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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1891
Page
3
A harbor scene unfolds with lights on a quiet night. The speaker longs for a beloved, describing sewing a long white seam and thinking of her as waves, cliff and cottage blend with dreamlike imagery. A chorus line echoes the sailor’s refrain of waiting ashore.
The apprentice William Galloway from the British ship Hilbrannan was saved after falling overboard 600 miles south of the Cape of Good Hope during a February 28 voyage from Philadelphia to Hiogo Japan. The crew spotted a life buoy and a mate’s boat reached him amid towering seas, delivering warmth, medicine, and recovery after a harrowing night at sea.
A collage of curiosities on baby naming across cultures and related anecdotes. It cites German, Japanese, Chinese, Aino, Egyptian, Indian and other practices, then shifts to brief humor items, inventions, and social scenes from various cities.
A sequence of items reports a Baltimore hotel elevator fire causing $2,000,000 in damages and $200,000 logs, Grover Cleveland’s daughter born on Saturday, and other violent or unusual events across the nation including fires, suicides, and crimes.
Sec 2 and 6 of an Indiana General Assembly act from 1891 declare unlawful any person or entity connecting with another’s gas service, altering valves, or using gas for heating without written permit. Violations carry fines from five to one hundred dollars per offense.
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