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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1892
Page
3
A whimsical but morbid verse from the New York Evening Sun laments balmy spring. The speaker imagines funeral plans and farewells, asking for a rosewood coffin, a marble stone, and a sunny slope for burial while instructing to remain indoors when spring is here.
Ted and George Black move to West Sheen with Mr Sims and Grace. Ted loves drawing and aims to be rich by selling his art, while misgivings arise over a borrowed sketchbook found in his box. Ted sleeps walks to return the book, and Mr Sims forgives him, pledging help to pursue his dream of becoming a great artist.
The article extols the value of boiled greens after winter, listing dandelion ragweed purslane plantain and other local greens as valuable starters before garden spinach. It notes dandelion as an atonic either bleached for salad or boiled and warns against picking unknown wild greens while highlighting sorrel as a market staple distinct from oxalis sorrel.
Digby Belt offered 100 for the best topical song and spent six months wading through 3,000 submissions. A London theater scene notes frequent cloakroom and program taxes, with audiences urged to endure long applause and interruptions for announcements. A famed Miss Agnes Sferndon voice appears as a newsboy in a tramp scene, drawing roars of approval. The era sees a three wheeled buggy in invention lists. Central European gypsy tribes describe mountains as bar rag or muchlyis meaning clouds, applied to the Moounds as heavenly pathways. Tacitus notes ancient Germans drank honey mead at nuptial feasts, giving rise to the honeymoon month.
A rough OCR snapshot mentions California newspapers, a postal cancelling machine, and a Florida cigar maker for foreign potentates. It notes a Mission Bottom Ohio farmer harvesting a 15 pound turnip, Hood's Sarsaparilla promotion, and fashion and travel adverts with scattered prices and line totals.
A collection of quips on women in the workforce and social habits. The text contrasts sharp remarks about women on railroads with observations that drummers and housewives adapt skillfully, noting efficiency, thrift, and practical mending practices as women manage daily life.
An elderly couple on a summer steamer from Blackpool to the Isle of Man joke about the ship sinking as it rocks. The husband quips it isn’t theirs, implying no loss.
The piece describes dashing bell crowned derbies and flats with inch crowns, bell crowns, and cone crowns in varied curves. It notes a cone bonnet modeled on a burst pod, a woodsy trim, and an Egyptian pyramid on a small scale as Milan’s best.
The passage counsels choosing silent forbearance over revenge, urging reason above passion as the best defender. It warns that shutting out laughter harms families and robs homes of joy, lest sons miss social life and become ruined by excessive restraint.
A humorous Harper's Young People vignette features Little Survers and Hallett as a lively exchange unfolds with Mamma insisting on quiet, a joking retort from Hallett, and a witty Aunt asking for a calmer home routine. A little boy chimes in about avoiding trouble with a sly reply.
A brief promotional note from Scorr Bowne, chemists, urging balanced fat for health and beauty. It promotes a little book on careful living and offers to send it free from 189 South 6th Avenue, New York.
A historical item notes Cornell college will run a summer course. It references local and national happenings such as a tornado in Faulkner county Arkansas, Whitman’s literary legacy, and various public notices, with brief mentions of deaths, crimes, and curiosities from the era.
The notice promotes Burford's City Markets offering copper plate printing and engraving, listing rates to Chicago via multiple rail lines and from Indianapolis. It bundles sensational grocery and hardware ads with prices for provisions, canned vegetables, fruits, meats, dairy, and fats, detailing numerous item prices and suppliers like Morgan & Gray, California imports, and local vendors.
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