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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1891
Page
3
A school teacher challenges students with a riddle about seven sheep by a pasture wall. Kitty, a farmer's daughter, struggles to count after one sheep jumps over, and the class debates how many wooly animals remain.
A superintendent guides guests to a room where a frail, aged man recalls a deadly railway accident. The storyteller describes the crash, the trapped partner, and the moment a bystander killed the man to end his suffering. The memory haunts the speaker.
Foreign modistes revive white alpaca and mohair for young worthy evening gowns. Judge McAdam of New York City urges married women to avoid appearances of misconduct and notes marriage as a divinely ordained contract. He warns that improper conduct invites public censure and town gossip.
The text argues two remedies to quarrels: confirm if disputes are about terms not things and assess if the disagreement is worth contending. It extols good manners as priceless and develops them through habitual practice, noting money cannot buy them. The source is credited to the Philadelphia Record.
The advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a pleasant tasting remedy that acts gently yet promptly on the kidneys liver and bowels. It claims to cleanse the system dispel colds headaches and fevers and cure habitual constipation. It is marketed as the only product of its kind pleasing to the stomach and available in 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles through leading druggists.
A garbled report notes Gould's death proven false while Friday saw multiple incidents. Gregory Smith, war governor of Vermont, died in St Albans. Richard Feoie was murdered in Peasetown. Two farmers perished in a prairie fire in Aurora county. A New York jury awarded $525 in a beer case. Col French secured a 50000 bond and was released. A Cochran Fulton distillery failed. Eight Hungarians killed in an Altoona blast. One man killed and five injured by a Leadville powder explosion. Col John Mires died in New York after a drunken spree.
A Baltimore tobacco seller recounts eight years of catarrh pain and sleepless nights until he sought treatment at the Stackhouse Medical Institute in Indianapolis. He credits the clinic at 203 North Illinois Street with relief and claims renewed health, urging others to consult the doctors for chronic diseases of the ear throat lungs stomach and blood.
Section 2 declares it unlawful to make or cause any gas main or service pipe connection or reconnection without a written permit. It prohibits turning on or off valves or interfering with appliances and enlarging mixer orifice or using gas for heating without mixers. Offenders face fines from five to one hundred dollars upon conviction.
A benevolent elder known as Land Bul Allen, originator of the Homestead Law, faces poverty in old age. Oklahoma homesteaders plan a fund to bring him to Guthrie and ensure his remaining days are comfortable. Reid's Garman Cough and Kidney Cure is advertised as a quiet, reliable remedy.
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