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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1888
Page
3
In a Breton village tale set long ago, a poverty stricken miller defies a Baron over rent by selling his cow skin for silver. He tricks robbers, feigns his wife's death, and stages a circus of deceit culminating in the Baron being consumed by his own greed while the miller reclaims wealth.
Gossip notes Denman Thompson aged 56, story of a Spanish opera company, Imie Booth valued at a million, London to gain four new theaters while Mansfield stays a year, Billy Scanlan set to perform ten weeks abroad, Lillian Lewis remarries Lawrence Marston, Barnum returns to a museum venture in New York, Irving wears Garrick ring, Harrigan writes new goat and brogue play, Jefferson Gilbert and Mrs Drew join a company, Kyrle Bellows barred at Tuxedo, O'Sullivan Dimpfel retires, Acroft praises Mrs Potter’s company, a real life story aligns with ethernet columns on page 2.
A collage of brief items from an early issue noting green hunters in northern Michigan, real estate fortunes of Gen. E. F. Beale, social quips about worried wives, a boot nail value nugget, a Macon arrest of a sleeping negro, a curious Athens Ga incident, a London Wild West chariot accident, a Willard Lovering post mortem will, a Casper Wash monte tale, a Brooklyn stereoticon light display, a Florida Sand Hills flower gesture to a sick patient, and a Sun adv prompting wives to list unnecessary home items.
An advertising pitch from Indianapolis Natural Gas Company claims 30 percent off contracts for domestic and commercial uses. It asserts it will include a clause to continue supplying gas at or below competitors after termination and warns competitors offering future half-price deals are misleading. It pledges preference for early patrons when gas supply becomes harder to obtain.
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