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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1891
Page
3
A playful verse from Harper's Young People sketches rain soaked days and singing birds. It contrasts grim weather with resilient cheer as children and birds mock gloom and echo a refrain from Spain about embracing rain and storms.
In a Detroit Free Press tale, Cyclone Sam unveils a cyclone tamer strapped to his back and rides to confront a coming cyclone at Paradise. The crowd watches as the funnel cloud swirls away from Hi Jenkins’ barn, while Sam realizes a cyclone is a difficult foe to corral.
Detroit Free Press reports a tense street exchange in Cadillac Square where two men hurl insults about race and propriety. One man claims he will fetch a police officer to settle the dispute, but the officer on the corner remains uninvolved as the confrontation unfolds.
Boston reports general well being amid siege by black anta and September praised as pleasant by the sea. A cooper may hooper with any of the boys. The French army adopts a vegetable cartridge shell now common in use. Europe hosts 27 royal families totaling about 460 male members. 18 of these are German.
A collage of notes from late 19th century press recounts cultural quirks, from umbrella lending in hotels and hand organ praise to mining bubbles and costermonger life in London. It highlights Daniels’s London success, royal child rearing, and Miss Charlotte Higgins’s university entrance amid familial loss.
Counterfeit alerts urge buying only through authorized agents for Dr Pierce’s GENUINE remedies with a positive guarantee. Prices listed: Golden Medical Discovery 1.00 per bottle, Favorite Prescription 1.00, Pleasant Pellets 0.25 per vial. Refund if no benefit.
A roundup of dramatic events from Thursday includes a Boston long stay for President Harrisons family, a Louisville firm failing around 300000, a Niagara Falls suicide attempt, a fatal collision on Union Pacific near Beatrice Nebraska, and a posse shooting of desperadoes in Indian Territory. A parachute jumper at Dayton fell into a river but was rescued, while Chicago saw embezzlement charges against P W Dittlinger. A Bloomfield Nebraska quarrel left F J Paulsen fatally shot, and a Seattle abduction aimed at obtaining information. A Wisconsin fire killed a mother and injured others after a child knocked over a lamp, and a Mereball Illinois girl gained speech after seeing a cat catch a mouse.
A garbled choral of snippets from a 19th century page recounts a minister blunter than polite with a boy named Johnny and a joke about Sunday swimming. It wanders through a tale of Miss Keeman and a child’s party, a boy naming dinner bells, and a family scene at prayers. The fragment ends with an ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla and a Davis shoe sale at 40 K Wash st opposite Model.
Notice from the Department of Public Works Indianapolis dated September 11, 1901. It lists two improvement resolutions from 1891 to grade and gravel the first alley near Massachuetts Avenue and to grade and gravel the roadway and sidewalks on Holloway Avenue. Plans and specifications are on file, board meeting held September 2, 1891, for final action.
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