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Columbus Evening Star

Location

Columbus, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Dec 31, 1897

Page

3

Reading of Names in Local Community Missing Pages

Fragmentary OCR lists numerous personal names including Mrs. Lee Loy Albert Owens Tandy Tooley Oliver Ong George Clutch Penning Dr. Shane Dick Jones Wick Larue Frank Bowman B. Ensley West Jonathan Smith Walter Coup Charles Norton John Fehring and Mrs James Lasheree with scattered illegible text and stray numbers.

Lee Loy Albert Owens Tandy Tooley Oliver Ong George Clutch Penning Shane Dick Jones Wick Larue Frank Bowman B. Ensley West Jonathan Smi Walter Coup Charles Norto John Fehring James Lash

Notice to heirs and creditors in Wallace estate

Bartholomew Circuit Court December term 1897 notices that Wm. B. Treadway administrator of the Jen B. Wallace estate has filed final settlement. The court will examine on January 28, 1898. Heirs creditors legatees must appear to show cause and prove heirship. George Werner Clerk STANSIFER AKER attorneys Columbus Indiana.

Bartholomew Circuit Court Ellen B. Wallace Wm. B. Treadway Jen B. Wallace Circuit Court Columbus Indiana George Werner Stansifer & Aker

Notice to Heirs and Creditors in Reed Estate

Notice is given in Bartholomew Circuit Court of Nathan Reed deceased that Charles Reed administrator filed final settlement and account. The examination date is January 10, 1898, at Columbus Indiana. Heirs creditors and legatees must appear and show cause why the settlement should not be approved. Witness Clerk Eonge Werner.

Bartholomew Circuit Court Nathan Reed Chas Reed Circuit Court Bartholomew Columbus Indiana Eonge Werner Marshall Hacker

Peter the Great’s Wrestle with a Dragoon in St Petersburg

An old tale from Youth’s Companion recounts Peter the Great offering to pardon a young dragoon if he could throw him in a palace wrestling bout. The dragoon accepted, defeated the czar with his left arm, and kept Peter from falling, earning lifelong free wine at crown inns as his reward.

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Imperial Palace Peter Herod

Queen Sophia’s Rome of Royal Enemies and a Beetle

An unpublished anecdote recounts Queen Sophia of the Netherlands praising Napoleon III and Eugenie as enemies to Germany during an Amsterdam exhibition before 1870. A guide claimed she would see Germany’s greatest foe, but the exhibit showed an enlarged beetle pests, not Bismarck, shocking the assembly.

Bismarck Sophia Netherlands William III of Holland Napoleon III Eugenie France Luxembourg Amsterdam Germany

Chocolate Caramels From a Simple Madeira Recipe

A historic recipe describes making chocolate caramels by melting chocolate and butter with brown sugar molasses cream and vanilla then cooling and cutting into squares. Coffee caramels use black coffee instead of cream. The notes mention a variation with chopped nuts folded in before setting.

Phoenix Ty ‘Rovers Ladies’ Home Journal

Klondike Balloon Aims to Speed Yukon Travel

The Klondike balloon by Joseph de l Etoile, an Ottawa interior department employee, is described as a cigar shaped airship with a car housing a small engine and eight passengers. Ottawa capitalists back the project hoping to carry mails between Edmonton and the goldfields. E. B. Haycock of Ottawa patents a thawer excavator to mine year round, claiming eight men can sink 24 feet daily and cut costs from 960 to 160 dollars per shaft.

Yukon Joseph de l’Etoile deEtoile Interior Department Ottawa Canada Ifr. de Etoile Klondike Edmonton Goldfields E. B. Haycock Haycock Waycock New York Sun

Luetgert’s Dog Guards and Odd Quotes

The excerpt describes Luetgert’s dog Major guarding Adolph Luetgert’s Chicago home during confinement, with Tige sometimes joining. It also notes quips about indoor travel by bicycle for new parents and a Worcester Antinquarian society catechism discussing hell. It ends with a claim about petroleum oil’s therapeutic value.

Adolph L. Luetgert Chicago Major Tige Luetgert New York Journal

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