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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1897
Page
3
Captain Henry Fancy of the British Aeronaut, crew rescued by the American bark Essex near Santa Fe, Argentina, encounters Capt. Coombs who realizes the rescued man is his sister’s son, the long unseen nephew.
A Hoboken camel from the Dresden voyage endured cramped confinement, then regained use of its legs after a hoisted sling restore. In Jersey City a British alien’s allegiance form sparks debate over forever in signatories. A Texan judge delivers a terse Me ican verdict in a Leslie’s Weekly anecdote. Messages Along the Ling recount a cavalry signaling mix up with a tobacco inquiry.
A cyclist defends her speed amid a police stop after being accused of scorching. She threatens to report the officer to health boards, insisting she knows her pace and won't tolerate insults. A strange odor and a lamp flame flare up as the scene escalates.
An old newspaper fragment advertises ice cream by the dish quart or gallon delivered citywide. It warns of windstorm risk and promotes Kinney and Kinney policies. Also promotes various products and a druggist refund policy for Cascara pills.
An old Star notice promotes Sita Journal Print Co offering fixed rates for work and a guarantee of satisfaction with the best materials and workmanship. The message emphasizes solicited work and reliability from the printing company.
The Twice a Week Corner Journal and the Twice a Week Courier Journal and the Weeklies each completed a year of SPL activity. The items reflect serialized publication cadence and weekly editions across multiple titles. The notes indicate routine distribution across the period without major disruption.
Kunney and Turpin announce a twice weekly clubbing arrangement with the Courier Journal. Subscriptions must be prepaid for renewals and new subscribers. Sample copies are available on application. All offers to Columbus Morning Star subscribers in Columbus Indiana.
The great southern exposition attracts nationwide interest with applications for the best routes to Sashville. The Big Four offers through trains from New York Boston and other eastern cities to Cincinnati and connections from Detroit Toledo Sandusky Chicago Benton Harbor to Cincinnati and Louisville. Direct links with Q and CG Route and the I dN Ry are provided.
A North Carolina resident describes the buffalo gnat as a strong day pest not biting but flying to faces and entering openings. He recalls encountering them years ago near the St Francis river Arkansas, where smoke from logs was used to drive off the insects. The gnats drive livestock and wildlife toward smudges.
A theatre supper date ends with the couple debating modern manners and honesty. Mazie rejects poetry as sham and asks for practical aid while the young man laments the future of the coming man if the coming woman grows clever, ending with a cautious cable car ride.
The article describes an immense flooded plain near Jeanette's creek where hunters could paddle in any direction. The landscape, though dry in summer, is a vast marsh hosting hundreds of thousands of ducks and geese, including mallard, black duck, pintail, redhead, bluebill, widgeon, wood duck, teal, burhead, merganser, goldeneye, and grebe, with Canada geese dominating.
An advertisement notes a Niagara Falls excursion on Tuesday July 20 via the Big Four route. Round trip to Niagara Falls is 8 dollars with a side trip to Toronto priced 1 900 dollars more, and 50 cents more for Thousand Islands than the Niagara rate. Tickets good returning from Niagara Falls and Toronto for five days and from Thousand Islands for eleven days. Elegant parlor cars Wagner sleeping cars and high backed coaches will be used, with representatives of the Big Four guiding passengers.
A humorous look at aging as Anno Domini illness claiming the body loses spring while feelings stay young. The piece contrasts adults noting time’s ravages with unchanged self perceptions, including unmarried sisters still calling themselves girls and a 70 year old hoping for Delia’s marriage.
Carpets, mattings, slides, and oilcloths offered at large reductions ahead of the new carpet room opening at the White House.
The Big Four Route will name a One Fare Round Trip for the Baptist Young People's Union of America annual convention in Chattanooga July 15 to 18. From the east trains go to Cincinnati with connections at Central Union Depot, with routes via Cincinnati or Louisville from the north. For rates and full information, consult a Big Four Route representative.
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