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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1898
Page
2
Coroner Dr. W. J. Fugate and Surveyor WM. Rights noted. Meyer & Urminog announce a special handkerchief sale tonight. For sale Alive Toot glass showcase, inquire at Parker & Hanser's drug store or the Sran. office. aFit ULe SUaLst Adare.
Sunday services include a Holy Eucharist at 10 45 with a sermon on Elements of Advancing the Kingdom of God. An evening service with no sermon is at 730. Local notes mention Republican sheriff candidate Henries Howe visiting, a beer garden event, and various ads and notices.
A dialogue cites a remark Tu quoque as a bald reply to accusation. Dooley notes the phrase cu're another, then Casey laments lacking education and pride. A joke about a wife’s costly feathers ends with a quip that she remains an angel, but costly.
The article describes summer fashion trends with a separate bodice and contrasting skirt, favoring delicate materials like pique, silk, linen lawn and dotted muslin. For elaborate bodices, taffetas and figured silks dominate, while plain satin and liberty silk remain popular.
A collage of excerpts discusses shoplifting, department stores, and public duties to protect property. It highlights a mail office in Alaska limiting calls for lists, price stamps, and volunteer aides, then recalls Mrs. Lucretia Hubbell the first American woman aeronaut whose 1840s balloon mishap produced a parachute drift and a dramatic lecture that night.
A humorous exchange shows children earning five cents per spoonful of cod liver oil and saving it, while the uncle expects they will buy something later. The snippet also mentions a judge’s office appointment and a general note on reading as a rest tonic. The text includes lines from Fliegende Blatter and Cleveland Leader. The vineyard figure notes Italy’s large grape lands.
Paris writes of Wilhelmina of the Netherlands as she prepares for her September sworn reign. The piece celebrates her grace, athleticism, and poised bearing on arrival in Paris, noting her green dress and youthful vitality. It contrasts royal ceremony with approachable charm.
A fragmented list shows various wholesale and retail prices for commodities. Items include corn per bushel, hay per ton, flour per hundredweight, granulated sugar per 16 pounds, sorghum syrup molasses per gallon, maple syrup per gallon, New Orleans syrup per gallon, apples per bushel, bananas per dozen, oranges per dozen, and potatoes per bushel with noted price ranges and units.
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