Hokinney and Turpen Mentioned by Columbus Star
Fragmentary note from the Columbus Star lists Hokinney and Turpen among seven proprietors. details incomplete but indicates a local business reference or notice in the paper.
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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1897
Page
2
Fragmentary note from the Columbus Star lists Hokinney and Turpen among seven proprietors. details incomplete but indicates a local business reference or notice in the paper.
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The piece urges the council to remember David Chitty for his service and grant him a position when officers are chosen in June. It also condemns punishing petty thieves harshly, arguing many stole out of need and hunger. It reflects on prosperity and national policy while noting Johnson’s prison term and calls for broader rehabilitation.
City hosts Democratic event next Thursday with expected turnout around a thousand as The Star urges Stringers and friends to support. Republicans aim to hold the congressional convention here and push full effort to secure it.
The article contrasts the selfless life of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd with a nearby aeronautics farm. It details religious vows, renunciation of worldly comforts, and work to shelter fallen women, alongside a modern country house used for airship research, including a balloon workshop and a gasproof coating apparatus.
The toll gate dispute in Kentucky shifts toward a peaceful end as private buyers and stockholders donate or purchase road rights. Raider action has caused bloodshed and spending, but securing free turnpikes would justify the cost in life and treasure.
Tris comments on the Morgan resolution warn that passage in the House and Senate would invite a presidential veto. Proponents within the Republican ranks may back such a stance, but McKinley is unlikely to risk disaster for the nation or party. Officials must remember they serve the people, not dictate their will.
A casual note describes Fred Dahn performing an odorless vault cleaning. The fragment mentions two Old Fashioned milk shakes with fruit juice as a fine drink and suggests trying it at Sthathuth's Fonatsia.
The attic of a large house houses a workshop with lathes and steam engines for building apparatus from wood metal or textile. A section contains models and full sized air machines after testing. Other rooms hold kite aeroplane models and self propelled devices. Farm structures house gas engines chemical chambers furnaces and retorts resembling an alchemist’s lab.
The article recalls the 50th anniversary celebration in France of a planetary discovery. It describes how Uranus’s irregular motion hinted at an unseen body, prompting Leverrier to request Berlin’s observatory focus its telescope. The Berlin astronomer reportedly observed a planet no human eye had seen, yet must exist, following Leverrier’s calculations.
The Milwaukee semicentennial exposition plan to mark Wisconsin statehood’s fiftieth anniversary is dropped after a committee vote and fundraising efforts. Supporters sought a $400,000 extension, but opposition outside Milwaukee persuaded lawmakers against an appropriation. A Madison historical celebration and records publication were proposed instead.
A young woman confronts a friend about an engagement and a thwarted love due to an intolerant partner who demands she give up her bicycle and independence. The piece notes a French town, Sedan, famed for the Sedan chair and its earlier historical surrender to German forces.
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