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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1897
Page
4
Local spot offers numerous properties for sale from three-room cottages to large farms. Listings include Nos. 63 through 110 with prices from as low as $400 and up to $12,000, plus trade options and monthly payment plans. Readable ads emphasize quick sales and bargain prices across multiple neighborhoods.
London Echo says Ottoman succession favors the sultan’s eldest brother Rechad Effendi over the sultan Murad V’s son Selim. Rechad, rare in public, is courteous, well informed, a good farmer, and lives under guarded freedom as heir.
A Yale Scientific Monthly report describes a new floor mosaic process using wood flour sawdust and shavings bound with shellac and cement. The mix is molded under heat and pressure, then cooled to harden, yielding durable, colorable floor coverings for living rooms and homes.
A Brooklyn resident describes the trolley buzz a persistent sound on streetcars and claims a thrice-mile ride over a trolley axle can banish headaches. He notes no electricity enters the car but believes air carries a curative element.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat describes an electric lining for safes and vaults that triggers alarms from any tampering. A time lock disconnects the cabinet from the alarm, while steel alarm boxes in hooded enclosures resist tampering. Door closures rely on multiple lag bolts whose removal signals intrusion. Also notes a Antwerp exhibit of a ring cut from a single diamond stone challenging cutters.
A promotional blurb urges patrons to enjoy fashionable Sunday dinners at the Fashion Restaurant located at 609 Washington Street. It highlights past patron satisfaction and invites more guests to experience the prepared menus and hospitality.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recounts a cowpoke in a saloon facing a barkeep who bullied him. The barkeep sought a life policy for ten thousand dollars for his widow, a plan not settled until this morning, prompting the cowpoke to warn and plan a response after a later visit.
The English dramatist Colman testified before a Commons committee on theatrical questions. He claimed he expunges oaths from plays he revises, though he admitted many oaths exist in Heir at Law and John Bull. He said removing them would improve humor, yet he rejoiced in producing a good work despite some bad lines.
The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and international partners pursue a new earth measurement. Observers on the Pacific coast report signals between Mount Shasta and Mount Helena spanning about 190 miles with limited reply. Previous eye distance records peaked at 168 miles between Algiers and Spain.
A writer recounts growing Pontedria CragSipes, noting its waxy leaves and thrifty nature. Placed first in a bowl then divided into a crock and boiler, it grew upward after space limitations, sending air bulbs into long stems and large leaves, thriving with minimal care.
The 85 foot high brick chimney weighing nearly 100 tons was moved 950 feet over rough ground at Manhantee Shelter Island Suffolk without damage. A grain capstan and one horse on a single cradle moved on greased skids by four men in nine days to a new foundation. The contractor completed a prior 58 foot chimney move at Bridgehampton without incident.
Science figure Dr. G Qart Merriam criticizes Theodore Roosevelt’s zoological theories and urges museums sportsmen and naturalists to act quickly to preserve specimens of large mammals. He notes European extinctions and early losses in the United States including the vanishing buffalo the southern California grizzly wolves elk or wapiti across the Alleghenies to the Adirondacks wiped from memory.
Parisian millionaire Mr. Menter, who bought Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, reports abundant bears there and grants a concession to build a curing plant for bear meat. Bear hams become a fashionable delicacy in Paris.
Citizens of Hennessey Oklahoma vote to issue two thousand dollars in bonds to erect a monument to Pat Hennessey the government freighter killed during the 1874 Indian outbreak. He commanded a wagon train from Wichita to Reno and died defending his post after being overpowered and burned beside the trail. The grave site has been tended by freighters and marked as a tribute to Hibernian valor.
A historical sketch describes the Esquimaux eating habits showing a tolerance for raw and tough foods. It notes their method of cutting walrus hide and meat into strips and swallowing them without indigestion, contrasting with American dining practices.
A Detroit Free Press vignette shows a muddy street scene where a gamin retrieves a woman’s fallen pocketbook, gains no thanks, yet keeps a penny earned by an unseen trick. The piece shifts to notes on Thanksgiving’s timing, evolution of customs, and a humorous anatomist’s take on the little toe.
Readable phrases show fragmented quotes from various sources or captions. Several lines present English phrases about life failure careers nobility danger and love with attribution to names like Rhinestein Boston Franacript Jugends Moon ahine Pat Mike and Housebala Wordia.
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