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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1894
Page
4
A collage of local incidents reports various events from Indiana towns. Accounts include a suicide attempt, beatings over life insurance, arrests, fires, and political items. Notable notes cover school values, smallpox cases, church services, parades, burglaries, and social clashes across counties.
Race winners listed for Lexington and Latonia with names like Patti D and Pocahontas. match race planned by Cumberland Racing Association in Nashville between J Gentry Hal Braden and Joe Patchen on Oct 10. Illinois baseball scores, football results for Penn Princeton Yale Rutgers, and rapid market quotes for cattle sheep and grains accompany boxing talk from Fitzsimmons vs Corbett.
Fragmentary ad copy notes a bar offered at the When with Carpathese shirts reduced to ten cents and a Capitol laundry deal priced at 2.98 for a 5.00 item. Mentions a boy's wear and salt product from Madei.
The store reports heavy activity in a new department this season with daily arrivals of goods from cotton and wool to camel hair and silk. Tomorrow and Saturday are highlighted as big sale days to attract shoppers.
A long catalog of stockings and socks lists ladies cotton hose boot patterns and seamless cashmere hose at 19 to 26 cents, children's black cotton fore socks two for five cents, boys and girls seamless hose, and men's full and half hose in multiple colors. Several items are described as fast black, double heels and knees, merino heels and toes, or camel hair finishes, with prices ranging from 5 to 25 cents.
Retail notices list Egyptian cotton vests with crochet fronts and satin neck ribbons at 25 cents, Mace cotton vests and pants at 85 cents, ribbed vests and pants at 50 percent wool for 50c, and various ladies and children's garments including combination suits, infants wraps, and unbleached cotton vests with low prices. The ad promotes headquarters for Swiss ribbed vests, pants, and union suits in cashmere silk and wool, with sizes 8 to 34 and prices ranging from 1c to 50c.
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