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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1897
Page
4
A collage of market pitches and a humorous riddle about calculating age appears. Kinney & Kinney advertise insurance and goods while quack cures like No-To-Bac and magnetic tonics tout their benefits. The piece notes substitute goods and warns shoppers against deceptive sales.
A restaurant notes strong patron satisfaction with Sunday dinners and expresses intent to maintain high standards for future service.
An old advertisement promotes Bays Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a cure all for kidneys liver and bones with prices 10 25 and 50 cents and urges buyers to avoid substitutes. It also offers job printing at the Stan office and notes a Cincinnati excursion on Saturday August 21 by the Big Four with return by August 23 and agent J S Surry.
The reviewer portrays Matanzas and three western provinces as an ash heap after extensive destruction. He notes unorganized, starving families, widespread misery, and looming famine under reconcentration rules. He cites Gen Molinas in March decreeing destruction of property and crops.
A Yale Divinity Hall student fired a toy rifle at a lamp and hit a professor’s window. The professor calculated the bullet’s path and traced it to a colleague, who confessed when confronted. The ministerial student admitted guilt and urged dropping the matter, and authorities complied.
A famed Englishman arrives in New York in robust health and eager for America. The next day he collapses into a wreck after viewing eight photos of himself in American papers, a shock described as terrible. The incident contrasts his prior vitality with a sudden, unseen strain.
Seats on sale at Otto's Drug Store commencing Friday evening.
Southern Railway advertises daily Louisville to Chattanooga round trip prices 6.10 6.55 and 9.10 12.21 with seven to fifteen day validity and a November 7 deadline. Double daily departures 7:45 a.m. and 7:35 p.m. through sleepers on the evening train. Contact William H. Tayloe 216 Fourth Ave Louisville Ky for details.
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