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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1897
Page
2
Rates for daily and weekly insertions are listed with durations from one month to six months. The notice notes bold facing for main ads and extra charges for additional insertions. It also states rates are quoted on local advert price lists and that family contracts are not carried to annual terms.
Morning notices report varied items from telephone company praise to local job pursuits and oddities. Mentions Columbus long distance line site, a first woman seeking postmaster in Deviess county, Neb, and a Nebraska farmer hauling 75 bushels. Also covers a Maryland classroom scare, a bees and pigeons relay, a wild dog den in Indiana, a Japan tomb accident in Maine, and a prolific trapper in Oakland with 82 foxes.
Advertisement notes Adamant Wall Finish as an economical alternative to whitewash and paint offering greater durability than wallpaper. Available in white and colors and easy to apply from IRNST STADLHUTH & Co. Druggists in Columbus, Indiana.
A collage of humorous excerpts: a Chinaman overcharging a foreigner for a visit, bridal attire described as a man’s greatcoat with trousers and turbans, a child’s joke about the editorial office as sanc tum sanctorum, and a pun on the Boston Aeronautical Society. The pieces highlight fashion, language quirks, and playful misreadings.
A Viennese wife of a linen weaver is noted by Dr. Alois Valenta for bearing 32 children, 26 boys and 6 girls, in a sequence of births totaling in her forties. She nursed all her offspring, despite epileptic bouts from adolescence, a trait not inherited by the children.
The article lists numerous township trustees and county officials including Huneeck, Geo. C. Moore, and J. A. Wade, with multiple street corner and intersection references such as 12-Second and Jackson, 13-Firth and Brown, and 25-Fourteenth and Franklin. It also mentions Reeves Pulley Works and Watchina Avenue among the local business references.
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