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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1897
Page
2
The notice outlines advertising rates for daily and weekly papers including one inch space prices for various durations from one month to one year. Local classifieds incur word-based charges with discounts for repeated insertions and special rates on large contracts, with contracts not renewed to expire billed at monthly rates.
The text accuses Iowa Democrats of a platform formed before the Dingley bill and prosperity, calling their declarations a lie. It metaphorically says they built an iron fence and were impaled on pickets with no escape.
A brief note reports that Mr. Bryan fills six newspaper columns across the Philadelphia Press and related papers, highlighting his broad presence in the press network.
The piece argues that wheat rising to a dollar per bushel and silver to fifty cents per ounce reflect a shift in price driven by short supply abroad and exposes the Republican claim that prior low prices were due to overproduction and silver. It notes trillions in metal money worldwide since 1873 and questions calls for more money given high per capita holdings and abundant bank funds.
In Hazelton Pennsylvania the sheriff ordered deputies to fire on Hungarian miners marching toward Latimer. Twenty to thirty are reported dead as deputies formed in three companies and fired after a stone struck the sheriff. Miners wounded were taken to a schoolhouse hospital amid conflicting accounts and rising calls for state intervention.
Notes from Methodist and Tabernacle churches outline the morning and evening services. The Methodist schedule includes Junior League at 9 15, class meeting, pastor sermon Once Servants now Free Men, Epworth League, and Prisoners of Hope. St Pauls plans harvest home service, music, and multiple prayers with a 9 50 a.m. start and 7 30 p.m. finish.
Barto Bailey and wife return from visiting Amos Bolinger family. Chris Kuppe and wife of Seymour visit Fred Schaffer and family on Third street. Verne Baldwin of Amboy plans a day with A. J. Dipboye family. Mrs. George Prather went to Jonesville yesterday. Carl J. Loop of the YMCA visits friends at Irvington. Mrs. Sinock visits Elizabethtown. Will Keller of Cincinnati visits his mother on Union Street. G. W. Caldwell returns from England. Wulfenetter family come home to Cincinnati. Edna Price and G. W. Thompson visit in the city. Elder Percy Kendall to Lexington for Scott county Christian meeting. Salvation Army meetings on Fourth Street. Miss Gertrude Hill visits Miss Ida Maley. Mrs. Isaac Holman visits sister Mrs. Leonard Lay. Miss Effie Barrett ill. Fred Spray, Wiley Anderson, Phillip Barkhimer in city. Burnay McAvenue and daughter of Taylorsville visit. Chas Mctroyney resumes work at Purdue. Weather note about Chicago heat with sun stroke deaths. Various locals visit and travel. ads urge advertising profits.
Hartman has moved into the John Gent Flouring Mill property on Franklin Street and is selling butter eggs and poultry. Call and see him for special produce prices.
A frightful collision on the Denver and Rio Grande near New Castle Colorado Friday caused over thirty deaths. The wreckage caught fire and many passengers were burned. The number injured was 185.
A description of the Greenwood McCartney conflagration includes a mother cat and her kittens perishing as the fire raged, a dog rescuing a kitten, and spectators recounting the incident. Also noted, Miss Stella Boyd of Flora 11 visits Mrs McCracken in Maple Grove with arrival planned Monday morning.
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