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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1892
Page
3
A lively account of Pete the puppy who loves mischief and lunch, chasing a grown-up dog, tugging hair, and begging not to grow up. The speaker expresses preference for puppy life over becoming a big dog.
An old tramp recounts a life on the road and a single humane turning point. After a failed burglary against a Westchester farmer, he spares a girl and helps the family. The farmer offers a fortune to settle, but the tramp declines, choosing freedom over riches to stay with Maggie and the road. Albany Press.
A New York World report notes a 12 year old, fluent in five languages, appointed interpreter at Castle Garden. It also describes Warren Maine’s 13 secret societies, stiff stamp sales in Manhattan, and a penny fireside toast business by a young inventor near Bowery.
It notes vermin deterrents like clove and cedar oils and keeps brown grocery paper for practical kitchen uses. It also provides a detailed salad dressing method using hard boiled egg yolk mustard salt pepper sugar potato vinegar oil and extra vinegar to finish.
A notice lists four writers who make about $20,000 annually from their pen. They are William Dean Howells Hubert L. Steven son Mark Twain and Mrs Burnett. It mentions a claim that Queen Victoria knew Sir Walter Scott personally and adds an Edinburgh bookseller who recalled conversations with him.
The data notes London with 4000 letter carriers and Great Britain totaling 180000 landlords. Europe consumes 66000000 matches daily. Fewer than 800 persons own land in Ireland.
The passage warns that gradual weight loss leads to decline in health and urges returning to a healthy weight. It references a book on careful living and promotes Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil as useful, with a shop address in New York.
A compendium of scattered incidents reports Omaha shipping 2 million bushels of corn to Russia and a planned Mugwumps conference in New York in April. Notes winter wheat in good condition and ongoing tensions in Gallup New Mexico. Violent events include a Sand Point Idaho fight with four killed, a lynching in Arcadia Florida, and a hazardous ice gorge in Parker Pennsylvania. Other items mention train boiler explosions in Philadelphia and Lima Ohio, public graft cases in Denver, horse riding accidents in Guthrie Oklahoma, a kidnapping hunt in Texas for Shamiel Simpson, mass escapes at Jackson Michigan asylum where an inmate died in a blaze.
An elderly visitor shares a curious scene with a child named Tommy and questions about Mrs. Fly. The tale unfolds with playful dialogue and a mischievous line about selling playthings for a watch key to avoid hunting for a key when thirsty.
Provisional smoked meats and hams lead a dense price list on the Wednesday market page. Entries cover bacon, sausage, lard, and fresh pork, with multiple regional and brand notes, plus canned goods, fruits, vegetables, and dairy. Prices echo a bustling wholesale bazaar with extensive vendor names and cross-aisle items.
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