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Newspaper

Columbus Evening Star

Location

Columbus, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Mar 19, 1898

Page

7

Reading habits praised and warned against in Victorian critique

The Westminster Review laments overemphasis on frivolous fiction. It argues high literature sits untouched while popular novels tempt all social classes, dulling intellect and duties. It warns demoralizing works influence readers from ladies to office boys, risking crime.

Westminster Review

Typewriters in Schools and a Love Legacy Revealed

An essay extols typewriters as labor saving devices and a future in every home. Also recapped is the love story of Charles Pelham Villiers and Miss Mellish, whose will left vast fortunes to relatives and clergy after his lifelong bachelorhood.

Charles Pelham Villiers Miss Mellish Mr. Villiers Montague Villiers St. Paul's Knightsbridge Ernest Villiers Johnnie Green Hand Philadelphia Record

Township Precinct and Committee Listings Read Across Townships

A dense roster lists Precincts and district officials across Comus, Clay, Flat Rock, Hawcreek, Nineveh, Jackson, Rockcreek, Sandcreek, Union, Wayne, and more. It names precinct numbers, voters, and executive and advisory committees with members including John L. Jones, W. Norton, Gustavus Miller, Herman Aldenhagen, and others.

Short News Snippets From A Busy Era

A collage of light local anecdotes and humorous vignettes from mid century papers. A state official’s nature talk to pupils prompts cheeky questions about cows and fruit. Jokes about hogs, office mishaps, a heroic fox terrier, horse prices nad playful classroom praise.

Stetson Pembroke Mr. Stetson Bangor Commercial

Means of Lent and War Cries Split Across Papers

A collage of quips and headlines shows comic lines on giving up during Lent and a fiery war-chant urging Spaniards to fear. The pieces mix light domestic gags with energetic battle rhetoric echoing in press humor.

Early seed potatoes and groceries advertised in Columbus listings

George's Grocery offers Triumphs and Six Week's seed potatoes plus other Northern and Eastern varieties at 227 2nd Street. The ad also promotes H. T. Burnett and Co groceries, L. Rosenbush & Co clothiers, Fremont Davis blacksmith, and Mrs. Peel's Gold Mine store with bold price marks and claimed quality.

George’s Grocery 2Nd Street

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Love W. W. Lambert Attorney AT Law Gpploe Traints Bank Block J. F. Cox Count Hoe G. W. Cooper C. J. Cooper First National Bank Building W. F. Norton Attorney -At-Law Gollice W. C. Roland, M. D OVICE Sriffith Western Union Telegraph Eighth and Chestnut Streets Bell Republican County Committee W. E. Sprincer W. C. ArDeRy Lee Comus Township A George Will Dodge F L Clark Clay Township P Davis Bennett Patterson Hayes Hollowell H E Wells Phil Knarr James Sears David Chitty Chas McCallie Noll, Robt. McCullough A J Perkinson James Thorpe W H Dowell Clifty J W Shaw Flatrock Norton Hamblen Reed Germany N. E. Joseph Steenbarger W. Clint L. Foster Hawcreek Tp Hartsville Pre F J Beck West Hope Aiken Spaugh Danner Nineveh Rockcreek John M Williams Isaac F Jackson Sandcreek W & Moffatt Union Lowden Harrison F W Moses Wayne N—Tyman Smith Austin Wright John L. Jones Flat Rockx S. W. Norton Hawcreek Thomas W. Rominger James Mahaffey Clay—Gustavus Miller Jeff Huffman A. R. Anderson Wayne William Weisman Jackson Herman Aldenhagen Ohio William N. Smith Orider Jesse Clark U. Clay White Columbus B. M. Hutchins Jamney McEvenne Wm. DP. Kennedy John A. Williams Arthur Overstreet Wim. Schooler Ova Mennett Maine Denver Denver Times Gyp Martin Berry North Street West Rye New York Journal Sambo Twyman the Herald Mr. Twyman Hodgenville Anna Morgan Delsarte J. B. Cook &Son McCormick Cor Second and Jackson, St C. “. Schaefer Co Zem Candy Kitchen E. C. Becht F.m.watt Third Street John M. Newcomb Jackson Street Jos Stobo Specia Stobo Henny Meier 4Th Stree — I Henry Meir Bruning & Vonstrohe Baltimore Sycamore St F. Donner Washington St Willer Carman 6Th St. Bet Franklin and Mechanic John Hughes Wayland & Wflls Bell Phone Harrison, Iff A. L. Hartman Franklin Street Scott, Baker and Grocer Scott's Clarence W. Adams Mechanic Sts T G Cuiek Whitwan & Wightman BET Columbus, Ind Men & Womn Romanza Agency Cincinnati Corner Fifth and Kinney Musrang Washington Street Lonham Crystal Hi1th Street Telephone Bell Harrison Jones-Brown Eustace Brown-Smith Chicago Kate Grace Met Marvin New York Press Guadalquivir Moses Cleveland Silvermans E.E. Waddington Fred Volland Best On Earth H. T. Burnett & CO L. Rosenbush & CO Fremont Davis Franklin St Chas. Danforth J. A. Hughes Cor 4Th Franklin Weton’s Pittsburg Columbus Fuel & Ice Co Wash S. M. Cd Wabash Ave Noblitt's Drug Store Yaeones Winewadealers Munn & Co New York F St Washington. D Funkhouser 6Th and Over Winants Grocery Store Rump’s Theatre G. A. R. Encampment Fund The Otto’s S. Ciga Mechani Brees Angel Be Renee Tod Eure Aly Southwari Indianapolis Southport Greenwood Whiteland Buinburg cColumbas Columbas Elizab’town Scipto Ueensville Vernon Madison Columbu Jonesville Seymour Crotheravili Scottsburg Henryville Memphis Sellersburg Jefferson New Albany Louisvill Northwai Louisville Jeffersonville North Madis Vernon North Vernon Queensville Peabiere Yin Pio Sae Elizabethtor Edinburg Cambridge City Clifford Bae Be S Iushville Falmouth L. F. Loree E. A. Ford Prtrssurgh Penn’a Pennsylvania Lines ARS DE Klondike Marlin Firearms Co New Haveng C., H. & G. Branch 405 Columb Greensbur Ewington Barnes Itsville Miller's 404 Tom Addreey Women’s General Missionary Society of the United’ Presbyterian Church of N. A Big Four Smith Warren J
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