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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1897
Page
4
A historic display from Antwerp shows M. b, a leading lapidary, successfully cutting a ring from a diamond using a novel method. The ring measures about two and a half inches in diameter and highlights vein study to prevent splitting amid growing precision in gem cutting.
A portrait of Miss Alice A Holmes, an heiress in her seventies living in Jersey City. The piece notes her recent fortune after her brother’s California death, her independence, long widowhood, and a past as a teacher who mentored pupils. The text blends anecdote with speculative framing about her life and status.
An advertisement extols LIENBERGER as the leading Columbus tailor and furnisher offering high class storage and a superb array of Spring woolens with the season s closest patterns. The copy includes a fragmented note about a Bicycle Biting School and training figures.
A cyclone in the Windward Islands badly damages public buildings at Saint Vincent Island injuring several people in Georgetown, capsizes a sloop and drowns three crew. The rest of the text comments on Democratic and Popocrat alignments in Kentucky and politics.
United States circuit judge W. A. Woods faced five men who blocked and jostled him as he tried to board a Polk Street streetcar. After thwarted efforts to take a seat, the judge forced his way aboard and signaled for the conductor. A policeman arrived as the gang scrambled off, one officer noting the danger of another moment.
Reeves Seward Co advertises bicycles priced from 28 to 75 with guaranteed quality and service. The shop promotes a broad selection and value for riders seeking affordable bicycles.
The Glasgow News reports the death of Mrs Nance a peculiar wanderer of Clay County Tennessee. For twenty years she drifted with a small herd driving cattle along roads and through pastures unseen by neighbors. She rarely spoke and lived in motion with the cattle always near a roadside tree where she died aged about eighty.
A damaged OCR fragment warns of dangerous chemical mixtures and vapors aboard ships. It mentions carbonic acid gas acetylene and calcium oxide products, risk from packing and rough seas, and potential explosions from acetylene gas formation.
The article surveys marriage age laws by country. It cites Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Greece, Portugal, Russia, Saxony, Switzerland, and Turkey, noting variable male and female age thresholds from 12 to 18 and referencing different religious contexts. It presents a snapshot of early modern or historical norms without modern legal framing.
Brin and Wil Hamilton attend a sixteenth wedding anniversary last night. Kent travels north. Joan Burns, a local operator, travels to Franklin for several days. Editor Stott of the Republican is mentioned as a bound passenger.
The article argues that South Africa can become self supporting through developing agriculture and pastoral resources, aided by mining profits. It notes coal fields spanning about 56 000 square miles, iron near coal regions, and deposits of lead, silver, cinnabar, and tin, with the Transvaal as the leading mining area.
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A St. Louis Globe-Democrat writer recalls James G. Blaine aiding a destitute widow of President Zachary Taylor’s daughter. Blaine secured a $12 000 congressional resolution, passed by both houses, then signed by the President, to aid the needy woman traveling to Paris. Also noted is Frank H. Spearman’s Missouri River piece in St Nicholas about shifting boundaries and muddy water.
Special low rates from Big Four reach Putin Bay Islands of Lake Erie Lake Chautauqua Niagara Falls Thousand Islands St Lawrence Adirondacks Lake George and New England Resorts. Also Great Lakes routes to Cleveland Sandusky Toledo Detroit Benton Harbor Mt. Clemens Mackinac Michigan Resorts, Northwest via St Louis Chicago. For rates routes times and full particulars contact any agent Bic Four Routes or E O McCormick Passenger Traffic Manager Cincinnati Aug 31.
The Philadelphia Ledger notes unrest as a star worker gets job work while colonels and Democrats clash over power. Rumors say Keatugky could fall to Democratic forces if all state colonels are enlisted.
A fragment from Harper's Bazar features Mrs Perkasie scolding her new cook Norah with a garbled exchange about a salad and a joking self reference. The piece ends with an advertisement for a bicycle sale by Reeves Seward Cycle Co.
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