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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1892
Page
3
In a quirky Boston Courier fragment the undertaker and two companions are described with a mix of humor and bravado. The scene lurches between odd laughter and earnest pride as the trio, a druggist a doctor and a friend, are praised amid a tone of jubilant public spectacle.
A worn bookkeeper Jared Ham loses fortune with Clance and Co. He helps Leo, a street boy, by collecting stamps for a million prize. After years of toil he achieves two million but dies uttering the cheer. Locals remember him as a popular, generous figure and call him a dandy adder.
A collage of satirical snippets from Boston Transcript and New York Herald style pieces. Remarks on prison practices, livery in elite households, a Republican candidate’s plans for doorkeepers, a poet Swinburne, and fashion notes on London coats. Notable lines reflect period attitudes and social foibles with wry humor.
A man recalls slipping into an open freight car loaded with champagne whiskies and other goods. He ends up aboard a U.S. Senate committee train bound for a funeral as guards intervene and a dramatic moment unfolds amid a parade of distractions.
A New York Times item describes a West Philadelphia spinster who loves pets and cleans poodles with a toothbrush and styles their hair with curling tongs each morning. The spinsters ball, a London fashion, features a host of maidens issuing cards to guests, with powdered hair and Watteau gowns.
Incomplete OCR snippet from Indiana region includes scattered names and places such as North Indianapolis and Jounbon Schauer. No clear event, date, or outcome can be established from the readable text.
A compilation of brief incidents including territorial denials over Samana bay, large hail in Canton Mississippi, Dr A F Lee's mental decline in Quincy Illinois, Col L L Polk's illness in Washington, election of Moses Stafford as mayor of Decatur Illinois, Charles Mattison's sudden blindness in New Orleans, a powder mill explosion near Cincinnati killing Archie Grubbs and wounding three, Fairfield Connecticut police strike over midnight meals, fatal railroad switch engine crash in Lincoln Nebraska, a mock Republican convention in Illinois nominating Harrison and Morton, a freight train washout near Hartford Wisconsin with fatalities, a Washington burial permit for William Harrison claimed to be 140 at death, Bob Ford Jesse James killer killed by a deputy in Creede Colorado, and Tillman courting lynching rhetoric after a Barnwell South Carolina lynching rally.
An advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a mild, vegetable liver pill that regulates the system, cleanses, and renovates the body. It claims gentle action, easy dosing, and relief from headaches, constipation, indigestion, bilious attacks, and bowel disorders, with a guarantee of satiny action.
A vintage advertisement introduces The Laxative Gum Drop as a new non bitter laxative in gum drop form. It claims to resemble candy in taste and appearance, with no medicinal flavor, no griping, and safe pocket portability. It targets children and includes instructions to ask a chemist and mail order details from Sylvan Remedy Co Peoria.
Readable listings show prices for meats, canned goods, produce, rice, and oils in a city market column. Numerous items from bacon to dried beef hams, canned fruits and vegetables, fresh pork cuts, coffees, sugars, and oats are priced, with quantities and shippers' rates noted.
Gravel roofs laid or repaired, stingie tin and iron roofs painted in colors and made fire and waterproof. Roofers' supplies aid building felts for sale.
A garbled notice recalls Joan Howard Payne born in New York City in 1792 and asserts the English language will vanish when forgotten. It claims early careers as editor publisher actor and a Hamlet performance in London, then advertises suits on page 4 with generic travel lines.
Fragmentary OCR shows a bus or train timetable with multiple departures at various times including morning and afternoon slots. The legible chunks indicate entries such as 11.20am 2.00pm 3.00pm and 4.20pm, but many portions are garbled. Limited context prevents precise route or date identification.
Indiana General Assembly act sections declare it unlawful for individuals or firms to connect or reconnect gas mains or services without written permission, to alter or enlarge mixer or valve openings, or to use gas for heating without mixers. Violations face fines from five to one hundred dollars per offense.
Indiana dispatch lists St Louis to St Louis Union Station train departures and arrivals with times for connections to Haute Evansville Terre Haute and Greentowns. Sleeping and parlor cars available on through trains, various routes and daily timings noted.
Rail timetable fragment shows arrivals and departures among Cleveland Indianapolis Chicago and St Louis with multiple divisions and stations listed. Travel times and connections noted with entries for both east and west bound periods and transfer hints at Union Station and surrounding offices.
A dense classified ad lists cuts on lace curtains mats wallpaper carpets and bedroom suites with prices from five to over a hundred dollars. It touts parlor suites baby carriages wall paper and refrigerators and notes early shopping and broad selections with numerous price points and factory style features.
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