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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1902
Page
5
In a drawing room romance, Elsie Brinton inspires contrast with a cynical bachelor. The narrator weighs devotion against freedom as Lady Treville and Col Wandle plan marriage, while Elsie risks herself to save a child and tests a quiet, evolving tenderness.
In a Philadelphia Telegraph note, a Woman's Rights Society president reflects on marriage and danger at sea. A man hazards drowning to win a response, and she reveals a witty assertion about a girl's view of a man's importance until his arm blocks a watery grave.
An elderly Liberty beggar collected many donations until a whisky bottle dropped and donations ceased. A Monrovia youth proposes building a tannery to convert rabbitskins into sealskin garments for fashion use.
Joe Walters recounts slipping on an icy sidewalk and colliding with a livery barn bridge, leaving his nose skinned in an incident described by him in the Middlebury Democrat.
Bean Hill women have planted early lettuce beds and garden crops. Mandy Wheeler anticipates tomato sprouts by the last week of January. Jake Rawlings works on hotbeds for Bean Hill neighbors.
Charley Whealer and his best girl spent Sunday with Henry Kelly. Frank Shelton and his best girl also spent Sunday with Henry Kelly. Otter Creek item in Boonville Enquirer. The Arcadia man who drank eight quarts of beer managed to walk home by himself.
In Sandridge a new sleigh appears in Bourbon Mirror referencing Oral Kitch. Frederickstown’s Jerry Sprusby threatens to drop Ralph Yountz’s subscription after a dispute. A Wabash county card seeks Jamel Strickler’s street address with grim jokes. A Madison county preacher protests as youths heckle baptisms. Uncle Ed Trueblood, longtime Adams township resident, owns 300 acres and remains active. Zenobia candy war lowers prices. Evansville dummy in store questioned. Christmas gift advice satirizes domestic objects and blunt force.
A town contest offers one dollar and a two membership in the Ananias club for the best lie told in 100 words or less by January 1. Personal nature lies are excluded. Submit a signed entry for publication.
Aims to prove good character by addressing letters to THE BOSS LIAR in Indianapolis. The note, sent via the Indianapolis Sun, emphasizes honesty and community trust as guiding principles for residents.
Odd narrative from Guion Indiana tells of a fertile field sold by a father figure, a cucumber pockets misadventure, a 130 foot simpson-weed climb, enormous cucumbers, a calf’s death, and a chaotic escape ending in a fatal incident in a rural setting.
A river incident from about fifty years ago describes a big catfish entangled in rope that towed a fleet of runaway barges upstream to their proper position. The event allegedly saved the company $100,000, noted by W. B. Stevenson of Indianapolis.
Lie No 16 reports pumpkin vines climbing a 28 story building one vine entering a window and a cellar harvest of 18 large pumpkins for Christmas pies by George Winch.
A string of humorous quips from The Boss Liar segment with multiple readers from Fortville, Philadelphia, Anderson, and Indianapolis. The items cover tall tales about age, ancestry, weather pranks, hair restorer, a misfired remedy, and a buffalo-killing anecdote told in a playful regional voice.
Egg prices are dropping as warm weather and a large egg supply ease market pressure. East coast prices slid from 30 to 26 cents in a day while Indianapolis shippers paid 2 cents on Tuesday. Dealers expect prices to rise again with colder weather.
The Earl of Rosslyn was deprived of 1500 dollars by card sharks aboard the steamer Etruria, which reached New York on Sunday, as reported in the transit update.
Staff Capt. J. J. Atkins leads the Indiana Salvation Army in Indianapolis after 23 years in the field. He endures stoning, imprisonment, river assault, and jail, yet gains followers and continues outreach feeding thousands, with a pivotal opening in Lowell and a notable rescue by a local Catholic priest.
The Blind Institute's new musical department added last fall teaches violin and mandolin under Bertha Schellschmidt and is highly patronized. Superintendent Charles E. Wilson notes blind students excel at music, with 120 pupils seeking instruction and many becoming professional musicians, including Charles Hanson and W. F. Shannon as organists.
Maria Lawsee reports Mrs Lille Devy Reaux Blake telling pilgrims that the United States has 2,500,000 more single men than women even with widows and spinsters counted. She notes New England has more bachelors than spinsters and Wyoming a ratio of 20,000 single men to 2,000 single women after 25 years of women voting.
In Indianapolis a little girl named Dolly will receive from Santa Claus one of the finest dolls ever seen. The German made figure is three feet tall with a lifelike face and real brown hair. Her trousseau is bridelike in elegance and completeness, and the doll will come as a surprise guest at the girl’s home.
The bride Dolly is said to measure four feet in length with feet in shoes from a bootmaker. Her trousseau features a handmade dream underwear set with real lace, two complete outfits, a street suit, a brown broadcloth gown, an pale pink silk evening frock, an opera cloak, and a Monte Carlo style white broadcloth outfit with lace and silver buckles. Pink garters with bows and silver buckles accompany silk hose.
Columbus Ind Dec 21 Mrs John Stevens dies from complications of a rat bite suffered 20 years ago. She had been an invalid since then and died in convulsions from a brain blood clot caused by the poison in her system.
William E. Small claimed rheumatism at Columbus barracks as his desertion motive. He was arrested at 1538 Orange Street Monday night by Deputy Constable John Newhouse. Small enlisted in Indianapolis around Sept 1 and reportedly deserted about 12 days later after serving at Columbus, Ohio. He was confined in the arsenal guard house Monday night and will be taken to Chicago.
In Bokomo Indiana on Monday night Grace Berry 16 daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Berry married Everett Kepner 18 offset by Rev Fred Fisher of Beamer chapel aged 19. The report notes American free schools now exist in every city in Porto Rico.
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