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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1897
Page
4
A correspondent describes Matanzas and western provinces as ash heaps of suffering with entire areas destroyed by reconcentration. He notes lack of local organization, chronic hunger, and looming famine as residents remain ungrouped and overwhelmed by misery.
A Yale Divinity Hall student fired a toy rifle at a lamp and the bullet tied to a professor’s wall. the professor traced the shot, locating the culprit’s room and proof of the line. The student confessed, acknowledging the professor’s precise calculation and urging the matter be dropped.
A new vein of natural coke was found about 140 miles south of Salt Lake City near a railroad. The five foot wide outcrop promises larger depths, with pure, sulphur free coke that burns clean with less ash. The discovery is linked to ex Mayor R N Baskir and partners who hold 640 acres in the area.
A man at a State street book store left after making small buys and trew down a dollar to pay. The clerk returned most of the dollar as change, noting that many customers forget change and rarely return for it. The anecdote prompts thoughts on everyday honesty and human behavior.
Our coin of the mint metaphor highlights artistic creations that pass everywhere without question. The text promises faultless styles, fit, symmetry, and dressiness, asserting the suitings become part of the wearer and that prices are favorable.
Grump's Theatre offers standard attractions and features one of the best orchestras in the state, promising high quality musical entertainment for patrons.
William George Jordan credits Queen Victoria with sweeping social reforms and rapid invention over 60 years. He notes abolition of flogging in armed forces, child labor bans, humane criminal treatment, and advances in transportation and industry from 1837 to the era.
A powerful battle ship Towa has its official trial off Massachusetts becoming the navy s first sea going battleship. Compared with Massachusetts and Lowa she carries 1200 tons more displacement and is one knot faster. Towa achieved 17 knots earning a 200000 dollar bonus for the builders the cramps of Philadelphia.
A fragment describes dogs wearing 14 carat gold bracelets and jewel encrusted adornments with white accents and high born styling. It mentions extravagant collars and shoulder warmth, reflecting opulent trends among elites.
The seventy five year old Miss Holmes, blind since fourteen, plans to spend her California inheritance on helping fellow blind people. She taught music and literature to fund her life and now aims to educate others, with a book of verse she once published noted for its poetic quality.
The North American Review notes a treaty like alliance between Phrygian city and the Rucut that makes soil unstable for exiles from evardom. Spies among Russian expatriates in Zurich Geneva and other cities are exposed while in England Russians enjoy freedom amid shifting liberal sentiment and moderated opposition.
A letter to Albany's mayor from a southern Black man who longs for bondage. The writer, claimed dead in his grasp on the era’s life, advocates returning to slavery and laments the end of the master’s whip. The piece satirizes outdated views and ignorance of emancipation.
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