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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1897
Page
2
The Calumbus Star lists H Kinney and A Turpin as proprietors with Ertrude Jett as society reporter and Turpin as City Editor. The newspaper is stored post office at Calumbus Indiana and designated as second class matter.
The piece surveys peanuts as a major global commodity with Judge Christiancy praising its world spread and rival of bananas. It cites the battleship Iowa’s official trials and a $200,000 bonus for exceeding contract speed, plus fashion notes on 14 carat gold poodles and jewel harnesses.
A short promotional notice warns customers that true costs come from business expenses and urges buyers to inspect labels and trademarks. It contrasts cheaper substitutes with genuine goods and cautions against hasty purchases. Ensigns of the store emphasize value and honesty in pricing.
A Meehan's Monthly note describes a pontedria crassipes started in a window bowl, thriving by spring. It was moved to an old dinner boiler, then split into a crock and boiler, with half sent as cuttings. The plant adjusted by growing upward with air bulbs and large waxy leaves, while remaining easy to care for with water.
A brick chimney 85 feet high and seven feet square at the base, weighing nearly 100 tons, was moved about 950 feet on rough ground at Manhasset Shelter Island Suffolk County New York. The operation used a grain capstan and one horse, took nine days, and four men, with no damage or accidents. The same contractors earlier moved a 52 foot chimney at Bridgehampton without incident.
In Science Dr. C Hart Merriam attacks Theodore Rooseveltudent zoological views and urges museums and naturalists to act to preserve large mammals. He notes European extinctions and ongoing losses in the United States, citing the buffalo, California grizzly, large wolves, and the elk in the Alleghenies and Northeast.
Mr. Menier, the Parisian millionaire who bought Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, has granted a concession to establish a curing plant for bear meat. Bear hams are becoming a fashionable delicacy in Paris.
A New York Times dispatch from Washington reports President and Mrs Cleveland will invite Mr and Mrs McKinley to dine ahead of the inauguration. Mrs McKinley to arrive March 2 at the Ebbitt House. Cleveland plans to return to New York after March 4 and Princeton repairs delay their new home. Cleveland contemplates resuming his law practice in New York.
Joseph Pulitzer owner of the New York World buys the Jekyll Island residence of Mr and Mrs W R Furness Philadelphia for 45000 in cash He plans to spend winters there and has telegraph wires installed to stay in touch with the outside world A dredgeboat began work on the island just before the closing of the deal and a pulling engine operated nearby.
The article describes the People’s University near St Anne, Illinois South of Chicago, on a 640 acre tract. Students and teachers live, work, and study together building housing and farms with a common store and no external endowments.
A New York Sun query about intellectual distinctions prompts a tale from a women’s gathering. Members clash over watches, none remembered theirs, until the first vice president reveals a wound timepiece that needed setting and winds up clarifying the prankish commerce of clocks. The piece moves through other quips about marriage and social mores, reflecting on inwardness and etiquette.
The Indianapolis Daily Sentinel promises abundant upcoming coverage of McKinley’s cabinet and administration, state government under Republicans, and broad foreign news. It touts vast circulation and dispatches, urging readers to subscribe for twelve pages daily, weekly, and Sunday editions.
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