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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1889
Page
4
A sprawling Indiana items roundup notes crime, rail, gas and weather, with Madison and Indianapolis scenes. Stabbings, train deaths, gas projects, new towns, and a Martinsville meeting are mentioned alongside sports results and local incidents across Wabash, Crawfordsville, Plainfield, and other counties.
Bryant and Dierdorf place the largest piano order yet in this city for the State Fair and Soldiers' Reunion at Columbus. The J.M. & J. R. R. offers excursion oinkers on Sept. 18, 19, and 26 at a round-trip fare. Comstock's advertises various bargains on watches, steel or gold orders, and groceries. City markets report price levels for meats, lard, canned goods, fruits, vegetables, dairy, and oysters for Thursday September 12.
Market listings show prices for fruits vegetables and grains including corn celery Bartlett pears onions cantaloupes grapes and sweet potatoes with per box per bushel and per pound rates. Chemical prices include morphine chlorform balsam copaiba quinine and turpentine with oil and solvents listed by unit. Tea and hay prices noted along with wheat corn oats and energy products in multiple market reports from Indianapolis and Chicago exchanges.
Ella Mount wife of James W Muir aged 72 of North Alabama Street announces funeral at 2 pm with private burial. Friends invited. Date listed as December 13 and 18 in Britay im Sure.
A fragmented advertisement notes various extra size suits from ten dollars upwards. It markets new lines described as fat and tall friendly, claiming they fit like tailor made while emphasizing broader, longer dimensions. The piece also includes a quirky anecdote about a peanut roaster and a skeptical customer observing music of the roaster.
Advertises special Friday sale with deep discounts on Ladies and Children's Blouses Jersey garments and imported quilts. Highlights include Marseilles Quilts at 1.19 and 2.89, loom-woven dress goods, lace and linen items, hosiery bargains, unlaundered shirts, crochet tidies, handkerchiefs, corsets, and wool dress fabrics. Numerous price cuts emphasize value across departments.
A fragment notes superstitions about gems claiming honey purifies precious stones and a bouquet of diamonds load stones and sapphires makes two people nearly invincible and irresistible. The text hints at valuing jewels and the idea that stones remain in order with a single visit.
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