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Newspaper

Indianapolis Sun

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Aug 16, 1889

Page

3

Science Versus Money and the Recovered Cashier

An elderly cashier Robert Certify confronts banker Richard Coupon after 34 years of service ends in dismissal. Certify steals 8 million in securities and cash, plans a con, but a youthful attorney reveals his client as Certify, restored by a life-elixir, returning the securities while demanding the cash.

Richard Couman Robert Coupet Robert Certify Pildou Roader Robert Cersify Av Bank Richard Coupon Ever Anon Assaya Robert Ceruify

Fragmentary death note from Evening Sun column.

A garbled line mentions leaving savings in old age and a death, with references to Hal, Robert Coupon, and Wie who had fallen back in his chair dead, indicating a brief, unclear obituary-like fragment from the Evening Sun.

Robert

Quips and Quirks Across a Patchwork of Tests

A collection of snappy witticisms and brief vignettes from travelers merchants and townsfolk. Jokes about reform love trains fund raising revivals and seaside fashion provide quick humor and local flavor with names and places echoing era newspaper style.

Forbearance and caution in life and governance

A series of maxims on virtue and prudence. It warns that gentleness yields profit, anger harms, and quiet self‑examination prevents fault. It states life is a journey toward a homecoming, with emphasis on learning, debt, and the roots of the state, urging care for the future and continual self‑improvement.

Enterprising Lakeview resident cans jack-rabbit hams

An Lakeview California citizen ships canned jack-rabbit hams to the east. A turtle was found wandering among mail at the Potts-town Post Office in Pennsylvania. Col Calkins extols Indiana men for height and strength, noting soil and climate foster stature. Hood’s Sarsaparilla praised by a mother for curing her son’s scrofula.

Lakeview Cal Pottstown Indiana Col Calkins Terrill Massachusetts New York Tribune

Oddities of India and Jeppor jugglers in India

A contemporaneous digest details a forest plant in India with strong magnetic energy causing shocks and needle disturbances, varying by hour and storm conditions, then shifts to two Jeppor jugglers from Mail and Express. One performer lifts a heavy chair using eyeglasses and cords, earning two rupees for the show.

India Jeppor The Mail and Express

Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Teething Remedy Ad

An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething. It claims to soothe the child soften gums relieve pain cure wind colic and diarrhea and is sold for 25 cents per bottle.

Indianapolis Public Works and Health Ordinances from 1860s

City advertisements present ordinances authorizing street railway construction and health inspections. The first ordinance grants Citizens' Street Railroad Company rights to build and operate electric and horse powered lines on multiple streets, with conditions on completion, speed limit, rights preservation, and penalties. A second health ordinance empowers the Board of Health to sample dairy products for quality, defining standards for milk and butter and penalties for violations.

City of Indianapolis City of Indianapolis Peru Street Massachusetts Avenue Home Avenue College Avenue Columbia Avenue Hill Avenue Hillside Avenue Ludlow Lane Valley Drive Fern Way Hazel Street Beech Street Lawrence Street Mountain Street Rural Street Bloyd Street Peru Streets Brightwood Carson Sach Tuk Sun Marion County Denny, Mayn

Toomsy Officially Enrolled as Clerk on August 12 1889

The record notes SHCHAFL W Toomsy serving as Clerk in an ordained and established capacity dated the twelfth day of August in the year 1889. It references DENNY as Mayor and WRIGHT as Attest. The fragment confirms municipal appointments and formal attestation.

Jno. W Bowlus Gherk Board of Aldermen Wright Michael W. Toourr Cs. Deayor W. Bowles Michael W. Toomey Indianapolis the Sun Marion County Indiana Denny Shchafl W. Toomsy

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