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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1902
Page
7
A Sunday park excursion reveals a crowd of characters on the city streetcar and at the park. A cigar‑smoker, a precocious child, a red‑faced man with his family, a lingering couple, and a busy swing scene illustrate bustling park life and small conflicts on a warm day.
A rambunctious park scene erupts as a big swing causes scraps. Eight women lunch on a hill spread, with laughter and a dramatic snake scare. A Panama-hatted man investigates then departs. The piece notes the Sunday crowd admiring lace stockings and a contrast of a well-dressed colored couple strolling by the path.
A busy park scene sketches a tired mother with a baby, a husband guiding a girl, and couples in intimate moments. Various park characters appear, from gum chewers to fashion focused youths and travelers, all observed in a lively social tapestry. The piece ends with a reflection on mutual oddities and shared human quirks.
A tiny yard locomotive named 999, weighing about 25 000 to 30 000 pounds, tirelessly moves empty and loaded freight cars at the Cerealine mill yard near Belt Road. Engineer R M Wise pilots the machine, which can haul four loaded cars on straight track, and is reputed to run up to 20 miles per hour light. The engine, 28 feet long and 10 feet tall, bears the number 999 as a tribute to the famed New York Central engine.
In Indianapolis the favored hosiery for women is black lace hose made of silk or lisle. Wealthier women wear the silk lace variety while others prefer the equally costly lisle lace hose. The lace hose are described as plentiful and highly desired among fashionable circles.
The piece notes a fashion shift to black lisle and silk hose with striped and patterned options fading in favor of solid black. White slippers decline in weddings and confirmations while black footwear grows more refined, and even brides consider black slippers with white gowns.
An account of a sleepwalking man who mistook a fake murder tale for a real crime and was later found to be asleep. It covers somnambulism, dreams, hypnotism, and spiritualism, with examples such as Felicia of Bordeaux and expert remarks by Dr. Kahlo on causes, dangers, and behaviors of sleepwalkers.
An Indianapolis retiree recalls a boyhood sleepwalking episode during a bacon and fried potato era. He wandered the night, wore all his clothes, emptied a well, and woke with only one garment intact. The tale notes creased trousers later tied to a commercial belief, with doctors offering various explanations for somnambulism.
Geo. Laning of Bridgeton New Jersey describes a new apparatus to halt hens from sitting four old hens that would not set are placed in a turning barrel with open slats. The barrel spins via ball bearings causing the birds to lose their balance and stand back up.
Clarence Nichols deputy United States attorney briefs a year end report showing 97 criminal cases disposed. The centerpiece is Richard Davis sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for embezzling funds of a Washington bank. Other officers prepare their reports due June 30 as the fiscal year ends.
Tacoma Washington hosts the Young People's Christian Union annual meeting from July 73 to 27, 1903. Union Pacific offers round trip fares from Missouri River to Tacoma Seattle and Portland for 45 dollars and to Spokane Butte Helena for 40 dollars with intermediate point rates. Travel along the Columbia River by daylight nearly 200 miles. For timetables and pamphlets, contact your nearest agent or W H Conner G A 63 E Fourth St Cincinnati Ohio.
Depart Indianapolis at 12 20 p m and arrive Detroit at 8 10 p m on the fast line via Lake Erie and Western and Wabash roads. The schedule highlights a long daylight run with precise departure and arrival times and the routes used.
The Indianapolis tin can company expands with 8,000,000 can orders and a $25,000 preferred stock issue. Operating on the Belt in the old Outing bicycle factory, it runs day and night with a 50,000,000 annual can capacity. Grafton Johnson, owner of five Indiana packing houses, controls the factories.
How to avoid trouble by stocking Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is presented as essential for families, suitable for children and adults, and available at all druggists. The pitch emphasizes summer need and convenience, urging purchase to prevent nighttime trips to town.
A brief notice inviting someone to secure a cook or assistant through THE SUN'S liners office at 123 B. Chlose Kither with phone number 990. The fragmentary ad hints at employment or help offer and lists contact details.
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