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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1890
Page
3
A humorous rural tale recounts Uncle Sambo and a Bang-tailed possum during a wet season. The possum’s clever dry and wet wedder legs cause mischief and a comic chase across Schultz's hill, ending with the author and kin trapping and fashioning keepsakes from the possum.
A compilation of short portraits highlights Miss Mary Tillinghast’s snake-slaying record in Connecticut, a Boston description of Rudyard Kipling, Misty Hester’s fearless North Carolina to Georgia mail route, and reflections on Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, and Nelson. It notes Gabrielle Greeley’s quiet shift to charitable work, her land purchase, and church ties, all framed as social observations of prominent women.
A London cable reports the historic Drury Lane theatre will be pulled down when the lease expires in 1804. The piece notes future scenic changes and seasonal theater gossip including Pauline Hall, Isabelle Urquhart, Marie Jansen, and Hendrik Hudson linked to various productions and fashion remarks.
Excursion tickets at one fare for round trip good returning until August 22 will be sold to Baltimore from PennsylvanIa Lines stations August 15 16 and 17 for the meeting of the German Catholic Central Society of the United States. Prices at Buffalo Shoe House for shoes and slippers advertised. Mrs Winglow's Soothing Syrup for teething 25 cents a bottle.
A fragmentary poem about longing contrasts with practical, antiquated washing tips. The verses mention lips, crimson, and fate, while the prose sections advise fabric care including ammonia use, washing with bran and water, color preservation, and ironing delicate textiles with cool heat.
A long notice describes a fashionable boarding house on Massachusetts avenue famed for its elegant niche velvet carpeted first to third stories and Brussels carpets. Passersby see crowds growing daily as cars unload multiple visitors, with drivers stopping at the door and children asking what it means. The house has become a password to the avenue as visitors are pleased and urge friends to come.
A historic medical list claims removal of numerous ailments including gatarrh bronchus stomach liver kidney and other diseases without the knife or ligature. It mentions dyspepia gout headaches constipation Brights disease nervous conditions rheumatism blood diseases syphilis scrofula cancers skin rectal diseases hemorrhoids and more.
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