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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1891
Page
3
In the Per upian gulf the brig Mermaid battles a storm and a Turk buyer. A Circassian girl is rescued by her lover Gustave, who defeats the Turk in a duel. The lovers flee by boat, the maid protected by the lover, and the pair are later reunited aboard an American ship bound for New York.
A lively reminiscence from the New York Sun about De Wolff Hopper in his youth and his Quaker family’s reluctance to theater. A hijink with a butler swapping clothes leads to a near discovery and a comic passenger-car ruse involving a con man claiming change for a dollar.
The News reports Amberg Wisconsin was totally destroyed by forest fires while a cyclone hit Sulphur Springs Texas demolishing homes and crops. Clayton Slater & Son cotton and woolen mills Brantford Ontario failed Tuesday. The Vesuvius completed a five day trial at Fortress Monroe with high marks. Fifteen year old William Wealand, Marshall Sioux, died after a horse threw him and dragged him.
A Brooklyn man owns the old gun used by Israel Putnam to shoot a wolf. An Oct birthday note mentions 516 original poems sent to Von Moltke. Memorial cards for Phineas Barnum show birth and death dates with Thy will be done. Dom Pedro, 61, weathered but sharp, with blue eyes. A Gallinger caricature mocks him being a political target. Disraeli’s town hall moment ends with Mrs. Disraeli’s quip about his audience.
At a Lincoln meeting the loud bookmaker Hopkins salutes Lord Randolph Churchill, claiming they have met before and noting Churchill has won his bet. Mark Twain quips about delaying a book, saying writing hinges on time inclination and ideas, and he waits for the conjunction of all three.
A collage of quirky lines from period newspapers. The text mentions Mrs Slimchat, the city water company raising rates, a border complaining about salt mackerel for breakfast, and a street scene with Nobbsie the office boy hearing a threat. A manager comments on a forthcoming stage appearance, and a union remark highlights reliability with a punchy misdirection.
A Roanoke Indiana druggist notes a Buffalo case where J N Berry, once dying of consumption, improved after using Golden Medical Discovery. The testimonial claims weight, color and strength gains, light work ability, and a sales boost for the remedy. It cites bronchial and lung ailments as shown by the product’s advocates.
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