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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1897
Page
3
The Chinese emperor, after years of English lessons, questions Li Taotai, a Nanking Taotai praised for foreign knowledge. Li stalls with clumsy phrases, bows, and is scolded for his ignorance, told to study English with an English book for three years to pursue such fame.
A Chicago Tribune account quotes a South Park police officer lamenting bicycles crowding parks. He says songbirds like orioles thrushes and robins have vanished, replaced by sparrows as riders fill benches and shade trees, disturbing roosting spots.
The piece describes a quarrel between Duluth Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin over a bridge across the St. Louis River at the western end of Lake Superior. Senators Quay and Vilas argue the bill while funding sits idle. if a bridge is built, Superior could become a Duluth suburb.
Rates list for daily and weekly newspapers, detailing pricing by size and duration. Includes daily one inch rates for one year and shorter terms, weekly rates, combined daily and weekly rates, and local ads with per word pricing and contract terms.
Columbus readers warned of a stronger wind storm than recently observed with a policy by Kinney and Kinney described as costly but a trifling expense.
The ad promotes Cascara Pills by Tike Carter and M CG Dunnington druggist offering refunds if not cured. It urges customers to refuse inferior articles and trust their own judgment over storekeepers in the purchase decision.
John W. Rusk of Belport North Carolina writes to the New York Sun about buffalo gnats. He recalls seeing similar insects in Arkansas and describes their damaging habit of entering mouths nostrils and ears and laying eggs. Stock losses are noted with plans to smoke out gnats and a mule with a smudge.
A young couple walks home after theater supper and jokes about the old adage of after dinner walking. The girl calls for honesty over verse and asks for real help with car fare while the scene ends with a cautious ride on a cable car.
The Star Job Print Co advertises fixed prices for printing work using good materials and guarantees satisfaction. It promotes a clubbing deal with the Twice-a-Week Courier Journal and the Weekly Star, offering both papers for 1.25 dollars per year when paid in advance. Sample copies of the Courier Journal are sent on request. Subscriptions should be sent to the Columbus Morning Star in Columbus Indiana. Kinney and Turpin.
An advertisement touts direct through-service to Cincinnati from New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland and Columbus via the Bio Four and connections with Q and C Route and L N Ry. It promotes easy travel to the expo with full information available and urges fair pricing claims from dealers.
Describes vast floods near Jeanette’s Creek turning the landscape into a water plain ideal for duck hunting. The marshes rival legendary wetlands with hundreds of thousands of ducks and a wide array of species including mallard, black duck, pintail, widgeon, teal, merganser, and grebe, plus thousands of Canada geese brant and snow geese.
The article notes royal travelers like Thebes protect their baggage with beds and linens including quilts and a Mackintosh sheet. Grand Duke Paul of Russia travels with a built in bedstead due to height. Two tapissiers guard queen’s packing and coordinate transit, knowing routes and ensuring swift transfer of items between palaces.
Daily train schedule listings show mixed trains stopping at Greensburg C H and G Ewington Hartsville Hope and Burney’s with varying am and pm times. Agent in Columbus reports trains run daily except Sunday with several stops and times across the line.
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