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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1891
Page
3
An orphan girl with shoeless feet and ragged clothes recalls a sea view. She had no home or care from parents and sold newspapers to survive. She wonders what the ocean means and softly says she’s glad to have seen more than ever before.
A squatters’ family plans to move away leaving their helpless elderly father to starve. At the depot the old man pleads for help but is rejected by kin. He walks onto the tracks and is fatally struck as a train arrives, the incident witnessed by a passerby. The piece mixes grim contrast with lighter quips from “ALL SORTS.”
Instructions for preserving grapes for winter use describe skinning stewing and packing in boxes with newspaper layers and a cool dry room plus a waxed vine preservation method. The text includes two epitaphs from New York and California noting memorials and odd phrasing about a Colt revolver and heaven.
In February 1862 a nurse at Springfield Missouri’s Confederate hospital in the Presbyterian church building recalls a dark night event. After three deaths, a light went out in the dead room, and a nurse and fellow soldier George Ga. faced a terrifying vision of a large looming presence. A stray cow with enormous horns later explained the strange scene, found munching on straw in the room.
A jumble of brief items notes political shifts in New York and Bar Harbor plans, a Cincinnati refugee case, Park Place ruins in New York, post office wage demands, drowning of four laborers near Philadelphia, a St Marys oil surge, immigrant detention, and various crimes and accidents.
A New York letter notes George Vanderbilt plans a lavish tennis court costing $5,000 for his Asheville residence. It mentions literary tastes of Mr. Blaine favoring Black and Russell, with Stevenson, Howells, and James viewed as less engaging by The Literary News. Mansfield, an eccentric but capable actor, rose from $59 to $300 weekly after a standout performance in A Parisian Romance at Union Square.
Dealers lure buyers with cut prices but the Genuine Dr Pierce medicines are sold only through authorized agents at established prices. Golden Medical Discovery $1.00 per bottle, Favorite Prescription $1.00, Pleasant Pellets 25 cents per vial. Guaranteed value and money-back if unsatisfied. Refuse any Dr Pierce offer below these prices as likely spurious.
The Indianapolis Journal reduces its price in line with market trends. The move follows wide availability with wholesalers carrying the publication and a general shift toward lower costs without compromising supply or access.
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