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Columbus Star

Location

Columbus, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Sep 12, 1897

Page

4

State Government in Hands of the Republican Party

The Indianapolis Daily and Weekly Sentinel claims vast circulation due to its comprehensive coverage of state and foreign news. It urges every Indiana reader to subscribe, noting the weekly edition has twelve pages and advising remittances to The Sentinel in Indianapolis Indiana. High grade footwear advertised at the Web shoe store at half price.

Republican Party Indianapolis Daily and Weekly Sentinel Weekly ‘Sentinel

Eskimo Diet Defies Dyspepsia Belief Says Popular Science

Popular Science News notes a native American race the Bequimaux and Esquiman show remarkable appetite and digestion. They eat vast amounts of walrus flesh and blubber with a method that avoids indigestion. A child’s teeth bite walrus hide as American children bite apples, proving their hardy metabolism.

America Popular Science News

The Street Gamin and the Penny Rescue

A Detroit Free Press tale sets a scene of a small street gamin aiding a pretty young woman as she drops her purse on a muddy crossing. He retrieves scattered trinkets and coins, gains no thanks, then later discovers a penny he had missed. The tale centers on his sly triumph and the implied moral.

Detroit Free Press Gamin

Curiosities in a Stump Unearth Old Coins Near Marshfield

In Marshfield Wisconsin Herman Decker and Anton Muelenbach found a coffee pot in a stump containing a 1850 Upper Bank of Canada coin, an 1818 Spanish coin, claims of Georgia prices from 1786 and 25 pounds for a lawmaker, plus counterfeit plates and shin plas ters. They also note a seven pound key and lock from Fleet Street’s Temple church, said to date to the crusades.

Wmarshfieid Wis Herman Decker Anton Muelenbach Marshfield Upper Bank of Canada David Dawson State of Georgia Abraham Barrett United States Temple Church Fleet Street London Knights Templar

Through Our City Individuals Attend Local Funeral

Kon 1 Mra W C Davis and children traveled through Elizabeth with Margaret Irwin to attend the funeral of her father Cader Gunt. Mrs. Davis is a cousin of Margaret Irwin in this city.

Cader Gunt Jacob Norton Nortonsburg Charles

Hand Injury at Reeves Pulley Plant Reported

Virgil Cavanaugh badly injures his hand while using a saw at the Reeves Pulley Company plant on Saturday. Hospital treatment given and he rested fairly easy by late evening. Also noted are assorted local notices and advertisements from Edinburg Call and Holmes catalog references.

Virgil Cavanaugh Reeves Pulley Company

Cure Constipation Forever Ad Finds Credit in Print

Fragmentary ad promotes a cure for constipation with reference to Cascarets candy and a mock testimonial. Mentions refunds and pharmacy or druggist briefly though text is unclear.

Addres Sterling Remedy Co New York Carter M. C. Dunnington Mae Cascarets C.C.C Drusgisty

St Louis man claims patent for novel 28 inch water wheel

Claude R Crandall reports a new water wheel design with a 28 inch wheel suspended on standards. Water pours onto cups on the rim and is carried over the top causing rotation. the wheel can run rapidly in either direction. Practical use remains unproven.

Claude R. Crandall St. Louis

Eveée Baysen Cascarets Candy Cathartic

An early 20th century advertisement touts Baysen Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a revolutionary medical discovery. The copy claims gentle action on kidneys and liver plus system cleansing, promising relief from headaches fever constipation and biliousness. Sold everywhere at 10 cents and 2 for 10 cents with a guarantee to cure.

Eveée Baysen C. C

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