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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1897
Page
2
The Columbus Star lists E. H. Kinney and C. A. Turpin as proprietors with Turpin serving as city editor. It notes entry at the Columbus Indiana post office as second class matter and credits Chas. A Turpin as city editor.
Rates for daily and weekly advertisements vary by length and duration. One inch ads prices range from 1.00 to 5.00 depending on time frame. Locals cost one cent per word first insertion and half cent per word for repeats with black letter runs, plus special contract rates for large volumes.
Wind and lightning caused notable damage in several Indiana towns last week, with Wabash reporting significant impact from the storm. Utility outages and structural damage were among the effects observed in affected neighborhoods.
The passage notes Dr. K D Hawley gaining friends across the district and likely becoming the Democratic nominee for Congress. It also mentions President McKinley aiming to avoid war while stopping bloodshed in Cuba.
The speaker dismisses civil service rules as meritless and argues that a party in power should control its subordinates and be responsible for their actions, proposing the rules be abolished.
Citizens, regardless of politics, favor paving the street in question as support coalesces into a near unanimous drive for action. The move reflects broad public demand and local concern over infrastructure.
Discussion centers on paving Washington Street as a main thoroughfare with asphalt, financed over ten years, using home labor. Citizens note Franklin Street between Third and Tenth remains premature until Washington is completed.
Courier Journal reports the Senate adjourned sine die as Lieut. Gov Worthington invoked mercy at 3 30 p m. Ninety nine bills received the governor's signature with twenty eight general measures and one U S Senator enacted. The Mob Bill and a license fee grading bill for Louisville were among them.
A country guest at a London hotel gave a £20 note to a clerk for safekeeping amid fears of pickpockets. The next day the clerk denied recalling the event, prompting the guest to consult a lawyer who advised issuing another £20 note and returning with a friend to demand an apology.
A rural man following a lawyer's instructions tricks a clerk by asking for a second £20 note after his friend witnesses the first. The clerk refunds the second note when no receipt is seen, then the countryman returns with his friend and secures the first note again, completing the ruse.
Prince Max of Saxony, aged 26 and nephew to the king of Saxony, has renounced his claim to the throne and taken up residence as a Catholic priest at St. Boniface in Whitechapel. Previously a German army officer, he quit to enter the priesthood amid an alleged attachment to Princess Vedora of Schleswig Holstein. He is popular among the poor and stated he comes as a priest among workers, not as royalty.
A San Francisco tale recounts Alaska's bear world with H J Barling owner of a Karluk canning plant. He describes Kodiak island grizzlies and a famed native hunter who uses a spear to kill a bear after luring it with head greased for windward approach. The report weaves in related archbishop Magee and Spanish habits anecdotes.
An Ambaston Derbyshire family preserves a bread loaf claimed to be over six centuries old, tied to a writ and sacred deeds. In Jamaica, a chapel plan seeks to reuse old material for economy. On Vancouver Island, explorer Laing finds a giant rock with ancient inscriptions resembling a log, tree, and seven branched candlestick, photographed and studied by researchers including Franz Boas.
Immigrants favor the Atlantic seaboard over the western frontier with New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts absorbing about two thirds of arrivals. About 343,000 entered in the last fiscal year. 127,000 planned to stay in New York, 61,000 in Pennsylvania, and 56,000 in Massachusetts. A Lincoln anecdote recalls a New York firm seeking his view on a neighbor's finances, noting a wife and baby worth $50,000, a small office with a few chairs, and a rat hole in the corner.
A jumble of notes covers Crater Lake depth and legends of glass filled with fish, then shifts to watch sensitivity to electricity and dynamos. It cites a watchmaker, claims dark people are likelier to magnetize watches, and advises steel cases and hanging watches. Contains fragments on haunted rooms, bones, and a heat unit definition.
Advertises value by cutting expenses for buyers at J. A. Newton, Niagara. Promotes slippers, tennis shoes, post slippers and strap sandals with prices from 45c to 75c and notes bicycles at J. A. Georges.
A fragmented OCR page lists civic titles and names such as mayor and city officials, plus scattered street and place references across numerous streets and intersections. The readable portions mention W. J. Beck as mayor and J. Raverkroph as clerk among other positions, with a long string of street pairings and place names.
The Land of Promise is promoted in eight Great Southern States with one way settlers tickets and round trip excursion tickets sold by lines leading south in cooperation with the Southern Railway. The system runs to Asheville and Hot Springs North Carolina The Land of the Sky, America's greatest health and pleasure resort. Through vestibule trains from Cincinnati and Louisville and through Pullman sleepers from Louisville to Asheville Kentucky.
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