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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1891
Page
3
A playful verse from Yor the Sun extols lamb and ham as a comforting rhyme for supper. It imagines scarce food yet promises a happy sandwich, hash from lamb, and onions with potatoes, ending with hopeful lines about breakfast and a possible dish of amb and pain as a musical jingle.
In Wall Street tenements our hero Iron Bound Ed fights Billy the Bilk on the fifteenth floor. The banker Blanchard begs mercy as a million in cash tempts crime. Ed stops the robbery, battles the robber, and the rope breaks as a crash looms. The next issue promises continuation.
A collection of light anecdotes about children mispronouncing words and misunderstandings at church and home. It notes Rosamond’s inflamed eyelid, a child’s joke about damper and eyes, Willie's raisins called reasons, and a preacher’s said reasons. It also touches on Missouri saloons and Illinois towns with teamsters letting horses roam, mixing humor with local color.
A miscellany notes twelve women lawyers from New York Law School, mentions seven former House speakers, pensions for widows of Grant and Garfield, and peculiar local vignettes from Boston, Nashville hens production, maple sap tapping near Winstead Conn, violin-making Saxon villages, and a cat guarding a boy’s grave in Paoli Ga.
Attorney general Miller ill with la grippe. Todd flouring mill in Dallas burned causing 45000 dollars in losses. A freight collapse near Guineaville killed three men. Dr Arthur Vokes of Chicago died by morphine. Benedict and Gaffney in New York burned their business causing 50000 dollars loss. Coke strikers are returning to work under hunger pressure, while 14000 remain out. A university class fight in Cincinnati caused serious injuries and possible death.
The passage lists home remedies to treat stains and pests. It suggests ironing sandpaper to rub iron on, applying sweet oil and turpentine to bruises, scattering cloves to drive away ants, and using glycerine with yolk to remove coffee stains followed by wash in war i water.
One hosiery firm re foots stockings, the mobair braid retires as the skirt circles the feet, while Philadelphia society women have started classes on hygiene and physical culture for women.
The Department of Police in Indianapolis issues a notice to property owners for the cost of cleaning and sweeping specified streets and avenues. It lists blocks on Indiana Avenue, Delaware, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Markets, Meridian, Massachusetts, and other streets for daily and tri weekly sweepings and wooden block pavements. The Board of Public Works will meet April 24, 1891 to consider final action.
A fragment notes figures on rocks and keys in the Grand opera house Paris. It cites the Pennsylvania railroad earning about 1,000,000 yearly for mail transport. Costs cited include 19 to bring an immigrant and 5.50 to ship a steer to Hurone. A Norwegian wood pulp import totals 0,129 bales for eastern mills. Southern Oregon timber stands at 16,000 miles with 400,660,000,600 feet merchantable, valuing 10 per 1,000 feet to potentially repay national debt twice. An ancient $40 Greek coin found among 50-cent pieces at the Treasury. A young woman who found it kept it by replacing a 50-cent piece. This is deemed legitimate as Uncle Sam does not intend to chase rare coins.
An 1889 Willows California advertisement urges spring cleansing of liver kidneys and bowels with Simmons Liver Reg water. It claims sluggish circulation loss of appetite and headaches from seasonal changes and promotes renewed vigor, biliousness relief, malaria prevention, and overall wellness.
A collection of maxims on friendship and marriage from classical authors. Pascal warns that private praise and gossip destroy friendships. Saadi notes oppression breeds distress. Addison praises love in marriage and its blending of happiness, friendship, sense, and reason.
The Board of Public Works invites sealed proposals by May 1 1891 for a twelve inch pipe line sewer along the alley north of Michigan Street from Meridian east to the Pennsylvania street sewer. Plans and specs are on site. the board may reject any or all bids.
Free English and German consultations offered at reception and consultation parlors Nos 1 and 2 Fair Block corner Hlidlest and Jackson Place Indianapolis Indiana. Sundays 8 30 p m with telephonic or distant access via question blank for those unable to call.
Rail update shows a 6.30 arrival time for trains from Cincinnati areas heading to Anderson and Ainiugio. Details appear fragmented but indicate service adjustments and platform notes.
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