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Newspaper
Columbus Evening Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1898
Page
3
The Philadelphia Times describes low prices on bleached and unbleached muslin millinery with large gown hats and plumes, notes on Frances Rolph Hayward lecturing in New Orleans on the Kalevala, and contrasts Greek marriage customs with French influence, detailing Greek girls’ training, language, and domestic arts.
A Philadelphia North American note recalls a boy who took the largest cake slice at tea and, though his parents were embarrassed, he grew into a prominent politician serving as an example of early appetite shaping a career.
A list of fire location boxes at multiple intersections is provided. Entries include Jackson Ninth and Franklin Pearl Sycamore Mechanic Chestnut Wilson and others, with coordinates like 12 Second on Jackson and 13 Fifth and Brown.
The New York Commercial reports a Russian peasant remedy for rheumatism involves ant baths. A sack with ants eggs and hill earth is heated in a warm bath, releasing formic acid and irritating the skin to draw out the illness, but risks include severe skin disorganization if the bath is kept too long.
A Canadian political figure, on the way to meet a friend in Quebec, asks an Irishman for Mr. Hunter’s address. The Irishman warns that Hunter has already hired a man. The statesman, failing to get the address, goes to buy a new hat after the tale.
Miss Alice Serber of 1670 Lexington Avenue becomes the first Russian woman to be admitted to the New York bar. She studied at the University of the City of New York Law School, trained in offices, and plans to open a downtown office while pursuing further studies in medicine and jurisprudence. Her family includes a brother with Columbia Mines training and a sister at Normal College.
A San Francisco woman learns a doctor’s fair price for an operation is fifty dollars. She offers five hundred, and the doctor refuses the excess, crediting the balance. Months later she receives a detailed bill for various patients charged to her credit and adds another five hundred, continuing the practice.
A women's club built a clubhouse faced with hiring male labor. female crafts lacked. Near completion a worker punched a hole in the ceiling with his foot, witnessed by many members. The patch remains visible, and the first vice president quipped that a man would surely put his foot in it.
The passage cites Walter Raleigh on style as the gesture of mind and soul across arts from architecture to music and acting. It argues that style transcends mortality, admitting morals, mood, conviction, habit, and passion into literature and preserving personality as a lasting, universal artful revelation.
Candy Kitchen offers fresh daily candies by E C Becht proprietor. Jos Stobo blacksmith provides horse shoeing. Henry Meier sells coal wood feed and lime at 515 4th street. F Donner leads in watches clocks jewelry and optical goods. Will E Carman stable offers boarding and styles at 6th street. John Hughes groceries at 523 Washington. Wayland Wells groceries with delivery Bell phone 238 Harrison, 119.
A. E. Hartman of 311 Franklin street is identified as buyer and shipper of butter eggs and poultry with the highest market price paid for these commodities.
A mixed vintage storefront notice lists George’s Grocery Glassware and tinware, The Hummer Shoe Store, Fred Wolland Hardware, Burnett Co. Groceries, Rosenbush Clothiers, T G Quick coal and wood, Fremont and Davis Blacksmiths, Danforth Broms, and Mrs H P L Gold Mine. The ad touts prompt service, lowest prices, and quality goods across several Columbus businesses.
Mixed schedule update notes a transition between afternoon and evening times for the 405 corridor. Details remain unclear in the fragment, with no explicit events or entities named.
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