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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1888
Page
2
The Sun mocks the New Jersey campaign with a tale of two water snakes and declares the November race mirrors their race. It praises the council for testing electric lights in unshaded streets while noting issues with Bell’s gas and the Cushman phone, predicting political turmoil and ongoing reform debates.
A New York July 21 field report describes a deserted Fort Worth area seaside resort famed in earlier days. A demented former host, living amid ruins and chalk billboards, laments spending forty million on sideboards while recalling its past patronage and its decline.
A collage of brief items from a bygone issue: a cherry tree planted in 1816 in Lancaster County bearing fruit for the 68th time, a Persian railroad plan across Teheran to the Caspian Sea with rail transport costs noted, a German oiling patent for ships using exploding rockets, a Correggio attribution to a Nashville Magdalen painting linked to Jackson’s era, two spaniels gifted to Paris by a German ambassador descendant, birds in Canton Maine nurturing fledglings amid a crow incident, and a Buffalo Courier anecdote about a well-dressed man who crushes eggs in a commission house basket.
In Odum, George Atkinson killed Ed Thomas after a dispute with Bill Edmonds nearby. Atkinson calmly paid for damages in a prior incident and then fled with Edmonds, a cousin, as Thomas died from buckshot to the head, his killer remarking on the success of his shot.
The Sun offers free ten word want notices for three days for Wanted Male Help Wanted Female Help Wanted Rooms and For Rent Rooms with optional repetition if not filled. Additional words cost per word and other real estate or ads are charged.
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