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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1897
Page
4
A fragment describes saw with de surer duity and attractive patterns. It notes a line of materials and tailoring that express superiority and dressers attitude. The text mirrors fashion in autumn hues and finest fancies.
Real estate listings in Hartsville and Orinoco offer two story dwellings with ground and outbuildings at 600 dollars with staged payments. Other houses on Ninth and Sixteenth streets are priced with down payments and yearly terms. Kinney & Kinney also promote fire insurance and accident sickness policies at 436 Fourth Street.
John W. Rusk of Belport North Carolina writes to discuss the buffalo gnat. He notes gnats swarm in Arkansas on St Francis river bottom lands, resemble buffalo, do not bite but crawl into mouths nostrils and ears and lay eggs. Larvae damage membranes killing stock and game. Planters burn logs for smoke to drive gnats. A buck deer wild turkeys and hogs seek the smoke for protection. The gnat cannot stand smoke.
The excerpt describes a vast flooded plain near Jeanette's creek where a hunter can paddle freely. Thousands of wildfowl crowd the lake like marshes of England, with mallards, teals, divers, and geese dominating the scene and rarer species spotted during a day of shooting.
A Dublin family rents a six month Irish home where a locked long room holds owners belongings. A daughter sees an old shawled woman in the hall and later in the doorway by the fire. She faints after the apparition and a visitor confirms the description matches two sisters who once owned the house and later died in Geneva.
A fragmentary report hints at a perplexing case at Mespit described as a Pont Evequest Deauville. The Temps cree notes a curious scenario with vague references and an odd jumble of phrases.
A former Siberian exile boat party recently faced U S law punishment after settling in San Francisco. Records show the men were later jailed for burglary and murder while investigations reveal their exile was for crimes that would have earned harsher punishment elsewhere.
A historical sketch recounts Quanah Parker of the Comanches and his heritage. It notes his mother Cynthia Ann Parker, a white captive raised among the tribe, who was identified after 1874 by her name and origin in Jackson County Texas.
Garper's Weekly argues university policy should favor scholarship over athletic prowess. It cites Ohio University canceling a football captain for study lapses and asserts the ideal of a sound mind in a sound body.
An essay from the New York Sun laments the decline of door knocking and bell pulling among children. It contrasts the tactile thrill of old knockers with the quiet, distant action of push buttons and distant doorbells, arguing the ritual is fading with modern tech.
Odd garbled text mentions a Rome event and a medical claim to cleanse the body of fever biliousness and constipation. Readable fragments reference a supposed monumental cure and urging purchase.
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