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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1897
Page
2
The Columbus Star notes a proposal for a Pure Food Factory with John Perry offering a large donation to secure it. Officials express hope that more supporters will join in advancing the project for the city.
Daily and weekly ad rates listed by duration and size. Local ads priced per word with initial and subsequent insertions. Special rates offered for large contracts and annual terms.
A Louisville blaze caused nearly 150000 in losses and badly crippled two firemen who face grave outcomes. The report notes ongoing community concerns and calls for action by Congress amid political tensions as 1901 approaches.
A naked young man was found asleep on a Deauville seat and remained in a cataleptic state for three weeks at the Hopital de Pont-l’Eveque. He woke claiming to be in Paris and said he never left, saying he worked for a packer on the Faubourg du Temple before going home. Louis P- of Paris was identified by his father after a telegram and he returned to Paris.
The Eskimos thrive despite modern hygiene reports Popular Science News. They eat until full but never finish the feast, cutting walrus blubber into strips and swallowing it whole. A Esquimal child even bites thick walrus skin and digests it, showing no dyspepsia.
The question of paving Washington Street dominates discussion alongside the contest to succeed Holman in Congress. Hon. D. P. H. McCormack supports paving the street and is a major property owner there.
In Greensburg on Saturday night Democrats selected delegates for the upcoming Congressional Convention. Delegates favor Overmeyer for Congress while several prefer Mayor Northern.
The community backs Dave Curry for the garbage wagon role despite his lack of wealth, praising his honesty and urging that he be remembered for his service.
The SvTAK group urges holding the Republican convention in Columbus when gatherings are planned, arguing that the city should host the event.
A New Yorker observes in the New York Sun that cheaper restaurants employ more American-born waiters while pricier venues favor French, and sometimes Irish or German staff. He argues independence reduces men from serving, noting tips and deference shape staffing in dining establishments.
A Detroit Free Press style vignette shows a mud-splashed man rescuing a pocketbook at a Castlow to Andersonville road crossing. He retrieves a penny last, then pockets it, while the damsel remains unaware of thanks. The piece shifts to Mrs. Minton, a fearless Kentucky mail carrier riding through rugged terrain to serve Uncle Sam.
The passage notes that appreciation and deference are shown in cheap restaurants, challenging the idea that Americans are too independent to work. The theorist objects not to theory but to the clash between beliefs and observed practice in these eateries.
On the Zulu frontier a native keeper boasted his young bull Hulo could defeat any beast. When a rhinoceros charged, Hulo lunged with courage, but the beast tossed him twenty feet. The bull survived though his horns failed to pierce the rhino’s thick hide.
A man rents a six month house in Ireland with wife and daughters. An unused long room holds owners’ possessions. An old shawled lady appears in the hall and later in the doorway, then vanishes, leaving a frightened daughter. A friend links the apparition to two older sisters who moved to Geneva and died, matching the description.
Western Union telegraph office located at Griffith block Fifth Street with Citizens Phone 21. Residence reads Southwest cover.
Report notes a curious incident at Hospital di Pont-r Eveque in Deauville The Tempe area with unusual confinement details and unclear official explanation. Local observers describe puzzling conditions surrounding a cage like enclosure linked to a patient or exhibit.
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