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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1894
Page
3
A speaker reflects on hardship and resilience, noting that pain and deprivation teach value and wealth. The dialogue contrasts toil and reward, urging endurance as a path to health and insight through suffering. The piece ends with a folkish moral about growth through struggle.
The article profiles Skinny Welch, known as Slug 26, a tramp printer who spends summers in gin mills and winters as a hard working print man. It recalls his annual excursion for clothing and funds, his knack for storytelling, and a string of misadventures from Arkansas editors to Georgia bands, illustrating a life of roaming, fragile finances, and replenished pride with each town.
Near the window he rigged a fishpoile and hung the baited hook in a shutter hinge. All night the crowd watched the pole as Skinny plowed through EMs by the thousand. They expect a new annual when the first fine day arrives.
A recipe for lemon meringue pudding using lemon rind, milk, sugar, bread crumbs, and eggs with a meringue topping. The gossip column follows, noting European affairs, notable births, accidents, and political shifts, including Miss Emily T. Gerry’s 90th birthday and various international reports.
An advertisement urges striking coal miners and others to use Crescent Salve to end scabs and cure skin ailments. It promotes guaranteed cures for piles burns old sores chapped hands ulcers bunions tar ear infections ringworm fatarrh and other skin diseases with druggists selling the product.
Text from an 1891 Indiana General Assembly act imposes penalties for unlawful gas main connections and interference with valves or heaters. It requires a written permit from a company before changes to stopcocks mixers or heating with gas. Violations carry fines from five to one hundred dollars per offense.
Market report from Veronesday June 6 notes steady conditions with no major changes. Lists extensive prices across meats breaded goods lard canned fruits vegetables seeds and staples including Simokied meats boneless pork loin Florida potatoes cucumbers beans peaches pineapples apples and oils with multiple brands and firms such as Moore Empire Morgan & Gray and Columbia River salmon among others.
A reader is urged to keep trying and to accept help from Tae St8 who claims Sun Liners will assist with rental needs. The message argues that multiple trials incur no extra cost and promotes trying Tax Sun Liners for genuine rental assistance.
Trains will run as follows at Central Stand Union Station on South Illinois Street. The brief timetable outlines departure and arrival windows for local routes serving the area.
Schedule notices trains from Indianapolis Union Station for Chicago East and West, Peoria East divisions. Departures and arrivals listed with times for morning, afternoon, and late night runs. Message signed H. M. Bronson A. G. P. A. Indicates daily service.
The Sun promotes its art work with ten cents and six coupons. Part 13 will feature a photograph of Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue interior hall and a description detailing the Hub and its notable residence street.
A vivid panorama features East River Docks in New York City and Ottawa’s grand building. The portfolio promotes Part 13 with shots of the Smithsonian, Garfield and LaFayette statues, Peace Monument, Pennsylvania Avenue, Soldiers’ Home and Corcoran Gallery plus Georgetown’s High Bridge and Colorado’s Grand Canyon walls.
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