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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1897
Page
4
National League club standings include Baltimore 19 and Cincinnati 17, Pittsburg 14, Philadelphia 13, Cleveland 12, Boston 12, Louisville 9, with Brooklyn and New York leading at 6 and 6. The table shows test figures and divisions across 826 108 667 06 values.
Our Spring suits are praised for perfect fit as we claim to be Columbus's leading tailors. We offer high class tailoring and a superb array of Spring woolens with the choicest patterns this season. Have your clothing made from suitings that suit you.
A letter to Albany Mayor Thacher from a man described as a southern African American requests to be brought north and sold into slavery. The piece notes the writer is effectively dead to current life and ignorant of emancipation and Reconstruction, showing a longing for the period of servitude.
Farmer receiving prices listed for wheat Jorn oats Timothy clover and clover seed. Livestock cattle hogs horses priced per hundred or head. Fowls butter eggs lard and flour costs included. Damant wall finish ad seeks a good girl or middle aged woman at 1404 Mechanic.
The will of Kynes the merchant of wag, called the king of smokers, provides ten pounds of tobacco and two Dutch pipes to each attending smoker. Pipes engraved with the deceased’s name, arms and date, are to be kept alight during the funeral. The coffin is lined with cedar from Havana cigar boxes, and a jacket of Dutch tobacco rests at the foot. The deceased also leaves a pipe, matches, flint and tinder claiming an unknown future need. Some critics mock the precautions about lighting.
A nineteenth century order, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, renounce worldly comfort to save women and protect unprotected girlhood and erring women. They labor in a mausoleum-like house from dawn to night, pledging lifelong service for virtue and salvation, offering refuge to fallen women.
The New York Sun notes waiters are mostly foreign in cheaper venues with Americans found in pricier spots. A New Yorker attributes this to lower deference at cheap restaurants, yet finds tips and deference rise in such eateries, complicating the theory of independence and work in service.
A traveler recalls a native farm in Zululand where a young bull named Hulo battled a rhinoceros. After an initial clash, the rhino’s thick hide withstood early gashes but the bull used strategic dodges and thigh stabs, aided by steel bullets, to finish the affair. The tale ends with the bull standing on the carcass and roaring.
A couple and their daughters rented a furnished six month house in Ireland with a locked long room. A spectral old lady in a shawl appeared to two daughters and frightened them, then vanished. A friend later learned the house belonged to two sisters who, after renting it, moved to Geneva and one sister died around the time of the sighting.
A naked young man is found sleeping on a Deauville seat. He remains cataleptic for three weeks at Hopital de Pont-l'Eveque before waking and insisting he belongs in Paris. He says he never left Paris and worked as a packer in Faubourg Temple. His father confirms sending funds and the case remains unsolved.
The piece notes that public thanksgiving evolved from a New England custom to a national practice with the US choosing the last Thursday in November. Canada aligns to the same day to avoid business disruption. A Boston Journal item speculates on evolution in human toes, suggesting the little toe may disappear and the great toe may become dominant, tied to shoe fashion.
A brief quip shows a child asking what an editor calls his office. The editor replies the editorial room is the sanc tum sanctorum, prompting the boy to joke that the matnmia’s office must be spankum spanktorum, reflecting playful newspaper humor.
Incomplete transcript lines show Wesdiek describing a chaotic moment with a fly glide and a terse remark about being elsewhere. The garbled text conveys confusion and does not establish a clear sequence of events.
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