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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1897
Page
3
A garbled historical notice lists names like Kaiser Williams Beaty Smith Gill Blessing Crabb and Ed Everroad. The fragment includes debt reminders to pay, a newspaper policy on finances, and an insurance ad for Kinney and Kinney.
The Great Southern Exposition stirs national interest as applications pour in for best routes to reach the new southern city. The Big Four offers direct through service from New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland and Columbus to Cincinnati with connections from Detroit Toledo and Sandusky. Direct links connect with the Q and C Route and the IL and N Ry while full details are available on request.
The Indianapolis Sentinel advertises broad coverage of McKinley’s cabinet and administration, state capital happenings, and foreign dispatches. It touts its large circulation, insisting the state government is Republican and urging subscriptions for daily and weekly editions.
A lively Friday event shows wide interest as local housewives vote on a kitchen range. The list of participants includes Mrs. Fred Ulrich, Mrs. Fred Kollemeyer, Mrs. Chas. Jones, Mrs. Tom Hull, Mrs. Lee Loy, and others such as Albert Owens, Vandy Tooley, Oliver Ong, George Clutch, Dr. Shane, P. B. Ensley, Dick Jones, Wick Larue, Frank Lowman, Jonathan Smith, Walter Coup, Charles Norton, John Febring, Hal Daffy, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Joe Gysie, Mrs. N G Smith, and Mrs. Mode Smith.
In Indiana Bartholomew County Circuit Court a complaint for sale of real estate is filed by Lizzie E Norton against Richard A Norton a nonresident. The defendant is ordered to appear and answer by November 10 1897 or the case will proceed in his absence as recorded by Clerk George Werner with attorney Marshall Hacker.
Trade text proclaims No-To-Bee guarantees tobacco habit care at a price of fifty cents. Advertises remedy with bold claims and sparse details amid early 20th century patent medicine language.
A New York Mail and Express essay retells a parable about a white bird and a sly old cat. The bird boasts of righteousness, the cat waits, and the predator kills the bird while the bird laments and dies, leaving the cat to dine content.
Odd relic describes an eight link bone chain carved from amputated limbs at Libby Prison. Made in 1864 by a New York regiment member, later sold for 50 in greenbacks. The owner wore it for years, now on memorial days. Nearby laughs greeted the claim.
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