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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1897
Page
3
A collage of ads and brief items from The Sentinel includes promotions for subscriptions to the Indianapolis Sentinel and other papers, assorted goods and remedies, regional notes on weather and local events, and short foreign and science snippets. Public notices and shopping pitches intermingle with travel routes and railway promotions.
A medical student's sample Q and A discusses causes of general weakness as poor digestion from catarrh of digestive organs. It promotes Peru na and Veru na as cures and offers a free illustrated book for women from The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Co in Columbus Ohio.
John W. Rusk of Bellport North Carolina describes the buffalo gnat in The New York Sun. He recalls encountering the pest in Arkansas on the St Francis river bottom lands and notes its habit of entering mouths nostrils and ears while not biting. He details smoke smudges used by planters to protect stock and the gnat’s intolerance of smoke.
The Twice-a-week Courier Journal and the Weekly Star join in a one year for 1.25 offer. Subscribe in advance to receive both papers, with sample copies of the Courier Journal sent free on application. Send all subscriptions to Columbus Morning Star in Columbus Indiana.
A young couple debates old adages after theater supper as Mazie scolds the man for poetic tricks. She demands honesty about car fare and jokes about pawnbrokers interest. The New York Journal tone notes the evolving mate and cautions the path of modern romance.
Notice names E H Kinney as administrator of the estate of James C Miller of Bartholomew county deceased. The estate is described as solvent. Attest George Werner, Clerk.
In Bartholomew County Indiana a complaint for sale of real estate has been filed by Lizzie E M Nowton against Richard A Norton. The defendant not a resident of Indiana is ordered to appear or demur by November 10 1897 in the Circuit Court at Columbus. The clerk is George Werner with attorney Marshall Hacker for the plaintiff.
A vivid account describes a flooded plain near Jeanette's creek where a hunter paddles freely. The scene likens the marsh to English fens with vast rafts of waterfowl including Mallard, black duck, pintail, red head, bluebill, widgeon, teal, and grebes, plus thousands of geese such as Canadas brant and snow goose.
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