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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1898
Page
2
The postwar church calendar lists varied services at Epworth, Presbyterian, and Methodist congregations. Topics include What Wonda Jesus Do and The Beauty of Christ's Character, with Holy Communion, Sunday School, evening songs, and youth meetings scheduled through Monday night.
Syrian women in New York’s Daughters of Syria society plan to make and present a flag to a U S regiment pending national colors availability. They aim to show support for the adopted country by contributing a banner, with the Twenty second Infantry likely recipient. The group runs social, educational activities and a reading room for women, and offers classes for those lacking English.
The text promotes relief for defective eyesight and custom glasses after testing. It references Commodore Dewey and the phrase Veni Vidi Vici as a patriotic motif. Readers are invited to visit for expert eye adjustments offering improved vision.
A fragment discusses the word morro and its use in Cuban Spanish to describe round lips and a Moorish or African connection. It notes morro as referring to fortifications on heights, a Moorish origin, a cat’s snout sense, and a specific bourse collar in Cuba, with casual culinary and racial connotations.
A Washington Post excerpt recalls crowds flocking to Barnum and Bailey with signs and legends promising the biggest show on earth. An old man deciphers the slogan, exclaiming that only John Robinson’s show is larger, reflecting circus lore and local color.
A busy market list shows items like flour oats cattle and calves priced per hundredweight and per bushel. It includes maple syrup per gallon and New Orleans goods per gallon, with bananas and apples by the dozen and potatoes by the bushel. A Sunday rail trip to Madison via Pennsylvania Lines departs at 8 20 a m central time and returns at 6 p m.
A description contrasts the monitor battleship with its armored revolving turrets and low profile to a rotating gun platform, noting its armored deck and naval revolution. It discusses torpedo boats and fearless crews, then shifts to warning about bluefish, their size, schooling behavior, and their predatory impact on shad and other fish as observed in Atlantic waters.
A Troy Press clipping recalls two anecdotes. An evangelical woman prays for a lame man who later says his cork leg was replaced by a new one. A candidate for priestly orders flubs a line and the bishop replies there are two in the room, so he must choose which is which.
The article traces historical rose varieties such as Gloire de Dijon dating to 1538 and Marechal Niel from 1864, noting others like General Macqueminot 1850s, La France 1868, Mme Isaac-Pereire 1880, and La Reine from 1843. It observes many new varieties yearly but few prove decisive against established types, with American Beauty and Catharine Mermet highlighted as significant recent additions.
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