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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1888
Page
3
A historical notice from The Sun at 79 East Ohio Street announces subscription rates and public post office registration details. The item notes the publication is issued daily except Sunday and entered as second class matter.
Mrs Redfold doubts the maid Lita Vaux after a missing Pickwick volume triggers suspicions. Lita denies theft, confesses she has never opened a book, and reveals a blossoming romance with Mr Walter. He urges elopement to a clergyman, seeking shelter from scandal. Mrs Redfold’s pride falters as the tale unfolds.
The excerpt shows a nephew Hal Aterley apologizing for borrowing and finishing a book, and a note from Mrs. Redford’s son Walter announcing his marriage to Liza Vaux and plans to visit Boston with his new wife. The surrounding text includes editorials from Indiana papers critiquing political figures and campaigns featuring Gen. Grant and Congressman White.
A list of varied 19th century curios includes Mount Sheridan in Colorado, France borrowing English slang, huge fowl losses from heat in California, and plans for ship to ship pigeon messages. Other notes mark Savannah as the nation’s largest cotton port after Norfolk, a Butte California farmer selling $61,000 worth of wheat, and rapid coconut cultivation on La Costi. The Maine tract sale, beauty show in Spa Belgium, Moltke’s resignation reasoning, Nevada cattle prices, and a long coral line of porpoises off Coronado while a phonograph plays on repeat are also cited along with a Paris illustrated weekly English edition and a clergyman unable to attend a funeral. The Brothers of the Christian Schools network now numbers over a thousand establishments worldwide.
Fragmentary text notes porpoises caught near Trelizonde as part of a sanitary news section. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
Exposure of miscellaneous quotes and items from newspapers including comic lines about baseball errors labor day wine from rose leaves and a Vermont horse fancier’s daughter Betsy. Also mentions licensed plumbers Aneshaenisel and Strong at 83 N Pennsylvania Ave and a Salvation Army captain in Augusta.
The Indianapolis Natural-gas Company states it will undersell competitors by 80 percent on domestic, store, and office contracts and include a clause to continue supplying gas at or below competitors’ future prices. It pledges preference to early customers when supplies become difficult, labeling rival price promises as misleading.
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