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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1892
Page
3
Poetic musing on taking a break while fleecy clouds drift toward the sea. The verse invites escape from labor as daisies, dew, and distant treea evoke a beckoning world and a playful sense of longing for freedom and travel.
A former army lieutenant recalls a young black boy named Phil who joined a Michigan unit during the Civil War. Phil, hungry and homeless, accompanies the soldiers, dances for the crowd, and dreams of enlisting. He aids a wounded man, is mortally wounded at Mission Ridge, and is buried beside a honeysuckle vine with a memorial note.
The Medical Record notes castor oil rarely fails to remove warts with daily applications for two to six weeks. Laundry guidance suggests washing clothes through two waters, then hot suds, and passing items between washers. A remedy for nail biting recommends dipping fingertips in a quinine and glycerine solution after hand washing to deter children and adults alike.
American women embrace the kimono style as a simple chic option. A Lord & Taylor New York opening featured a black chip hat with a straight brim and high crown, trimmed with four olive green velvet straps and a cluster of unripe wheat on the side.
A brief health note from chemists promoting Scott's Emulsion for scrofula. It stresses that diagnosis belongs to doctors and offers a free book on care and living to explain the disease.
Luther Benson spoke at Tomlinson hall on whisky effects for two hours on Sunday afternoon. L. Ayres bought the Hubbard block for 225000 dollars, described as the city’s largest real estate deal. A gymnastic exhibition at English’s Opera House drew 176 scholars with a routine of dumb bells Indian clubs and marches. The state fair executive meeting set the fair grounds layout with 70 foot streets ten foot sidewalks and 20 foot central park.
A mosaic of curios and health observations notes horses dying from the grippe in Maryland and 10 000 Chinese workers in California making shoes. It also mentions birthday lore, spring births healthier, and a Parisian sculptor Douglass Tilden. It adds a potato cleaning method for linens and hair dye uses in Asia.
Seventy women hold beer and liquor licenses in New York City. About 200 women in the city travel to Europe twice yearly to buy dresses. Hetty Green's sole heir is her son, set to inherit nearly 50 million dollars, with ties to Chicago. Various quips and anecdotes from the era touch on social life and humor around crowds and professions.
Loxcon April 1 report says heir apparent to the English throne died of the grip. Queen Victoria is very ill and the king's brother George is also sick. A medical test credited Dr Acker's English remedy with curing most grip cases within days and preventing pneumonia across twenty-seven cases.
Reports note Tennessee exodusters heading to Oklahoma, amid regional unrest and new settlement plans. Other items include legal cases of killings over marriage refusals, suicides in San Rafael and Philadelphia, a Mormon church conference hint at future revelations, and a New York arrest over diamond theft connected to a danseuse.
A collage of travel rates and goods offers appears from Indianapolis to Chicago via Pennsylvania lines with prices for meals and rail. The page lists remedies for teething and diarrhea, hair goods, engraved calling cards, and a wide range of groceries and farm products with unit prices for meats, canned fruits, coffee, sugar, and seeds.
Section 2 prohibits any person from making or reconnecting with gas mains or service pipes without a written permit from the affected gas company and forbids turning on off or interfering with valves or mixers. Section 5 states violators may be fined from five to one hundred dollars upon conviction.
Treatment by correspondence offers twenty five years of specialty in syphilis with last vestige destroyed. Gonorrhoea and gleet cured in a few days, no operation needed for varicocele and stricture. Effects of self abuse including pimples and impotence cured permanently. Medicines mailed discreetly by mail or express. Private and moderate weekly charges.
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