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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1891
Page
3
A cryptic verse fragment presents a poem about the fatality of Todsy amid shifting meters and a mix of humor and gravity. The text contrasts a playful line Are We with a sobering, not so funny image centered on The Price That Dropped Down Leo, suggesting a tonal shift in the poetry.
A Civil War memoir fragment describes advancing Union soldiers chasing bushwhackers, firing through a log cabin, a family torn by violence, and a brutal close with a girl, a grieving mother, and a fallen comrade amid house fire and siege. The scene ends with the troops withdrawing after a fatal shot and wounded, leaving the dead and the house silent.
A story describes a social gathering by The Swelled Head Juniors at Pythagoras hall with Orchard area elites present. Mag Reilly waits for her beau Prig Kelly while a new stranger earns Mag’s attention. Prig barges in intoxicated, disrupts the dance, then flirts with Mag as the crowd reacts.
A mixed early 20th century update lists deaths retirement in uniform service at Fortress Monroe and a Paris parade mood with Labor Day celebrations. It cites financial missteps by a market clerk, a New York Republican state ticket meeting at Rochester, drownings in Atlantic City, pension-appropriation leftovers, the Dalton gang locating in Indian Territory, an assault in Gaston North Carolina, a parachute descent by Mme Kiefer, a Peoria drowning with husband dead a week earlier, embezzlement arrests in Hutchinson, the Bark Royal Tar voyage illness, and two gang members captured in Visalia California. Additional note on freckles contrasts heredity with a dubious cosmetic remedy.
The disturbance over the dispute has ended with parties reconciling and normal business activity resuming. It warns workers who were out to beware cold injuries as nights turn cool and lung ailments may arise, recommending Reid's German Couga and Kidney Cure from dealers for relief.
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