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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1890
Page
3
A young commercial traveler recalls a foggy London night and a lodging house trap door scheme. He hides under a bureau as robbers search the room while a dog-caught intruder roams. A window escape leads to a chase and eventual capture of the killers at the station.
Fragmentary OCR mentions eight persons and a prepped hole for someone, with H. C. Dodge and Goodall's bun referenced in the handwriting. The text lacks clear context or surrounding facts to identify event, location, or date.
It is noted that King Humbert ages quickly while Baron Rothschild sends funds to Paris’s poor. A priest near Munich subjects a nerve cure, three weeks barefoot and frozen mornings. The Lafayette line ends with Senator Edmond de, damoug family extinct. the last bearer doubts fame in America. Lord Tollemache, model landlord of England, dies at 85, leaving vast estates and cottages.
A column describes Dresden plates decorated with purchaser portraits, swans filled with flowers for table centers, and slender cut glass vases used around oblong mirrors. It also notes a method to improve milk digestion by slow sipping, plus a Boston Globe recipe for a bread crumb dressing wrapped into a steak roll. A story about an Englishman’s return voyage ends with a cablegram reporting his friend's grim fate, and a note on Hood's Sarsaparilla claiming stronger health. The piece closes with details of Pennsylvania Line sleeping and reclining cars between Indianapolis and Chicago.
A rounded collection of quotes and quirky vignettes centered on wealth, ambition, and quirky humor. It recalls Augustus Belmont’s caution about wealth, praises a Georgia editor’s praise of a young woman, and recounts a Buffalo congressman elect’s valedictorian story with a shoe mishap.
On and after Sunday December 11 1890 trains will run as follows Central Standard Time leave from and arrive at Union Station South Illinois Street.
Receipt and consultation parlors at 7air Block Nos 1 and 2 Tilinets St and Jackson Place Indianapolis invite inquiries. Open Sundays from 4 80 p m to 1 s m and to 12 m for those distant unable to call. Send for a question.
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