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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1897
Page
3
A damaged OCR passage describes a gardener placing a lily in a crock and noting plant growth. The murky text references Pontedaria crassipes and a waxy bloom, with sporadic observations of outdoors scenes and attempts to support a plant with improvised containers.
A garbled OCR passage references events and places including names like Theo Sioa and Adiron, mentions the United States and California, and discusses memory, islands, and a possible calamity. Details are unclear due to corruption, but themes include protests, disasters, and notable figures.
An old classifieds item lists ice cream by the dish or quart delivered citywide and promotes Kinney & Ninney windstorm policies for Columbus. Also advertised are Dust Destroyers CGM Wellar & Co products, Carter family cascara pills, and druggist M. Dannington offering refunds if quality fails with a general admonition to refuse inferior articles.
The Star promotes reliable printing services with fixed competitive prices and quality materials. All work is solicited and guaranteed to satisfy.
Kinney and Turpin announce a prepaid subscription deal for Twice-a-Week Courier Journal and Weekly Star Tak priced at 25 cents per six weeks, with sample copies mailed on request. Renewals and new subscribers must pay in advance to receive the papers. Subscription orders go to Columbus Morning Span, Columbus, Indiana.
Nashville Tenn Mastette Nov 1 reports the great southern exposition attracting nationwide interest. The 16 Four offers through train service to Cincinnati from New York Boston Buffalo Cleveland and Columbus with connections from Detroit Peoria and Sandusky and from Chicago Benton Harbor to Cincinnati and Louisville. Direct connections are made with the Q and CG Route aided by the L&N. Full information is available upon application.
A bold travel offer via the Big Four Route lists a Niagara Falls round trip for 8.00 with a Toronto side trip for 1.00 more and Thousand Islands add-on 5.50 above the Niagara rate. Tickets are valid five days for return from Niagara Falls and Toronto. Elegant parlor cars and Wagner sleeping cars feature the trip conducted by Big Four representatives. information and pamphlets available from Big Four ticket agent J. Snitch.
Carpets mattings shades and oilcloths offered at deep discounts as a moving sale before updating rooms at the White House.
The Big Four Route announces a one fare round trip for the B Y P U of America annual convention in Chattanooga Tennessee from July 15 to 18. Eastbound trains reach Cincinnati with connections to Q and L N in Central Union Depot. Western travelers can choose via Cincinnati or Louisville. For rates and full details contact Big Four representatives.
The Philadelphia Record notes conductor Samuel Sharp, famed for superstition about the number 13. As the 13th child in a large family, his life has seen repeated misfortune from school days onward. He faced a 13 week hospital stay after a wreck, lost a $1095 inheritance in a bank failure, and his wife died after moving into 1313 South Thirteenth Street. His trains have even run over 13 men, and he avoids punching the 6th trip on tickets, often asking passengers to do so.
Clifford Howard notes Moravian practice in Bethlehem Pa where death is announced by trombone music from the church steeple. The funeral rites and openair services use the trombones to convey faith that death leads to a brighter home and to mark joyous occasions with solemn, melodic notes.
A Boston Herald digest notes Paris chief rat catcher M. Tienri Dayve, famed for catching over 3,000,000 rats in 35 years and selling live rats for rat battles. It covers restaurant frauds such as bouillon made with colored water, oil beads to imitate grease, and bone ham substitutes by Salmon, ending with a flourish on ham abundance in Paris.
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