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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1897
Page
4
An ad promotes a full yard of Alpaca wool for suits with a rich Fall assortment in new patterns. It highlights broad selection, superior tailoring, and fashion mirroring autumn moods to attract dressmakers seeking quality materials and styles.
Real estate values offered by Kinney & Kinney 436 Fourth St Columbus Ind include a two story Hartsville dwelling on ten acres for 600 with 100 down and 100 yearly payments, and other lots and houses with varied down payments and terms. Also advertised are fire insurance options and a monthly accident sickness benefit policy.
The writer recalls encounters with a gnat likened to a buffalo in appearance. The pest, not biting, binds into faces and deposits eggs. larvae damage membranes and kill stock and game. Planters burn logs for smoke to drive off gnats, with deer turkeys hogs and a mule using smudges to cope.
The marshes of St Clair Raleigh and Dover Plains form a vast water world where floodwaters create a dry summer basin. Birds roost and feed in hundreds of thousands with mallard black duck pintail redhead bluebill widgeon wood duck and teal among the common fowl. Geese abound including Canada's brant and snow geese moving with each day’s rise and fall.
A family staying six months in an Irish house reported encounters with an old lady in a shawl appearing in a sealed room. Two sisters formerly owned the house and moved to Geneva. one sister matching the description died at the time the sighting occurred.
The Temps notes a curious medical case at Hospital de Pont-l Eveque in Deauville describing a satalepar incident over several weeks. The report highlights unusual symptoms and patient observations with limited detail due to OCR.
A group of seven Russian exiles who fled Siberia and reached San Francisco faced criminal sentences after arrival. The last member received 21 years for burglary, another was hanged for murder, and investigations show they had long been sent to Siberia for crimes that would merit exile elsewhere.
The Comanche chief Quanah Parker is described with a romantic history in Oklahoma. His mother Cynthia Ann Parker, a white girl captured by the tribe, faded from memory until Gen. McKenzie’s 1874 raid. She was found in Jackson County Texas and welcomed back to her family after years believed dead.
In Warper's Weekly the article argues university authorities must protect scholastic standards amid intercollegiate sports. It cites Ohio University forcing a football captain to resign for academic lapse and asserts that true excellence blends academics with athletics, predicting athletes will be ranked under scholars.
Mr. Stoggleton as quoted by the New York Sun laments the decline of door knocker and bell pull fun in modern times as push buttons replace loud, playful door bells. He notes the thrill of a loud knock and springy bell pull, contrasting it with quiet entry and absent bell sounds.
The text touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a wonderful medical discovery of the age. It claims pleasant taste and gentle action on the kidney and liver, cleansing the system and dispelling colds headaches fever and biliousness. It urges purchase of 8 boxes.
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