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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1897
Page
4
The Antwerp lapidary Antoine achieved a historic feat by cutting a ring from one entire sapphire, a method with many difficulties due to stone cleavage and veins. The Marlborough cabinet houses another ring carved from a single sapphire, marking a rare precision in gem cutting.
A Yale Scientific Monthly note describes a wood mosaic floor process using sawdust wood flour and fine shavings bound with shellac alcohol and cement of sand and lime. The damp mix is pressed in hot molds to form durable, temperature stable flooring suitable for living rooms and private dwellings.
A Brooklyn resident describes the trolley buzz from streetcars as a potential headache remedy. He notes the rising and falling sound as cars accelerate and decelerate and claims a riding three miles relieves his pain, leaving him bright and refreshed.
The St Louis Globe Democrat describes an electric lining system for safes and vaults. Strips of metal in thin sheets trigger alarms if tampered with and a fine-lock disconnects from the storm system. Doors secured by heavy lag bolts must be removed to open.
A superb array of spring woolens from suitings that become you showcased by Lienberger Tailor and Furnisher, highlighting options for refined men’s wear and tailored ensembles.
An antique classified style ad promotes Pastorete Candy Cathartic as a cure for constipation. It states if the CCC fails to cure, druggists refund money, referencing Telephone Columbus Fuel and Ice Co or Ice. 1951f and urging readers to try the product with a money back guarantee.
The article explains how Mennonite matchmaking works with the minister orchestrating the pairing. Engagement follows a two hour wedding sermon and a formal question sequence before pronouncement as husband and wife. The ceremony ends and services resume with no guest invitations needed.
The Republicans of Bartholomew county Indiana will meet at 2 30 p m on Saturday June 19 1897 at usual precinct election places to elect delegates for a convention in Columbus to nominate a candidate for Congress to succeed the late William S Holman in the Fourth district The apportionment gives each precinct one delegate for every hundred votes over fifty for Governor J A Mount in 1896 with detailed precinct allocations listed Official W T Simex Lane County Chairman F C Unnion Secretary Also an advertisement lists bicycle discounts at Reeves Seward Cycle Co and jokes about an orator from a local paper archives.
A vein of natural coke was found about 140 miles south of Salt Lake City near a railroad. The deposit, seven miles long, five feet wide at surface, is tested as pure and superior to manufactured coke with little ash and no smoke. Owned by ex Mayor R. N. Baskin and partners, spanning 640 acres nearby.
Reported results show Cleveland 2 Baltimore 4 and Louisville Boston rain, Pittsburgh 2 Cincinnati 3, New York rain, Chicago 10 Philadelphia 7, St Louis 3 Milwaukee 8, Grand Rapids 6 Kansas City 0, Detroit 9. Contains ad phrases for Sterling Remedy Co. and samples from Chicaga New York.
Travel deal offers a Southern Railway excursion to Chattanooga with round trip tickets sold through July 19th and return by July 21st, extending to August 15th with deposit at Chattanooga. Also local ads for ladies wear and a kidney health remedy promoting general wellness.
Jno A Geo advertises the largest and most complete line of bicycles and bicycle sundries in the city. It also promotes the best equipped livery and repair shop in the state.
Market notes list prices for grains and livestock, with per bushel and per ton rates. Whitte, orn, oats and timothy prices shown, plus various seed and forage values. Livestock quotes include hogs and horses, and a poultry section shows prices for spring chickens to turkeys.
The Chicago Record reports the C S E railroad trestle north of Garvin burned nearly in two today. The structure stood seventy feet high and one hundred feet long, halting all traffic until repairs are completed.
A Chicago Times-Herald anecdote describes a man in a State Street bookstore who paid with a dollar for small purchases and fled before receiving his change. The clerk notes frequent unclaimed change donated to charity, and wonders how much people obtain in life before returning.
A mammoth bird's eye walnut knot, cut from Thomas Jesse’s farm near Shelbyville and weighing 4,000 pounds, is valued at five thousand dollars. The knot, measuring six feet in diameter and six feet long, was shipped by Thomas H. Bradley who buys walnut timber for export from Kentucky to Philadelphia.
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