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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1892
Page
3
Browne Parkman reflects on returning home after hardship and longing for steady, familiar life. The speaker laments the city’s rush and the strain of waiting for fortune, insisting that, despite weariness, happiness comes with patience and the comfort of home.
Goshawk and Guldridge collapse leaving debts and vanished assets. Seth Dodge seizes a path to Kate Orville while Uncle Walter and Archie Warham plot fortunes amid trust and marriage. Kate wed Archie as Uncle Walter surprises her with a hundred thousand dollar check. meanwhile Seth marries Elvira Fensoose after revealing his cash shortage and bonds stolen by the failed bankers.
A collage of bizarre snippets from an era newspaper, including a comically stern county marriage ad, a New York tale of a frigid old man who reacts to cold with dressing rituals, and a quip about sky color after planetary conjunctions.
A judge fines a driver for fast driving as the prisoner offers to pay with a horse and ten in lieu. Banter follows about butter kept for twenty years and a horse thief sobbing with resignation before vigilantes vote by rope.
A Chicago barrel of beer lists at 42 dollars while a Maine resident boasts 26 gallons of cider. The Union Cattle Company in Cheyenne near Omaha claims the world’s largest barn, five acres, 125000 dollars, 3750 cattle. At a Missouri family reunion two exceptionally fat babies weigh 107 and 93 pounds at ages 5 years and 21 ½ months.
In Indianapolis Gould and Brother advertise remedies for catarrh and colds claiming health benefits and relief from symptoms. The brief notice mentions their North Indianapolis location and delivery service to Johnson area, outlining a quick path to improved breathing and well being.
A wide, scattered list reports a Meerschaum pipe trust in New York, a Nashville real estate congress closure, a Chicago beer syndicate backed by a whisky trust, and several violent or legal items. It notes typhus spreading in New York, hangings in Kentucky and Georgia, and multiple accidental or criminal incidents across the country.
In Indianapolis, John Clane of 74 West Market St. reports chronic catarrh improved after treatment by Drs Stackhouse and Newiin at Stackhouse Medical Institute 208 North Senate Street. He describes relief from nervous fatigue and nosebleeds, weight gain, and better sleep. The clinic offers catarrh and related ear throat lung stomach diseases with mail and in office options and a special $5 monthly rate until March 1.
The text makes it unlawful to connect or re connect gas mains or service pipes with another party without a written order to operate stopcocks or valves. It prohibits enlarging mixer orifice and using gas for heating without mixers. Violators face fines from five to one hundred dollars.
The piece notes New Jersey Democrats favor tariff reform as the campaign issue and back Cleveland, with Indiana Democrats torn between Hill and the Cleveland sentiment. The writing urges temperance in the race and promotes Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure as a lung remedy with claims of safety and broad usefulness.
A 25 year specialty clinic advertises syphilis and gonorrhea cures by mail. It claims rapid relief for variCOcele cases, strictures, and self abuse consequences such as despondency and impotence. Medicines offered private by mail or express from Dr I M Abbet t of Indianapolis.
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