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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1893
Page
4
A lyrical fragment describing rain over hills and upland fields. The speaker celebrates the rain as powerful, renewing, and expansive, weaving through woodland and valley with imagery of sun and shade, wheat, and sorrowful dawn. The verse repeats the refrain of rain that comes over the hill, evoking emotional and natural renewal.
A western Kansas stage coach battles a Lone Indian raid. A driver orders passengers to crouch as fifty warriors ambush the vehicle. Gunfire, arrows, and a brutal run for the river follow, with several dead and wounded, including women inside the coach. The driver celebrates a hard won escape as the convoy presses on.
A Detroit Free Press account recalls a perilous cart journey where one rider perishes and another is severely injured. Voices urge the group onward, trusting prayers to see them two miles to safety at No. 4. The survivors express grim relief after passing a danger point.
A New York World note describes turning a common saucepan into a clock by nailing gilt numbers to the resting rim. A corn ear keyholder with brass hooks and clock hands hides the works inside the pan, lifting the item from 25 cents to 4.50 as a decorative clock.
Instructions from the New York Recorder describe Blackberry preserves using three quarters of a pound of sugar per pound of fruit simmered in water, plus a blackberry minute pudding with flour thickening, and a blackberryade made by steeping berries, mashing, straining, and sweetening.
The article outlines autumn jackets with double crests and straight fronts, back flaring below the waist, and a bell shaped back formed by a central seam. Average length is forty inches, collars range from high to cape styles, and fabrics include black serges, sacking, vicuna cloths, and green ladies cloth with cream facings and gold edging.
A crowded fashion column notes a Turkish woman soldier and fashion shifts. Overskirts near universal, black gowns gaining favor in Europe. Old styles revived with knee slashes and double skirts in autumn fabrics. Cornet blowing linked to dimples boosts elopement ambitions among women.
The report lists severe incidents including molten metal burns at Cleveland Bessemer Steel Works injuring employees foreman Lilly Robert McCloud and Jesse Snell. A powder mill explosion near Pittsburg station kills Bishop Hickman and Luther Eden, with two others fatally or seriously injured. A boiler explosion at Cadwalader Milling in Fostoria kills G C Davis and injures others. A toboggan accident on Pilke’s peak cog railway injures Richard Woods and two others. Chicago Mayor Harrison warns of riots if federal funds are not provided to relieve 200000 unemployed.
The piece notes yachting as a favored pastime at many resorts and Cape May sermons by John Wannamaker. Long Branch is dubbed Americas Monte Carlo with flourishing gambling. Bar Harbor season ends in four weeks as society crowds entertainments, and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is seen driving daily from Beverly Farms to Manchester-by-the-Sea with a keen, youthful bearing.
The ad proclaims Admiral cigarettes as the sole strictly first class option sold in all superior establishments, suggesting they are not produced by inferior fruit blends and emphasizing their refined status across reputable venues.
A detailed August 9 market list shows varied prices for meats such as bacon sausage and lard, with Indiana and California entries. Fresh pork loins cottage hams tenderloins and trimmings appear alongside dried beef hams and bellies. Vegetables fruits canned goods seeds and dairy including butter and cheese are itemized with per unit and per case prices.
Doctors Stackhouse and Allan claim to cure what is curable without sorcery or intuition. They seek cases unhelped by others and cite testimonials including P. H. Johnson of Olds Wagon Works Fort Wayne. Treatment by mail uses symptom blanks and is mailed free to applicants.
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