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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1897
Page
4
A dubious Dawson City paper circulating as a benign amusements issue is alleged to contain false content and misattributed items. Clarence Barry, who reportedly returned home, is linked to a letter amid claims of financial moves involving a large sum and options on mining claims.
Truant officers were appointed for Bartholomew county on Saturday with good selections. First district Columbus W. Nuore. second district German Nineveh Union Columbus Harrison Ohio Wayne and Jackson townships Jacob Davis Columbus. third district Flat Rock Haw Creek Clay Clifty Rock Creek Sand Creek townships John A. Miller Hope. Good men and good republicans.
Indiana's Hoosiers stretched their season record to nineteen wins in twenty after defeating Kansas City on Saturday. Pardee struggled in the first and third innings while Manning's lineup produced timely hits. Foreman then shut down the visitors after the opening frame as Indianapolis solidified its grip on the league standings.
Crump's Theatre offers standard attractions with a top state orchestra and no current bookings.
Fragmented OCR shows team names and records with numbers for cities like Philadelphia Pittsburg Louisville Washington St. Louis Indianapolis Columbus St. Paul Milwaukee Detroit Minneapolis Kansas City Grand Rapids plus win loss and percentage figures. Data appears garbled but depicts league standings and team scores.
The queen and other royal ladies travel with their own beds and bedding. Grand Duke Paul of Russia uses a bedstead built for travel and set up by a royal mechanic. Two tapissiers serve the queen to pack baggage and coordinate travels between Windsor and other palaces.
The text describes a person who always seeks more after a feast and cannot digest the idea of stopping. It notes his precise way of eating walrus meat, cutting strips and swallowing rope-like chunks. It compares the toughness of walrus hide to elephant skin and mentions Esquiman and Fiqui children chewing and digesting it without indigestion.
A fragmented Detroit Free Press style vignette shows a street gamin helping a woman retrieve her scattered items after her pocketbook falls in the mud. He assists without thanks, then quietly secures a penny he had found, revealing a playful moral about generosity. An advertising note follows for J. A. Newton's one price cash shoe store.
The notice urges debtors to pay promptly and have funds ready when the collector comes by. It stresses that the newspaper must be funded and that everyone owes money to the office.
The Southern Railway begins daily Louisville to Chattanooga service with one way tickets at 6.10 and round trips at 6.55 9.10 and 12.25 good varying days beyond sale date. Key trains depart 7:45 a.m. and 7:35 p.m. with through sleepers on the evening run. For details contact William H Tayloe 216 Fourth Avenue Louisville KY.
The article recalls Jenny Lind's final public performance on July 23, 1883 at the Spa,-alvern Hills England, as described by Mrs. Raymond Maude. The concert benefited the Railway Servants Benevolent Fund and drew country folk paying 18 pence for standing room. An observer recounts nursing her in her last sad week and a visitor from a remote cottage remembers the event as a cherished treat in old age.
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