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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1892
Page
3
An evening encounter at a lane wicket leads to love. The speaker, wandering from milking time, finds Barbara beside the wicket and learns she has become the bride. A country setting from Oregon to Maine frames the chance meeting and union. Hunton Scollara.
A Saturday trading day in a mountain town drew two rival Civil War era factions the Jackson and Berry crowds together for a fatal knife duel. Steve Jackson challenged Berry, a ring formed with 300 onlookers including many women and youths. The fight lasted about a quarter hour with dozens of stab wounds. Jackson died in ten minutes, Berry after about thirty. The scene ended with blood pools attracting dogs and hogs, witnessed by Detroit Free Press.
The New York Recorder notes wet umbrellas should rest on the floor to drain along rib ends. It suggests india rubber bands around bottles in cases to prevent breakage and save packing material. It also advises four minutes to drink a glass of milk for better digestion and describes a playful SNAP SHOTS caption about olives and a snake’s tail.
A Swiss village tale tells how a planned drowning of a troublesome cat by villagers ended when a dog leaped after the sack in the river Aar, tore it open, and freed the cat. The curious incident contrasts with a Fulton County jail scene of a moonshiner's return for his sick baby, and miscellany notes on Florence Quida, Parma violets in New York, Hetty Green’s wealth, and mourning stamps.
A bright Hyde Park girl asks for extra ice cream and is told to ask her father. In Babyhood a South Side man takes his small daughter to the lake shore. she wets a foot and pleads with her father to step on the baby's foot, revealing a tender family moment.
A simple pillow sham holder uses diagonal tape in the sham corners to keep shams in place with minimal adjustment effort. Also included is Mrs Cleveland's fruit cake recipe requiring eggs butter sugar flour raisins currants citron spices and brandy, baked about two hours in a steady oven.
Before the cause of consumption was known we did not know how Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil did so much good in consumption and the conditions that lead to it. The explanation is interesting. We send it free in a book on CAREFUL LIVING from Sceort & Bowser, Chemists, New York.
A jumbled report notes popular new postal cards, Utah statehood drive by Mormons, border crossers from Mexico, a broken ice gorge at Parker Pas, and a large Washington reception for Mrs. Harrison. It cites races for president, unrest in several towns, a bridge disaster near Valetine Texas, a camp of 100 freedmen heading to Liberia, a luminary divorce in Deadwood, and a mob burning a colored man near Texarkana.
A fragment highlights Bee and crow notes, snake movement by ribs and scales, and a long list of market prices for meats, produce, canned goods, and groceries on a February 22 page. It mentions Hood's Sarsaparilla and urges reading Wanted Help notices on the Sun's second page.
The act from Indiana General Assembly approved March 9 1891 prohibits connecting with gas mains or service pipes without a written permit and forbids interference with valves or to use gas for heating without proper risers. Violations carry fines from five to one hundred dollars. Also includes unrelated medical advertisements for syphilis cures and private treatments.
An advertisement invites readers to test a Sun column by placing ten words for six days at a rate of thirty cents. It directs callers to the Tro Sun building at 79 E. Ohlost and provides a telephone contact.
Public notice listing a wagon for sale to be advertised under the Kor sale miscellaneous column in The Sun. Rate is thirty cents for ten words with a six day publication window. Office address at 79 East Ohio Street and telephone number 880.
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