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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1891
Page
4
A chaotic Indiana page reports a 10 year old boy crushed by a falling chimney from a moving house in Holts Woods. The item notes numerous local incidents including drownings, arrests, divorces, and fairs across Fort Wayne, Logansport, Greenfield, and Crawfordsville with multiple deaths and accidents.
A terse Chronicle note recalls a brave soldier named Smith who defended a dog with a hoe after multiple bites. The report mentions Barnum being at Marion Wednesday, where he earned three columns of wind in the paper.
The Fresh Air Fund has reached 1533.35 dollars with hundreds of sickly local children benefiting. Other items note a barn fire at 444 S Hast St causing 250 dollars in losses. a missing real estate man Chas Ott located in Cincinnati. union support for laundry workers. county bridge plans. a 14 year old Ft Wayne boy lodged at the station. the soldiers monument commission reviewing artist work. a 90 year old deaconess from Cincinnati. a man surrendered to police as an escaped asylum inmate. political nominating plans for Aug 29. early closing movement expanding to 6 pm weekdays. Mystic Order chapter formed at 1315 N Meridian. Indiana to build a solo state pavilion at the world’s fair near Lake Michigan. plans for a Clover Leaf House site and building aces.
Sennon lines in connection with the L N A C railway offer a free parlor car daily except Sunday to West Baden and Irenec Lick springs. Leaves Indianapolis at 4 10 p m and reaches French Lick at 8 50 p m Excursion tickets on sale at Pennsylvania Lines ticket offices.
Local notices show Woods' stables, Al Mueller opening a new jewelry shop at 48 and Illinois, with bargain watches and clocks. John Wanamaker lambasts posters and dodgers, praising newspaper space for ads. The Sun offers reader liners and promotional pricing, including free or half‑cent words for three days.
A dense listing shows 1891 prices for linseed, lard oil, white lead, coal oil, eggs, poultry, flour and feed, and cattle hogs sheep and hay at Indianapolis Stock Yards and Chicago Grain Market. Includes shippers' paying prices, farm stock receipts, market outlook, and nearby wheat corn oats hay prices with regional remarks.
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