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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1895
Page
2
The Sun announces its publication details in THE SUN Building at 79 E. Chest and outlines subscription prices for city and outside city delivery. It directs readers to contact the advertising manager for rates and invites agents to solicit in towns, with a note to report delivery issues.
Owing to increased business from the enlargement of The Sex and other causes, the press room will gain steam power and only one edition will be issued today. Tomorrow’s edition will be larger and full of features including Hageard's People of the Mist installment.
A Buffalo asylum bride Mary Kelly, age 17 in an insane ward, escaped then married an attendant during a ceremony and was recaptured. Elsewhere Louisa Matson, posing as many names for 16 years, was exposed in San Jose after running a hotel and conning bogus checks. A second couple Abe and Cathriel Leis wed amid train passengers. disputes over alimony arise as a husband demands 4000.
A lively social column notes Octave elab explorations at a church event with Hodge as president and Marshalls as secretary. Guests include Mr and Mrs VCP Malet at a Delaware street home, Martha Washington and Propylenia entertainments, and a party hosted by Miss Nellie Teed and others in a Philadelphia area setting.
A compilation of editorials criticizes Tom Reed for backing a bond bill and questions rival leaders McKinley and Harrison for not revealing positions. It discusses labor-law proposals, political patronage, and railroading abuses with various city and state references, noting distrust in administration grip and urging remedies.
Disjointed lines describe senate proceedings, a dismissive stance against reform, and a house debate over bond provisions. A Nebraska relief commission inquiry is blamed for favoritism along religious and political lines. A German anarchist, Bock, faces penal servitude for a crime in Belgium.
Dy Metcalf returns from Franklin where local tensions rose as a dispute over vaccination mandates collided with antisocial protests. Emerson, former owner of the Emerson Moore desk firm now in receivership, faces arrest for alleged desk theft. A man named Stechares accuses himself of blackmail in a convoluted tag of events.
A two story home owned by Dr. TW T. Cares at North and Illinois streets was heavily burned on Saturday. The senior physician, recovering from a paralytic stroke, was carried from the building. Fire began in the bathroom on the second floor. the top story was largely destroyed. The contents were saved and the total loss is estimated at $2,000.
The high court of Indiana meets in Lorraine hall with a morning session at 10 Welock on Monday and an open session Tuesday evening featuring the vooage men’s kappella. A representative to the world supreme court in London next August will be elected.
Francis Meyer, a Sunday resident aged, was found dead in his boarding house at 202 Jayvetteist. He had been drinking and despondent over domestic troubles and unemployment. The coroner reports heart disease as the cause of death.
Fragmentary ad text extols Hocd arsaparilia as a blood acting remedy that supposedly cures catarrh by reaching every part of the body. Also mentions Old Nurse for Children, Winslow’s Egermine for children, and a vague reference to a price of twenty-one cents a bottle.
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