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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1897
Page
4
A strange real estate ad list shows homes for sale in varied terms from Owens Williams Real Estate. A detective investigates a furnished apartment linked to a missing wife, encountering a wife’s lodger and two visitors as he searches for truth amid a tense, unfolding scene.
A list of rental and sale properties on Washington Street Sth Street Union Cottage Cottage Avenue Cottage area includes 4 and 5 room houses with monthly rents from 4 to 26 dollars and sale prices around 1200 dollars. Also notes money to loan and opportunities to view other real estate through the office.
Brown County news notes a missing wife inquiry, local residents named Ben Clark Willie Neumister and Sam Kent seek a trustee position, Will Anthony returns home from Hamblin township, and Mr A G Phillips with D S Waggoner visit Seymour. The cold snap harms wheat and peach buds. Mrs Melvin McKinney ill with pneumonia fever. Roy Ensign visits Mt Zion. Vanburen Cornet Band performs at Hobbs with a large crowd and a Ladies table. Father Skimmer officiates at Wayside Inn. H D Waggoner takes a job with Prudential Life in Seymour Indiana. Subscribe for the Star for updates.
Lacon Illinois March 1 The Lacon Fur Company organized yesterday aims to raise Malse and black cats on a 160 acre farm purchased this year. Cat population expected to reach 10 000 in a year and 100 000 in two years with furs selling 10 to 15 cents each. Officers include A R Hancock president and L T Wood secretary. A similar industry exists in California.
Not on Sunday Cleveland March 2. President Robison planned Sunday games after failing to secure satisfactory suburban grounds. Games will be held at Lexington avenue grounds with Sunday play already in the schedule and ministers from Congregational and Presbyterian churches protesting to enforce the state Sunday baseball ban.
In Richmond Indiana three Park Commissioners faced allegations of negligence for drawing pay from park funds for personal labor and poorly kept accounts. A new ordinance abolishing the board passed, removing the honor posts and leaving the officials removed from duty.
A dispatch from Canea to Eclair says 2,000 Mussulmans interned in a fortress near Selino were massacred and 4,000 Mussulmans besieged near Candia face a grave fate amid widespread fear.
Granted to Indiana inventors this week reported by C A Snow & Co solicitors of American and Foreign Patents Opp U S Patent Office Washington D C S M Blevens Ellettsville Slidebox A P Chilson Butler Weatherstrip RE E Monroe Richmond Window screen G F Packard Fort Wayne Automatic circuit breaker H S Richardson Terre Haute Portable dust pan W YV Yascher Mishawaka Horse collar pad F M Teeguarden Indianapolis Corn husker and fodder shredder D E Walker Indianapolis Valve for pneumatic tires
The Montgomeries of Portland learn their son Russell, missing from the Annapolis Naval Academy since May 1896, is alive and serving Cuba libre as a lieutenant in a dynamite battery. A letter from a battery commander confirms his heroism and continued duty, though the sender’s name is withheld.
Carson George will give readings at the M E church tomorrow night, inviting neighbors to attend. The event promises a brief program of stories and verses in a small-town church setting.
W Roland M D offers nervous diseases treatment as a specialty. Office located in Griffith Block over Western Union at 5th Street. Residence at 8th and Cheatnut Streets with hours 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 PM. Phone 121 Citizens.
A report from Cincinnati notes a train on the Big Four rail line involving a branch of the company and an individual named Martin. Details on cause and outcome are limited in the readable text.
Taking effect Nov 15 trains will depart from the Pennsylvania passenger depot with routes to Indianapolis Louisville Madison Cambridge and more. The timetable lists numbers 105 101 14 162 104 106 and others with daily or Sunday only services and varying departure times from morning to evening. Dowrt, agent.
A fragmented list shows numerous street corner coordinates and place names such as 12-Second and Jackson and 18-Fifth and Brown, alongside shops like Mooney's Cannery and Starch Works, indicating a historical index of locations with uncertain context.
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