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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1888
Page
3
Casper Ives, a modest New York city commission merchant, pursues a conflicted romance with Vernie Voss in Flushing. He loves a wealthy past tie and fears losing the younger woman, while a long-delayed letter from a London contact arrives, stirring guilt and doubt about honesty to Vernie.
Vernie Voss dies of brain fever after Casper Ives reveals he will move to New York and ends their romance in a vine covered arbor. He later laments the lost love, admitting he caused her death, while Gussie Stokes becomes his wife but haunts his conscience.
A collage of short items reports on diverse topics from Philadelphia lovers named Samuel to a Paris girl's novel science, a 330 foot St Patrick's cathedral tower, pensions for the first Chinaman, gopher tails bounty in Dakota, grasshopper farming near St Paul, Paris dogs in mantles, fur hen eggs hatched by a quail, and a record spruce load to Brooklyn. Also notes on nails, coffin purchases, Missouri votes, a Yale fence theft, a four year old traveler, a Seine death, coast alarm telephones, portable electric lights, pension arrears case, a globe model exhibit, a drowning attempt in Magaguadavic, salutes funding, old coin auctions, and an ad for selling second hand goods.
West Indianapolis residents show thrift with many owning homes and new cottages rising along Marion Avenue. Mr. W. A. Yeazell describes severe lifelong ailments, tried remedies, and finds relief under Dr. Franklyn Blair at 203 North Illinois Street after three months of treatment.
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