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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1888
Page
3
A Chicago Herald excerpt recreates a bartender guiding patrons through the science and social psychology of getting drunk. The dialogue blends phrenology, physiology, and humor as drinkers probe how alcohol alters character, with each drink sparking new theories and quips about temperance, morality, and human nature.
A survey of prominent figures includes Sir Provo Wallis at age 100, Calvin Brice leading Ohio delegates to St Louis, Good Thunder an influential Northwest Indian, Robert G. Ingersoll delivering a Decoration Day oration in New York, and George Francis Train resuming seances while considering a presidential bid. Also noted are Andrew Carnegie and Leah Sutro’s marital separation, U S minister Bayliss Hanna’s health, Stephen Girard’s legacy, and near-misses for Kentucky politician Green Clay Smith as a potential vice president choice.
A collage of short notes: a tailess calf on Michael Gibbons’s Cambria County farm. Indians painting for buffalo hunts. a 1,000 pound ruby ore nugget near Elko California worth about $19,000. a Montana divorce and remarriage to a lawyer. Sweetwater dam in San Diego costing $800,000 and rising twenty feet. England shifting on shaving. a New Yorker opening a Darker's shop in London. a French plan for an unsinkable warship using cocoanut fibre material. Clover wedding gifts. Cambridge student brain measurements. cigar prices in India. asbestos cloth use by Indians. a San Francisco dog show prize for a stuffed dead dog. a Birmingham man avoiding measles then catching them. American flag over NYC school desks. oath validity on an old Bible. new wrought iron white tzapot ware. a New York broker’s $412,000 two-day gain and ruin. a Providence roof theft attempt. beauty of mixed Spanish-Indian women in Yucatan.
A catalog of colorful epithets attached to U.S. lawmakers and figures including Edmunds as St. Jerome Honest John Sherman Grandfather Hoar Grandmother Dawes Tall Sycamore of the Wabash Uncle Dick Our Evarts Coal oir Payne Go and Finish Your Ticket Spriggs Lone Fisherman Old Roman Old Bandanna Calamity Weller Silver-tongued Whispering Jimmie Perpetual-motion Burleigh Horizontal Bill Sunset S Cox and Sunsets for a Columbus Dispatch editorials reference.
A collage of quips and short dialogues from various publications. Jokes about kisses, punishments, a hotel dumb waiter, a Meissonier painting, poet Tennyson, a Texas horse thief, a tailor and a congressman, a sleeping husband, a bachelor’s sigh, and a tramp preferring his usual drinks.
In this free column announcement readers are invited to place ten word want notices for jobs or rooms. The Sun offers three days free publication with optional telephone submissions and repeats if no result, targeting carpenters builders farmers brickmakers and room vacancies.
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