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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1892
Page
4
Anderson notes a gifted youth whose mind is keen amid a flurry of regional items. Reports cover missing persons Ora E Ellison in Spencer and Willie in distress, various arrests for arson, poetry of crime, local strikes, and a growing list of accidents and fortunes across Indiana towns.
The piece sketches performers like Hopper and a Swedish comedy surge amid touring troupes with critics noting mother accompanists and a wary public. It also describes a shy actor Hart selecting chorus girls by hand, and a colorful Indianapolis street scene with a precocious boy and a distinctive gait that draws crowds.
The piece notes England’s hangman Derry planning an American lecturing tour while Steeple Jack Sitchell sails to Edinburgh to repair a chimney. It mentions an elephant-skinned exhibit in Chicago and a mystery bottle thrown at a czarist carriage. Three men in Chicago are fined for stealing a mat from Tony Quay’s laundry.
Joseph Solomon Moore of New York wrote tariff letters titled The Parsee merchant. Col Louis Duestrou, top stockholder in the Granite Mountain silver mine in St Louis, is noted on Tuesday. Mrs Annie E Semmers, widow of Admiral Semmers who commanded the cruiser Alabama, is mentioned in Mobile Alabama.
Features of sporting life note 268 horses in training at Memphis and a five week lead to the opening of the season. Boxing headlines include Corbett challenging Mitchell and Sullivan accepting, with plans for a September bout for a large purse. Minor leagues organize, while John Brush critiques league agreements and Ireland-based racing interests show ambition.
The passage urges travel to Carlsbad as the world’s health resort and claims its waters restore the body quickly. It further promotes using imported Carlsbad Sprudel Salt at home to mimic the springs’ effects, naming Eisner & Mendelson Co as sole agents in New York for the product.
The March 9 1892 report shows liberal cattle receipts and slow trading. Shipping cattle bids vary by class with export heifers and cows priced from 1 400 to 3 60 per head, veal calves 41 56 to 50, and feeders 70 9 to 1150. Sheep and lambs were unchanged with modest demand and light buyers. Market notes include grain quotes from Chicago and New York, and local ads for watches, bicycles, clocks, and cigars.
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