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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1897
Page
4
An extensive ad lists numerous properties for sale in Columbus and nearby Brown, Jackson, and Clay counties. Cottages, farms, and vacant lots across Franklin, Maple Grove, and East Columbus are offered with low cash payments and monthly terms, including multiroom houses, acreage in Ohio and Texas, and city lots near depots and streets. Some parcels include two-story homes, barns, orchards, and development parcels with trade options.
The fragment describes entertaining guests at hotels or restaurants during Sunday dinner hour to belong to fashionable society. It suggests social dining as a trend and invites readers to join the fashionable circle.
The jumble quotes mention tariff talk, a doctor patient exchange about sleep, a misfired joke about a husband killing his wife, and classified lines for bargains. Ads warn savings at Meyers & Fiegenbaum, while a novelty line touts Clarelate for cooling at a fountain.
An excerpt shows a promotional block for water motors from C. M. Kellar with buyers quoted on debt and credit. It includes Cascarets Candy Cathartic advertisements and a testimonial style exchange about curing constipation.
Eugene I Huber assigns all notes and accounts from his Columbus furniture business to Emma Treadway who is authorized to collect. Public notice dated July 14 1897 in Columbus. The item includes unrelated advertisements for patent medicines and quack remedies.
A new surface outcrop and a 35 to 30-1004 foot tunnel near Salt Lake City reveal a five foot wide vein of natural coke. Officials say the coke is pure and superior to manufactured coke, with no sulfur or smoke. The deposit spans 640 acres in the Home Gate area, owned by Mayor R. N. Baskin and other Salt Lake investors.
An 1890s classified ad lists W. W. Mooney & Sons of Columbus Indiana seeking active laboring men at one dollar twenty five cents per day for ten hours. A Chicago paper quotes an odd inquiry about past animal-life memories, suggesting no nearby asylums for the incurable.
A brief notice announces a money saving sale at the White House with emphasis on every article in the house offered as a positive bargain.
Local advertisement lists discounted items at SEE LOY The New Grocer in Belvedere Block. Prices include Lion coffee 12 per pound, Our own roast 15c, Star Gloss Big 4 soap 3c, canned peaches 7 lb 3c, corn 5c, tomatoes 7c, peas 5c, string beans 5c, bananas 10c per dozen, oranges lemons 10c per dozen, candy 5c, tobacco goods, tacks 1c, Rising Sun stove polish 4c.
A State street book store reports customers paying with a dollar and rushing out before receiving change. The clerk notes many leave with nearly the full dollar, while the store donates unclaimed change to charities at year end. The piece laments customer haste and repeated change refusals.
A garbled compilation of kitchen hints and odd notes on keeping vegetables, crust trimming of bread, custard cooking, horseradish sauce, cleaning windows, and a brief, fragmentary report on bear meat trade notes from Chicago Tribune and Del Rio News. The text preserves scattered specifics like vinegar cleaning, lemon juice usage, and a bear meat anecdote involving market selling prices and seasonal demand.
The North American Review argues athletic sport benefits health when practiced moderately. It warns against excessive rivalry and overtraining, noting risks to heart and lungs and digestive system, while acknowledging many youths compete publicly and some die, but thousands enter major city meets annually.
In a crowded transport incident, travelers restrained a rude conductor after he mishandled passengers. The altercation ended without lasting injuries as bystanders helped calm the scene and restore order aboard.
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