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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1897
Page
2
The excerpt lists daily and weekly advertising rates for various insertions by the inch and by duration. It includes per word charges for locals, with initial and additional insertion rates, and notes on special rates for large local advertising contracts.
The Evening Republican editor warns it will align with forces opposing State Colleges only if private colleges prove they perform the work done by state institutions since their founding. The piece urges scrutiny before taking sides in the debate over higher education funding.
Notice invites readers to bring in ads to the STAR office for potential results.
A historic ad notes TekoPter's Cascara Pills by M. DC. Dunnington a druggist offering a 25e refund if the remedy fails to cure, signaling early consumer protection rhetoric and confidence in medicinal claims.
A fragment from a trade listing notes Columbus manufacturing firm offering Ike grade hose at 12.40 cents with cheaper grades in proportion. The item appears in a local commerce section with prices indicated for various hose grades.
Agents urged to join a clubbing offer with the Twice-a-Week Courier Journal at $1.25 per year for advance payment. Sample copies available on request. Offer valid until May 3 1807. Also local shopping notes promoting Kinney Turpin and J A Newtown footwear with prices and a varnish stain ad. Office in Crucip's Block.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer notes Count Montebello of France and Prince Radala of Russia lost positions for failing to kiss a sovereign’s hand. The piece urges caution in timing and respect for court ceremony, arguing both boldness and restraint carry risk and reward.
A study of foreign time methods notes Liberia relies on the sun from six a.m. to six p.m. year round with noon overhead. The South Pacific uses burnable kernel markers on palm string quills to measure minutes. Singar natives use two necked bottles with sand transferring every half hour, plus a lineside red notch scale.
Five hundred Russian emigrant children educated at the Educational Alliance on East Broadway New York took part in a Patria club contest for best salute to the flag and best patriotic song. The event featured a flag decorated hall 556 names on record with six absences as children pledged loyalty in songs and cheers to America. A Lincoln bust was presented by Mrs Mills for the Patria club.
Fragmentary OCR shows a long list of names and places with street intersections and locales such as Columbus Harrison J. Parks and Franklin intersections. Mentions Nineveh Stucker Tayloraville Union and various city blocks, suggesting a directory or schedule of places, businesses, or routes.
A speaking event features praise for the government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” and calls for patriotism as the audience applauds. The scene includes flags, the Star Spangled Banner, and a celebration of civic devotion amid floral commentary on winter plants and styles.
A writer recalls visiting the office of a prominent Paris newspaper with a friend seeking to correct a statement. Two duel-edged editors, dressed in black with legion ribbons, sit in a poised room and agree to rectify the paragraph, their conduct businesslike yet stern as they defend their articles.
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