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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1889
Page
3
At Sagadahoc fair Deacon Dudley showcases a record long squash grown from seed sent from California, while a rival squash appears longer. A crowd watches a bottle water trick turn into a staged swindle as locals lose the stake money to a confident bottle expert.
Four men killed a thousand geese on Noman Island Colusa county California when their ammo failed. George Lediker caught a large tame snake near Bellefontaine Ohio seven feet long and friendly. A wealthy man convicted of shooting partridges near Laurel California must pay 480 dollars in fines for shipping them out of state. Isaac Harris captured a large bald eagle near Lewistown Ohio. the bird fought bravely but showed no fear. A boy Herbert Price set a steel spring trap catching six chicken hawks in seven days. the contraption lures hawks to a pole with a released chicken. Hood’s sarsaparilla advert follows.
A miscellany of short items: a Salem County woman aided on a railroad train, a bizarre Boston bulletin about Maginty’s death in New York from chestnuts, phonographs in Mexican post offices for the illiterate, and a bankrupt vicar’s court admission. Vermont’s Waltham forms a curious town with no amenities yet thriving in Adair County. Also features a Detroit fashion window turkey giveaway, a Lancaster dealer bending law via sheriff sale, a Radford County porcupine encounter, a Bangor fish catching device, and light quips about debt, salary, and manners.
A tall awkward country lad from upstate secures a clerical post at a Wall Street insurance office near the custom house. He wears rough boots, is a quick figure worker, and his father warns him to spend only a dollar a day. Four amused clerks trail him to Delmonico’s for lunch where his bill runs 75 cents, shocking their expectations.
A narrator recalls months of rheumatic pain starting last January and trying many doctors and remedies. He describes buying many medicines, cycling through treatments, and wasting money on approaches that offered only temporary relief. He ends with frustration at the lack of lasting improvement.
Daily mid day train service links Indianapolis Chicago and St Louis with elegant reclining chair cars and through sleepers to New York and Boston. Timetable notes Cleveland division arrivals and departures with connections via 7 p.m. train and Wagner Palace cars. Service by Chicago Cincinnati division and routes via Cairo and Louisville with Sunday operations and official timetable by J B Martin DPA.
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