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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1891
Page
3
A man nicknamed Josh experiments with oxygenated sterilized water using a home bottling setup and a gas flame. The flat fills with revelry as residents inhale oxygen, smash windows, and fall asleep. the scene ends with arrests, a pending divorce, and a suspect witchcraft complaint against Josh.
Reports of fires in Pittsburg with $80000 loss, drownings at Fort Morgan, floods in Galveston, Missouri river Channel shift near Atchison, a tea car accident in San Francisco, steamship Servia tow, Chicago robbers roost exposed by a murder case, and police mobbing in Elkader. Also cooking recipes, dialogue jokes, and trivia on Vaseline, Illinois rail mileage, gun care, New York streetcars, Stockholm telephones, and Boise City artesian wells.
An appeal advocates verifiable results from Dr. Hale's Medical Dispensary. It asserts free private consultations, mail or express treatment, and guarantees of cures with purified preparations. The ad urges immediate contact at 2514 W Washington, daily hours 8 to 8 and Sunday 10 to 3.
A seven year old child in Eugene Oregon shows uneven growth with one side advancing faster than the other baffling doctors. A Florida man claims a mud fish fell from clouds during a storm and nearly struck him. He supposedly ate the evidence at home, undermining the tale. In Florida, two men killed an alligator and left it on the bank then observed about 25 alligators retrieving the carcass and moving it into the water. Near Lamar Colorado a four year old girl was blown from a moving express train but later found safe at midnight hiding in weeds to avoid Indians.
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