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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1892
Page
3
A lank Kentucky traveler recounts a restless night at a Saylersville inn where a late call leads to two mountaineers resolving a dispute with a pistol duel on the platform. The morning reveals two men shot, one in each exchange, with local reaction noting the event as a quelling of “little business.”
Excerpts describe Bret Hart's pricing, Josef Hofman the child pianist fading with age, Carlton as a money driven poet, and Lord Tennyson's dignified aging. Sir Edwin Arnold in the Forum notes Tennyson's enduring features, vitality, and sharp gaze despite time.
A collection of humorous quips and short lines from a vintage newspaper page. It includes a joke about little boys learning to swear and another about the son Fred quipping that others tell boys to hurry and eat. Also features witty lines on love and time as philosophical musings and a stray Detroit fragment.
John Harter fought with his landlord Bennett at the Zoo hotel on Mississippi street and was jailed after Bennett’s hand was cut. James Kenton and Charles Waters rescued a woman near Ducioan avenue from the canal, and she thanked them before walking away. A breach of promise suit between Elizabeth Monroe and Jesse Powers, filed in 1840, was dismissed by the plaintiff. Powers later died and the couple wed. Deputy county clerk Springateen recalled old events as a suit emerged about John B. Sullivan. Dr. Sampie Loftiin sues Jos Flack over property on the north side of Maryland Street, tracing ownership from Sullivan to Loftin and then to Plesk amid mortgage disputes.
A fragmentary miscellany covers topics from distrust and deceit to population trends, plant toxicity, and human growth. It cites old US divorce figures, early diamond discovery by children in 1867, and notes on the death plant and mean heights. Includes lifestyle quips about generosity and charity.
A collage of odds and ends from Texas Siftings and other papers mentions Patti’s hair color changes, French mourning additions, steam facials, a skirt-dancer-turned-teacher in Atchison, Ellen Terry’s white wig for neuralgia relief, blue striped silk blouses with cutaway jackets, a warm pale flannel fabric, and lamba wood cloth foundations. A light quarrel of lovers includes Minerva and Paderewski and a wry joke about leaving a wife over a yard or yard and a half.
From Scott & Bowne in New York comes Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil touted for coughs and varied conditions. The text notes the lack of full explanation for its effects, suggesting tonic factors and glycerine as possible contributors and stating the product is available from druggists for $1.
A jumble of brief items from Iowa and beyond reports grippe cases in Des Moines and Ottumwa, a new trial request in Denver, hangings and shootings in Louisiana and Kentucky, missing funds in Hastings and Dandridge, labor unrest in Yoakum, and a string of crime and oddities including a coffin awakening in Philadelphia and a stagecoach robbery tied to Joaquin Miller’s son.
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