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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1897
Page
4
Mr Werkenday ridicules modern apartment design in a New York Press piece, arguing bathrooms are poorly placed and inadequately heated. He laments tiny baths, hallway washstands, and repeated flat moves shrinking tubs, reflecting urban living frustrations.
G W Reynolds of Los Angeles runs a San Diego area ranch focused on honey from two apiaries tended by his son. He reports 140 bee stands, a season April to July yielding 40,000 pounds of honey at four cents a pound, with hives valued at 2.50 each containing 20,000 to 25,000 bees. The queen is dominant. workers live about 45 days, with new queens banishing old ones to start swarms. White sage honey is pale, black sage honey amber, bees rest in winter. seventy five carloads shipped from San Diego County in good years.
B C Shults of Winterset Iowa, inventor and manufacturer, says after LaGrippe left him with a weak heart he could not sleep. A local physician prescribed Dr Miles Heart Cure and he reports better sleep, reduced pains, weight gain, and improved health. Dr Miles Remedies are sold with a money back guarantee and a free book on heart and nerve diseases.
James Burk announces candidacy for county clerk under the Republican nominating convention. Vincent Thompson and David Phillips also announce runs for City Marshal and county offices respectively under the same process.
The passage cites prognostications by religious and antiquarian figures. It mentions Bishop Williams foreseeing Puritan triumph during Charles I, and Dugdale predicting destruction of ancient cathedral monuments in 1641, aiming to preserve inscriptions for future times.
A Wells Fargo messenger on a Santa Fe run reported two 60 and 40 pound wildcats in a Fall Brook cage bound for Martin's Ferry. They fought violently, tearing the cage, and the survivor, a 90 pound animal, was later shipped on. The incident ended with the lone wildcat sent forward as two, its mate gone.
The piece extols The Sentinel as a premier Indiana newspaper with broad state and foreign news coverage. It forecasts a year of interesting events including McKinley era political news and state government shifts, urging subscriptions to the Indianapolis publication.
Gladstone proposed a barony for Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1888 noting the barrier of wearing a wig in the Lords. The poet declined, remained plain Mr. Tennyson, then accepted to honor literature. He praised Gladstone’s aim to acknowledge literature in public life.
The readable fragments discuss vague trade phrases and inappropriate references. No clear entities or concrete details emerge to form a coherent news item or summary.
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