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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1897
Page
4
Classified loan rental and collection agents advertise properties from cottages to farms with prices and easy monthly terms. Listings include 1044 Washington St cottages, 1527 Washington St cottage, multiple Franklin and Maple Grove properties, and Brown and Jackson county acreage with trade options and bargains.
Eastern capitalists organize a company to buy a large tract in Brown County for a game reserve stocked with deer turkeys pheasants and quail. Plan includes fencing custodian overseers dams stocked fish and breeding sheep with a projected cost of a million dollars. Some Indiana men are investing though land purchase faces resistance from homeowners. W A Stevens and T A tush figure prominently in local Republican circles.
London reports that talks among the American Bimetallic Commission and French and British representatives have reached a stage making it highly probable that Great Britain will participate in a conference to be held in Washington next fall.
A Seymour crowd gathered after an afternoon paper ad costing under fifty cents brought 800 to 1000 people to a tight rope performance. Readers warned against substitutes and urged careful shopping. A local note mentions M. E. Church services and a telegram about Mr. Turpin buying a new press in Chicago and returning home.
May Webb visits her mother-in-law in Waynesburg. Anderson Holland and his Hope wife attended church here last Sunday. Edith McCallie shows improvement after an illness. Elijah McChintic did business in Columbus yesterday. Maggie McCallie remains very ill. Jane Higgins of Fatrock visited her mother Sarah Dillman Sunday. Will Barrett and family of Columbus visited Monday. Dora Williams of Taylorsville visits brother John McCallie. Mart Hill of Waynesburg transacted business here Friday.
A reader recounts how a Pontedria crassipes changed growth as it moved from a window bowl to a dinner boiler and then a deep crock. Dividing the plant and letting one half thrive in the boiler, the other in the crock, the plant shifted from horizontal spread to upward growth with large waxy leaves and air bulbs. The piece praises the plant's resilience and low maintenance.
A seven by eight foot brick chimney eighty five feet high weighing about one hundred tons was moved nine hundred fifty feet at Manhasset Shelter Island Suffolk County New York without damage. The operation used a grain capstan two skids and grease blocks with four men and one horse taking nine days from loading to placement on a new foundation. A prior chimney of fifty two feet at Bridgehampton was moved similarly without incident.
Dr. C Hart Menham argues against Theodore Roosevelt’s zoological theories and urges museums and naturalists to secure and preserve large mammals from remote ranges. He notes European extinctions and early losses in the United States, citing the buffalo, giant grizzly in California, wolves, and a disappearing elk or wapiti across the Alleghenies to the Adirondacks.
Bears on Anticosti: Parisian financier Mr Menier grants a curing plan concession for the bear population on Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St Lawrence as bear meat and hams gain Paris cachet. London Needlework Guild reports strong showings with duchesses and ladies contributing thousands of articles for the Imperial Institute exhibit, totaling 55 050 pieces.
The advertisement promotes fashionable Sunday dinners at Fashion RestaurAnt 609 Washington Street. It invites guests to entertain friends or family at hotels or restaurants during Sunday dinner hour, noting past patron satisfaction and a goal to please in the future.
Samuel Sharp, a Philadelphia area conductor with the number 13 shadowing his life, cites a string of misfortunes from birth to marriage. He was the youngest of 13 siblings, suffered a hospital stay after a 13th day wreck, lost an inheritance when a bank failed, and saw his wife die at 13 South Thirteenth Street. He refuses to punch the 13th trip, often handing the task to passengers.
Clifford Howard surveys Moravian customs in Bethlehem Pa describing death announcements by trombone choir from the church belfry. The bells of mourning are replaced by hymns as mourners pause to listen and celebrate a belief that death leads to a brighter home. The trombones accompany funerals and open-air services, marking both sorrow and joy with solemn music.
The London Echo reports the sultan’s succession rests with his four brothers rather than his eldest son Prince Selim. Rechad Effendi, the eldest after ex-Sultan Murad, leads a guarded life as an informally prisoner while remaining popular for his courteous, informed nature. Rechad’s residence is the Thher agan palace and visitors are searched.
The Yale Scientific Monthly notes a new floor mosaic process using fine wood particles bound with shellac and cement, pressed in hot molds. The hardened compound resists temperature changes and can produce colored mosaics by dyeing wood or using dyed shellac mixtures.
A Brooklyn resident describes the trolley buzz a recurring sound felt by regular riders. He claims sitting near a car axle relieves his headaches after a three mile ride, though he notes no electricity enters the car and wonders what air or atmosphere may help.
A St. Louis Globe Democrat report details electric ring alarms for safes inside cabinets or vaults. Thin metal sheets and steel alarm boxes, hooded to resist tampering, trigger warnings if doors are forced or lag bolts are loosened, with time locks preventing cabinet or vault entry.
A lump of cannel burns on the grate as air is drawn in beneath and rises through the bars. Oxygen combines with coal to form carbonic gas, with inert nitrogen and smoke oxides in the chimney. The explanation notes energy loss in the burning process.
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