Sunshine Incubators and J A George Wooddeal on Washington
A terse note mentions Washington street activity involving Sunshine Incubators and J A George with references to substantial wood dealings or loads.
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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1897
Page
1
A terse note mentions Washington street activity involving Sunshine Incubators and J A George with references to substantial wood dealings or loads.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich writes Judith and MHolofernes to be staged in London next spring Miss Nethersole plans a London production Sidney Colvin advances on a Stevenson biography with sixteen to eighteen months before publication Verne plans a world country themed story cycle Bjornson comments on Ibsen pessimism Canadian born Buss Carman cites Browning Emerson Arnold Swinburne as influences and is about thirty five years old.
The Vincennes Sun reports Harry Woods a thirteen year old boy was adjudged insane by a lunacy commission after heavy smoking of cigarettes. Doctors treated the boy whose mind deteriorated and hallucinations led to unmanageable behavior. The commission named Squires McCoy and McClure found him unsound minded. The hospital notified the Southern Indiana Hospital for the Insane and the community offers sympathy to the parents.
A freight wreck in Brookville Lyp. on February 6 after spreading rails derailed eight cars and partially wrecked them. Big Four traffic was suspended but no injuries were reported.
Fire at James Lantz residence on West Main street in Xenia started in Mrs Bonner room an invalid. Mrs Lantz braved the blaze and rescued her but suffered serious burns. Property loss about 300 dollars.
Life quotes a playful exchange where Mr. Pompon offers a bag of peanuts to the humorist Snickers. The humorist ponders the idea of a change from chestnuts, noting the irony with a thoughtful response.
The Stage reports James O Niel shows in the northwest as Fanny Davenport resists imitation and Jessie Bartlett Davis laments too many actresses. Chauncy Olcott features a St Bernard in Sweet Inniscarra while Frederick Paulding earns 500 dollars weekly in New York vaudeville. The Herrmann company garners success in New England and Bancroft the magician astonishes Kansas City diners with a levitated wine illusion.
The coat style flatters the figure with a tight back and loose front. French women favor white satin stock collars with silk and velvet shirts, and high necked bodices dominate evening wear. Newest gowns feature accordion pleats and frills on the bodice. Barley water is recommended for fevers and coughs, with a detailed preparation method. Care guidance for silk undergarments advises gentle washing and careful rinsing to avoid damage.
The article explains that drinking milk too quickly causes it to form a single mass in the stomach. Sipping milk allows gastric juice to work more effectively, turning milk into a sponge-like form as digestion proceeds.
A humorous job scene in the Cleveland Leader shows an editor asking a hopeful applicant if he has fits. The applicant replies yes and is hired to begin Monday to edit Cuban war dispatches, highlighting wartime newspaper work fantasies.
The Cincinnati Post profiles Decatur County representative W. H. Godard of Greensburg as an apparent populist with iron-gray hair eye glasses and a long beard, noting he is a Republican who has never risen to speak in the Indiana House.
A Cincinnati Times Star summary notes sharp calls from mugwump Democrats to drop protectionist pledges amid Cleveland era tariff fights. Separate item reports diphtheria outbreaks in Otis with deaths and a Michigan City sheriff enforcing disease laws. A street encounter shows class contrasts as a well dressed lady thanks a rough helper for aid across an icy crossing.
A mix of society notes and humorous items: William Waldorf Astor owns about 4,000 New York City houses and earns over 6 million dollars yearly. Tremont Temple in Boston is used for charity collections that fail to cover rent. Mrs. Susan Winans of Santa Anna, Alabama, is said to be the sole survivor of Fort Dearborn Massacre survivor talks pension with Chicago Historical Society. A Melbourne clergyman outfits male choristers in Highland dress while women wear Lady of the Lake costumes. hymns play with bagpipes. A cartoonish exchange about a revolver mishap appears from the Chicago Record. Miss Helen Pryor requests a sermon copy from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. a Columbus Indiana ad calls for a 10-hour daily collector job.
A scenic production of James A. Herne's Shore Acres opens at Crump's theater tonight. The play offers a vivid New England coastal atmosphere with a lighthouse setting and native characters, delivering humor and pathos through its restrained剧情 and a rare climactic fight between two brothers in the lighthouse.
The St James Gazette notes public alarm is unlikely and urges calm while summarizing a government board study on oysters and typhoid. Br Bulstrode found beds near sewer outfalls in places like Southend Grimsby Shoreham and the Isle of Wight pose risk, Whitstable and other beds are safe, reforms can remove danger, and authorities must act.
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