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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1897
Page
4
A full lot on 15th street is offered at 600 dollars with terms of 100 dollars down and 100 dollars annually thereafter. This property sale targets buyers seeking installment options.
President Harrison extended an invitation to Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland. Maj. McKinley is due in Washington March 2 and will stay at the Ebbitt House before moving into the Executive Mansion after the inauguration. The Cleveland party plans a March 4 special train to New York. The Princeton home remains under repair and not ready for occupancy before spring. Cleveland has 70 business arrangements and may resume law work in New York once out of office.
Joseph Pulitzer owner of the New York World buys the Furness cottage on Jekyll Island for 45000 in cash. He plans to winter there and install telegraph lines to stay in touch with the outside world. A dredge near his cottage caused noise until a foreman was paid to pause work.
Reading on palm and rubber plants as home ornaments, the article stresses proper light, steady temperatures, and monthly leaf washing. It notes spring repotting after storms, warns against drafts, and covers effects of neglect on beauty and growth. It also touches on hypnotism and character strength in a separate, fragmented paragraph.
A New York Sun reader describes the buffalo gnat in North Carolina and Arkansas, noting its non biting but nuisance behavior of entering mouths ears and nostrils. He cites livestock losses from larvae and reports planters using smudge fires to drive gnats away with smoke.
A playful exchange between Mazie and her lover follows after theater supper. He dangles poetry to avoid paying car fare, she rebukes sham sentiment and demands honesty and a dime now, with repayment later. A New York Journal quip notes the implied pawnbroker bargain and the ahead of time tension.
The article describes vast marshes near Jeanette's creek offering unmatched duck shooting. Expanse appears like a dusty dry lake in summer with dead rushes peeking above water. Immense flocks of mallard, black duck, pintail, redhead, bluebill, widgeon, wood duck and many others sau near. geese in thousands, Canada geese and occasional brant or snow goose, stir at day’s end.
The new shah of Persia cuts the palace staff to 60 wives to suit dignity and economy. The Pall Mall Gazette notes polygamy waning in Teheran as Muzaffer-ed-Din’s court investigates a smaller harem. The former shah kept 1,720 wives, now widows, amid Westernizing trends.
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