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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1893
Page
3
A rugged reflection on duplicitous people and moral testing. It warns that many who seem harmless or friendly can betray trust, urging vigilance as temptations and real danger lie behind familiar faces, with a harsh saber of judgment implied.
An orphaned girl recounts her aunt's wealth, left to her governess Miss Hale with a five year safeguard to open a secret escribtoire on the anniversary of the aunt's death. After hardship, she finds success as a writer and finds happiness with John Stuart, a reader at Wilson & Wade's, until the anticipated drawer reveal tests justice and memory.
The narrator reveals a secret second will granting full wealth to the aunt’s heir, with Miss Hale receiving only a legacy. He longs for the old peaceful life but accepts new duties, noting changes in family and work while Miss Hale, exonerated by the aunt’s letter, remains with him amid renewed fortune.
A New York Times piece humorously notes children's easy closeness to heaven in daily moments. A girl cannot go outside, jokes she only sees Dad, and a six year old pianist answers a caller she can play two or three waltzes but her favorite is the kingdom of heaven.
A Savannah newspaper recounts a tale of a young man hearing a nightime prayer near an old cabin about Gabriel and Sambo. He attempts to summon the angel to carry a servant to heaven but is told the speaker is misdirected and that Sambo no longer lives in that cabin, staying elsewhere in the quarter.
A chaotic Thursday saw Brook line burn affecting the business district, in New York brides and trials, a miner entombment in Scotland after a lamp explosion, forgery fugitive at large in Kentucky, a disputed sermon theft sparking suits, a murder-suicide near Saw Pit Gulch, a barroom killing in Colorado followed by a bartender’s death, a Wisconsin female seminary fire and fatal suffocations, race track losses for Treasurer Drake, a Pittsburg girl’s accidental death, Lizzie McDonald’s suicide, and Chicago arson arrests for burning vast barns and horses.
November markets show steady demand with declines in some processed meats. California hams and sugar cured items list with Morgan Gray and Empire brands, bacon and lard prices vary by cut. Fresh pork, dry salt meats, canned fruits, and flour prices dominate the page along with produce like apples, grapes, and pears and assorted groceries from several suppliers.
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