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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1891
Page
3
A poem by H. H. Heath contrasts tolling bells and mourning with winds of joy and release. It centers on a living son amid sorrow, invoking Natura in pine trees and proclaiming that the slave is finally free as eternal forces decree good tidings.
Miguel, a poor Mexican boy, rides Chispa to help Felipe who lies near death from fever. A cruel prank ends with the horse dead and Miguel plunging to the riverbank as night falls. Felipe calls for water while Miguel and the horse’s fate intertwine with a desperate search for a doctor and help.
A brief fragment describes a death scene where a name is spoken but unfinished as the individual dies, capturing a moment of abrupt silence and loss. It reflects a terse archival notation with limited readable detail and no further context.
In London a teacher questions a new pupil who cannot answer basic questions. The child finally reveals a hint of intelligence, answering a simple query about prior schooling.
The notice reflects social musings on motherhood trends among fashionable women after Mrs. Cleveland bears a daughter. It notes a stove pipe style for men, six handed euchre as President Harrison’s leisure favorite, and quotes Ward McAllister on marriage as compromise amid storms of life. It also cites Abbe Dugas blaming French Canadians’ ruination on pleasure, intemperance, idleness and political system ills.
The excerpt lists early achievements of figures such as Cromwell, Gladstone, John Bright, Lord Bacon, Peel, Palmerton, Henry Clay, Judge Storey, and Martin Tutner. It notes ages at which they entered Parliament, the Treasury, the Senate, Harvard study, and the Supreme Court, illustrating rapid rise to prominence in youth.
A mosaic of period items. social quips on fashion and romance mix with a joke about a self detecting umbrella and a boast about English beer consumption. Historical notes touch on royal rooms and a tally of warship guns with mixed quality assessments.
Before the cause of consumption was known we did not know how Scott's Emulsion aided consumption and related conditions. The explanation is interesting and available free in a book on careful living. Scott & Bowne, chemists, 182 South 6th Street New York. It keeps Scott's Emulsion available to druggists everywhere for $1.
A chaotic digest of 191 pages notes Cyrus W Field ill in New York, Kansas City courting a Democratic convention, a Texas special session, and a debt reduction of 2,024,986.92. Fannie Davenport suffers nervous prostration in Kansas City while laborers return to Spain under contract. Kentucky rail officials push for separate whites and blacks cars. San Francisco ship returns to Chilean waters. Secretary John T. Dickinson resigns to run a railroad. Alleged assaults on Negro miners in Oliver Springs Tennessee. Louis Armand deemed insane in New York. Martin Barthel and son arrested in St. Louis for embezzlement as United States Dresving Co. of Chicago gains control of Milwaukee St Louis and Danvar breweries. Judge Nash declines to report Brice senatorial proceedings. Air Minnsville editor shot by a railroad worker, who then commits suicide. Fire devastates mills and hotels across Minnesota, Kentucky, Ohio, Nebraska, and Massachusetts. Hewes pottery and Pineville hotel perish in Kentucky and North Cambridge losses.
The act prohibits any person from making or aiding connections or reconnections to gas mains or services without a written permit from the supplier. It also bans turning on or off valves or interfering with appliances and enlarging mixer orifice or using gas for heating without proper authority. Violations carry fines from five to one hundred dollars.
The Sun publishes a Wanted Help column inviting all to use the paper's pomalla free service. Readers can call, send postal requests, or visit the office to place notices and seek assistance. The notice appears on the second page with contact details for submitting inquiries.
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