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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1892
Page
3
In Yankee Blade style, a narrator mocks gossiping neighbors who swap tales for hours. Samantha overhears and learns to mind her own business while the town trades births deaths and other home affairs through hearsay, preferring family news over local papers.
A grieving sister, Alice of Xenia Ohio, haunts the race crowd near the Members' stand while trainers and jockeys show kindness. A foreman recounts a boy named Fred, mortally injured in a stable accident, whose sister later emerges seeking him. A backstory links a lost brother, a mysterious envelope, and a tragic family memory.
A Tennessee track girl named Alice searches for her brother Fred, wandering the western circuit from Memphis to New Orleans while workers at the stable help her. She endures hunger and fatigue, clings to faith she will reunite with him, and guards her one devotion amid harsh racing life.
A New York Herald note laments a wife’s changed fortunes after marriage, while Spring fashion signals favor plain skirts and modest sleeves. A Bath, Maine tale reveals a woman with $20,000 in bank deposits and a family windfall from a aunt. A glove mender shop promises gloves last longer, a teacher rhyme causes geography mishap, and a Brooklyn wedding features choir boys in surplices turning into street horn blowers after the ceremony.
A man ruined by a hydrant incident shows cruelty at pay barbers hair. On Long Island a farmer feeds rail beans to hens making vanilla flavored eyes and boosting egg production to 25 dozen daily for town markets.
A chaotic batch of reports notes a Democratic mayor win in Duluth Minnesota while Dakota people distrust rain producers. Other items include acidly terse crime and disaster notes from Alabama to New York and Arkansas, with murders, suicides, a resignation, a flood of sensational claims, and a buried alive heiress rumor.
A garbled, recipe-like passage describes a Dreseden dressing with oil vinegar and mustard, plus a cabbage salad with sugar pepper and mustard. It mentions hard boiled eggs, onion, parsley, salt, and cream as optional enhancements, and notes dilution when vinegar is strong.
A fragment from the Sun quotes a poet remarking on rhymes and a minister's wife urging restraint as the speaker insists he is practicing his sermon. The scene shifts to an abrupt, fearful back whack during the moment, with the name John appearing in dialogue.
Thursday listings show provisions with smoked meats bacon lard and pork products, canned vegetables and fruits, dried goods, and groceries. Prices include Indiana lard seven and a half cents, fresh pork loins seven cents, canned tomatoes eight cents, lemons and bananas priced for swap, and butter and eggs noted as scarce with minor shifts in cost.
A fragmentary 19th century advertisement and public appeals discuss rail costs for royalty and the need for public backing, then promote Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure as a trusted remedy. The piece also includes an elusive detective agency listing with assurances of nationwide civil and criminal aid and references to public figures for credibility.
Special train departs Indianapolis at 11 p m and allows return on regular trains February 7 and 8. Chicago return also at 11 p m Sunday February 7. Tickets not sold until Saturday morning at Union Station and No 1 East Washington street with limited quantities. EH M Bronson G P A.
The act prohibits any person or entity from connecting or reconnecting gas mains or service pipes, turning valves, enlarging mixer orifice, or using natural gas for heating without a written permit from the gas provider. Violations incur a fine of five to one hundred dollars per offense.
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