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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1889
Page
3
A night harassment tale chronicles unseen noises from garret to cellar as the narrator hunts a mysterious intruder. After frantic attempts, he captures the culprit in a kitchen confrontation, only to learn it is a wood rat from neighborly comment and Webster’s definition, showcasing coastal enterprise in sixty seconds.
A collection of brief notes spans a schoolmaster in Ohio who has never seen a canal boat, a Berks County man who died at eighty nine in one house, Paris horse flesh shops reaching 132, a German editor jailed over press freedom remarks, and a Kansas weather forecast predicting little rain east of the Mississippi. It also mentions a Newcastle man aging tobacco user, a doctor’s remark on kidney disease, and a pitch for Warner's Safe Cure as a preventive measure.
London star Mrs Bernard Beers ventures into singing with a contralto voice deemed promising for higher status. A fashionable amateur minstrel troupe, led by a nobleman, scandalizes with blacked faces and dog dances for charity. The schipperke becomes 1889’s fashionable dog, small, black, with minimal tail. Massachusetts anecdotes note women’s shifting legal rights and the Maine wage picture shows 7000 women in manufacturing with weekly pay around eight dollars. A dramatic tale tells of a clerk who rose then fell into debt, gambling, and eventual reconciliation after a long search for his vanished wife.
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