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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1894
Page
7
A New York Sun profile outlines the silent suffering baseball crank, a mature banker type who attends games with restrained torment, gripping chairs and biting lips as he endures each play. He blends outward calm with inner fury, revealing a nationwide obsession among business men who cannot miss a game.
A London Tit-Bits tale recalls Frank Hall and a portrait misled by an upside down flag. Other quips note West Point and Sing Sing contrasts, then Roman coins found in King Solomon’s mines provoke jokes and wild theories about ancient visitors and Mashonaland.
A collage of curious notes and sketches from the era includes Pliny and Cicero on ancient works, mentions of Roman treaties and laws on Urasian tablets, and musings on why speech outlives the sword. It cites St Helena as a historic sea station, Tunis under French protection, and Richmond’s rapid growth. A New York cigar dealer advertised for a live Indian as a sign, drawing thousands of applicants. A fatal incident in Chattanooga arises from inhaled smoke. A North Carolina girl, six, plays instruments by sight, a prodigy with no lessons. Marbridge previews insect flight study via instantaneous photography. An Australasian ad implies a failing husband may trigger remarriage. Queen Victoria gifts a gold pencil case to a Prussian bandmaster and distributes 3,000 marks to guardsmen. Kipling’s travels and marriage are summarized by Vanity Fair, and a Detroit restaurant finds a locket inside a cake of ice with a carved cruel smile.
A sharp exchange unfolds as a patient flips from debt to gift, the old patient choosing to settle the bill rather than acquire clothes. The doctor counters with a balladlike rebuke about returning money to life, a moral twist on timely payments.
Town swarms for cures touted as the era’s grand remedy. Aunt Fanny’s Health Restorer promises laxative action and liver kidney regulation, with free trials at Daugherty Bros. The Olive Blossom remedy claims to cure female weakness and has physicians backing it, sold by local druggists and Daugherty Bros. Ready to buy, residents seek relief from disordered health.
The notice markets Hood's Sarsaparilla as the remedy for fatigue and seasonal debility, then promotes The Great SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY CURE for kidney and bladder pain with fast relief. It lists multiple remedies, prices, and local druggists, with testimonials of rapid effects and universal suitability. Also reports a Dutch museum project, a Chicago grain elevator, a Scottish cleric joke, and a decayed presidential gravesite.
A Boston Globe report notes a Tremont street procession of girls in gowns following Miss Gertrude Franklin's pupils recital Thursday. A blond student attracted attention in white serge with a pink white striped shirt waist, wide sailor hat, and white suede shoes, her gait drawing eyes.
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