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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1897
Page
4
After a short delay the bill to ban sales of cigarettes cigars or tobacco to minors under eighteen was called up by Mr. Canada and passed 58 yeas 9 nays. The editors express hope the Senate will pass and it becomes law.
In Friday sessions a large number of minor bills were recorded as passed. Senator White’s measure to allow county treasurers six percent for delinquent tax collection failed. Senator Wood’s drug sales bill was summoned as a special order for Tuesday. Senator Duncan’s auditing board proposal was amended to place county commissioners in the auditing role and was approved.
The Times column attacks Joseph I. Irwin over Mr. Strauss removal to Seymour, praising his fifty years in Columbus, wealth, and generosity. It notes yesterday’s zero temperature, farmers in town, and Miss Cora Johnson joining Owens & Williams.
An essay notes how familiar phrases such as last rose of summer or distance lends enchantment to the view linger in speech but may clash with contemporary style. It argues some quotations remain indispensable in writing and conversation, resisting complete suppression.
A note from Ernst Stanu Lioutrin & Co. druggists in Columbus Indiana highlights egg prices or availability.
A petite matron and her young child enter a street car. The mother expects seats for herself and the child, but most men ignore offers. An elderly woman comments on the child's fatigue, while the mother calls the girl disgusted, noting she has never ridden on a hog ear.
Early Christian philosophers used marine life like the whale and pelican to teach moral lessons. The pelican tale describes self sacrifice and rebirth, with the mother bird wounding herself to revive her offspring, symbolizing mercy and renewal.
T W Young of Washington has devised an electrical heater to lower into oil wells. It melts paraffin and other clogging refuse in the oilstone, freeing passages and restoring strong flow. The device, about three feet long, radiates heat to the rock, melting blockages so oil can rise again.
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