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Newspaper

Columbus Star

Location

Columbus, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Dec 26, 1896

Page

2

Local Conditions Report With Warmer Weather Ahead

A garbled weather note indicates brighter warmth and a forecast of milder conditions for Saturday. Mentions creators or editors and local context but lacks clear details on location or measurements.

Desert Horror Tale From Sahara Surfaces In Journal

The piece describes two exhausted travelers in the Sahara amid scorching heat and circling vultures. They abandon their guns, stumble toward a natural opening and cry for water as fear and thirst rise, with a sense of doomed discovery.

Sahara New York Journal Reeks Garden

Sims Reeves and Encores Stirring Musical Debate

The piece rebukes the practice of encore renditions as a harmful tradition in concert performance and questions audience tolerance. It recalls Red Jacket medal authenticity and a Lord Ampthill anecdote about 19th century foreign office reforms.

Sims Reeves

Stahlhuths Lotion Promises Clear Skin Imprved

An advertisement touts Stahlhuths Lotion as the sole toilet preparation with anlizmodic properties that cures shapps and treats pimples and other imperfections. It claims to keep skin clear smooth and elastic and is sold only in 2c bottles with imitators warned. Ernest Stahlhuths & of Druggists ses Coluunus, Lid.

Trapping Turkeys Methods Described In Florida Habits

The article cites C B Cory describing a nesting trap used by hunters to capture wild turkeys. Corn is scattered to lure birds into a progressively raised cone shaped box built with logs. Turkeys enter through a top opening but cannot escape with wings spread, resulting in capture.

Florida C. B. Cory Department of Ornithology Field Columbian Museum Chicago

Country Guest Tricks Clerk To Retrieve Missing £40

A rural visitor in London handed a hotel clerk £20 for the safe but the clerk denied recollection. Advice from a lawyer led him to repay and recover each £20 note with a staged plan involving a friend, ending in all sums returned to the countryman.

London Jeter

Central Union lines link Indianapolis to US cities

Columbus and surrounding towns gain long distance telephone access as Central Union announces copper metallic circuits and Long Distance equipment. Manager offers quotes on service dates and visits for interested subscribers, with a list of county and city officials and court meeting dates.

Columbus Central Union United States Theity New York Pittsburg Philadelphia O. Viqua Dayton Cincinati Cleveland Hamilton Cadmore Chisago Detroit Mich South Pend Terre Haute Ind Central Union Telephone

Prince Max of Saxony Becomes Catholic Priest in London

Prince Max of Saxony aged 26 has joined the Church of St Boniface in Whitechapel as a priest and renounced his claim to the Saxon throne. Once in the army, he left military life to enter a monastery amid rumors of an attachment to Princess Fedora of Schleswig-Holstein. He has gained popularity among East End workers and told a Gesellenverein crowd he comes as a priest, not a prince.

Fedora Schleswig- Holstein Prince Max of Saxony London St. Boniface Union Street Whitechapel Prince George Duke of Saxony New York Commercial Advertiser Prince Max Schleswig-Holstein East End Gesellenverein

Party Line Telephone Exchange Service

The CextTeau Union TELEPHonD Company unveils apparatus enabling two or more subscribers to share a single line without signal interference. It aims to improve party-line service for grounded or metallic circuits and reduce costs below independent-line rates. Rates quoted on application to the Manager.

CextTeau Union Telephond Company

Drugegiste Up to Date and Seasonal Remedies

A condensed view of druggists altering stock with changing seasons. Spring brings moth balls powders and repellents. summer introduces cold sodas fruit syrups and insect preventives. fall ushers in cough lozenges as routines shift with weather. The piece traces how pharmacies stock and market seasonal health products.

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