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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1901
Page
5
A vast trust formed from dry goods and department store interests plans to dominate both wholesale and retail markets with branches in major cities. The organizer is said to be John Claflin of New York, president of H. B. Claflin Company, financed by J Pierpont Morgan.
In a library scene Frank proclaims his love for Gerry Lamour as Hope Tileston nudges fate. At a gypsy tent Gerry confesses she loves him after a staged fortune telling leads to mutual vows amid a cold night in Philadelphia.
A poem fragment portrays Love as a freed steed clashing with Life and fate. The speaker warns the youth to be wary as Life returns scarred, while Love laments its elusiveness and the persistent claim of a thousand loves.
A series of aphorisms on human behavior and society. It notes how persuasion, vanity, labor, age, temper, self respect, debt and wealth shape character. It contrasts self deception with genuine merit and mocks celebrity culture and clever stupidity.
A man pleads for love from a woman who oscillates between coyly encouraging and rebuffing him. She denies prior affection, then softly admits she wishes he would not leave. He embraces her, and she finally concedes, saying the line You think you're smart.
A collection of witticisms on marriage love and gender from the New York Press. Observations tease men and women with sharp lines about love money control and homemaking norms.
This note advises lighter desserts for spring and children, suggesting rice flour custard as a gentle pudding. It details dissolving two tablespoons of rice flour in cold milk, adding to hot milk, then whisked egg yolks, sweetening and flavoring, and serving cold. It also mentions baking lightly browned egg whites with currant jelly for decoration.
Light exchange of humor and domestic banter in three newspaper clippings. A flirtatious yacht wish leads to a joking promise of a "little smack" as champagne pops. A codfish ball remark recalls past meals and boneless cod options. Easter pleasantries close with hat and necktie jokes.
Harper's Weekly explains that in China family ties and ancestral worship suppress girls. A betrothed girl joins her husband’s family early, may be raised there, and worships her in law’s ancestors. Sons outnumber daughters in counting, and girls often lack education as they belong to another family.
The hosiery sections in major shops show a rainbow of spring colors with grays, tans, biscuit shades, and embroidered pairs. Rem brand rib stockings feature delicate pink rosebuds and green foliage, the design extending to the boot top while the tops remain plain.
Grate horseradish root and blend with butter worked to a cream. For each tablespoon of horseradish add half a teaspoon of lemon juice or a dash of tarragon vinegar. A touch of chill vinegar may substitute lemon juice in some recipes.
Miss May Matilda O Ryan of Silling Quebec will marry Dr Gustave Arthur Taschereau of St Ferdinand Canada next Wednesday at the Convent of the Unsuliness Bedford Park. The ceremony will be a first high nuptial mass inside a US cloister with Cardinal Gibbons officiating.
Mrs. Robert W. McBride hosts an April 21 reception. Veronica club plans May 3 dancing at Brenneke's. Miss Katherine DePauw visits the McIntosh sisters. Dramatic club to stage a May opera with a 30-voice chorus. Miss Margaret DeMotte and Dr. H A Adams set a April 17 wedding at 1431 Central Ave Knightstown. Allie McCann and Hert Dovey wed Thursday at Marion McCann's home in Rushville. Desauw alumni hold annual dinner at the Denison with Charles W. Smith toastmaster. Rev K A Goodwin responds to the first toast. New officers named for Desauw group.
Rev J M Kellogg of Portland may be invited to serve as pastor at Central ave M E church. Mayor Tom Johnson denies presidential candidacy amid single taxer run plans. Hubbard building fire on Meridian and Washington streets causes $5 blaze in Lenhart tailor shop. Union trust petitions probate court to sell Gen Harrison estate stock. Funeral for Elbridge Harris, Philippines service, held Sunday at 2 from parents 557 W Thirteenth St. Frank Deshon continues smallpox letters. state health secretary orders East Enterprise postmaster to block letters.
Mrs. Terrence McGraw of 105 Concordia Street says she suffered three years from sharp body pains and back twinges, thought to be rheumatism, then kidney weakness. After taking Dean's Kidney Pills she improved in days and was completely cured. Sold by all dealers 60 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents.
Loss of appetite described as loss of vitality and vigor. Hood's Sarsaparilla is said to strengthen the stomach improve digestion and restore appetite. It is promoted to purify blood and steady the nerves, making eating a pleasure.
Fine California wines and bottled goods from Schullers at 210 N Meridian St. Framing service at Clark Art Studio 116 N Illinois. An Old Norse for Childyven teething Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup offered for twenty five cents a bottle.
A compact promotion for Photos and Picture Framing at Ponder's Photo Studio and Art Store located at 229 Massachusetts Avenue. The ad highlights latest photographic effects and frames available to order at very low prices.
Special low rate colonist tickets via Southern Pacific on Ogden and Sunset routes to California. From Chicago 30 dollars, from St Louis Memphis and New Orleans 27.50, from Omaha and Kansas City etc. Details from W G Neimyer Chicago or W H Connor Cincinnati at Chamber Commerce Building. Wayne excursion 1.00.
The Lake Erie and Western R R advertises a Sunday excursion on April 28 1901 under The German Lutheran St Pauls with departure from Union Station at 4 00 am and return from Ft Wayne at 7 00 pm Tickets available at city office 288 Illinois St Union Station or Massachusetts Ave depot.
Wholesale prices across poultry, eggs, cheese, butter, wool, hides, tallow, candies, nuts, coffee, sugar, and other groceries are listed. Includes per pound and per dozen rates for turkeys, hens, ducks, geese, cheeses, eggs, wool grades, hides, candles, nuts, and various coffee and sugar grades.
A dense list of goods with prices including spices pepper allspice cloves and cassia. beans rice molasses and syrup. produce such as cabbage celery onions apples lemons and strawberries. meats like hams bacon lard and fresh pork. oysters and canned goods. plus miscellaneous items like coal, soap, and drugs with assorted prices.
Dressed herring six cents per pound. White fish six cents per pound. Trout eight and a half cents per pound. No 1 pickerel eight and two thirds cents. Blues seven cents. Black bass and crapples eight cents. Sunfish and perch five cents. Catfish ten cents. Buffalo dressed six cents. Red snapper eighty four cents per pound. Clams little necks selling for Seventy-five cents per dozen? Lobsters twenty five cents a pound. Fried legs one dollar fifty cents to two dollars per dozen. Shrimps a gallon one dollar twenty five cents.
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