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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1897
Page
2
The Columbus Chronicle notes a major industrial rebound with Birmingham’s new steel plant and a million dollar facility at Gate City underway. Two cotton mills are under construction and a site is sought for another, signaling substantial growth in the region.
A string of residents traveled to Edinburg Indianapolis Nashville and Lebanon with multiple visits noted. Mrs Chas Jones and daughter Leola stay in Edinburg then plan Indianapolis lakes. other trips include Miss Bowman to Indianapolis and families visiting Franklin Noblesville Seymour and Terre Haute. Millinery selling fast and an advert calls for traveling salespeople.
Indiana special news service reports the Y M C A building in Fort Wayne sold. An aged woman was assaulted and a woman burned to death in Evansville, with local authorities investigating the incidents.
Special to The Star reports Sullivan on August 13 faces drought harming corn and melon crops likely to be short. A separate note from Fr Wayne says the Young Men's Christian Association building was closed and sold to satisfy a $26,000 mortgage held by eastern capitalists.
Evansville Aug. 13. Mrs. O. M. Yarborough living near the city stepped on a parlor match yesterday and sulfur burned into her clothing causing severe burns. She died this evening. She was about thirty years old and leaves two small children.
In Gosiiks on August 13 more than 1,000 alumni and students attended the annual North Manchester college reunion held at Burns park. The event closed with an evening address by Ik. M. Crouch, a former Latin and Greek professor, in McNaughton hall. Charles Mudge, a painter, cut his throat and wrists amid fear of police-held deters, and was found by officers and rushed to hospital.
Information from Latem reports that on Saturday four young men went to the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Wingie, an elderly widow near Brownsville, and criminally assaulted her, then fled. Dalton, a young man, was arrested and jailed yesterday as authorities pursue the others involved.
In Jasper on August 13 a thresher engine exploded at farmer Charles Burger’s place killing not, injuring Joseph Bauer severely and lightly injuring Stephen Luke. Parts scattered 200 yards. Local economic prose and ads follow with routine commerce notes.
John W. Rusk of Belport North Carolina writes to the New York Sun about a troublesome buffalo gnat in the St Francis river valley Arkansas. He notes the insect resembles a buffalo, does not bite, but crawls into mouths nostrils and ears to lay eggs. The larvae damage membranes, harming livestock and game. Planters burn logs to create smoke that chases the gnats from stock. A buck deer wild turkeys and wild hogs seek the smoke. Even a mule carries a smudge nose to nose to escape the pest.
A young couple walks home after theater supper and debates old adages. The woman calls for honesty over verse and jokes about borrowing money for car fare, while the man contemplates the future of the “coming woman” and where romance will lead.
The account describes a vast flood near Jeanette's creek where the ditch disappeared and paddling was free in all directions. It portrays a dusty, waterlogged plain with vast flocks of wildfowl including mallard black duck pintail redhead bluebill widgeon wood duck teal bufflehead and more along with thousands of geese such as Canada geese brant and snow goose.
The article notes royal travelers often carry bedding and bed linen, with queens sometimes using mackintosh sheets to guard against dampness. Grand Duke Paul of Russia travels with a built bedstead for height reasons, while two royal tupissiers manage the queen’s baggage and coordinate palace to palace logistics and routes.
Fresh clean goods offered at cut prices with Men s 3 50 Black vice and Van reduced to 3 00 and other items discounted to 2 50. Sale promotes genuine bargains at the Che Price Shoe Store.
The Indianapolis Sentinel proclaims large circulation and full coverage of McKinley administration, state government, and dispatches from foreign countries. It urges readers to subscribe for daily and weekly editions.
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