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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1894
Page
2
The Sun lists publishing details for Trae Sor Building offices and post office mailing. It notes second class matter status, carrier delivery at six cents weekly, and requests notifications for prompt delivery. Rates show subscriptions in city and outside rates, with annual and six month terms.
A compact clipping highlights editorial opinions on sugar policy, public wage retrenchment, and local incidents. It notes Turple's stance against sugar removal from the free list, mocks asphalt companies, mentions Zella Nicolaus and a local crime, and jests about post office affairs under Mr Sahm and the difficulty of losing one’s grip in hard times.
A reader argues for preserving sectarianism in medicine, defending homoeopathy and rival schools. He cites past disputes within the American Medical Association, defends the term homoeopathy, and urges openness to gradual reform only when leading schools publicly accept its core law of treating the sick with medicines that induce symptoms in healthy persons similar to those observed in illness.
A collage of editorials from small papers voice opinions on politics and policy. Calls out Bland and rivals as disruptors, jokes about Grover Cleveland’s era, notes parallel editorials, warns against long campaigns, criticizes tariff squabbles, praises Iowa for flag laws and urges stronger enforcement of symbol respect nationwide. Entities include Gen. Sickles Amos Cummings McKinley Iowa and Old Glory.
The Sun urges using its liners to reach Indianapolis and Indiana readers. John H Morand, superintendent of Frank Bird Transfer Co, reports receiving fifty two responses to a single ad in The Sun. Liners vary in cost and some are inserted free, but their reach remains their key value.
The ad promotes Pearline as the top washing product, claiming hundreds of millions have used it since the start and that sales rise yearly despite imitations. It urges women to choose Pearline, stating it is the best of its kind and that imitators should be refused.
A fragmented notice promotes loans on house goods planes horses wagons and warehouse receipts with watches and diamonds at low rates. Partial repayments reduce interest. Call for details.
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