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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1902
Page
5
In a cozy parlors scene Mrs. Tom McIlvaine contemplates gifts and expects more. Miss Bates arrives after church with holly and mistletoe and recounts two festive kisses from Dick Wheeler and Capt. Jennings during services, sparking playful chatter.
A short story by Carolyn Wells from 1901 explores romantic misjudgments and idealized affection, weaving a tale of longing and social perception through intimate character dynamics and moral reflections.
A Christmas party scene unfolds as Mrs. McIlvaine Miss Bates and others react to mistletoe over Kitty’s head. Barrington Henderson and John Morris maneuver to place the sprig while flirtations and comic bravado spark playful banter and a kiss or two amid the festive decor.
In a holiday scene Barrington and friends prepare for decorations while Miss Bates and Morris confront a romantic moment. Morris declares his wish to be the last to kiss under the mistletoe and Miss Bates retorts that his prior behavior left him unworthy.
A collection of humorous observations from Indiana newspapers. A devil explains printing and publishing to a young lady, reflections on manners, quirky food terms, and playful digs at politics including references to the GOP, Gen Smith, Funston, Rathbone and Neely, and the Indiana Republican convention.
In San Francisco and Los Angeles May 2 a Los Angeles medical society detective named Miss Brooks tested doctors by posing as a patient with rheumatism. She obtained treatments to uncover practitioners without licenses, including Dr Macrae who admitted he had no license while claiming he acted for another physician.
Reading Pa May 2 Elias Leinbach who has served as postmaster at Leinbachs since July 1858 resigns due to failing sight. He is the oldest postmaster by service in the United States and has remained a Republican through party changes, earning wide popularity.
Daily service notes show B sleeper P parlor car C chair car D dining car with variations. Sunday operations marked 8 and O with daily except Monday and Sunday only. The fragment lists train class codes and service days on the schedule card.
A dense OCR of rail schedules lists multiple city routes, arrivals, and departures. Entries include Chicago and Cincinnati lines with various expresses and locals, Benton Harbor and St Louis branches, Pennsylvania lines, and numerous station times. The fragmentary page preserves timetable details, times, and affiliations for several rail services and offices.
A garbled timetable lists departures and arrivals for routes including T H Gt L and Weat and Western Express. It mentions connections at St. Louis and Effingham, with times like 7:45 am 10:00 am and 3:20 am coming from Tol and Chi Mich exchanges, indicating a scattered historical rail schedule snippet.
Train timetable fragments show departures and arrivals in Chicago with night and day services. Includes express and vestibule cars with times around 7:00 to 12:40 across multiple routes.
Readable fragments show departures and arrivals with times for lines including Chi and EW routes. References to St Iam and Tuscola indicate station stops and connections with inconsistent clock times.
The Cin Ham Payton rail service lists express and fast mail departures from 4:00 am to 7:02 pm with connections to Toledo Detroit and Dayton. Schedules show Cin Cincinnati lines and various paces with times like 4:00 am 12:45 am 10:40 am 16:35 pm and 7:02 pm.
Station Union Block at 119 West Maryland Street lists departures for Anderson Muncie Marion Elwood Alexandria and intermediate stations from 4:15 a.m. hourly to 7:15 p.m. with late runs at 9:15 and 11:15 p.m. Limited trains to Anderson and Muncie depart at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. 2:00 and 5:00 p.m. arriving Anderson in 1 hour 25 minutes and Muncie in 2 hours. Trains connect directly with Anderson Limited trains to Elwood, per timetable details.
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