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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1891
Page
4
A nostalgic riff on the humble newspaper and its scissors and paste culture. The column recalls readers, editors, and the moral writerly tradition across papers and cities, noting readers like Mrs Hogsknee and a Gaulish-like reverence for wit, wisdom, and human folly in late 19th century journalism.
A fragmentary wartime tale recounts Buxton and a frail chaplain in Simla and Featherbed Fighters era. The Haggertys and rumors of mulatto murderers surface as a regimental serenade erupts on a veranda with a fateful Virginia refrain and a bride’s distress.
A sponge parasol painted with brown swallows signals spring. New strawberry sets with strawberry flower decorations include a low dish, cream pitcher, sugar, twelve saucers priced at 7.50. Two new tops debut this season a musical spinning top and a cap-exploding toy. Clothing trends shift to shorter coats quieter colors and muted neckwear with brown derby hats and a three-button cutaway suit. A light tan coffee color dominates overcoats and a large display of white pink florals appears as a fashionable accent.
An advertisement touts the Golden Medical Discovery as an alcohol free vegetable extract medicine for blood taints and humors. It claims universal efficacy, suitability for adults and children, and a money back guarantee if no benefit or cure is achieved. It lists skin and scrofulous conditions treated and notes no syrup or sugar to upset digestion.
A string of items details losses from fires in Louisville and Milwaukee, a failed Columbia loan company in Uniontown with 500 liabilities, a battlefield monument planned for Lookout Mountain, a California protest over a ministerial post for Blair, a lynching report in Bryant Tennessee, a St. Joseph wholesale firm bankruptcy with 250000 liabilities, a Missouri woman burned to death, a Denver jail escape by a famed forger, a starving New York child found with 6000 hidden, and a Somerset mother driven to insanity after related murders.
The text notes R14 as the price for a simple gold chain. It mentions two dozen sleepy night inspectors in New York, a projected Seance to the Alps for Queen Victoria costing about Sov. 5, and New York police arrest figures from last year totaling 70,000 with 10,000 worn. It also states daily meat needs for a healthy adult at ten to twelve ounces, and nails on the left hand take eight or ten days longer to grow than those on the right.
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