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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1888
Page
2
A long column critiques city committee travel and spending on electric light studies. It urges direct opinions from committee members on system perfection and cost, warns against political maneuvering, and attacks opposing views as cowardly. The piece also notes gas lighting proposals and hints at political maneuvers surrounding John Sherman and other figures.
Fragmentary remarks reflect a city nearing growth with mentions of Irish affairs, Chicago interest, a large harvest, and transportation shifts. The piece notes a free bicycling scene, impending progress, and disdain for cost of new electric lighting, while contrasting moods in Chicago and St Louis. The tone is editorial and observational about civic development.
A light piece notes various U S senators and their fishing habits with humorous anecdotes. Mc Pherson Edmunds Kenna West Virginia Aldrich Frye Hampton Lamar are mentioned as anglers with vivid scenes including a frog hooked by Lamar during a Potomac trip. A Penobscot river salmon haul and a novelty trend of dummy cats in New York households are also touched.
Reported fires burn across Wisconsin with significant damage while other incidents include a cotton loss at Charleston and fatalities from a railroad derailment near Niles. The DeBar swindle case opens in New York as Chauncey Depenagin denies presidential ambitions. A Mexican train wreck caused many deaths and an iron workers convention elects Hermann in Pittsburgh. Capt Diggins faces trouble after the A H Knight schooner seizure.
The French press reports Bou langer advancing with notable progress as events unfold. The Panama canal lottery loan bill clears the French Senate. Henry Villard confirms plans to seek the South Pole. John Bright Dom Pedro and other foreign patients show improvement according to pressed notices.
Washington dispatch chronicles Mr. Hoge Hogg West Virginia congressman as a talkative orator, recounting past speeches and a striking beard-grabbing incident with Col Morrison in Willard's hotel. It notes Hogg's mixed tariff stances and a memory of Page and Morrison during the forty fourth Congress, plus Palmer family fortunes and a banked will. Also mentions Hague gravel road reassessment in Lawrence Township and a Grand Lodge K of P meeting with travel rates to Cincinnati.
The executive committee of the state fair association awarded the ampitheater contract at the fair grounds to Seward & Co. of Broomington for 8740 dollars. Lithographs advertising the fair are prepared for distribution.
Complimentary notices invite readers to submit ten word want ads for free publication in The Sun. Wording covers wanted male help and vacant rooms with three days free exposure, plus repeat if needed. Contact 7 E Christ or The Sun building 79 E Christ for details and telephone options.
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