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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1897
Page
2
The Columbus Herald notes rising wheat prices and says factories in Columbus run full time with more workers, some twelve hours daily, and that every farmer’s sale will bring higher prices this year than under Democratic power. The piece argues prosperity may endure beyond Cleveland’s presidency.
An Indianapolis Journal item describes an excursionist tired yet cheerful at Union Station waiting for his train home after a day near Military Park and a hotel dinner. A contrast with a flashy companion is noted as the man recalls his pleasant experiences in Dayton.
A writer recalls how Pontedria crassipes adapts to changing pots from a dinner boiler to a deep crock. By midsummer the plant grows upward as air bulbs become long stems with large glossy leaves. The plant thrives with minimal care, needing only water.
The 85 foot high brick chimney with a seven foot square base, eight inch walls, weighs nearly 100 tons, was moved 950 feet over rough ground at Manhansett Shelter Island Suffolk County New York. The cradle rode on greased skids and blocks, a grain capstan and one horse at 180 fold, four workers completed loading in nine days and the chimney was set on a new foundation without harm. This is the second such move by the same contractors. the first chimney was 52 feet high at Bridgehampton and was also moved without accident.
A North Carolinian writes to the New York Supreme Court regarding buffalo gnats affecting livestock. He notes gnats resemble buffalo, do not bite but crawl into mouths ears and nostrils, laying eggs that damage membranes and kill stock. Planters use smoke to repel them, as deer hogs and turkeys seek the smudge.
A humorous exchange between Mazie and a young suitor unfolds after a theater supper. He betters grandiose promises with a request for a dime and a kiss as a lampoon of romance and modern domestic pragmatism. The couple ends by taking a cable car home, musing on the future of clever women.
In a late Science issue Dr. C Hart Merriam criticizes Theodore Roosevelt's zoological theories and urges museums hunters and naturalists to collect and preserve large mammal specimens from remoter ranges. He warns of extinctions across the US Europe and unknown elk disappearances from the Appalachians to the Adirondacks.
A hunting expedition near Jeanette creek reveals a vast inundated plain where floodwater hides the ditch and hundreds of thousands of waterfowl drift and flock. Mallards blacks ducks and teals dominate the scene with geese, Canada varieties, brant and snow geese plentiful in daily migrations.
Mr Menier, the Parisian millionaire who acquired Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St Lawrence has issued a concession for a bear meat curing plant. Bears are plentiful on the island and bear ham is becoming a fashionable delicacy in Paris.
A New York Sun inquiry notes a humorous scene at a women’s gathering where several officers discover they forgot their watches. The first vice president presents a timepiece but the group teases it, finally confirming the device was wound but not set, ending with a light remark about human forgetfulness.
Miss Alice A Holmes of Jersey City, now wealthy after inheritances totaling over 500000, is 75 and blind since age 14. She earned her living as a music teacher despite blindness and will use her fortune to educate others who are visually impaired, her brother having supported her in California.
A local sale offers ladies oxford shoes originally two dollars now priced at one fifty. Tan lace styles also reduced from two dollars to one fifty or one seventy five.
The Indianapolis Sentinel touts largest state circulation with abundant foreign and state news. It promotes McKinley era coverage, Republican state government control, and dispatches from abroad to readers across Indiana in weekly and Sunday editions.
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