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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1897
Page
2
An advertisement by T. Hubert Owens Druggists promotes Black Velvet Harness oil to keep harness leather supple and extend its life. It notes availability in can and bulk and targets owners of sets from H. Kinney and O. A. Turpin proprietors. Local weather forecast appears in the same notice.
Storms sweep the South with tornado reports and mass devastation in Mooringapocrt Louisiana where many are killed and crippled. A church becomes a hospital, children found far from homes, and clothes stripped. Arkansas and Louisiana endure a narrow but deadly path. north and west endure heavy blizzards with trains blocked by snow drifts.
The issue reprints clippings advocating W. R. McKeen for the United States Senate arguing he aided the country during Morton’s era and deserves the position. The clippings are promised to continue in future issues.
Superintendent Kimball recalls two boys who tested poison ivy by swallowing leaf dust after reading a warning. One boy suffered severe mouth and throat injuries while the other fared better, though still ill, highlighting the dangers of self experimentation with plant toxins.
The fragment hints at on board tensions and care amid hardships at sea. It mentions a season’s end and a comparison to a bow, suggesting strain and endurance among crew or passengers. The text remains unclear but conveys rough morale amid voyage.
A fragmented report describes ambassadors losing favor over a failed attempt at a kiss and a lavish display of intelligence. It notes officials like Tadulin at the Tsissium court and the Gerauen empire observing rites and warnings about bold conduct.
The article describes Liberia’s lack of clocks and a sun based daily cycle. It details Candle-tree kernels burned in sequence to measure minutes, with black cloth markers marking intervals. It notes Singar in the Malay archipelago using dual-necked bottles with sand and a 12 notch line for time.
The article notes H. A. Grant’s early prominence in the Philo Mathean Debating Club in Maysville Kentucky from its 33rd meeting on January 3 1937 through March 27 1837. He debated affirmatives on topics including Texan liberty for Santa Anna female influence society slavery and Socrates not escaping. He later appears as U Grant on Intemperance versus war and helped form a debating committee with A H Markland and W Richeson. The record suggests he returned home to help harvest the crop after March 27 1837.
A tale from a Dutch merchant known as the king of smokers holds a funeral where attendees receive ten pounds of tobacco and two Dutch pipes engraved with the testator’s name. Guests are urged to keep pipes alight and ashes poured into the grave as his coffin is lined with Havana cedar. An Irish anti tobacco will prompted fines for heirs who smoke.
A fragment lists numerous individuals and towns including Taylorsville, Columbus, Wayne, Jonesville, and Waymanaque County. It names J. A. Wade and local editors AI Stevens and Ed Komine as part of the officer or civic directory.
Albany editor notes urge of a Southern colored man who writes the mayor asking to be brought north and sold into slavery. The piece mocks the idea of a revival of slavery and points out the writer’s misconception about the abolition of slavery and the history of the Civil War.
The Duchess De Dino, an American born businesswoman, orders a 13 story New York building on a $300,000 site and has rented eight floors. The fourth floor rental for years brings $50,000. She oversees her estate personally. The report notes her substantial property activities and development plans.
Take effect November fifteenth and trains will depart from the Pennsylvania passenger depot with service to Indianapolis. The fragment suggests revised scheduling or routing notices for passengers in that period.
The CenTRAL Asion Telephone Company announces a new party line system that allows two or more subscribers to share a single line without interfering with each other. The firm promises improved efficiency, lower costs than independent line service, and will quote rates on request or provide on-site visits.
A sequence of street intersections and industrial sites including Mooney's Tannery Starch Works Reeves Pulley Works and multiple numbered cross streets such as 12-Second and Jackson 13-Fifth and Brown 14-Fifth and Washington 15-Seventh and Jackson 16-Third and Washington 17-Mooney's Tannery 18-Starch Works 21-Second and Franklin 25-Eighth and Franklin 24-Fleventh and Franklin 25-Fourteenth and Franklin 26-Sixth and Mechanic 31-Third and Pearl 34-Fifth and Sycamore 35-Ninth and Sycamore 36-Thirteenth and Sycamore 43-Seventh and Chestnut 45-Fifth and Wiroa 4$-Eghth and Union 52-Reeves Pulley Works 63-tenth and Hutchine Avenue 6-Sixteenth and California 7-Seventh and Orinoco Avenue.
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