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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1898
Page
3
A collage of reflections on aging poets and philosophers, a courtship shorthand anecdote, a thunder‑loving New Mexico snake description, Leighton and Orpheus lore, a jokey detective line, a law joke about Plankington, Vienna building height rules, linguistic notes, and brief notes on the sweet pea’s Sicily origins and Nile cataract power estimates.
Ed C Ebsen, a Contra Costa News compositor in Martinez California, reports relief from nervousness dizziness and sleeplessness caused by tobacco and stimulants after using Dr Miles Restorative Nervine. The remedy is promoted as soothing healing and nerve strengthening with a money back guarantee and free book on heart and nerve diseases.
The text notes a Baptist church meeting ongoing and a county convention struggle as eleven delegates are to be chosen with about 75 seeking seats. It mentions Henry Wagner as a likely winner in the first heat and reports on local social visits and a funeral west of town. It also complains about the county prosecutor and calls for better prosecutions.
A garbled OCR fragment references individuals and places including Barthow and Wasead BooneH with mentions of insolvency and authority figures. The legibility is too low to extract a coherent event, date, or outcome. The readable bits suggest a solvency claim involving named persons but lack verifiable details.
The narrator recalls a Christmas whist evening with Rev Mr Gately at the rector's house and a major at Mrs Buckingham's table. Gately plays confidently while the major laments a misdeal as he turns the queen to his partner. Browne notes this scene in Scribner's.
An aggregation of op ed snippets cites The Lancet defending limited tobacco harm yet condemning adulterated French tobacco, while noting cheap cigarettes as inferior. A Kansas City Journal item recalls Cherokee Nation prohibitions driving drinkers toward unsafe substitutes, arguing for access to genuine alcohol.
Aunt Maria laments the pursuit of happiness and argues most people seek contentment they already own in their own lives. John Samuel admits uncertainty as the dialogue centers on locating true contentment near home rather than abroad.
A vignette shows an old lady chiding a tramp about employment training while the tramp retorts he has prison time behind him. The passage shifts to a description of the Siam palace and its vast walls housing temples, offices, stables, troops, and a theater. It also notes that New York consumes about 12,000 tons of ice daily in summer with around 20 percent artificial.
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