Mice in a Shoe Store Highlight Local Oddities
An Anderson shoe clerk keeps two white mice as pets in a shoe store cage. They escaped amid startled female shoppers, creating a memorable scene as staff and customers reacted to the unusual distraction.
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1892
Page
4
An Anderson shoe clerk keeps two white mice as pets in a shoe store cage. They escaped amid startled female shoppers, creating a memorable scene as staff and customers reacted to the unusual distraction.
For Indianapolis and vicinity the forecast calls for continued rains with slight cooling through Wednesday. The pattern brings cooler readings and unsettled conditions across the region as the day progresses.
George Washington Riley Cutbirth, famed Indianapolis figure, petitions the world’s fair board for 15,000 volumes of his book, planning a westward lecture circuit to fund the project. He asserts rights to Mackey mines and seeks a prominent display, while other short items note a clipped dog story, a market street museum misadventure, and a streetcar mishap with a man, chickens, and a jagged fall.
Fashion notes on the slow arrival of new winter garments in Indianapolis crowd. Ulsters, overcoats, and trousers feature larger patterns and broader stripes, while high collars fade. Boots head toward square toes. hats lean dark with rounded crowns as silk hats grow bell crowned.
The Sun offers $85 to the first correct Indiana voting estimate with $26 to the second and $10 to the third. Open to all residents, write estimates on the coupon, and mail to The Sun contest editor in Indianapolis. Official results depend on electors and governor vote tallies.
A scrambled newspaper fragment reports on Baecham's AA Promised beer, Atlas Lite Insurance in Indianapolis, holiday portrait sittings at Washington Street, and a radio of clocks and gifts. It shifts to a detailed Indianapolis Union Stock Yards market rundown for Nov 1 1802, with cattle and hog prices, shipping weights, and grain quotes.
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