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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1901
Page
5
Trigs states Mr. Knox, a Pittsburg lawyer and longtime chief legal adviser to Carnegie Steel, has been asked to join the McKinley administration to fill the attorney general post left vacant by Mr. Griggs.
An act involving a coffin and a sword trick unravels amid backstage rivalries. Vincenti tracks Bruer and Millie while Bruer issues threats and a damaged safety mechanism delays the sword cue. The tension builds as the assistant fights to escape a lethal illusion.
Mrs. John Guth of Denver is described as the only woman in the United States both proprietor and active manager of a gambling house. She runs the Etna investment company sign on the ground floor with games in the upper floor including roulette craps and poker and a private room for women. She says she opened the business after her husband fell ill and she sought a way to support her family, inspired by a gambler named Bob Austin.
A man recounts a deadly stage trick in which a sword pierces his chest as a coffin secret opens. He grips the weapon to survive while a conjurer's trap collapses, and his wife Milie foils the plan before spectators rescue him. After six weeks in hospital he marries Milie and weds with a gold circlet.
Miss Kittle England rescued two children from a blazing house in Pittsburg then faced a flood of marriage proposals arriving by mail wire and telephone. The dramatic act has made her a local figure of admiration and headlines.
A child friendly vignette collection shows Harry preferring home over school while Willie questions a fish called weak fish. Howard fears toads and tampers with toadstools. Edith watches older sisters in seminary and mishears geology field day as hunting ological specimens.
A collage of brief items reports a wool slump in Dawson Alaska a $15000 fire in Rising Sun Illinois police chiefs in Chicago the inaugural parade 38000 expected participants and strikes in Scranton Pa. Others note mine disasters in Canada suspected robberies in Chicago and New York political nominations in Cleveland and New York city social notes from Minneapolis and Paris rumors about sports fights and stage careers with incidental criminal cases and legislative proposals.
Mrs. Margaret Hale of 1320 South Meridian Street testifies that her 17 year old daughter suffered kidney trouble described as Bright's disease. After one box the condition improved markedly and after three boxes her health and sleep improved, with a better appetite. For sale by dealers. price 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y sole agents. Remember the name Doan's.
An advertisement touts Dr Bull's Cough Syrup as a quick cure for coughs and colds. It claims one bottle will effect a cure and prices it at 25 cents.
Local shop at 210 N Meridian St offers Fine California wines and bottled goods from Brandles and Schuller's selections.
Prices paid by shippers for poultry produce include turkey hens seven cents per pound and young toms eight cents, young chickens seven and a quarter, hens ten, cocks forty-two, ducks seven, geese full feathered six cents. Cheese varieties list 13 17 14 13 cents per pound. Eggs fifteen cents per dozen. Wool values by grade from nineteen to thirty cents, hides and tallow rates for green salted hides and various greases.
An old nurse for children Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething is advertised as the best remedy, claiming to soothe the child ease teething pain cure wind colic and diarrhoea. The price is twenty five cents a bottle.
Photographic frames available for order at Ponder’s Photo Studios and Art Story located on Bassachusetts Avenue. The notice promotes latest photogr effects and frames for customers.
Special low rate colonist tickets sold via the Ogden and Sunset routes to California. From Chicago the fare is 39 dollars while from St. Louis Memphis and New Orleans it is 27.50 dollars and from Omaha Kansas City and other points 26 dollars. Rates apply starting February 12 and every Tuesday until April 30. Extra prices from all points east are noted.
Reading of wholesale selling prices lists various candy items with per pound rates including common mixed at 4c, grocers mix at 6c, Banner twist at 6c, old time mixed at 5c, and penny goods at 60c. Nuts show soft shelled varieties with almonds 16 to 18c, English walnuts 12 to 14c, Brazil nuts 12 to 16c, filberts 18 to 24c, peanuts roasted 16 to 18c, shelled Spanish nuts and mixed varieties with several price points.
A Saturday Evening Post excerpt recalls Sunday afternoons in a chapel parlor. The scene centers on an organ, reverent singing, and old portraits as dusk falls and memories linger in a quiet, firelit town.
The article notes Mrs Mackay’s London reception room with solid silver chairs and tables. It compares rare silver furniture worldwide including Windsor Castle, the Shah of Persia, the Ottoman sultan, and a gold and silver room in Moscow's Kremlin.
A dense list of commodity prices across fruits vegetables meats and staples with numerous items and per unit quotes. Includes berries pineapples oysters beans coal coffee sugar molasses flour salt and medicines, alongside regional place names and price ranges.
Tan straw braided hat with gold accents. flat crown and raised brim. Velvet leaf facing in brown cream and green adds soft color to the spring headpiece.
A humorous panel from the Chicago News shows a man announcing a day off to celebrate his birth anniversary while a woman replies she took a year off for hers last month. The exchange lampoons birthday traditions with witty banter.
A description notes that in Japan daily routines such as cooking eating and sleeping occur openly with minimal separation by screens. The passage highlights the casual exposure of private spaces including the toilet, reflecting cultural norms.
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