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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1896
Page
3
Two men robbed a store then fled toward a bogey as Philip Spaugh and Mr. Rosecrans challenged them. They fired, villagers returned fire, and the culprits escaped on a rig. Police sought bloodhounds from nearby towns but found none. Funeral news and local notices follow.
A battered seven line Greek inscription tablet from Jerusalem, found in 1871 by Clermont-Ganneau, ties to Josephus on the Herodian temple’s balustrade guarding the sanctuary. The artifact, now in a Constantinople antiquities museum, confirms the ban on Gentiles entering the inner precinct and aids dating Greek inscriptions in Jerusalem archaeology.
Hunters in Yellowstone country discover a dead grizzly buried by gas from ground vents. They later find four more bears an elk and smaller animals suffocated in a natural basin where fumes pool. The event causes headaches and nausea for the men as well.
The Red Jacket club of Canandaigua holds a medal they claim was given by the famous Seneca chief to George Washington. Some locals question the relic’s authenticity while Canandaiguan residents insist the medal’s provenance is beyond doubt.
Various classified items list furniture sale prices with mahogany tables at 69 cents, ink sales, real estate loan offers, rentals for a furnished room on Washington street, and a notice about dry wood. A theft report notes Reverend W. W. Rymer of Wabash reporting the loss of his horse and buggy Sunday night.
A historical note explains how watches gain or lose time when kept near the body or in cold or magnetized environments. It cites magnetism from dynamos and body electricity as factors, with a watchmaker advising demagnetizing and cautioning wearers. The piece claims dark or highly electric individuals may affect their watches more.
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