This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 14 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1891
Page
3
A melancholic verses passage laments urban toil and dreamer fatigue. The speaker longs for a rural riverbank refuge where dreams endure and love remains. The piece contrasts city life with rustic peace and recalls John Boyle O'Reilly's line about dreamers and burdened labor.
The Tizer captain's wife Madame Lacouture and her family endure a perilous voyage after their ship from Cape St Louis on January 2 1166 wrecks near the Isle of Dogs. Stranded with dwindling supplies they face treachery famine and storms as they journey by raft and foraged food toward Fort St Mark aided by Apalache and finally rescued with the surviving son. The eight sailors left on Antonio island later kill the woman and flee in a pirogue, perishing themselves.
An assortment of brief 19th century items includes family tragedy notes and migratory paths of survivors, the career of Gen. Miles and comparisons with Caeter, Grant’s China trip and Li Hung Chang, Jay Gould health mentions, New York city life vignettes, jokes about mince pie, a blacksmith Jim Leslie’s death, Rothermel boots, Japan’s divorces, Bizon divorces, and a social pattern of gifting while hiding the box.
A World excerpt notes private dining rooms in a New York dry goods firm cafe and mind readers at parties as popular features. It mentions a Sixth Avenue drug store mailing 86 women, all wives, for 75 cents weekly. The passage adds Hood's Sarsaparilla claims to aid blood diseases.
A compilation of quotations from multiple newspapers critiquing views of Native Americans. The texts depict stereotypes of the Sioux and full blood Indians, language and intellect, and a mock memorial line about the agent, soldier, president, and starving Indians.
A gray cheviot cloak with two capes features muffs attached at the neck by a long gold chain. Viewers on wire form boas for opera wear. A cream gown with brown, black and blue checks is the current jacket style.
Three remaining performances by MOCCAULL OPERA COMPANY include Von Suppe's Masterpiece Clover udgy Diane and Millocker works The Black Humlar Saturday evening features Millocker's The Seven Subians Cast includes Digby Bell Chauncey Olcott Laura Joyce Bell and Helen Bertram Prices range from 26c gallery to 1.25 orchestra and boxes balcony 60c admission to balcony 60c gallery 26c.
An 1890 testimonial from Manison Texas to the Gun Wa Oxineseh Herb Remedy Co of Indianapolis praises a female weakness cure after years of neuralgia and ill health. The ad notes open parlors and privacy, inviting distant readers to correspondence and nationwide mailing of remedies.
Partial timetable fragment shows depart times for routes in the Et. Louis division with morning and evening departures listed. Daily service noted with Sunday-only item present, including times 7:30 am 11:20 am 5:20 pm and 3:20 am 10:35 am 8:10 pm 4:20 m.
Unclear OCR notes show arrival times at 9:45 pm 10:55 pm 12:35 am and 9:15 am with no context. No names, places, or events are specified to anchor a fuller summary.
A clearance offer lists collars at 5c each and cuffs at 10c each. Full grey mixed underwear at 38c and Canada grey underwear at 58c. Scarlet all-wool underwear cut from $1 to 25c. A large lot of odds and ends closes out from 35c to 1.50, with some rare bargains.
The notice lists numerous footwear items with reduced prices from prior amounts. Includes Ladies Dongola and Kid slippers, buskins, and gloves. Old Ladies Quilted Serge Buskins. Men's and Children's spring heel buttons. Boys calf button and boots. Youth calf button and bill. 18 dozen Ladies Wool Soles for crocheting in multiple colors. Prices drop from higher tags to discounted cents and dollars.
A sale lists Jersey Ribbed Vests from 19c to $1.25 with many lots at 60c to 70c, Grey Ribbed Vests at 25c to 35c, Scarlet Vests and Pants down from $1.25 to $1, plus 200 dozen Ladies' Handkerchiefs at 2d0 a dozen. The ad promises strong value across all items.
Plush cloaks selling rapidly. A good opportunity to buy at low prices. One lot of plush jackets reduced from eighteen dollars to ten. A batch of plush sacks priced down from twenty and twenty five to fifteen.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.