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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1888
Page
3
A young woman guards a thousand dollars alone in a remote mining cottage. When masked men batter the door she uses a gun, a barricade, and courage to defend her life and money. She escapes by leaping from a back window, fatefully preserving the cash and earning a lover’s vow of protection.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Sullivan the actor losing lies amid references to the German emperor’s neuralgia and Isadora Cousing the world’s richest man from Chili. It also notes Willie Perking of Owensboro renting a writing machine for the blind and a hired overseer for a youth, plus an ad urging warm coats and second hand goods at a shop.
The Chinese reporter SANNT SHILES recounts the election of the Kai Fong in Chinatown with a ritual oath and tea ceremony served by Gao Po the senate chief of police. The narrative blends ceremonial pledges with humorous asides about fashion, insects, and local quirks.
A collage of eccentric animal anecdotes from giraffes to a monkey rescue near a boy’s ropehang, plus political notes about Cleveland and Harrison. It mentions a lioness in New York’s Central Park, a San Francisco menagerie lion, and a drunken sailor’s attack on an attendant, ending with Brown’s Expectorant advertised as a long-standing remedy.
Indianapolis resident Hugh Irwin describes years of suffering from chronic catarrh with headaches nasal congestion and fevers. He cites improvement after following Be Franklyn Bish’s treatment and a newspaper offer at 203 North Illinois and 872 East Georgia Street as the course that brought renewed health.
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