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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1891
Page
3
A satirical verse in the voice of a doctor to Ann Eliza describing a nasal catarrhal illness with exaggerated medical questions. The speaker mocks medical jargon and anxious patient concern as he asks about incubation and contagion while the girl responds with a curt line. The fragment preserves period humor and character but lacks a cohesive narrative.
Dr Harris of Tisty recounts a near fatal night at Benson's distillery fire. Surviving a collapsing platform and crawling through flames, he uses a thermometer in a copper boiler and drops a note for help. Six weeks later he leaves his bed, describing smoke, blistered skin, and a dramatic escape.
Mixed household tips cover boiling milk for custard to avoid curdling and hot water baths to soothe burns. Instructions include melting chocolate in a teakettle setup, avoiding tin molds, washing soda to protect pipes, and steps for rice dumplings with apples. Chocolate caramels recipe combines sugar milk molasses and chocolate with a brief boil, then cools in a pan.
A butterfly social decorates a fundraising room with tissue and a three-foot wire butterfly chandelier. Hosts wear butterfly costumes in blue, silver, black, brown and yellow, with gauze wings and a velvet spider-peak veil. A novel salad tasting uses lettuce grown before guests, sprouting rapidly in soil and lime, served at Prince Blucher's party.
An English fashion correspondent dismisses claims about Queen Victoria’s bed, noting she uses only her own soft wood mattress costing 90 guineas and preferring simplicity over ornate four poster fittings. The piece contrasts royal comfort with public rumors about regal rest.
A fragmentary dialogue on romance and daily life features a chilly exchange on a piazza. Characters debate entering a house while pondering unfamiliar instruments and a playful remark about a newborn brother’s weight.
Detectives seized five counterfeiters and all paraphernalia in Denver on Thursday. Other items: Mrs B F Guthrie of Louisville was at a poisoned wedding. A colored policeman Matthew Bell from Pittsburgh was jailed for nearly clubbing an Italian to death. Miss Gabrielle Greely, Horace Greely’s daughter, wed Rev Frank Clendenin in Pleasantville. A tenement fire in Chicago caused $50,000 damage and killed Mrs Mary Burnser. Mrs James McCarty of Dexter Ky fell into a well drowning while fetching water. Kate Branner of Clarksburg West Virginia, eight, repelled a burglar with an axe.
Old ladies of 75 are frequently arrested in New York for shop lifting. Little Sisters of the Assumption are coming to America from France to nurse the sick poor. Edith King don now Mrs Geo Gould draws attention as the chief charm of her palatial home. Mrs Logan the general's widow is rumored to marry but she denies. The oldest US minister Rev Lydia Sexton is 82 with keen memory and clear voice. Biz 4 Route excursion to Terre Haute on April 26 with Big 4 trains offering $2.25 round trip. For more details visit Big 4 offices at specified streets. Horses clipped by machinery and ads for window shades and wallpaper at Garlt Motler’s.
A historical letter claims Lizzie Landwerlen was revived from near death in Prescott Indiana and credits Dr Hale’s Medicine with her recovery. The missive praises the doctor, mentions a town rumor of death, and asserts a guaranteed cure for all cases at Dr Hale’s Dispensary in Indianapolis with free consultation offered.
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