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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1897
Page
2
City editor rates listed for Daily and Weekly editions. Various ad sizes priced by line or inch with discounts for longer term placements. Locals charged per word with black letter styling and special rates on large contracts, year-long terms billed monthly.
The Star pledges to prioritize local news and community interests. It notes an upcoming county superintendent election with several applicants, public cleanups, health and sanitation emphasis, the Richmond G A R encampment preparations, and a call for Republican council members to fill a vacancy. It also reports the marriage of William Hendricks and Miss Bettie Davis in Nashville and offers congratulations from the Brown County Democrat.
A Columbus Indiana subscription pitch offers a combined price for the Twice a Week Courier Journal and the Star for renewals or new subscribers who pay in advance. Sample copies mailed free. Offer valid through 1897. Kinney and Turpin push the deal from their office and urge quick action.
A dense roll of names lists city treasurer, attorney, engineer, councilmen, and board members. Fire location updates show crossing points at multiple streets and blocks, including Fifth and Brown and Seventh and Jackson, with numerous area landmarks and street intersections named.
The owner plans to take possession on the 17th after selling his barbershop to a deman from the country. Little detail about the buyer is provided, but the note marks a local business transition in Brown County.
Classified fragment advertises a girl learning printer’s trade at the Star office today. Also notes Kellar Co corrugated hose tested to 1000 pounds pressure and Nek Lemter’s Cascara Pills with refund offer from M C Dunnington, druggist. Furniture care with Stabihuth’s Varnish Stain promoted.
The article describes Cuban marble caverns gradually filling as land snails gather inside during the dry season. Drops of carbonate lime cement snail shells into layers each year, risking the loss of cavern tops. It then briefly shifts to a candy recipe for caramels with nuts and flavors.
A local cycle shop announces this week a lot of fine wheels at exceptionally low prices to make room for a new line arriving soon. The sale emphasizes the opportunity not to miss the discount and features Reeves Seward Cycle MWP'GR.
A Washington Star piece recalls a boy at breakfast recounting a dream of a fairy queen. He imagines three wishes and cleverly asks for four, noting stories warn of mistimed wishes and opportunities. The tale blends childhood wonder with a sly grasp of fate.
A city talker argues against women riders as a passing fad while a second piece notes a game warden counting thirty thousand elk in Wyoming’s Jackson Hole region. He describes 15,000 elk in one herd spanning six miles and the stones hard snow under their tracks.
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