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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1897
Page
3
Letters to the Jeffersonville Journal rail against costly frame work and unwarranted swindles by out of town sellers. Citizens urge support for home merchants, cite a past frame scam, and promote character as defense against mind control in public life.
The article lists shipboard regulations with wage forfeitures for offenses. Quarreling or provoking quarrel costs one day’s pay, carrying a sheath knife costs one day, bringing spirits costs three days, smoking below costs one day per act, failing to extinguish lights costs one day, sleeping on duty costs two days, cook late costs one day, not being shaved and clean on Sabbath costs one day, insolence costs one day, striking costs double, and smuggling tea tobacco or rum costs a full month’s wages.
The article describes early use of electric current to numb a tooth during extraction. A compact battery powers a two‑handed setup where patient grips handles and the dentist completes the circuit with forceps to render tooth and gum insensible to pain. The boast: no nitrous gas and a quick, painless procedure.
A London establishment, run by a former fighting-dog breeder, uses gin and water to stunt puppy growth from hours after birth. The method deprives pups of milk and makes alcohol their sole diet, halting growth for generations to produce a miniature canine.
A famous beggar amasses great property in Peru yet begs in ragged clothes. A charitable governess once gave him a piastre twice weekly. After she mislaid a lira, she followed him to his Taxime home where he checked his takings and found the missing lira, but withheld the piastre.
Mentone on the Mediterranean is described as a health resort for invalids, especially consumptives, with a mild climate and tropical vegetation. The piece claims mass illness among locals and workers after the town became a retreat for tuberculosis patients, allegedly spreading germs through soil and air.
The prince of Wales hunts partridges with aides in a blind and bags thousands of birds in a day. William II. hunts big game with organized lines, inspecting carcasses as roe deer, boars, stags, and hundreds of birds are displayed.
A San Francisco club discussion among nurses featured a demonstration with a chamois model of a baby’s stomach. The moment drew a murmur when a spectator quipped that most milk ends up in the nurse’s lap, followed by a billing remark of 95 rubles.
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