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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1897
Page
4
A dense classified list offers numerous properties for sale or trade. Includes cottages, five to six room houses, vacant lots, farms in multiple townships, and city residences in Columbus and nearby areas. Prices range from a few hundred dollars to over two thousand, with payment plans and barter options.
For sale items include a goodend string box bed buggy in excellent condition offered cheap if sold now. A four room dwelling with barn and large lot in Orinoco offered at 600 dollars with six yearly payments of 100 dollars. Also a travel position in Indiana with monthly 65 dollars plus expenses offered by The Dominion Company Chicago.
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic for constipation with a 10 cent or two for one offer. It notes the product may fail to cure and promises refunds from druggists.
A lyrical celebration of a Pleasant day at Comfort presented as a homey rural gathering. The verses describe a moonlit evening with a jolly crowd, fairy lights, welcoming maid, social splendor, and music. It conveys country gaiety, luncheon, and a peaceful closing morning at the Dickys' place away from the city.
Breezy Mays So Cascarets Candy Cathartic touted as a wonderful medical discovery, pleasant to taste and said to cleanse the entire system, aid kidneys liver and bones, dispel colds cure headaches fevers biliousness and habitual constipation. Available in bottles of 10 25 or 50 cents and guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
The ladies of the Twentieth Century Daisy Club plan a picnic with the gentlemen members at King's Ford. The event promises ample refreshments provided by the ladies and a ride to the ford in Jones and Gambert's picnic wagon.
An advertisement touts Wu-To-Bac as a miracle tonic to quit tobacco easily and permanently. It claims to make users magnetic and full of life, offered by Sterling Kennedy Co. in Chicago and New York with a 50 cent price and a money back guarantee.
A hotel and restaurant promotes fashionable Sunday dinners at Fashion RestauRANT 609 Washington Street. The notice urges patrons to join in, noting past high satisfaction and a focus on improving dining experiences for clients.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer notes two ambassadors lost their posts for failing to kiss the czarina's hand. Count Montebello of France and Prince Radalin of the German empire were punished for neglecting court etiquette. The piece argues risks of boldness versus remissness in such gestures and warns to seize opportune moments.
The London Sketch notes Lord Salisbury’s relentless workload amid the Cretan crisis. He avoids leisure, plays little golf for amusement, and concentrates on Downing Street duties and foreign affairs, finding only chemical work in his laboratory as respite.
A London Echo discussion outlines the Ottoman succession rule favoring the eldest brother over the sultan’s eldest son. Rechad Effendi, the eldest after Murad V, is a guarded, popular, handsome figure living at the Theragon palace and kept under strict surveillance while admired for courtesy and politics knowledge.
Yale Scientific Monthly reports a new process for wood mosaic flooring. Small wood particles are treated with shellac alcohol and cement, pressed in hot molds, then cured under heat and pressure. The resulting material is hard, dimensionally stable, and suited for living rooms and homes.
A Brooklyn resident recalls the trolley buzz from lines in New York and says regular riders hear a persistent buzzing sound. He claims riding the trolley for about three miles cures his headaches and leaves him bright and refreshed without electrical exposure.
The latest safe protection uses an electric lining inside a cabinet or vault. Metal strips trigger alarms if penetrated. Time locks must disconnect the alarm before access. Alarm boxes are steel hooded and tamper resistant, with multiple lag bolts preventing door opening.
In London feather factories women form wedding clubs as part of apprenticeship. Members pay weekly subscriptions to fund a first marriage outfit and bridesmaids. In large works, clubs of 40 to 50 members pool funds for years, with some brides earning large sums. A notable bride spent £34, with a white dress orange blossoms and ostrich feathers, a 25 shilling bouquet, and a £2 cake, traveling to church in a brougham.
A Detroit Free Press tale depicts Dick explaining why he avoided violence. The barkeep planned a life policy for $10,000 for his widow, unsettled until this morning, prompting Dick to weigh his options and confront potential threats.
The English dramatist Colman, questioned by a Commons committee on theatrical revisions, says he expunged profane language in revisions. He admits many oaths remain in Heir at Law and John Bull, disapproval of them, and that omitting them would be better. He shows amusement at being blamed for the plays yet proud of the final work.
The Democrats claim Marion Griffiths is stronger than his party in the district and county, but 1600 results show Governor Matthews carried Switzerland county by 128, Hyle beat Griffiths by 120 for joint representative, and Griffiths trailed by 90 in his own county, 38 less than Matthews and 81 less than Hyle. His vacillating policy and attempts to align with party lines are noted as ineffective.
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