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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1891
Page
3
Pessie Herdricks in the New York Critic presents a dreamlike reflection on October. An army with banners moves to music, yet the speaker foresees death and desolation. The poem juxtaposes bright fall imagery with the specter of war and winter, ending in a somber note.
A London clerk Vaughan forged bank notes in the 1750s to win a fortune and a marriage. He promised secrecy to Miss Bliss, but when notes turned counterfeit, revelations and trial followed. Mansfield presided at Old Bailey. Vaughan was hanged at Tyburn.
Amid a Tyburn crowd, a military officer named William Boodyere stood beside the condemned as he was hanged for forging a draft on an army agent. The grim scene reflected the harsh penalties of wartime crimes and the reach of the hangman’s noose.
A diverse set of notes describes a cow dying after entangling a red coat in Hannibal Missouri, a Georgia man with hunting animals a dog and a cat catching birds, editor's craft debates, a dramatic Spaniard in a restaurant, women’s fashion trends in stockings and gloves, social “going in parties” versus coming out, a pension for Mrs. Almira Locke, and cranky park photographers at Central Park New York.
A parade of figures chronicles unusual claims from markets and individuals. It cites a rain shelter cost in New York of 4.2 million dollars, a New York stock company capital of 3 thousand, a Paris frost valued at 3 million, and Henry Gillespie gifting 7 thousand as a business dowry. A New Jersey milkman supposedly slept five days after drinking from his own cans.
A collection of short quips shows a mother scolding a hungry child and a pun about the conjunction butt. The style echoes gag lines from Texas Siftings and Brooklyn Hale joke pages.
Fire in Long Island City totals 500660 across three tenement buildings. New York losses exceed 120000 from Thursday blazes including John Caswell Co teas and fruits. A street fight in St Louis ends with Adolph Uneil murdered. Ex Senator Ingalls to lecture in 50 cities starting October.
A lengthy notice from the Indianapolis Department of Public Works outlines planned improvements on Kentucky Avenue West Street Delaware Street and several others with brick paving asphalt work and new brick sewers. The measures seek wider sidewalks curbing and new street layouts per resolutions adopted April 23 1891 and call for a May 16 1891 meeting for final action.
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