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Newspaper
Columbus Star
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1897
Page
4
Rates listed for daily and weekly advertisements include One year 24 and 70.410 for ore ine, six months and three months options. Insertion charges apply per inch, with special rates for local ads and contracts. Yearly contracts incur monthly deductions based on extended terms.
A fragment notes a druggist Dunnington offering medicines and cash equivalents as substitutes and urging firm stance to obtain desired cure or particulars. The text is fragmented with unclear names and places.
An early 20th century ad touts AL Dine materials and Trill wool for suits and dresses. It promises broad choice in new patterns and atomic live designs, claiming superior tailoring quality and brightness in fabrics to attract customers.
The piece portrays Matanzas and surrounding western Cuban provinces as an ash heap of suffering. It notes destruction around Matan gay, enforced reconcentration, and a famine looming as residents lack organization and self preservation, despite mutual aid.
A Yale Divinity student fires a toy rifle at a lamp, the bullet enters a professor of science wall, and the professor retraces the bullet’s path with exact calculation. The student confesses and the case is dropped.
A reporter recalls curious London signs observed by Americans last summer. Do Not Ring the Bell Unless an Answer Is Required appears on many doors while letters may be dropped unseen. A blue sign proclaims Yankie Cy der Is Sold Mere near the Bank of England. A hairdresser promises Fair Neatly Trimmed While You Wait.
A Pall Mall Gazette tale recounts a Spanish bishop’s coachman cursing on the box during a Zamoran bishopric confirmation at Corrales. The mayor fined the driver for blasphemy and the bishop dismissed the offender, later driving the prelate home, giving the event its enduring nickname.
A clipping notes Adelina Patti awarded the freedom of Brecon Wales in recognition of her benefactions to locals. It also discusses European high society figures including Jean de Mounstiers and Miss Gwen Molen Caldwell, plus a large Mexican business tale and a Spanish engineered river crossing.
A dinner party tale reveals Bagley senior claimed a near-fatal escape. His young son boots the suspense with a sharp witted reply, ending the evening in quiet banishment for the boy from further storytelling. An added Jericho hotel remark notes an American traveler’s dinner with butter from Norway cheese from Switzerland and other global curiosities in Jericho.
A family of two seeks a reliable person for general housework. Inquire at 1404 Mechanic Street.
A street fair will be attended by several bicycle groups at Seymour tomorrow. Baker Wells and wife from Edinburg visited their son Henry and family yesterday. Burglars broke into Prather's saloon around midnight and were tracked to Schafer's mill before vanishing.
John W. Rusk of Belport, North Carolina, writes to the New York Sun about buffalo gnats, describing their behavior, distribution in Arkansas, and the damage they cause to stock and wildlife. He notes their habit of crawling into faces and depositing eggs, and recalls farmers using smoke to drive them away, including a buck deer and hogs seeking the smudge.
A young couple debates honesty in love as Mazie urges truth over clever lines after a theater supper. The man, reflecting on the “coming man,” contemplates whether the next generation will be wiser, then helps Mazie into a cable car.
A vivid description of flooded wetlands near Jeanette's Creek where vast marshes stretched for miles. The piece catalogs abundant waterfowl species and notes thousands of Canada geese and other ducks as ideal for sport, alongside a tangential tale about Czar Paul and a Canadian-born mistress.
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