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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1897
Page
2
A fragmented Indiana item discusses Uncle Knegie and a broken trust as wolves are reportedly hunted near Chicago. It notes distrust in a legislative investigating committee and cites a New York court ruling declaring shows illegal, condemning judicial interference in domestic affairs as a crying evil.
The piece recalls an 1861 horseless wagon that ran away. It notes debates over child food rules and that long established cakes and jams persist. It mentions Col Strathy of Montreal attending the Mabcranks Brown wedding in Nashville in full Highland dress drawing attention.
Senator-elect Harris of Kansas is described as a classical scholar and hog raiser with six prize porkers named Acestorides Basterhini Callistagoras Pachnamunis Pythagoras Arisd ea. The piece notes he contemplates sending them to Greece for nest killing time. Milton’s seed remark on intellect and a wife is quoted about social order and domestic happiness.
A Pueblo Chieftain advertisement quotes a competent woman seeking work or board for her husband. The note hints at echoes of the new woman movement while implying a long-standing pattern of women working to support households.
The passage recalls how in youth love is freely given among family and friends, yet entering the wider world brings fear of strangers. It contrasts grown hesitation with the delight of receiving the tender caresses of little children, which restore sincerity and affection, yielding our first true confidence.
The text suggests a developing idea to cultivate a home tea industry using Italia leaves in Colorado and western Kansas and reduce imports to Flowery Kingdom. It mentions Maverick and Colorado amid uncertain references to local products and markets.
Baltigiore husband consulted a leger to explain his wife's illness. The chart tied Mars opposition to the Moon, Jupiter in the fourth house, and the sixth house to illness. The family blamed the ailment on canned lobster.
A well dressed young man allegedly abducted a woman in the street and hurried her to an uptown hospital. The patient died soon after admission and a peculiar gum bleed noted by doctors led to questions about the case. The hospital had not seen such a case before and requested examinations over several weeks before abandoning the inquiry.
Clans grew wary and devised a scheme. An unsuspecting woman walked into the trap. Guards watched from a transom and just before the doctor’s visit she was seen jabbing a large needle into her gums. By the doctor’s arrival the mouth looked frightful.
In a humorous verse from Echoes from the Oxford Magazine a summer term proposal suggests naming the period when young lady teachers attend University Extension lectures a School of Fliration. Examiners are absurdly asked to craft questions mixing wit, quadratics, and odd ages to test logic.
A Kentucky husband gave his wife four yards of domestic fabric for their twenty fifth anniversary to make a shirt, the only gift in 25 years. An Ohio husband gave ten dollars in four years, forcing the wife to cover a parasol for her sister and borrow money to release a pawned trunk, while he kept most funds for peanuts. She paid for her own clothing and board.
An electric car from the Calumet Electric Street Railway Company collides with a full speed express train at a crossing in Chicago, leaving three dead one fatally injured and several others badly hurt. Officials dispute claims of prior incidents and note two unmanageable motors were kept running at the crossing.
A Chicago six day bicycle race is condemned as a brutal, unnecessary test of pain and fatigue. The piece argues the event harms riders, compares it unfavorably to prize fights, and calls for sane, fair cycling instead while acknowledging cycling itself can be beneficial.
The Rochester campus episode shows sophomores torturing a freshman until he loses his mind. The writer urges the city police to mobilize detectives to hunt down the attackers and make an example of them to stop such brutality.
A brief item notes The Real Styles in downtown today examining new wheels. The dialogue wonders if it is too early for spring goods, but the focus remains on the automotive topic and downtown activity.
An illustrated new voting device built in Cincinnati claims speed and security by showing the ballot as it is cast. It allows unlimited candidates per office, supports straight or mixed tickets, and uses a front-door registration to unlock each booth. The system aims to reduce fraud and speed outcomes, contrasting with past elections and debates over the Australian method.
Fashionable readers adopt a tiny lantern worn on a stirrup foot lamp. The device uses a stout glass lamp, a toe tongue, and a foot resting mechanism. Electricity powers the light via a compact storage battery, avoiding grease on shoes.
A bicycle adapted for ice and sledge roads uses a detached front wheel, extended front bars, and a long sledge runner beneath. The back wheel gets an iron-pointed band to prevent slipping, enabling fast travel on ice with little effort. Similar machines operate on Canadian lakes and in the United States.
A humorous dialogue notes a man who is genial may invite trouble. An exchange about insults and apologies illustrates social risk and restraint. A cartoonish interviewer asks if insurance prolongs life by preventing talkativeness.
A proposed organization unites descendants of the Colonial Wars the Revolution and the War of 1812 into one grand society. Its insignia shows a Maltese cross within a laurel wreath topped by an American eagle, with Washington head, an Indian, and an anchor symbolizing the wars, and colors red white blue buff and black.
The piece praises Miss Castleman of Kentucky for her beauty, education, and noble pedigree. It notes her father General Breckinridge and ancestry from Castletons in Kentucky and Virginia. It mentions her education in Baltimore, debut a year ago, and her grace, temper, and poise as she received Mr. Astor's crown of beauty.
Miss Bessie Hill, postmaster at Leon in Stanley County, is celebrated as a brave Dakota girl who handles stock, brands calves, and rides roping cattle. At 16 she dons a cowboy saddle, wears divided skirts and sombrero, and is famed for lariat skills and sharpshooting.
A famous judge known for frank charges faced a hung jury when one member resisted eleven. After rebuking the lone holdout, the nervous juror rose and offered a terse reply, highlighting the awkward row between judge and juror and the trial's tense moment.
A fragmentary portrait depicts Dr Temple, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, brusque yet just in conduct. The exchange suggests his firm manner earns respect despite sharp speech.
The Empress of Austria will visit Meteora in Northwest Thessaly with scientists. Access is by a five century old rope hoist up a thousand foot rock tower using a wooden windlass and rope. Monks man the ancient apparatus to lift travelers to the cliff dwelling. The site features a fortified cloister, bastions, towers, gates, a central chapel and a fountain garden.
Insurance companies promote an asbestos fireproof wallet to protect valuable papers in case of fire. The device is designed to keep the entire envelope and contents safe, offering a practical option for policyholders to minimize loss.
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