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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1891
Page
3
A Washington Post verse notes a vain man who toils in a garden seeking luck with a worm and spade while misreading signs. He plans a fishing trip but misadventure leads him home, exhausted, as the sun sinks over the lake and hills. The moral hints that good intent may misguide action.
Fontane and his young family flee a ruined Lyons under the siege by disguising as laundresses. A passport, a chalice marked with Sardinian royal arms, and a daredevil dance amid the Carmagnole aid their passage past the guillotine. They escape with his wife and infant, whistling the Chant du Depart.
A quip filled cartoon caption from Munsey's Life showcases a bantering exchange between a housewife and a man dwelling on work and marriage. The gag pivots on a joke about trying to work the family next door and a Chicago telegram noting the jury is still out.
A column of assorted notes recalls Pineapple fleet sailing from Atlantic shores to the Bahamas aboard small two masted schooners, a voyage lasting five days, with the fruit’s odor lingering in holds for years, alongside tangential humor about medical cures and street scenes.
Paris ladies test passing fancies from hot milk on cold days to chewing tobacco, while hotel dwellers lead fashion with souvenir spoons and club dining scenes. A silver coffee spoon pin and a Bridgeport Barnum commemorative spoon attract attention as society embraces quirky adornments.
Short facts note new drinking orders among men with phrases like raise the deaf or out the past. English ladies reportedly favor spring flowers in hats this season. Moody and Sankey have faded from view with Sankey said to be joined with Moody.
The excerpt presents a satirical and moral tone about life worth living and health cures. It contrasts permanent cure with temporary relief and promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy with price points of 25 and 50 cents respectively.
A roundup of scattered items reports child deaths in Dubois and Greensburg from poison and other causes, a Pittsburg carpenters strike demand an eight hour day, business failures in Lancaster, a murder suspect escaping in Savannah, and other crime and oddities. It also lists city population figures, theater counts, and German school statistics as context.
A note from Willows California dated September 16 1859 cites Sitemons Liver HeGu as a preferred spring medicine. The writer recounts prior use in Virginia and continuing westward noting it as an excellent spring remedy.
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