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Newspaper
Columbus Daily Herald
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1901
Page
2
The June 17 1901 issue comments on Illinois legislators errors while noting Ohio and Chicago papers debating hazing in military academies. It questions party papers harshly and critiques President McKinley's stance on a third term and Puerto Rico policy.
The St. Louis Republic denounces the U S government as an apostate from liberty and says President Kruger should not come to America under a hostile imperial administration. It argues the United States is not aligned with liberty and would bring heartache to Kruger and sorrow to his countrymen.
Mother Gray a nurse at the Children's Home in New York promotes Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. The remedy claims to ease feverishness constipation teething and stomach issues while being harmless and easy to take. Available at all druggists priced 2 cents with sample sent fees. Address Allen B Olmsted LeRoy.
A local ad promotes a wide range of textiles and apparel including carpets, rugs, lace curtains, draperies, dress goods, trimmings, shirt waists, ladies suits, walking skirts, wrappers, muslin, underwear, hosiery and belts. Emphasizes first class up to date merchandise at low prices consistent with quality.
The Sentinel notes Bryan's suggestion of Justice John M. Harlan as a unifying Democratic candidate in 1904. Harlan’s record against imperialism and his opinions on income tax and the sugar trust are cited, with praise for his stance on the constitutional supremacy. Also reflects on 126th anniversary of Bunker Hill and various contemporaries debating third terms, weather, and a prairie wagon trip across Kansas.
The excerpt reflects on pity as a powerful emotional tool and necessity as a harsh tutor. It notes religion as a patient factor for ministers, pride in man’s limited mind, and the empty idea of harmless flirtations. It concludes with women’s tendency to forgive and men’s excuses.
Ammonia darkens woodwork and parsley with salt can remove onion breath. An Australian breakfast dish uses potatoes lobster or salmon and butter with chovy enhanced by baked bread diamonds. Spinach with butter salt pepper fills bread boxes. Wash clothes with hard soap and turpentine aids whitening. Boiled starch improves with salt or gum arabic and iron slides with soupy starch.
Britain can produce 2,200 locomotives annually compared with 4,200 elsewhere in Europe. The largest locomotive requires over 100 gallons of oil yearly for smooth operation.
terse daily roundup reports from Indiana and nearby states with deaths from fright and stabbing injuries, a manslaughter verdict, a slugging baseball game in Davenport Evansville, a new Big Four freight depot contract worth 15000 dollars, a toddler’s oil of wormwood poisoning, gas pumping station plans, a pioneer lawyer’s death, and a Peru Saengerfest event.
Doings in Indiana report the 17th annual Turnfest in Fort Wayne with 3000 attendees from Indiana Illinois Ohio and Kentucky. Events at Centlivire Park include a six hundred yard relay won by South Side Chicago Turngemeinde and a one mile bicycle race captured by William Alter of Central Chicago Turngemeinde.
In English Indiana on June 17 a fire at John Brown and wife’s home near Taswell led neighbors to pull Brown from the flames where a shotgun lay beside him. The left side of his head was torn and the wife was missing. Over 300 dollars was in the house and foul play is feared as neighbors doubt the couple’s separation. Brown once served with Sherman in the march to the sea.
Public praise spreads for Dean's Kidney Pills with Mrs. Henry Hight of 409 First Street recounting relief from back pain dizziness and improved kidney function after using the remedy from Otto's Drug Store. She and her husband credit the product for relief and urge others to buy at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sole US agent.
The Burlington offers tourist sleepers to San Francisco with daily departures July 6 through 13 from St Luke at night and Kansas City in the morning via Denver and the Rio Grande System. Through Colorado and California routes include guided tours. descriptive folders available from agents in St Louis and Kansas City.
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