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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1891
Page
3
A devoted baseball fan sat on the 8 board at the game, broiled under the sun, knowing every Christian name of the players. He cheered loudly, danced, yelled, and reddened with excitement, tossing his hat as he acted out a true baseball crank in the crowd.
A St Louis Globe correspondent recalls Ben Aiken, a young Black man living near a swamp, who during the Civil War fought off a pack of alligators to rescue a stolen pig. Surrounded on a small mound, he kept awake by shouting for help and eventually killed the lead alligator, though he suffered headlong exhaustion and emerged from the ordeal with hair as white as cotton.
Strange happenings near an old grave on an Arkansas roadside frighten locals as youths investigate a probable den of mischief. A New York monkey misuses whisky and pennies, while an ape in London learns to count with straws. A remarkable bird near St Marys captivates neighbors despite a brutal capture and unusual diet. Hood's Sarsaparilla is praised as a tonic for body and mind.
A collage of notes on costs and curiosities including a London Paris telephone rate of one dollar per minute for 280 miles, salt in oceans enough to cover five million square miles one mile deep, Sonoma water supply via subterranean river and artesian wells, a French newspaper fined 200 francs for insulting freemasons, word origins of news, Paris street refuse uses, and light human-interest vignettes from New York and Chicago society pages.
Ink spots can be removed from linen with tartaric acid while wet. For cotton silk or woolen goods saturate the spot with spirits of turpentine and let it remain several hours then rub between the hands. Green corn pudding is made by grating corn from a dozen ears and mixing with beaten yolks of five eggs butter salt pepper sugar milk and beaten egg whites then baked covered and uncovered briefly for browning.
A fragment in old prose mocks moral claims about wealth and vice. It mentions Bermuda onions as a remedy for stomach distress and advertises Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children. It notes a Butte merchant overwhelmed by a bankrupt stock clearance and the need for advertising. It ends by praising The Sun’s popular liners to fulfill wants.
A Detroit paper notes veterans and a string of grim items: a body of an unknown girl found in a swamp on Long Island after a strangulation, cattle accidents in Kansas, a Seventh Day Adventist work dispute in Tennessee, and riots in Cleveland. It also mentions a Texas drought relief, a fatal shooting in Durango, and a gruesome murder of a Brumfield family in Kentucky.
An advertisement lists corn and bunion removal without pain, nail beautification, wart and freckle treatment, skin softening, and hair trimming by a corps of lady artists. It notes rooms on the second floor of 18% North Pennsylvania Street and mentions Sears liners and home bargains in real estate columns with a generic call for old items to sell.
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