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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1888
Page
3
Published daily except Sunday in the Sun Building at 79 East Ohio Street. Subscriptions outside the city are 300 yearly in advance, 150 half year, 25 monthly. City delivery six cents weekly. Advertising rates by contacting the advertising manager. Communications to the editor and business matters to the business manager, The Sun Indianapolis.
A wealthy strange man Mr Peters advertises for a boy to run errands. John Simmons and Charlie Jones each fail to tidy a dusty attic long box and are dismissed, while Crawford Mille succeeds briefly before the box test repeats, revealing the man seeks more than easy work from his helpers.
Crawford, an attic-era errand boy, spends years sorting a deep dusty box labeled with odds and ends. He discovers a five-dollar gold piece and, with faithfulness in small tasks, rises to wealth as Peters Mills & Co. prospers. The tale ends with a Bible motto about faithfulness in little.
A collection of light quips and social observations spans topics from poetry debates to fashion of flowers. Notes include a rabid transit joke, a view of Sunday laws, color blind marriages, a Vanderbilt ring, and remarks on glass clothing. Also referenced are monuments to poets and police incidents, with several city columns on Western vigor and fashionable floral feasts in Chicago.
The text notes Mrs. Morgan paid 250000 for a necklace and Mrs. Hicks-Lord owns another 250000 diamond piece. A Richmond paper comments on local girls carrying heavy scholastic literature and wearing a three foot bustle. It also cites a Disraeli remark about his wife visiting Windsor and cabinet ministers’ wives seeking similar honor.
Twenty two papers in Milwaukee published in German and six in English. A Russian expedition may head for Mount Ararat to search for Noah’s ark remnants. Notes on sun’s heat in 10,000,000 years and Mrs. J A Ansley of Decatur Ga with moccasins from Andrew Jackson. Crematories count in Europe and the U S. Various odds and ends about people, events, and curiosities from different places.
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