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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1891
Page
3
An archival verse lists garden blooms such as poppies balm mint heartsease ragged ladies and four o clocks beside a doorway. It mentions sunflowers morning glories clover and busy reapers as a memory of loved familiar faces lost, with a wistful closing line from a Wisconsin source.
In August 1775capt Warren, master of a Greenland whale ship, finds a frozen vessel wedged among towering icebergs near 77 degrees north. On boarding, he discovers a dead captain woman and boy aboard, the log ending November 14 1762 with a note of seven years trapped. He returns to England to trace the doomed ship’s fate.
A collage of remarks on women from various papers notes changes in status from bans on female schooling to rising numbers of women professors. It contrasts attitudes toward women, manners, and the term lady, while recommending Hood's Sarsaparilla for ill feelings and a vague health uplift.
A miscellany piece noting Berlin cafes using electricity for coffee, turtles used in restaurant ads, and various oddities. It mixes travel gossip with tidbits on soap in India, jumping beans from Mexico, and fashion tips for summer dresses, all wrapped in a breezy, collage-like tone.
News from various U.S. cities report deaths and disasters on Thursday. In New York 206 deaths were recorded. Cincinnati stockyards and Hill Fountaine Co cotton sheds burned. Kingston Pa fire led to a fight injuring about 40. a Brooklyn merchant and an Omaha man committed suicide. immigrant arrivals in New York exceeded 4000 with 2197 Italians.
A jumble of health tips and patent remedies from a historical page. Mentions pineapple juice for diphtheria relief test tea with water, eating more fruits for appetite and digestion, salted nuts aiding digestion, Simmons Liver Regulator for sickness, Indiana State Life Benefit Assn, Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething, and other commercial notes about insurance and horse clipping.
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