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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1890
Page
3
A poor laborer dreams of wealth after a mysterious old man offers a million dollars in exchange for earning one cent. He dons fine clothes and tries a series of jobs, failing to earn real wages, facing mockery, hunger, and expulsion, only to awaken back under the tree as a healthy worker ready to earn for himself.
The Kentucky legislature passes a bill granting married women absolute control of their wages. The report notes novelty and questions what husbands will do next, alongside assorted brief items on Edison’s kintograph idea, global Sunday schools, historic relic prices, and other scattered notes.
A notice states that with your name and address mailed to the Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta Georgia you may obtain a treatise on the blood and diseases incident to it. The fragment suggests a promotional or informational offer routed through a mail response.
Palm Sunday traditions in the holy land are recalled with Crusader era imagery of entry into Jerusalem. John Wanamaker plans to expand Bethany Church Philadelphia and possibly build a farm and deacon training institute. Minnesota church tests outreach by inviting hotel guests to Sunday services. Queen Victoria loves pearls while Queen Elizabeth's Tudor prayer book appears in London. Austria’s empress converts her wedding dress into vestments for St Matthew Perth with a Marian devotion display planned for May.
400 pairs of Infants' Fine Kid Button Shoes at 15¢, 198 pairs of Ladies Grain Button Shoes at 6 Yen, 200 pairs of Ladies' Fine Dongola Button Shoes, 387 pairs of Ladies' Car Kid machine sewed Button Shoes, 250 pairs of Gents' Fine Calf Shoes in Button Lace or Congress, 485 pairs of Gents' Five Dongola Shoes in Button Lace or Congress at 1.65, 500 pairs of Gents' Fine Kangaroo hand sewn Shoes. Above bargains are for two days only and promise savings from 50c to 3 on every purchase.
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