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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1891
Page
3
A distressed speaker pleads with a grinding nuisance beneath his window to stop the relentless noise paralyzing his art. He laments a vanished youth and lost wealth while clutching a dollar he offers as a plea for mercy, ending with a note of vindication when the grinder is struck.
A young woman in Kentucky grows from farm labor to education then illness ends her school days. She travels to England to recover, then serves four years in Bilaspur India as a missionary. Back home she returns to mourn a buried love, Niel Linton, in Cincinnati Post reporting.
A comic exchange unfolds at a house as a well dressed stranger boasts of inherited wealth from a rich uncle. The cigar he claims to once give to his uncle signals a surprising twist. Laughter erupts over mistaken identities and a house full of sharp dialogue about money and stockings.
Emily Howland of Auburn is noted as the only American woman bank director. The gossip column lists Mrs Annie L Diggs from Kansas heading to Washington for alliance aligned political reporting, Ouida’s grievance over a mining company name, and brief tidbits on Mrs Fuller, Mrs Harrison, and Mrs Leland Stanford with their activities and attire.
A scattered OCR fragment notes varied items from insurence aims of Geo Vanderbilt in North Carolina to school pupil measurements in Worcester Maia, and a Kansas City memory feat by four-year-old Wallace Chapman. It mentions Chattanooga steel banquet, Rockefeller pew value in Cleveland, James Page joining London Punch, Hood's Sarsaparilla ad, Ground Hog posting at 66 E Washington, sanitary wallpaper from Hamburg, and Sun real estate columns.
A flood of brief items reports multiple deaths from fire and violence across several states including Oom Fowler in New York and Owen Garry with his wife in Rockville Illinois. Executions, disappearances, ruinous fires, and a murder are noted alongside society notes and retail snippets.
A clipped list mentions Piles, Tapeworm, Malaria and various names including W. Washington street, U S Seay and Fruption among others in a scattered OCR fragment. The readable items suggest a compilation of names or topics rather than a full event.
On and after Sunday March 15 1891 trains will run as follows Central Standard Time leave from and arrive at Union Station South Illinois Street.
LGLIS and SUE WEST list train arrivals and departures from Indianapolis to St. Louis with connections at Terre Haute to Evansville. Timetables show Greencastle and Terre Haute arrivals and a 11:00 pm through sleeper to Evansville. Rates, parlor car service, and tickets available via agents W Brunner and the company.
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