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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1901
Page
8
A 19th century memorandum details strict railway protections for a royal journey. It mandates 30 minutes of clearance before the royal train, blocking of mainline crossings, quiet operations, and vigilant guards. Station masters, platelayers, and foremen must coordinate, use signal flags, and ensure private, disturbance-free stations during the royal train’s passage.
San Diego and county residents recall Charles F Buller, cousin of Maj Gen Buller, fleeing after six years of remittances from England failed to cover growing debts. Bank checks of 150 to 200 dollars monthly funded living costs and household needs, but steady remittances could not keep pace, leaving creditors—including local merchants—short. Buller, once a boxer and royal guardsman, arrived with promises but vanished, leaving a trail of unpaid debts and wary acquaintances.
D W Hughes of Vendalia Ohio now lives in Mexico where he built his own walnut and oak coffin lined with cement. He says the coffin will last 50 years and reflects on shoddy coffins. Hughes, 72, claims to have invented the first corn planter in 1954 and improved it with a patent. He recently works on a washing machine and hopes to establish a plant in Mexico.
A Washington street candy shop head confectionsman recalls a morning customer who asked for a coffin full of candy. The bemused clerk explains candy boxes now resemble many shapes but coffins are new, as the woman insists it is proper to send a bereaved family a five pound coffin of chocolates. The exchange ends with a push to stock coffin shaped confections.
A confectioner envisions selling coffin shaped candy as a cruel yet potentially profitable fad. He plans to keep ready candy coffins for funeral occasions and believes the coming season may embrace such morbid novelty to provoke strong feelings. He vows to profit from the trend.
Silver coins rained on schoolchildren by a well dressed man on Twenty first street. The scramble led to a fight with a bootblack at a saloon and a later scuffle outside. Police intervened as the crowd dispersed. The man, identified as Joe, was walked away by an officer and released.
In Decatur Illinois on Thursday James Wynn an Oxford blacksmith appeared dead after funeral services. The casket was opened at the grave and Wynn moved, prompting quick return to his home where he revived and is now under treatment. He was declared dead by doctors and lay in the grave for about two nights and a day.
A letter extols Wheeler's Nerve Vitalizer as a superior nerve builder after recovery from paralysis and seizures. The testimonial from Bert Stafford of Newton Michigan credits three bottles with restored movement, better digestion, and halted fits, touting further cures and requesting proofs. Available through druggists or J Tess prepaid at $1 per bottle or six for $6 from J. W. Brant Co. Ltd. Albion Michigan.
William Maher a Northwestern railroad car repairer based in Watersmeet shot a deer while traveling by railway velocipede near Interior Crossing. The animal proved to be a snow white doe, marking the season's first kill reported from White Deer, Iron River district. The brief item closes with an advertisement for Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup and veterinary services by Dr W.3. Craig.
A vintage ad praises Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething babies. It claims to soothe the child soften the gums relieve pain cure wind colic and diarrhoea. A twenty five cents bottle is advertised.
Plano classified notice offers ten words for three days at 15 cents in The Sun. Describes sale of miscellaneous items with minimal details and standard small ad format.
A fragment mentions an invitation to secure a cook or second girl or help and references The Sun's liners and an office at 13 ES Chio-ai with a phone number 880. The readable text is incomplete and garbled.
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