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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1898
Page
3
Schedule shows Big Four railroad routes from Cincinnati to Greensburg and beyond with mixed departure and arrival times. Stops include Hartsville crossing and Lambert's, noting daily service except Sundays and various passenger lists.
Schedule notes dark faced and light faced Pullman Sleeping Cars on Nos 16 and 3 between Louisville and Chicago. Buffet Price Cars appear on Nos 18 and 19 between Chicago and Louisville. Official: L F Loree and Ford, General Messager and Passenger Agent. Timeframe 12.00 pm to midnight and midnight to noon.
Mrs F M Stevens traveled to Indianapolis this morning. Mrs Knight of Ballardsburg Kentucky visits D C Stott and family. Mrs Samuel Hege went to Noblesville this morning. Chas Krause and family of Anderson returned home after attending the death of his mother Mrs May Krause. Mrs Emma Beatty and Miss Minnie White plan a two month visit to Palm Beach Florida starting February first.
The piece mentions author Timothy Oaks and notes on Tom Hull's illness, Republican party remarks, photographer J E Ferguson's busy schedule, and praised Star coverage. It warns against life policy taxation, urges turnout for a vamp fire at the city building, and calls Republicans to a precinct meeting for Greensburg. It also reports on bad dirt roads, Jimmy Barton’s tidy yard, Mrs Boyer’s illness, and life policies helping widows and orphans. A Sons of Veterans and Ladies Aid Society installation was postponed due to member sickness. A great fire killed John Dienerson, and Bert Clark shows some recovery from lung fever.
An old classified ad lists bargains on grocery and tobacco items. See Loy Lion coffee at 124 per pound, Our Own roast 15 cents, Star Gloss and Big 4 soap at 3 cents each, pie peaches, tomatoes, peas, string beans, bananas, lemons, and candy. Tobacco deals include 6 cents per cut and 2 for 5 cents, with carpet ticks at 1 cent per dozen.
An extract recounts Garibaldi governor times in Naples with 10 000 protesters shouting death to the Bourbons Gambardella a fishermen leader brings a list of 400 Bourbons to be killed Turr persuades restraint and diffuses rage stressing liberty over retribution Gambardella later leads a movement and is later stabbed in the street Contemporary Review
The essay extols Washington as advancing beyond rivals, noting its beauty and future social, artistic, and educational prominence. It cites audiences drawn by learned leaders and echoes a Baltimore American critique praising the city’s rising status and influence.
An Utica man, self-taught and fluent, recalls learning from Noah Webster’s spelling book at age twelve. He cites Webster’s book as America’s best seller, with sales rising from 24 million by 1847 to 36 million by 1860. The piece also notes Siam’s palace walls and New York ice consumption.
In a Christmas whist tale from Scribner's, Henry and I dine with Mr Gately and the major at Mrs Buckingham's. The play turns on a five pie hand and a queen misled, prompting confessions of guilt and a devout conscience.
The Lancet criticizes France's tobacco agitation as harmful yet notes tobacco can be a reasonable daily use like tea or coffee. It laments scented, low quality tobacco and cites cigarettes sold cheaply at 86 cents a hundred, while reputable firms produce cheaper, inferior products.
A St Louis traveler recounts strict prohibitory laws in the Cherokee Nation and the inventive liquor substitutes used to evade them, including camphor hair tonic and even red ink. He argues that allowing real alcohol might be less harmful than these unsafe fakes, noting penalties and widespread craving for alcohol among locals.
Aunt Maria voices a stern view on happiness and suggests most people seek contentment abroad after locking up their house, contrasting with finding it in one’s own home. John Samuel listens as the remark frames a domestic philosophy with a wry tone from the Detroit Free Press.
A dialogue fragment from London Fun features an aristocratic admonition to a tramp about early training, arguing he lacks trade skill. The exchange includes a boast that the speaker was in prison before age fourteen, with a closing note about epitaphs over a grave in the Caroline islands.
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