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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1897
Page
2
The Monghan compulsory education bill passed the senate by 35 yeas and 14 nays after a long bitter fight. The paper notes bright weather on McKinley inauguration day and reminisces on mail delays. It mentions House actions on insurance solicitation, poll-takings, and suppression of town trustees’ purchases, with the trustee’s bill killed and a failed attempt to suspend rules.
Dr. Kurem's Poultry Powder claims to keep poultry healthy and strong, promising an increase in egg yield. Distributed by Ernst StauLuuty & Co. Druggists in Columbus, Indiana.
It is said that George W. Caldwell will run for mayor on the Democrat ticket in the next city election. If true, the Republican challenger would face a strong race as Caldwell, a council man, is credited with overseeing one of the city’s best periods.
High water has moved much waste from the city and will greatly benefit sanitation. It will cleanse the earth, improve health, and fill wells and cisterns with pure water, though the effort is costly to railroads.
Indiana senate approved three general insurance bills Nos. 319 520 and 521 along with House Bill 640 extending Barrett law benefits to adjacent property owners and funding for a Hammond harbor project. Monahan compulsory education bill and measures to curb poll book padding were also enacted with minimal opposition. Senator Nusbaum alone opposed 520 calling it vicious.
The sound of the engine the city welcomed after two days without mail. Residents awaited letters and packages as postal service resumed, bringing news and relief amid the delay.
In Silver Dick continues a tense scene where a photograph found in a trunk implies possible guilt or complicity. The detective suspects an accomplice while defending Miss Peabody’s innocence as the narrative shifts to local notes and future happenings.
The paper promotes the Star as widely read and invites readers to place ads while Herman VonStohe and Co. open a wholesale liquor house on Third street Crump Theatre Block inviting public calls to inspect goods with quantities from a quart up. An anecdote recalls a lost and found Anedd gold spoon returned within an hour of publication.
The Weekly Courier Journal will be renamed the Twices-Wesh Courier-Journal with Wednesday and Saturday issues. Wednesdays will cover news and politics while Saturdays feature stories miscellany poetry and pictures as a six to twelve page family paper each week. Annual price remains $1. Henry Watterson editorials featured in the coming year.
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