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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1897
Page
4
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An 19th century style pharmaceutical ad promotes Carter’s Cascara Pills with a refund promise if they fail to care. Pitched by druggist M. C Dunningto, it urges buyers to stand firm for what they want and avoid substitutes. It hints at a cautious consumer advantage and emphasizes efficacy and reliability.
Marketing style prose praising high quality workmanship AI sailings faultless styles and fashionable suits that become part of the wearer with pleasing harmony of life symmetry and dressiness and complete price satisfaction
Classified notice seeks a live-in domestic helper at a specific address. The surrounding text mentions a Martinsville poet Willis W. Fowler, noting his booklet contains worthy poems and suggesting potential future success.
Thieves raided Samuel Beal of East Fourth Street on Saturday night entering via the outside cellar. A considerable amount of groceries was stolen. no one was seen or heard.
Popular Science News notes the Esquiman culture adapts to arctic fare. They eat until full but never finish leftovers and consume walrus flesh and skin with remarkable stomach resilience, unlike American dyspepsia.
A Detroit Free Press item shows a young man rescuing a distressed woman’s scattered trinkets after she drops her purse in the mud. He receives no thanks, but later finds the penny, ending with a mysterious tale of a Scots origin for the czar through Miss MacGregor and Hyde Park romance.
Five hundred Russian emigrant children educated under the Parond er Hirsch fund at the Educational Alliance on East Broadway gathered for a Patria club prize contest for the best salut to the flag and a patriotic song. The hall bore American flags as 556 names appear on the society’s register and only six absences. Children who could not speak English when they arrived now enter sixth and seventh grades. Mr. Solomons praised their patriotism and linguistic progress as they sang "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and raised 500 voices in a salute to the flag.
A carrier pigeon, missing for 30 months, returns to Mrs. Nansen in Christiania with a note from the Arctic explorer. The bird flew over frozen wastes and oceans to deliver news of Nansen’s expedition, hailed as a wonder of endurance.
Two young women sold shoe polish at the Wichita courthouse in Kansas. Each man who Lought had his shoes shined free by the pair. County officials and staff watched as the women polished leather, drawing curious reactions from onlookers.
The Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror reports on jail life with a series of tales. S C Knapp, serving five years for bank funds theft, was seen in prison garb giving bicycle lessons to the jailer's wife Mrs G T Cash, who is 33 with an 18 year old daughter. Lewi Rogers was allowed to take a cow to Yarmouth and back on a sunny day. A Parisian named Joe, jailed on a Portuguese girl’s complaint, promised to marry her but left with another after borrowing $30 from Rosa. The Barnstable jail stories are described as less dramatic than continental neighbors.
The article describes Queen Olga of Greece as a motherly figure admired for her simplicity and gentle nature. It notes the sorrow surrounding the late marriage of Taul, the eldest daughter, and recounts a dream about a sculpture as a sign of omen. It also mentions Adelina Paii gaining townfreedom for benefactions and other aristocratic news, including a marriage and royal affairs.
In Marshfield area Wisconsin two men found a cache of counterfeit currency and engravings inside an old coffee pot after chopping wood on a farm, including a 1850 Upper Bank of Canada coin and a Spanish coin dated 1318. A London temple key and lock with seven pound weight are described, while a rancher’s panther trap incident ends with two panthers and one killed by rifle.
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