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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1890
Page
3
The Colonel recounts Higgins the undertaker who thrived on funerals until the town lynched Bill Smith. Higgins laments the loss of business and influence, lamenting he built a town around death and now faces an empty future without monthly executions.
Dalmeny, on the Firth of Forth, Lord Rosebery visits a bath with two women nearby. He tells them of his plan to swim, and they urge him to retire. A Boston Tribune note recalls English vanity at a public reception. A bright American woman and a Briton exchange quips about old American and English families.
Old story notes that O. G. D. Firs S. Karr of Almond New York claims to be the last union prisoner to leave Andersonville. He says he secured the rebel flag that flew over the prison and still has it. A Maine squadron scouts encounter an elderly woman in a log cabin and question her union status revealing her Baptist faith.
Dr J Creswell Lewis of Philadelphia endorses Darbys Prophylactic Fluid as a powerful disinfectant and deodorizer. He notes its effectiveness on offensive wound discharges and deems it the best preparation known for diphtheria or scarlet fever control.
A garbled collage mentions FOR TAH LADIES fashion notes, Miss Alice Ward as a renowned world swimmer, a Grand Rapids resident with all-black attire, Modjenka en route to Poland, and various named figures from journalism, politics, and literature. It references a widows union, Panama affair chatter, and literary notices about Gladstone, Ball, and Stockton.
A fragmented mix of baby health guidance urging safe sleep, feeding, bathing, and clothing practices, followed by a public notice from the Western Paving & Supply Co. inviting inspection of asphalt pavement work and boasting endorsements from city officials, ending with a Bon-Bon chocolate promotion for holiday gifts at Marcy's.
A newly elected congressman faces high living costs in the capital, where $5,000 yearly salary seems meager as rent climbs. An old epitaph in a Boston graveyard hints at hard times, while anecdotes rail at urban misery and disease. Stanford’s wheat field joke underscores wealth and generosity. Hocsed’s Sarsaparilla is praised as a cure.
The Common Council of Indiaopolis invites season proposals for grading and paving sidewalks and streets. Projects include grading and brick paving on Homeavenue from Alabama to Pennsylvania, North Ninth Street from Bellefontaine to College, and multiple alleys and gutters with sand bedded brick or cobbled stone. Bids must meet original grades, widths, and curb details, with payments on brick and stone work, and the city reserves right to reject bids.
In Indianapolis the Common Council invites sealed proposals for regrading and paving Washington and Meridian streets, with broken stone and asphalt pavement, curb work, and sidewalk widening. Bids require a bond, five year maintenance, and compliance with detailed specs, deadlines, and conditions.
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