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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1893
Page
3
A poem by M. Storey recalls an old man who plays a broken fiddle. The scene gathers a ring of listeners as echoes of weddings and funeral dirges mingle with faltering but moving tunes. The imagery links aging, memory, and music across a distant past.
In a remote Arizona pine forest near Needle Pass, two men Mike and a companion known as Jack camp after a mine delivery delay. A terrifying, evolving roar from unseen creatures arrives as ferocious giant mountain terrapins flood the scene. The men flee onto a wagon, battle shell-clad turtles, ride the beasts to safety, and survive a rainstorm and a cloudburst that wash the turtles away. The episode ends with the pair reuniting with their horses after the flood subsides.
The column discusses current fashion trends with emphasis on footwear as a status symbol, hats and hair worn low in the neck, and ingenue appeal. It notes scarf manteleta trends, lace flounces, Henri II ruffs, and Parisian hat styles like Charlotte Corday. It highlights new underskirts in awa cloth and its white with dark blue patterns, praising practicality and noting beauty limitations.
In Allegany county New York lies Alfred Center a farming town famed for its seventh-day Adventist practice where Friday sunset to Saturday sunset is holy. No work or merriment occurs during the sabbath and then life resumes with shops opening and farmers at work as church bells fall silent until sundown.
A mob forced 80 Chinese residents to leave Tulare on Wednesday. In Chicago the International Union of Carriage and Wagon Workers praised Altgeld for pardoning anarchists. The Total Abstinence Life Association announced insolvency at a Chicago meeting. Mortuary facilities valued at 50,000 with assets 95,000. Secretary Hoke Smith’s Atlanta Journal backs free coinage and a silver-dollar parity. A North Abingdon riot over a New Haven electric-line track left no fatalities. Minneapolis and St Paul bankers propose 5 to 50 dollar clearing house certificates to bridge grain shortages. P Cashman of Pensacola died in Denver after a robber pretended to be a doctor.
A compact survey notes 1803 steel pens, 1826 coal oil illumination, 1889 US export value over 45 million, 44.20 million barrels world output in 1889, 1557 modern window glass use, plate glass consumption in England and the United States, 1750 US wheat export start, 1838 world grain 2.271 billion bushels, US crop last year 519.49 million bushels, 1811 breech loaders in use, 12 million guns in Europe, 3 million reserved, 100 million guns worldwide, Morse telegraph practical in 1837, Western Union 787k miles of wire and 62 million messages yearly, 246 million annual messages worldwide, 1883 European telegraph offices 41,150, 1888 world telegraph wires 767,800 miles, horse gait 2:20 and mile in 1:10 relation.
A humorous clump of panels from Lustige Blatter and Life features jokes about a barber and his temperate soap recipe, a bashful suitor, a kitchen sound joke, and a dead office boy whose funeral is blamed on lunch theft. The snippets capture light, dated humor and social mischief.
The Thursday August 17 market report notes steady city markets with declines in lemons sweet potatoes peaches and grapes. It lists detailed price quotes for meats lard canned goods fruits vegetables and other staples from Indiana California and local purveyors, highlighting specific lots such as smoked hams bacon sausage pickled meats and dried beef hams with assorted prices per pound and per barrel alongside fruit baskets and fresh produce prices.
Section 2 bans any connection or interference with gas mains service pipes or valves and restricts use to through mixers with a written permit. Section 5 imposes a fine of five to one hundred dollars for each offense upon conviction.
Dr Jordan of 26 West Washington Street warns that lung disease and heart effects from la grippe are rising due to poor treatment. His Lung Renovator is marketed as a great remedy for lungs and heart and is sold by druggists across America and internationally in Canada England Germany France Italy and Chili.
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