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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1882
Page
2
A sweeping digest notes Ireland under martial law amid winter distress in Alaska reports severe conditions. It covers Irish exile, cotton shortages, fires from electric lights, tax exemptions, and political shifts in Germany Russia and the United States, with labor, finance, and crime updates across continents.
A London article notes agencies to dispose of torn English maidens exist in Australia, Canada, South Africa and Iowa. Queensland bachelors offer two hundred free transports for comely women under 30 a month, with Iowa offers undisclosed. A mitrailleuse pistol may replace revolvers in military and police use, boasting four barrels and rapid fire.
A Chicago reporter finds shirt makers earn eight to twenty five cents per shirt while dress makers report seventy five cents to one dollar daily. Weekly costs include sixty cents for car fare and one fifty for room. Mistakes require redoing work and machine damage is charged to workers. Many girls live with families. others are alone and poorly off. Some wear sealskin caps and jewelry, and a union movement is forming to improve conditions.
Captain Sam Shoemaker of Terre Haute has produced a quantity of water growing wild rice seed. He intends to sow it in the Wabash river to provide food for wild ducks.
A collage of brief items recounts varied topics from railroads and convicts to weather, floods, crime, and social quirks. It notes numbers of railroads, sugar sacks, royal misfortunes, wild turkeys sent to market, a Toronto birth without arms, a slander case in Oregon, and a trotter’s owner plans, all reflecting period headlines and quirky trivia.
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