars per month and mentions C. A. Turpin. The text warns five days remain for Grover Cleveland to betray Americans to Spanish torture in a sensational political note.
A list of locations for fire alarm boxes with cross streets and storefronts. Entries include intersections such as 12 Secord and Jackson, 18 Fifth and Brown, 21 Second and Franklin, and 56 Sixteenth and California, noting scattered sites like Mooney's Variety and Starch Works.
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