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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1897
Page
4
The passage portrays a boy of unusual steadiness and practical judgment. At sixteen his superstition that retreat is fatal shaped his resolve to pursue plans to their end. He is steady, unafraid, and trustworthy, with a practical mind and resilient nature.
Daily at the Consolidated exchange a group of women watches from the gallery while a broker acts on their signs. A woman, claimed to be a clairvoyant operator, uses hand signals to indicate thousands of bushels to trade and the broker executes buys or sells based on her readings. The operator has been at it for months, drawing curiosity and speculation.
A French missionary in China reports locals claim raw or cooked liver from a stray dog can prevent hydrophobia after a bite. Chinese witnesses say five bite victims in March last ate dog liver and fared well. Pliny is cited as recommending raw liver. The account notes uncertainty but warrants further investigation alongside Pasteur and Koch developments.
A Barnesville hawyer shows off a costly new suit in Atlanta style. He declares cash and credit both acceptable and argues appearance earns respect, claiming shabby clothes would harm his chances with jury and judge.
In Los Angeles Elysian park workers uncovered a fossilized human footprint in solid shale with a Mexican style shoe of high narrow heel and broad flat sole. The imprint sits four feet below surface, rocks hold fern leaves and twigs, and a fish outline was found nearby in the same deposit. The discovery, made during road work, attracts strong scientific interest.
Tit Bits recounts seven Russian exiles who fled Siberia and found work in San Francisco. All were later punished by U S authorities for crimes including burglary and murders. Investigations show each exile was sent to Siberia for reasons that would merit harsher exile elsewhere.
An 1880s column profiles Chief Quanah Parker of the Comanches and his prominent white heritage through Cynthia Ann Parker, noting his education, wealth, wives, and sons. It also recalls Jenny Lind's final public appearance in 1883 at the Spa Malvern Hills aiding a charity, and a resident’s recollection of meeting her.
Our spring suits are praised widely as perfectly fitted and tailor made. LIENBERGER, Tailor and Furnisher, highlights superior tailoring backed by a superb array of spring woolens with the choicest patterns of the season.
Ad copy touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a cure for constipation. The text claims success or failure with a playful mock refund line, referencing a group or brand initials.
The Journal des Debats cites Nansen showing polar waters teem with life when open or thinly frozen. Seals, narwhals, birds, bears on ice heaps, and under ice crustaceans persist. A cook’s ice-hole experiment revealed numerous sand fleas, edible though meager, and a net haul in October confirmed active life near 78 to 80 degrees north.
Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror reports Barnstable jail scenes eclipse Nantucket stories. Convict 2. C. Knapp seen in prison garb giving jailer's wife bicycle lessons. Mrs. Cash is 33 with an 18 year old daughter. Other inmates share walks, favors, and a marriage promise amid a Portuguese romance.
The Greek queen is seen as a mother figure famed for simple tastes and kindness. Her grief over Grand Duchess Paul's death shadows rituals around the Russian betrothal, with tears marking the ceremony and a nurse's dream hinting at fate. A later warning via dream is dismissed by the queen. Candy ad follows.
Scientist of the ancients Prof Goodman notes Pompeii’s iron tools resemble today’s items, including sickles, spades and hammers. He highlights surgery instruments with modern-like design, along with wire ropes, bronze work, boilers, interior tubes, lead water pipes, public fountains, and ornate house water features in ancient times.
A traveler with a mud stained valise boards a South Side streetcar near the stockyards. He gives the conductor a dollar, receives change, and then offers a quarter as a tip saying his wife urged him to tip everyone in Chicago. The conductor points out the nickel in change, and the man insists on tipping further.
Miss Lillian Bell, famous author of A Little Sister of the Wilderness, advocates a college to train men in love making. She suggests a post graduate course for husbands and recalls the idea of a kindergarten for training husbands, arguing women’s intuition outpaces men's approach in romance.
The London Sketch cites Lord Salisbury's constant use of a blue brougham and scarce time for walks or sport during the Cretan crisis. It praises his chemical laboratory recreation and suggests only golf when pressed by Mr Balfour. A fox chases a dog in Dexter, Maine, ending with the fox captured inside a shed.
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