I researched this hotel after finding the photo above. I found the following clips:
Charles Nye has accepted a position in the sample room at
the Columbia Hotel.
And…
A handsome street lamp was erected in front of the Columbia
Hotel restaurant and dining hall.
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Logansport Pharos Tribune, 1893 May 26, page
4
"M. McTaggart has assumed the management of the Columbia
Hotel and restaurant."
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Logansport Pharos Tribune, 1894 June 2, page
4
In 1896 Logansport Pharos Tribune reported that Arthur McTaggart was selling
furniture and fixtures of the hotel Columbia.
1897 Logansport Times reported that Frank Beamer was now cooking at the Columbia
hotel and lunch counter.
Baker & Anhier will open their new saloon in the
Columbia Hotel tomorrow evening. An
elaborate lunch will be served.
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Logansport Pharos Tribune, 1897 March 30,
page 5
John Baker has improved and changed the interior of his bar
room in the Columbia Hotel.
And…
Louie Wandrei who
recently purchased the lunch counter and dining hall at the Columbia Hotel has
rearranged and refurnished the same in splendid style. He now has one of the
neatest places of the kind ever opened in Logansport.
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Logansport Pharos Tribune, 1897 November 1,
page 8
Fire reported Sept. 28, 1899 Logansport Pharos Tribune
– Someone with murderous intent turned on two gas jets at the Columbia Hotel
last night and but for the timely discovery by Mr. Wandrei a terrible explosion
might have resulted. Suspicion rests upon a certain individual who had better
make himself scarce.
Considerable furniture recovered from the Wandrei Columbia
Hotel fire remains unsold and is now stored at 518 Broadway.
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Logansport Reporter, 1900 September 27, page
8
