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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1897
Page
3
The Swedish monarch schedules audience with public officials and ministers, inspects troops, and holds early meetings with peasants seeking to speak. Evenings and late nights are devoted to literary work, with poems and romances already noted for artistic merit.
Citizens cluster in the mayor’s office to protest a plan by two railroad companies to lay tracks through the town. The mayor defends the move as necessary for progress and promises to push the project forward despite opposition.
F Griyeon dances and claps in ecstasy after a suitor’s declaration while her sister Lillian questions the social gulf between their families. Fannie dismisses the gulf and imagines scandal, joking about a dramatic love choice and possible marriage to Tom Taddington or Clara Coulton.
A fragmented OCR snippet features a quirky line about a cork leg and a nonfunctional joint, noting a claim of eight million and prompting questions about meaning and origin in a stylistic language brief.
The public is to be shown a new balloon contrivance by Joseph de l Etoile of Ottawa. The small cigar shaped airship carries eight passengers in a covered car with a hot air engine and dual propeller drive to reach the Klondike via a mail and passenger route. A separate invention by E B Heaycock aims to ease year round mining in the Yukon with a heated thawer and excavator system. Major and Tige guard Adolph Luetgert in Chicago as a public warning of danger and loyalty from two hounds.
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