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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1897
Page
3
A humorous exchange from a New York Journal item shows a father at first framing natural philosophy as the science of cause and reason. He uses a talking stick example to illustrate gravity elasticity vibration and force before sending Robby to bed with a slipper.
An old paper recalls a comical scene at a sub station where a man demands fifty dollar worth of orders at the cash desk. It recounts Yale prankster bribing printers and a Boston music hall organ once valued at sixty thousand dollars that later sold for space reasons.
A stray compilation notes women attaining positions in industry and society. Mrs. Grier Banks Griffith and Miss Sarah McCardy of Bolton, Maine plan a shingles mill venture earning about 20,000 shingles this year. Olga Wilton, Alaska native, studies household economics at Pratt Institute and pursues countrywomen’s improvement. Reports acknowledge a queen among wartime jockeys and a St Louis family employing a woman coachman, plus mentions of Mrs. Craigie’s journalism leadership and her Anglo American background.
Fragmentary OCR note reads Dry Wood One and one half ce s at Mane factory. Leave orders at imu grocery.
An old resident, famed for opposing the telegraph and embracing steam, recalls a tall tale of a man who dismissed telegraphs as fit only for letters and small bundles. He later faced the reality of poles and wires on his road as progress moved forward.
A Scotch writer notes Wales preserves old customs and language, giving it a unique flavor unseen by many. In Berkeley, three English women, the Beals, eat only uncooked foods, rejecting any dish prepared by fire, including meat, with breakfast beginning on mush.
A New York Mail and Express report notes horses are cheap as city use declines. A Brooklyn expressman paid 45 for a green team, while two years earlier he spent 269 for inferior stock. Dealers say city horses fetch low prices, with many broken in ground work preferred to city use.
The notice mentions the Big Four routes and related cities as a convent tion context. It calls readers to apply for full particulars, noting travel lines including Peoria and Cleveland and other stations. The fragmentary text emphasizes a transportation route and inquiry steps.
Advertised routes for the National Encampment at Buffalo list low one cent per mile rates across the system. It highlights through trains from Peoria St Louis Louisville Cincinnati and other hubs with connections to New York Boston Indianapolis and Chicago. It notes conventions in Chattanooga Milwaukee and Nashville with special rates and agent support.
An old classified note offers free samples and 10 cent postage with a 6 percent agent commission. It claims to have four other items and targets men and women for a desertive circulars campaign from Romanza Agency located on a street in Cincinnati.
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