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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1897
Page
4
In a fragment from a 19th century-style column, parenting advice warns that early childhood habits shape character, urging mothers to avoid deceit and overindulgence. It contrasts with a social vignette about a devoted couple and a friend’s interference. The piece ends recalling Sedan’s history and Napoleon III's surrender to German forces.
Secribner praises Millais after fifty years before the public as the era’s leading painter. He highlights Millais wide range from history and poetry to landscapes and portraits, noting his extraordinary draughtsmanship, color, and vitality.
The Salvation Army plans to use a graphophone to reach crowds in villages and towns, offering 400 to 1,000 listener capacity with 18 records including commander and consul addresses and 16 songs. It promises full meetings with band accompaniment and traveling case for 36 records, aiming to arouse curiosity and solicit collections.
A Florida hunting note cites C B Cory describing a trap using corn fed to nearby turkeys. Layered logs form a cone tall enough to deter escape, allowing turkeys to enter for food but preventing exit once inside.
A rural visitor in London fears pickpockets and gives a clerk a 20 pound note for the safe. The clerk denies any receipt, so a lawyer advises a staged sequence with a second note and a friend to recover both sums. The plan succeeds, pleasing the countryside visitor.
Prince Max of Saxony the fourth son of Prince George renounced his throne rights to become a Catholic priest at St. Boniface Church in Whitechapel London. At 26 he left the German army years ago to join a monastery following a distant attachment to Princess Fedora of Schleswig-Holstein. He has since become popular with the poor and told a workingmen’s club audience that he comes among them as a priest and as a worker.
Report on a London establishment that stunts dogs by feeding newborn pups a gin and water decoction, leading to stunted growth and a new breed after generations. Also includes a scene of a Peruvian beggar with riches and a charitable governess chasing a missing lira.
Advice column urges readers to have suits and trousers custom made by a tailor named Reir for a perfect fit. Promotes high quality fabric and a tailored silhouette as the key to wearing the best suit ever.
Fashion items advertise dinner specials at 25¢ and seasonal offerings at Silverman s with millinery lace curtains and corsets. A mandolin and guitar club performs at noon at the Fashion. Docket items note F Victor Lynch trial forthcoming and Firemen s Ball planned for May 20 at city hall.
In Bamburg the plan treats dogs as nuisances with larger dogs taxed more heavily. The Hamburg idea seen as similar suggests authorities tax dogs by size to reflect nuisance levels.
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Harry Middlehouse of Grand Rapids Michigan, visiting Remus, wrestles a 28 250 pound wild buck to the ground with companion Farwell. After tying the deer and securing a halter, they transport it to its old home and ship it to Grand Rapids for a city park exhibit.
A proposed three day and night ball in Brighton England aims to raise funds for a sick poor relief dispensary. Relays of musicians and dancers will perform continuous waltzes mazurkas and schottisches with daytime rests. Patronesses include the Duchess of Teck Countess of Munster and Baroness de Worms among nobles. Lord lieutenant of the county the Marquis of Abergavenny leads the affair though authorship is unclear.
In Detroit suburbs late at night Beemer and Deemer say a follower frightened them. Beemer yelled for police and ran home while both recalled the incident with fear. The next day they recounted the tale at lunch and agreed the matter should be dropped where it began.
A reminiscence recalls Odo Russell as a junior clerk who defied a Palmerston era reform by bells instead of verbal summons at the Foreign Office. Rebels branded him a traitor to his order, yet he rose to become an ambassador after Lord Ampthill’s death.
The piece records a weekly collection of local happenings. Tine Ault plans a grocery venture after being seen with a barrel of salt and boxes. May 2 noted, with references to vegetables, poultry, bees, and winter damage to crops.
Property ad offers ten acres with two story house and barn in Artsville for trade. Owner H Kinney invites inquiries at 1541 Polees, offering cheap terms with small down payment or monthly payments.
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