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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1897
Page
3
A historical note recounts a will punishing tobacco use with £500 fines for each son. It describes funeral rites with pipes, ashes, cedar lined coffins, and cautious lighting gear. The Irish anti tobacco clause was struck down by the courts, reflecting a conflict over smoking prejudice and legal penalties.
Letters to Albany mayor reveal odd requests from distant readers. A southern man seeks to be sold into slavery. other items joke about money racing ahead of progress, domestic science quips, and a tale of a Scots origin for Czars. The fragment includes humorous exchanges and social notes from varied sources.
The text describes how Esquiman children eat walrus meat and skin without indigestion. It notes their method of cutting long strips and swallowing them like ropes. It compares walrus hide thickness to elephant skin and asserts strong digestion.
A Detroit Free Press tale shows a street youth aiding a pretty woman after she drops her purse and its coins in the mud. He retrieves the pennies and dimes, earns no thanks, and slyly pockets one extra penny from under a stone as he departs.
A Paris dispatch notes Emmanuel Arago’s death leaves Henri Rochefort as the sole surviving member of the government of national defense formed after the empire fell in 1870. Rochefort reflects on the group, recalls peers like Gambetta Ferry and Simon, and recalls attempts to condemn him while defending his brief tenure.
A history note records an eagle kept in captivity fasting for three weeks without harm. Nearby, a giant glacial boulder near Quakertown Bucks County, Pennsylvania measures 86 feet long 46 feet wide and 14 feet thick, touted as a relic of the ice age.
A report describes a man who regained his sanity after an operation and asked if the colt got away, noting 45 years of his life were erased. The piece explains the Egyptian afterglow a rare twilight in tropical regions when darkness briefly lifts, revealing a radiant sequence of colors before night returns.
A fragmented roster lists mayor, clerk, treasurer, marshal, city attorney, engineer and council members followed by regional names and towns such as Hawcreek Flat Rock Newber Clay Columbus Harrison Rockcreek and Sandcreek, indicating a municipal directory fragment. No dates or actions are provided.
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