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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1902
Page
6
A narrator recalls a college-tinged debate on women and vows with Elsie Brinton, his aunt, and Col Wandle. A stroll leads to a rescue as Elsie falls in a stream, the pair share tension and attraction, and plans arise for a double courtship between Lady Treville and the colonel.
In a Philadelphia Telegraph excerpt a man and woman cling to a drowning moment as she begs to be released. He presses for a verdict and she quips that a girl learns a man’s value when his arm spans a watery grave. The Woman’s Rights Society calls her a backslider.
Notes from the Liberty scene show an elderly charity collector whose donations halted after a whisky bottle fell. A Monrovia youth discusses converting rabbitskins into sealskin garments via a tannery. A slip on an icy boardwalk ends with Joe Walter claiming his nose was skinned in a livery barn bridge.
Bean Hill residents Mandy Wheeler and Jake Rawlings report early garden work with lettuce beds and hotbeds under preparation. Wheeler expects tomato sprouts around late January as Rawlings builds frames for Bean Hill plots.
Charley Whealer and his best girl spent Sunday with Henry Kelly. Frank Shelton and his best girl also spent Sunday with Henry Kelly. An Arcadia man drank eight quarts of beer and walked home alone. Oral Kitch appeared in our neighborhood last Sunday evening with a fine new sleigh.
Frederickstown man Jerry Sprusby feud over missed story and canceled subscription. Wabash postmaster seeks Thaniel Strickler address. Madison county elder Uncle Ed Trueblood cited for long service and debts owed. Zenobia candy war lowers prices. Princeton Clarion reports a man spoke to a dummy in an Evansville store. Cartoonish gifts risk returns with force.
A partial letter to THE BOSS LIAR in Indianapolis discusses virtue and good fellowship, addressed via the Indianapolis Sun. The fragment suggests community values and a call for moral conduct within the city.
In Guion Indiana a man recounts a surreal incident about a fertile valley sold by a deceptive boss. He plants cucumbers that grow wildly, vines ensnare him, a 130 foot Simpson weed towers above, and a calf perishes after being dragged by the vine. The tale ends with a cryptic slur and dismissal.
A river tale from about fifty years ago recounts a big catfish snagging ropes and towing a fleet of barges downstream and back to their moorings, ultimately saving the company about $100,000. The author is W. B. Stevenson from Indianapolis.
A note reports pumpkin vines growing around a tall building in Haughville. One vine entered a window, reached the cellar, and produced 18 pumpkins intended for Christmas pies. George Winch is cited in the claim.
A string of humorous, anonymous notes from The Boss Liar column covers tall tales and quirky claims. They include a centenarian Irish relative of George Washington, maple syrup mosquitoes, weather pranks in North Dakota, a faulty hair restorer mishap, a flamboyant cigar salesman, and a buffalo-killing tale from a prairie encounter all recalling Fortville, Philadelphia, Anderson, and Columbus locales.
Egg dealers report a drop driven by warmth and large supply. Prices slipped in the east from 30 to 26 cents in a day while Indianapolis shippers paid 22 cents on Tuesday. They warn cold weather could push prices back up.
The Earl of Rosslyn was fleeced of 1500 dollars by card sharks aboard the steamer Etruria which docked in New York on Sunday.
Staff Captain J. J. Atkins leads Indiana Salvation Army operations in Indianapolis since last April. At 35, he has 23 years in the field, endured stonings, imprisonment, and river plunges, yet built followings in New York, Wilkes-Barre, Lowell, and beyond, feeding thousands and keeping halls open despite mobs and violence.
The Blind Institute reports strong demand for its new music program added last fall. Bertha Schellschmidt teaches violin and mandolin, with Supt. Charles E. Wilson noting blind students excel at violin. About 120 pupils seek music, with piano piano harmony organ voice violin mandolin and choir work among offerings and graduates like Charles Hanson and W F Shannon already earning as church organists.
Mrs Lille Vereaux Blake told pilgrim mothers that the United States has about 2.5 million more single men than single women. She noted New England’s bachelor surplus and Wyoming’s 25 years of women voting with far more unmarried men than women. She urged the surplus men to make life more pleasant for the desirable sex.
A well dressed Indianapolis child will receive from Santa Claus one of the finest dolls ever seen in the city. Miss Woolly 2, noted for beauty, wears an elegant bridelike trousseau and has brown hair. The doll is German made, stands three feet tall, and the girl’s identity must remain private.
The bride's ensemble fills out a lavish set including four foot two inches in length, shoes by a poetmaker, two complete handmade underwear sets trimmed with real lace, a street suit, tailor-made brown broadcloth gown, an evening pink silk frock, an opera cloak, Monte Carlo white broadcloth, and pink garters with bows and buckles.
Mrs. John Stevens of Columbus Indiana died from a blood clot on the brain caused by poison in the system a rat bite twenty years earlier. She had remained an invalid and died in convulsions on December 24.
William E. Small, 2, of 1538 Orange Street, says rheumatism suffered at Columbus barracks prompted his desertion after enlisting in Indianapolis around Sept. 1. He was arrested Monday night by Deputy Constable John Newhouse, confined at the arsenal guard house, and will be taken to Chicago.
Miss Grace Berry sixteen and Everett Kepner eighteen became husband and wife in Eokomo on Monday night. Rev Fred Fisher of Beamer chapel performed the ceremony. The couple is the daughter and son of local residents. American free schools now exist in every city in Porto Rico.
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