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Newspaper

Columbus Star

Location

Columbus, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Jul 11, 1897

Page

4

Real estate bargains offer owner financing options

An extensive list of properties in Columbus and surrounding areas markets many homes and land parcels for quick sale. Listings include cottages with 3 to 6 rooms on various streets, large houses with barns, 15 acre and 180 acre tracts, a saw mill, and multiple farms with prices and monthly payment terms. Some properties trade for city property or cash down with balance over time.

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Fashion Restaurant Promotes Special Sunday Dinners

To entertain your friends or family at hotels or restaurants at the Sunday dinner hour we recommend those specially prepared dinners now being served at the Fashion Restaurant 609 Washington street. Patrons have been highly pleased with our efforts and we aim to continue pleasing in the future.

Fashion Restaurant

Amusing Notes on Lord Mayor’s Men Servants Uniforms

A Collector writer notes the lord mayor keeps 15 servants, eight over six feet tall, in sap phire blue velvet livery with heavy gold lace. Uniforms are worn during office and later sold to the supplier, who ships the garments to African kings for state occasions, sometimes with a gold crown sent along.

Clothiera A. Ality

Pompeii Tools Echo Modern Workshop In Iron Age Study

Visitor notes Pompeii’s ancient implements resemble today’s tools across farming and surgery. Bronze devices show lockers taps and boilers, water pipes run by lead mains, and fountains adorn large houses. A list of famed historical figures follows, marking a century of genius ages.

Sree Gooaman Pompeii Glass and Pottery Magazine Pompeiians Kitchener

Man on Chicago streetcar tries to tip conductor with quarter

A passenger with mud splashed valise and new suit boards a South Halsted streetcar near the stock yards. He pays fare with a dollar, keeps change, then offers a silver quarter to the conductor claiming a wife’s instruction to tip everyone, and threatens to double the tip if spoken.

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Long Distance Riding Secret and Courtroom Comedy

A piece on efficient long distance riding advises steady pace and minimal stops with gear prepared in advance. A Jacksonville broker defends a defendant in Alabama mountains, delivering a sudden courtroom verdict of not guilty after a humorous cross examination and a misquoted law.

Dacksonville Alabama Chitty

Spiders as Unlikely Pets and Their Quiet Grace

A lady writer argues spiders can be delightful pets. She describes keeping a common garden spider under a glass for three weeks, watching it weave snowy silk, raise a family, and drink water from a leaf. She says spiders can be architects, beautiful, pest slayers, and companionable at home.

Boys Test Poison Ivy Myths In Summer Experiment

Superintendent Kimball of the life saving service recalls two boys who swallowed ivy leaves believing it would cure ivy allergy. He notes the leaf’s undersides carry fine dust and warns experiments can be dangerous as both boys were poisoned during their woods play.

Kimball Ile Saving Service Washington Star Mr. Kimball

Converting Coal to Electricity Aims in Harper's Magazine

A fragment argues electricity could replace heat in coal energy use by direct conversion. It notes that current plants waste about 97.4 percent and that only roughly 6 percent of coal energy is utilized as electricity. The piece cites Dr Williams and Harper's Magazine.

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Fragmentary Prisoner Note Leaves Gaps in Report

Partial OCR text shows two prisoners with unclear details and a brief personal note mentioning a recount. The readable elements suggest a detention-related item with missing names and context.

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