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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1891
Page
4
A garbled Indiana news page lists incidents from suicide and fatal shootings to burglaries, fires, and arrests. Names like Hartman, Dixon, Williams, and Griffin appear with scattered places such as Kokomo, Columbus, Martinsville, and Bedford. The sheet notes jail fires, lawsuits, and a wave of violent crimes with minimal coherent detail.
A 13 year old Ada Johnson was detained by police on Monday for shoplifting wraps from the ladies cloak room in the senate chamber. A string of accidents occurred that night including a flooded cellar at Byram and Sullivan’s to extinguish smoldering fire.
A dense ad section lists varied goods from liver tonics to dental services and a long, dense grocery and meat market lineup. It includes Liver Resulator pitches, Brown’s dental parlors, and Frank ben's coal and gas fuels, plus a Tuesday market breakdown of meats, canned vegetables, fruits, dairy, and groceries with shipper prices and local vendors. The excerpt also contains a dense live stock market listing for Indianapolis stock yards with cattle categories and price ranges.
Market opened strong with strong Sunday prices, buyers active in hogs and cattle. Sheep and lambs mixed, with fair to good demand for choic ewes and bucks, grain markets steady with wheat firmer and corn and oats steady across standard bids.
ENABE PIANOS announces appointment as solo agent for ENABLE PIANOS in Enodiana and Kentucky. Instruments on display at showroom with 14 makes to choose from. Invite extended to examine and compare quality and price.
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