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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1902
Page
3
The text presents garbled product pitches and odd health aid claims including skin care, pest control, and relief remedies. It references bottles priced 50c and 1.00, with scattered mentions of soaps and tonics. Widespread misspellings and inconsistent phrases obscure any clear product or event.
An archaic pest control method recommends mixing six boxes of substances with lard or tallow to coat a bedstead and surrounding areas. It instructs sealing holes and cracks and claims the treatment never fails and remains effective.
A New York costumer explains the gown rental market for women. Women hire evening gowns for balls dinners theater and other events with prices from five to twenty five dollars and sometimes higher for special orders. Some brides rent and sometimes buy after trying.
The piece extols ginseng cultivation as highly profitable and discusses the influence of a mother's health on a child, cites Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and recounts historical trade in ginseng, wild versus cultivated roots, price trends, and cultivation methods including shade structures and transplanting.
Detroit Oct 31 Marshall O Waggoner long renowned for denouncing the Bible died at Emergency hospital from old age. He had claimed conversion to Christianity two years earlier and wished to be buried outside church grounds. He left a puzzling legacy of eccentric acts and a modest $2,000 fortune. His wife’s death and a turning point with a graphophone influenced his final farewell to atheism.
Indianapolis to Dayton schedule appears with three daily trains and times from 5.10 a m to 7.15 p m. Tickets and details at 48 W. Washington st and Union station with W. W. Richardson as district agent. Warner’s Safe Cure offers free trial bottle and medical booklet for kidney liver and bladder diseases from Rochester NC, via Indianapolis Sun promotion.
Readable lines mention guaranteed results and a phone number series 90 and 121 127, suggesting a brief classified or ad item about offers. The text is incomplete but indicates a sales or service prompt in a newspaper. No clear event or person is determined from the fragment.
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