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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1898
Page
3
A detailed look at Marken on the Dutch coast notes its simple old world habits and the unique fish preserving method. Fresh fish is cleaned and salted then stored in a storeroom before being aged in lime and vinegar. The fish are later handled and packed in jars with a vinegar oil spice mix and stored sealed with brown paper and cord.
A collection of light vignettes recalling a mountain town accident, legal wit from Erskine and Balfour, editorial culture at The Sun, and the pompadour hair craze. The pieces mix anecdote, critique, and social commentary with named figures and places.
A feature recounts Hablot Browne’s pivotal role as illustrator for Dickens’s Pickwick Papers. After Seymour’s death, Browne and Thackeray collaborated, sharing rivalry and generosity, as Browne and Robert Young completed the first plate showing Sam Weller for Pearson’s Weekly.
In a dentist's account bravery is shown by enduring pain without flinching, especially when pain is real and constant and the patient conceals it. Judge Hawkins sentences a swindler after a tense courtroom moment, while a New York Tribune note discusses baby elephants, book design covers by Philadelphia students, and Archibald Leighton's cloth bindings.
The note recounts John Sartain’s memory of Poe’s last visit to his Sawson Street home in 1849 after a cycle of confinement for intoxication. Sartain recalls hiding Poe and even cutting his mustache to shield him from imagined enemies, while detailing payment for the poem The Bells and its drafts before publication.
The Detroit Free Press recounts a sharp scene where Mr Files leverages distrust to run a risky business errand. He orders a frightened office boy to fetch a key, a tin box, and stationery from separate men while praising Spriggs as his most trusted employee who arrived just days earlier.
A New Hampshire elder with a gentle nature inspires her visiting granddaughter to pause for strangers. The girl recounts passing a ragged, intoxicated man, and the grandmother’s plea to speak a moment, reflecting a shared human duty beyond prejudice.
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