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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1894
Page
3
A fragmented verse by Hixon Waterman presents recurring lines about faith friendship and love. The poem interweaves nature imagery with personal sentiment noting moments of joy and steadfastness as the speaker reflects on shared pain and happiness. The text reads like a lyrical meditation with altered spellings and stray phrases.
Dr. Clarkson welcomes home his former pupil Frank Hathway, now a country doctor in the West. After a bright reunion, Hathway disappears around the back of the house, prompting a neighborhood search that stretches into evening, leaving the family puzzled and anxious about the fate of their beloved guest.
A doctor recalls a farewell exchange with a companion about returning from the afterlife to warn the other if one dies first. The next morning he receives a telegram dated late yesterday noting Dr. Frank Hathway died that evening.
Good shooting and fishing in Alabama pine woods are noted with favorable quail yield forecasts for the coming season. Reports from New York discuss a potential 1 million dollar appropriation to acquire Adirondack game land, while Arkansas enforces a state wide game shipment ban. Hunters in Maine face deep snows yet quail appear unaffected, and the St Louis Globe-Democrat notes many ducks killed despite cold. Locals welcome a planned Fairview Lake for bass stocking to aid the street railway and Walton followers. Frank Samuels of Indianapolis enjoys fox hunting with several hounds. Nationwide calls grow for a year round game sale ban to protect wildlife from market hunting.
A burst of colorful anecdotes spans theatre life at the Casino with manager John Russell arranging cracked lips props to draw crowds for About Town in Boston and New York. A mix of political buzz follows with Gladstone rumored to resign, legal cases in Missouri, libel ruling against Z T White, and speech circulation by Joe Manley. The rubber works resume, judges threaten press limits, and Barnard attacks Mary Ellen Lease.
Markets steady with a long three column spread detailing meats, produce, and groceries. Prices for smoked and sugar cured hams, bacon, lard, dry salt meats, fruits, vegetables, canned goods, condiments, and household supplies from Morgan & Gray and others appear with weights and per unit costs.
Prof. John N. Hurty analytic chemist notes that the R. Cummins & Co Old Process Sour Mash Whiskey is free from fusel oil artificial flavoring and artificial coloring. The product is distributed by reputable retail druggists and labeled with their lithographic bottle seal.
A catalog of landmarks and geographic features includes Sultan Mountain Panteen Guanajuato Mexico Devil's Lake Wisconsin Mississippi River Williams Canyon Mineral Palace Pueblo Colorado Castle of Chapultepec City of Guanajuato Mexico American Fall Niagara Cathedral of Chihuahua Luna Island Pike's Peak Garden of the Gods Cheyenne Canyon and a Navajoa Chief, among others.
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