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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1898
Page
3
A fragment advertisement notes IITH Grocery and Bakery and Mechanicsts Headquarters for cakes and city goods. eins & Co. are headquar for furniture and stoves. Brein p& Co. promises reliable goods and service.
Triumphs and Si Week s second crop seed potatoes offered by George's Grocery at 227 2nd sheet. Rosenbush Co clothing store advertising one price fashion. T.G. Quick coal wood and feed. Fremont Davis blacksmith at 335 Franklin St promises best work and horse forging. Wayland & Wells groceries claim newest stock and prompt delivery with satisfaction guaranteed. Bell phone listings 238 Harrison 479.
Bruning and Vonstrohe promote a complete line of fruit and vegetables at Sycamore Street location. The shop also sells fresh bulk Baltimore oysters and country meat with a satisfaction guarantee.
Two girls at Mrs Fe low's restaurant advertise a good square meal for 20 cents. Citizens phone 234. John M Newcomb at 335 Jackson Street offers flour feed coal lime and wood with motto Always the Best always the cheapest and a phone number 143 for orders.
The piece contrasts boastful circus hype with a John Robinson anecdote about the so called biggest show on earth. It also notes Britain's ancient oaks in Sherwood forest and records the Isle of Man fuchsia tree and other historic trees.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote shares a man’s plan to curb his wife’s habit of rifling his pockets by using counterfeit money. He then reaped a dramatic result when the wife was caught passing fake bills and became receptive only to checks. The tale underscores playful marital trickery and ironies of trust.
The article explains the Monitor as a low freeboard floating battery with armored revolving turrets that revolutionized naval warfare, and contrasts torpedo boats as swift small craft designed to launch torpedoes near larger ships. It notes torpedo boat catchers and larger supports, citing the New York Tribune. It then discusses bluefish as voracious enemies to other fish, noting their schooling behavior, stomach contents, and destructive feeding patterns observed in a fish exchange report.
In a city near Troy a faith healing group led by a devout woman observed an elderly man daily pass by her home. She began prayers for him and soon learned he had received a new cork leg, improving his mobility after weeks of lameness.
During a trial sermon the candidate for priestly orders, Jeture Bishop Tait and Dean Stanley, grew nervous and vowed to drive his congregation into the converted and the unconverted. The bishop retorted that with only two present he should identify which is which.
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