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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1897
Page
2
Fragment of a historical rates schedule showing pricing for daily weekly and monthly inserts. Mentions terms such as one year six months four months and three months with per word charges and local ad contracts. Contains garbled OCR text and partial rate figures.
Rain is forecast for Tuesday as locals discuss political ambitions and economic hopes. The piece mentions Dr. Hunter, Governor Bradley, and Gen. Rivera in a broad, bustling view of local life and a push to improve the city’s fortune.
Local notice offers five fresh oysters and meats at Geo Kinney's lunch room tonight with papers for sale at 70 cents per hundred. Also mentions water pipes in Germany and a political quip about nomination and drinking.
A rock carved with five parallel inscriptions and carved figures was discovered along Great Central Lake by F. W. Laing of the Royal Geographical Society. The markings, including a seven branched symbol, were documented and sent to scholars such as Franz Boas at the Smithsonian for study.
A Columbus Indiana advertisement lists numerous family names and brands connected to a druggist firm Ernst Staniucuti & Co including Blue Time Expectorant and One Minute Cough Cure among many others. The long roster mentions families such as Kings Allen Halls Harters Jaynes Boschees PIsos Kilmer Germans English French Indian and other surnames. The ad identifies Ernst Staniucuti & Co. as druggists in Columbus Indiana.
An article notes Switzerland’s abundant small power plants using mountain streams. Even towns rely on “white coal” from snowmelt with Montreux electric trams and Vevey to Chillon powered by minor streams. Long-distance transmission could advance many mountain streams via electricity or compressed air.
The Washington Post notes a lineage of powerful voices in Congress. Marriott Brosius of the Tenth Pennsylvania district is highlighted for booming oratory, rivaled by W. D. Kelley, Charles H. Van Wyck, and the famed William Allen of Ohio whose legend persists in Statuary Hall.
The Sun reported rabbits hunted with a hose faltered in a Chicago suburb when a skunk charged into view. Abe Kleinman yelled into the hole while Cutler guarded the entrance, and a misdirected strike led to a spray and a humorous, unexpected finish.
English artist Talbot, long among Arabs, notes Bedouin rites of hospitality. Guests are welcomed with sulsams and hand kisses while hosts avoid direct address. He recalls Sheik Saoudi el Tahoui denouncing Pyramid Arabs as mercenary, and a trusted attendant’s refusal of bakshish under threat of the sheik.
A persuasive advertisement urges readers to choose Paine's Celery Compound for cleansing the blood nourishing the nerves and regulating digestion. It cites testimonials from medical experts and a New York attorney praising relief from insomnia headaches rheumatism and debility, claiming permanent improvement and rapid vitality gains.
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